Xbox Live "up and running," flush with irony
By Paul Miller 
posted December 29th 2007 7:17PM
posted December 29th 2007 7:17PM
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This is ridiculous, Call of Duty 4 is the only game I play on Xbox Live. I figure Call of Duty 4 and Halo 3 make for an extremely large percentage of players on Live, it seems a bit ridiculous to call it "up and running" when the two biggest games don't function properly. I know it's only been a couple days and it's hardly the end of the world, but the fact is that I pay for a service and therefore I expect it to work. I would appreciate some sort of compensation. My brother can't even play at all since he can't recover his account, so this isn't something they should just blow off.
Oh well, back to UT3.
The ps3 is looking better and better.
no kidding,
im not a ps3 fanboy,
nor a 360 fanboy,
but i would get a ps3 after hearin of some of the problems the 360 has/had,
especially the RRoD,
who cares that the 360 marketplace looks like a Godess compared to the PS3 Network,
at least its workin right :/
I more pissed off that most of our gear that came with rock band doesn't work or just sucks.
I don't care what they do as long as its up very soon...put in some overte and get it fixed ms
The situation actualy seems to have gotten worse. Alot of people have limited time off, this is not a good time to disappoint them.
Calling CS isn't going to do anything. Unless you throw a big fit, it will just be another incident for the archives. Compensation would be nice. And we do pay for the service. Still, keep in mind that Live is the single best online gaming community because we pay for it. Every service has down time. It is a large assumption to say it could be fixed in a few hours. Basically, all I have to say is this... s*** happens.
What's causing the problems, anyway?
a combination of halo 3 and a lot of people with spare time...
If that's the case then they are such a worthless ignorant. It's holiday season by the way and they did not anticipate that?
Not a 360 hater (been re-beating Crackdown the past few hours, go figure)... but this does make a fairly compelling case for the dedicated servers approach used by the PS3 and PC platforms. At least then when there's an issue it's game specific.
If this keeps up I might start buying even more multiplat games on PS3. As it is I only ended up on the PS side with Call of Duty 4 because I could get it $15 cheaper at BB two weeks back... but if it's achievements vs. uptime I may be going PS3 more often.
And to top all this off, the Wenkinz site was down... you don't know pain until you have a 5yr old unable to access her Webkinz account!
MajorNelson.com is down now too! Go figure.
Time to turn off the 360 this is a waste of hours in its MTBF good night!
They seem to be doing some work in the database. I finally received a call from them today telling me that I should finally be able to access my previously downloaded content with my silver accounts. The wife's been locked out of all of her XBLA games since I got my RRoD replacement 3 months ago but now it seems like we're locked out everything for the time being. Judging by the problems acknowledged by MS, it seems they've corrupted their database(s).
Microsoft Home Server strikes again!
I only had a problem for about 5 minutes Christmas day. Otherwise I've been fine. But there are so many single player campaigns to beat right now that Live wasn't too big a deal to me. I'd feel almost like I was cheating if they gave me free time. Almost.
I don't enjoy getting negative exp in Halo3 when LIVE decides to crap out on me without any intervention from me. 3rd time it's happened too.
Can't you see that servers take money....and technical service persons take money. Bill G will just wait until xmas break is over and his troubles will go away. He has your money and you have nothing. Unless you start a class action law suit against him, non of this conversation matters. Do any of you have the time to start a law suit against Bill G??? He's hoping that you don't.....it's a calcualted risk. Try reading a book until break is over.....or maybe make a snow man if you dare. And remember...try not to get shot.....it's a tough world out there.
This has been going on for way too long. Since a few days before christmas. I can barely play a game. I have resorted to just watching prison break. Please get Live back up Microsoft. I need some HALO 3 to keep me sane. Also some microsoft points would be nice!
Video games "up and running"? No, I'm pretty sure that you're "down and sitting". After all, this isn't a Wii, it's just the only thing we could find in stock.
I just got a f'in RROD today. I don't know if it was cause of this crap or just my Xbox frying after all those ausomo rampages on COD4. Fetch my xbox right now Microsoft.
It's getting worse...
I just got an xbox yesterday, and the first time I try xbox live, it doesnt work!!!!11!!!!! BULL SHIT!!!!! maybe i'll return it and get a ps3!!
As upset as I am, I wouldn't recommend it. Despite this outage, it's generally been bulletproof and it's a great service that's very well integrated in the system. I'd wait till you've tried it to go to the PS3. Who cares if the online play is free if the games suck?
as a PS3 owner who spends quite a bit of time in the dorm playing as a 'guest' on friends' XBL accounts, XBL is way better than how the PS3 handles things. The ability to have multiple people playing on one Xbox alone makes it better, plus accomplishments... If you want an online store for games and so on, then the PS3 is fine, but the PS3 still has a way to go before what it offers is up to the standard of XBL. Of course, there's always firmware upgrades, so I'll just keep hoping.
they changed it for ya!
