Poll: Have you been affected by the Xbox Live outages?
By Ryan Block 
posted Dec 31st 2007 9:18PM
posted Dec 31st 2007 9:18PM
posted Dec 31st 2007 9:18PM
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I've had problems signing on and getting games, it's really hit or miss. Once I'm on (usually late night), it seems to be alright though. My brother, however, hasn't been able to recover his account for the past week, meaning no Live whatsoever.
I've been fine all week up until a few hours ago where I couldn't logon. Just tried it again and it seemed to be all good.
Sucks for people who can't logon altogether though :(
My 360 died so I was only actually having problems with XBox live for 1 day.
My only issue is all those poor saps who got 360's for the holidays and activated their 24hr-1month trials arent going to be able to try it out. Lets not even start on those chumps paying monthly.
I've had to spend time with my family. And on New Years, to boot!
DAMN YOU MICROSOFT!
Yesterday seemed to be the worst, it could say I was signed in but stick on the dashboard loading up friends, messages, etc. Also couldn't get on to the marketplace, let alone download something I wanted watch. Seems to be working better today but matchmaking seems to be messed up and a lot of people getting disconnected out all day.
HAHAHAHA!
Central servers are for losers!
Go computer gaming!
I was playing ET:QW ALL DAY today on my PC with zero hassles.
Well...except once I ran out of coffee, but that was remedied easily enough. :)
Sorry to hear about the hassles online folks.
Sorry for your misfortune, but I'm laughing my ass off, enjoying my free, fully functioning, PSN.
... lol
But, erm, I'm sure it's just a red ring of death or a BSOD on their servers XD
:( I feel for you, it must be lonely on there, no games to play, no people all on it because of sucky sales. Poor PS3 Fanboys, there there, atleast you have your precious blu ray :)
You kidding? I've been playing the shit out of Resistance and UT3 (you know, you might get that one day on your xbox... maybe...)
Not to mention Uncharted.
You seem pretty offended.
I'm sorry, who's the fanboy now?
You mean resistance the GoW rip off and UT3 that Sony bought the timed rights to because they had nothing else to offer on the PS3? I'm sorry, didn't mean to open pandora's box. Run along, back to your PSP UI and 'so last generation' non-vibrating controller with extra 'triggers' if you want to call those half assed buttons that lol!
You both are annoying fanboys.
You have GTA too oh wait...
Rockstar realized Xbox is better so now we have it. We now also have Guitar Hero.
Ah, I should have figured that most people reading this would be MS fanboys.
I'd just like to say that this could happen to any system... but it happened to the system plagued by the most problems. It's like the lead brick that was added to the others...
Hey, how much are you paying for the downtime anyway?
it's 1/3 of a month, so only about $1.50 so far
live really isn't that expensive, it's only $50 a year
OBM. There, there. If saying that will make you feel better about your cash going to waste over the great service Live is, we the Sony fanboys won't be offended. I know 5.5 millions aren't the same as 13, and I'm glad you realize unless we reach 13, 5.5 million souls won't ever be enough for online gaming. Well, what can we expect from a free service?
Oh no, not mediocre, but excellence. 24/7.
So... in 2 years, you've paid more for your xbox, for less features... never mind, I won't get into that.
I wonder if they're going to refund you what you deserve. You paid for this, you should get that back.
@OBM
well the only thing good about xbox 360 is xbox live + more good games than on ps3 (well some of them).. and well i'd have finished Halo 3, Mass Effect, BioShock (etc.?) already in single mode by now.. so the only thing left would be online .. well... if it worked lol
so yes Greg is right about "But I'm laughing my ass off, enjoying my free, fully functioning, PSN." although i do feel sorry for you ..
now tell me who's lonely xD
It's sad that all the other console owners are reading this...lol
Is it really that lonley out there in PS3 world.
Here in OZ, costs about 22 cents a day, I think I'll manage.. although, some free maps for COD4 would be nice :)
It's not the least bit lonely. How ignorant could you be? I have a lot more interest in the games on the ps3, not to mention I have plenty of people to play with online. So I suppose these are nothing but the sour nothings of MS fanboys.
steam
wish i had steam.. but my problem is my pc :'( ARGH I REALLY NEED A NEW ONE :'(
Seriously, how many of these are we going to see? Two in one day today, two in one day yesterday. We get the point, it is down. I have not had time to play online in the past few days, so I have not run into it on LIVE, but I have run into the problem with the Zune marketplace. I am not happy about it and I am not making excuses for them, but this is getting a little excessive on your part. Where are the daily posts reminding us that Apple has not fixed keyboards or monitors? Where are the daily posts about the PS3 not properly handling TrueHD?
