Last month, Microsoft announced that, thanks to a recent ruling, it will allow people to buy and play Xbox games directly from the Xbox app on Android starting in November. But as we reach the end of the month, it looks like those plans will have to wait a little longer.

Xbox President Sarah Bond announced on X/Twitter on Wednesday that “a temporary administrative stay recently granted by the court” has delayed functionality. Still, Bond added that they are ready to launch the feature as soon as they get the legal green light.

At Xbox, we want to give players more choice about how and where they play, including the ability to play and purchase games directly from the Xbox app. I recently shared our ambition to unlock these features with the Google Play Store on Android devices in the US first, while other apps…

— BondSarahBond (@BondSarah_Bond) November 27, 2024

“At Xbox, we want to give players more choice about how and where they play, including the ability to play and purchase games directly from the Xbox app,” Bond wrote. “I recently shared our ambition to unlock these features first with the Google Play Store on Android devices in the US, as other app stores adapt to meet consumer demand.”

“Due to a temporary administrative stay recently granted by the court, we are currently unable to launch these features as planned,” she continued. “Our team has built the functionality and is ready to go live as soon as the court makes a final decision. We are eager to launch and give players more choice and flexibility.”

Microsoft announced its plans following a recent ruling by an American judge that forces Google to open its Play Store to competitors for three years. Under the ruling – the latest victory in Epic Games’ long-running antitrust battle against Google – Google will have third-party Android app stores on the Play Store and grant third-party app stores full access to Google Play’s app catalog. However, Google promised to appeal the decision in a subsequent blog post.

For Microsoft, the ruling meant that it would theoretically be free to sell Xbox games on Android devices and be able to stream them as soon as they are purchased through the same app, without having to use Google Play Billing. However, it is currently unclear what this court order will mean for Microsoft’s plans, aside from delaying them.

The ability to expand purchasing to the Google Play Store was just one of Microsoft’s recent moves to expand Xbox’s footprint in the mobile space. In May, Bond announced that Microsoft planned to launch its own mobile game store in July, although that has been postponed. In the wake of Microsoft’s $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, owner of Candy Crush maker King, the company certainly has more firepower in the mobile landscape.

Alex Stedman is a senior news editor at IGN, overseeing entertainment reporting. When she’s not writing or editing, you can find her reading fantasy novels or playing Dungeons & Dragons.