http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/ Engadget Comments for Xbox Live: still up and down ten days later http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/Dec 31st 2007 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/Dec 31st 2007 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/Dec 31st 2007 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/


Oh wait what's this thing called 'Campaign' ?]]>Jan 1st 2008 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/ ]]>Jan 1st 2008 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/
Halo 3 - Finish the Hype (except for Halo 4 or whatever they are going to call it. Plus how did Halo 3 finish the fight anyway? I doubt he killed off all the flood.)

Oh and avoid Soldier of Fortune Payback like the plague. Talk about sucky. Took me 5 hours to finish it's that easy. Also stereotypes terrorists as being from either the middle east, Africa or Ireland.]]>Jan 2nd 2008 7:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/Dec 31st 2007 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/Dec 31st 2007 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/
Playing against AI is only fun for a few rounds. Then once you've aced them all, there's no fun in it anymore. They're just idiotic AI and it'll be a while before they develop adaptive AI skills for games that match playing against another human being.]]>Dec 31st 2007 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/Dec 31st 2007 8:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/Jan 1st 2008 12:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/Jan 1st 2008 12:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/
Immature gamers from across the globe, lag, and problems like cheaters and guys who are way better than you who is trying to just have fun are the real issue with online gaming. When I play Unreal Tournament 3, I have 15 other players with adjustable skill levels and who are 100% reliable. I don't even need to connect to my pitiful internet (Time Warner sucks ball sack) so no lag involved. 100% worry free gaming, whenever the hell I want. I don't need to wait for a certain server to have one extra spot or deal with the kid inputting the cheats or speaking in some prepubescent voice how he fragged my ass. I have fun and I don't have to wait or deal with a single human being - and GOOD AI provides a decent challenge.

Playing online is a pain in the ass - If I want to play with other people, I'll invite my real live friends over for a match. Otherwise, leave me the crap alone. This is not the reason why I play Single Player modes, this is just a reinforcement - network outages.]]>Jan 1st 2008 4:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/Sorry, but a game coded with GOOD AI is unpredictable, and just as exciting as a human player. Ever played Unreal Tournament 3? Decent AI - Not so much in the Warfare mode, but really good in the Deathmatch modes. Not predictable in the least, and scalable to your own ability level. Also, I don't always appreciate a prepubescent boy screaming in my ears and a level of maturity usually reserved for middle school. Actually, I *never* appreciate that, so cross online gaming off my list completely - Thanks.

Oh yeah, and once again - no network or server outages to deal with if you're running a single player game. All issues you have are solely your fault.]]>Jan 1st 2008 4:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/Dec 31st 2007 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/
Intermittent issues like this could be caused by nearly ANYTHING (server hardware or software, switch or router misconfiguration or failure, NIC failure, bad patch cable, etc).

I have faced these types of issues and have some sympathy for the poor techs who are tracking this down. These issues are the WORST to track down and in many cases don't even show up on monitoring systems. It can take quite a bit of time to finally track down the "smoking gun" in these types of situations. Sometimes a series of malformed packets from a malfunctioning piece of hardware can take down or impair an entire network...
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sorry, but that's horseshit. A premium paid service like this should have redundant everything. If you have a data trunk or server that is being flaky, you switch to your standby and replace some hardware.

Downtime: minimal.
Customers: still happy.
Microsoft: fail.]]>Dec 31st 2007 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/
Redundancy or not, EVERY system is prone to faults. There is no such thing as 100% uptime. In fact, the more complex the system, the more points of potential failure.

My point is that even in well built systems with plenty of redundancy things can happen. Intermittent issues are even more difficult to track down and correct. In theory a well built network should isolate the issue but there are certain failure modes that can still take down almost any network.

Apparently you have never spent any time working in a data center and actually troubleshooting this type of problem.
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I didnt say I was a fanboy. I'm a gamer and i really dont care what i play it on, just as long as I can play...]]>Dec 31st 2007 10:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/
And Live being down is stopping you playing games how?]]>Jan 1st 2008 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/
"And Live being down is stopping you playing games how?"

Personal preference. I prefer to play games online with other people. I find that playing the same campaign mode over and over gets repetitive, boring, and unchallenging. The whole reason I got an xbox 360 a month after it came out was because of it's robust online gameplay. From that standpoint, right now xbox isn't doing what I need. Don't get me wrong, I'm not getting rid of my xbox anytime soon and it will still be my first platform of choice when its working. But now I have a backup console that allows me to do what I want - play games online (and now I can watch blu-ray movies, natch). I guess I should have clarified. Sorry for any confusion. Cheers Deers...


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$50 = Cheap for such a great service with VERY FEW interruptions... Only twice in 2 years for me.

(PS I have had my 360 for 2 years no problems ever)]]>Jan 7th 2008 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/Jan 1st 2008 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/Dec 31st 2007 9:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/Dec 31st 2007 9:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/Jan 1st 2008 12:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/
Are you saying that we should feel SORRY for them? You dumb asses are paying for this and you are getting crappy service! I don't pay for Playstation Network and I haven't had a problem yet! :-)
PS3 > Wii > XBOX 360]]>Jan 1st 2008 12:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/
It has actually been more fun the last few days, all the rude and annoying people can't get on, maybe it is karma. My Name is Mattclarkie.]]>Jan 1st 2008 5:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/
Sorry, I didn't catch that news - been too busy on WarHawk]]>Jan 1st 2008 10:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/Jan 1st 2008 1:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/
The $400 hardware failed- because someone saved 3 bucks on a hold-down. The power supply for the $150 wheel failed- and was recalled. Now the core differentiator between Xbox and its competitors- Xbox Live (a fee-based service)- is fubar.

Microsoft needs to stand up and admit that they oversold, over-promised, and went to market with bleeding-edge capabilities and now they are screwed. "Subject to availability" language in a contract does not protect a contracted service from failure to deliver. Its time for class action lawsuits and congressional investigations (yup- congress... this is a multi-billion dollar problem).

If they were a dog, I would send them to the big farm to play, for ever and ever.]]>Jan 2nd 2008 8:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/Jan 1st 2008 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/Jan 1st 2008 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/Jan 2nd 2008 11:30PM