A web site owned by a company owned by AOL - a one time major competitor of Microsoft. It is starting to make sense now...
En-apple
Where's the option that says I don't have an Xbox with without being obnoxious?
There's also no option for "I played once in the past 10 days, and it worked fine". I ended up saying I haven't seen my family in a week even though I spent the whole week with them.
Not going to vote, but in the same city:
One of my friend's has great service and has not called and complained and I've not seen a problem
Another says his (and I saw) goes in and out.
I've gotta agree with Stephenbratz. We get the idea. MS is having problems with its servers, and they're obviously not minor problems at that. However, it doesn't do anyone any good to continuously post "They're up", "No, they're down" over and over. I'm guessing MS will have some sort of formal statement about the problem after it's resolved. Until then, I think we can all understand what "intermittent connectivity" is...
I am not making this up. I have not been affected because I got RROD right before the outage and haven't had a chance to be affected. Silver lining I guess :/
MS is waiting for you to buy a new one, that's how much they love you ;)
@Greg:
Just like all those BD companies are expecting everybody to buy a new standalone BD player just so they can get a 1.1 profile player. Then again for 2.0, then again for 3.0, then...
As somebody who proclaimed in an older post "I don't use a single MS product. Not only do I get along great, but I save a lot of money" you sure do have a lot to say about something that you do not have any first hand experience with. For a site where people whine about not making comments about something they do not use, you make a lot of comments about Microsoft.
@stephenbratz2
OR... you just buy a ps3 ;)
I called and canceled my account for this month and had them reimburse me. I'll get back on after it's all sorted out....maybe.
I'm about to remove engadget from my rss reader simply because I'm sick of seeing this same story 300 times a day.
We get it already.
engadget: why do you always try so hard to make your poll options funny? you always seem to fail! haha
I think Engadget is doing great job covering this story, its a big story, and millions are affected... we are paying money for god sake!
Anyway, even xbox360fanboy is brining up this subject every now and then for the last week.
also good for the visits *laughs evil*
nah just joking.. but your idea: not really true coz it just keeps repeating it self.. and again more fanboyism (sometimes looking at myself xD)
zomg
Why no poll category for PC gamers? First we have to deal with that dingy corner in game stores we've been relegated too and now endgadget forgets us? Hmmph. Well Eve has worked all week just fine. As long as you have a boot.ini that is......
Consider yourselves lucky to have an XBL to complain about. I got the red ring of death 2 weeks ago and am eagerly waiting my brand new (refurb) 360. I'm starting to get the shakes, I need my Xbox fix.
in same boat
Poor xbox360 will it's trouble ever be over? First it's the RROD issue and now Live is having issues. Don't get me wrong I love my 360 as well as my Wii and PS3 and so far I haven't got a RROD and since I don't use Live I can't really complain if it's down or not since it doesn't bother me either way. But I do find it interesting that the free services (Wii/PS3) work fine but the one that charges you has all the problems. Maybe it's because more people use Live than the others. I understand that numbers mean a lot but still there has to be at least a million or so users online with the Wii and PS3 if not more. I know that isn't the same numbers as with Live but it's still a lot of people and come on no glitches or outages what's up with that?
Status is Up and Running. Claims to be fixed.
My XBox 360 has been with Microsoft since the 21st Dec (3 red lights) so I've had a total XBox outage, never mind XBox live ...
For the most part, my dashboard doesn't work. I have to go to the Media blade just to access the games.
Live? Forget about it.
The general consensus by almost everyone involved is that xbox live is better than psn. I have a ps3 but I'm asking this because I really don't know. But what makes xbox live better? What can you do on xbox live that you can't do on psn? I have never picked up an xbox controller and I really don't know.
Xbox Live is being transferred to Electronic Arts.
OH NO IM LOSING VALUABLE CENTS IVE INVESTED IN XBOXLIVE THIS PAST WEEK, BETTER ASK FOR ALL MY MONEY BACK CUZ IM GETTING RIPPED OFF, YOU KNOW CUZ NO OTHER SERVICE I SUBSCRIBE TO FAILS...
There needs to be a "I am unaffected by the Live outage because my Xbox RRODed and so I sent it back and then the replacement RRODed the day after it arrived so I sent THAT one back and I haven't actually had a functioning Xbox since like September" option. Farking Microsoft's crap build quality...at least I don't have to pay to send it back.
There needs to be a "I am unaffected by the Live outage because my Xbox RRODed and so I sent it back and then the replacement RRODed the day after it arrived so I sent THAT one back and I haven't actually had a functioning Xbox since like September" option. Farking Microsoft's crap build quality...at least I don't have to pay to send it back.
"learned all TOO well"