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Xbox Live - The Christmas Zombie
SEWilco writes "Xbox Live is not working, as mentioned 36 hours ago in an Xbox team blog. Even if you can get logged in, multiplayer matchmaking doesn't find enough players for games. For a while Zune Marketplace was also affected. At present Zune status claims 'Up and running' while Xbox Live status continues to say 'Users may experience intermittent issues logging onto Xbox Live. Our engineers are continuing to investigate and are working to resolve this issue. We apologize for any inconvenience.' This has been been going on for days." My assumption is that this is the result of lots of new XBLA users logging in with Christmas 360s.
Ditto. I got a 360 in mid December or so. XBox Live has been flakey since the day I got it. Sometimes you couldn't log in, sometimes you couldn't get to the marketplace. Just problems and more problems. I was worried that I would be missing something not paying for Live Gold, now I'm glad I didn't. The Christmas set only made things worse.
My last experience with XBL was in '04-'05 after Halo 2 came out. That was the last time I used the service and it worked fantastically then. This kind of thing didn't happen then.
I can't say all this surprises me too much. I've ran into more than a few questionable design choices on the 360.
I hope they get things working better. All they did was reassure me in my decision not to pay them for their "service".
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Let's be fair, here. I've run into this problem a lot lately too and it was annoying. But, for the most part, XBL has been stable and amazing. I'm sure they'll work it out. It's too early to spit too much hate about Microsoft and how stupid they are. The XBOX 360 is a marvel of design and XBL revolutionized on-line play. That's just plain fact, no IMHOs here.
Funny, as a Gold user and 360 owner for a couple years now, I've never really seen any problems until recently (and slight ones at that). I doubt it will last much longer. I've been nothing but impressed with Xbox Live so far, and would be hard pressed to give up my membership.
"False hope is why we'll never run out of natural resources!" - Lewis Black
Imagine if WoW didn't work for a week? Why would that be unacceptable and LIVE not working for a week be considered OK?
That has actually indeed happened, well I don't think constantly for one week, but anyone who has played on Kel'Thuzad from the beginning can tell you, how they actually had to get up and go do something else besides playing WoW for a few days.
Live has been a little flaky for a few days, disconnecting once or twice and one COD4 matches not starting and some little lag other than that it's been fine.
"Imagine if WoW didn't work for a week"
WoW is down all the time. XBL has much better uptime then WoW.