I have noticed that many different users in the Minecraft Discord have been having an issue with the Authentication Servers through both Bedrock AND Java. On Bedrock, it can appear as the "Playfab environment mismatch" error that appears above the Marketplace.

I have asked the affected Users what region they live in (only if they're comfortable sharing it, of course), and they've each shared that they live in Egypt. Other users who don't reside in Egypt have been able to use the "host file" fix method successfully, but players living in Egypt have not been able to do it successfully.

I genuinely believe, since this affects a specific area and affects both Java AND Bedrock players, that there is a specific connection issue happening in Egypt with Microsoft.

This issue was first brought to light in the Official Minecraft Discord server on January 8th of this year. This can be found by searching the country name in the search bar. I'm not the only one who's been made aware of this issue - several Discord moderators (and above) appear to have noticed the trend.

I'm making this bug report as a formal request to have this issue fixed. I am not directly affected by it.I f this bug report needs to be formatted or worded in a different way, please let me know.