Status:
Users may experience issues logging into Xbox Live. We are aware of the issue and are currently working to resolve it. We apologize for any inconvenience.
10:53 PM Atlantic Time (GMT -04:00) December 29, 2007
Yep, intermittent problems since yesterday.
Tonight the Halo team were supposedly hosting an all-nighter event...its already fucked up.
Now we BETTER get some compensation. At first it was ok but this is ridiculous!
I love Xbox Live and all. Definitely don't mind paying for it to get something good. Especially when comparing it to the PlayStation network.
One problem is, if we have to pay, the frickin thing should work!!
I guess all the smart people at MS are on vacation for the holiday. The scabs can't figure out what has been going on for the last week. Maybe things will finally be fixed Wednesday when everyone gets back to work.
It's been really annoying. Even the Xbox Live parts of the Dashboard are taking forever to load. Hopefully it gets fixed very soon.
I am sick of the shit with M$ and xbox live. Its freaking crap, I pay for online play that isn't even dedicated servers its all p2p and the backbone shit can't even stay working for a week with no issues. Why pay for this?
I would rather trade in my 360 and all my games and stuff for a PS3 at least if the online goes down I am not losing anything i.e my money.
What gets me is since I purchased an Elite and moved all my Arcade titles from my old system to it I can not play my XBL Arcade titles because I can't sign in.
Not only do they need to fix this issue with XBL, they need to figure out a way to fix Arcade titles so offline profiles can play content they paid money for.
While system outage might be something we have to admit just happens, I have a feeling this XBL Arcade issues are ripe for a class action lawsuit.
Not only the XBL issues, but all of these hardware issues and the completely inept xbox staff (customer service thru repair). I sent my 360 back a month ago (no video, no red lights) and got a replacement with a RRoD right outta the Fedex box. I went out and bought a new system with the hope that I can sell the replacement if they ever fix it correctly. It's such a shame that I prefer the xbox platform because that PS3 was looking really nice the other day. Having said that, someone with the time adn resources really needs to start a class action suit against MS for all of this s**t. Theres only one thing that makes companies like MS feel pain and thats losing money.
This is about as entertaining to watch as a wow outage.
Good News: PS Online is running great!
Bad news: No one plays PS online, and its multiplayer offerings are far behind the Xbox
FYI, I own a PS3, PS online account ("Psychopathy"), so you can go to hell before you accuse me of being some MS troll.
Why aren't your videogame specific sister sites reporting this issue? You've confirmed its a problem, yet Joystiq and Xbox360Fanboy haven't said word one about it. wtf?
I thought Live was more reliable than PS3's online?
Who would've wondered. It turned out to be just like the console itself.
"I can't stress enough that Account Recovery should ONLY be used in emergencies."
A) Don't display it so damn prominently....
and/or
B) Label it as such....
and/or
c) Make it work (imagine!!!)
and/or
d) relax your ruthless DRM stranglehold so importing your gamertag isn't essential for enjoying content I previously purchased
AND....
e) Stop blaming your paying customers for your own company's inadequate, malfunctioning, deficient product.
Absurd for M$ not be prepared for the busiest travel season of the year, while people are off work, and account mobility could be figured as a given by a third grader!
Well, my free HD DVD's showed up finally. Been watching U2 and Daisy Duke instead of gaming. I do expect some sort of compensation since I am paying for this.
Anybody know an email address we can send to?
At one point tonight, it showed only 1500+ people on Social Slayer (Halo 3). That's crazy. My husband still can't recover his GT and has been playing under my 14 yr old daughter's. He's been trying to get his for 2 days now. It did improve at the night wore on, more people on Halo 3, but as of 2am (EST)...still no joy getting the gamer tag. I am going to bed and getting up at 5am to see if I can get it then.
This is so true. Xbox Live has been horrible this month. I've been waiting on Kotaku to post something similar to this but all the posted was a "tip" from someone in Canada saying service was down there. Thanks for doing the job Kotaku should have been on top of in the first place.
You know, it's M$ we're talking about. We know the way they handle windows. It's so typical of M$. They keep adding useless stuff without giving their best to fix issues. A quick example would be how slow the transfer rate in Vista, but yet where is the fix? Not even in the SP1.
This also applies to 360. RRoD hasn't been really fixed yet. They are trying to build a media center, so at least making the console as quiet as possible should be one of those main considerations. Sure the fans are less noisier than before, but man compare to my PS3 and Wii, 360 is like a lawn mower.
Having this issue during the holiday season isn't tolerable at all. But hey it's M$ they don't even care. Like it or not, people still use and buy their product. Sadly, I'm among them.
No COD4...No Halo...
guess its back to gettin faded and playing geometry wars!
Another embarrasment for the big M.
@JulianDel:
What do you mean? I use IE7 and comments work all the time?
Maybe you need to get a clue.