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Xbox Live - The Christmas Zombie

Posted by Zonk on from the delicious-tinsel-covered-brains dept.

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.

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  1. scalable much? by ILuvRamen · · Score: 0, Troll

    Most 360 users have an original Xbox so the traffic should drop then rise as they retire the old Xbox. I doubt traffic could go up more than 50%. Wanna know my theory? Their servers suck and the whole network isn't very scalable. Either that or it hit the maximum number of simultaneous screaming eleven year olds and the servers melted.

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  2. Re:Let's be fair... by d3ac0n · · Score: 0, Troll

    The XBOX 360 is a marvel of design and XBL revolutionized on-line play


    ????

    I'm afraid I'm going to have to disagree with you quite strongly there.

    First of all, on the "marvel of design" part, Let me just list a few issues with that:

      - Red Ring of Death: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907534

      - Overheating issues: http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1712&Itemid=2

      - Scratched Disks: http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/news/Xbox-360-Game-Disc-Scratched.htm

    Feel free to read through the Wikipedia article for yourself for more info (yeah, I know it's Wikipedia, but this is one of the better articles): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems

    So, yeah, not so much a technical marvel.

    And "Revolutionized online play"? Ummm.. PC games have had in-game and out of game unified matchmaking services for YEARS before the FIRST xbox came around, let alone the 360. Consoles are just playing catch-up to what pc's have had for almost a decade now. Yeah, reeeeal revolutionary... :\

    May I humbly and politely suggest you remove your lips from Mr. Gates' hind quarters and reconsider your opinion in this matter.

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  3. Xbox 360 problems by mc+moss · · Score: 0, Troll

    With all the problems the 360 has been having over the years, I'm seriously thinking about getting a PS3 (I already have a Wii).