No problems, but I didn't check out the marketplace or anything like that - just signed on.

7ucky

Still a pain.

Since the live issue the new front end that came with the fall update takse takes 5 minutes the menus generate.

To add inslt to injury none of the XBLA games work, mostly thanks to being on my 3rd console and DRM authentication which is now only available over live.

:(

kriv

I voted yes. I've had issues from it saying that am online and when I goto send a message to a friend etc. It knocks me off of live. Other times It'll tell me that am online but on the dashboard it'll say connect to xbox live. I would also disagree with people saying don't complain. Since it not only affect's online play it affect single player play also tons of games your playing and then all of a sudden you get kicked out of the game since it dropped you from live. I wonder to the people that say don't complain if this was your cable service would you be okay with paying and not being sure when you can watch tv and having the local cable company say oh it's cause we have a surge of customers.

Darvan

I am still getting booted out of my party in CoD4, meaning that I (rather inconveniently) have to keep sending/receiving game invites after almost every match. Other than that it's working great.

duckmouth

Tore through 5 ranks in CoD4 over the weekend, bought Metal Slug 3 last weekend by buying points online, and upgraded to an adult account as well over the weekend. Only issue I've had was a single 3-second lag hiccup in a Hardcore Team Deathmatch game, and even then, I was dead, so it didn't matter.

RedRaptor

no problems on my end.

Nexus6

@mnTwins07: it's sad too, considering tf2 is leagues better than halo 3 online

sc00t420

@Totorototoro: It's probably more like they want to make the lawyers of the class-action lawsuit have to record outages themselves. When there's a website recording when XBL is having issues, it makes it so much easier on the opposing lawyers to record when Live is having problems.

bluesquareapple

I had problems around Christmas time but I do not have any problems now so I voted, 'No'.

Martinmas

Dashboard loads slow sporadically.

Fallback

Wait, MS is claiming the lawsuit is preventing them with giving ANY system status messages about the service?

I call bullshit.

Totorototoro

I think the big question is, of the people who believe that there are no problems with Xbox Live at present - have you actually tried using it to play games, or did you just check to see if you can see your friends list and then assume all was well?

I play games online with Xbox Live every day, so I can state with absolute certainty that the service is far from working perfectly at present, and that was also the case during last weekend. If you believe that XBL has been fine since December, I respectfully suggest that you haven't been using Xbox Live very much and therefore cannot comment.

kiigan

@BloggyMcBlogBlog: Uhh.. what?

fauxgodzilla

i haven't had any problems since i got home from vacation on the 9th. while i was away in louisiana, though, it was nothing but problems.

AgainstOne

It's been pretty slow, but everything works. Once in a while things won't work, but 1 or 2 retries usually does the job. I notice weekends are worse.

cmsjustin

@Witzbold: Of course not.
I know all of those were jokes, including my vote.

Kirbytheslayer: Punch the Penguin and Win a Prize!

I can connect fine this week, but halo 3 games have gotten extremely laggy.

choosetylernol

@Kirbytheslayer: Punch the Penguin and Win a Prize!: I do hope you arent taking that %age seriously.

Witzbold

Zero problems at this moment. The spinning circle on the dashboard is merely an inconvenience; it's far from an issue to me, you just have to try several times to fully authenticate into the marketplace. Even when I get this, I can still start up a game and use matchmaking with no problems.

From a legal standpoint, they've probably been advised by their panel of lawyers to not make any updates on when Xbox Live is down because people are sue-happy right now. Every day it's a confirmed problem from Microsoft, that's another day that the class action lawsuit can obtain 14 cents per person. The people in the class action lawsuit have to record every instance they can't connect to the service. AKA M$ lawyers are making it more difficult for the other lawyers by forcing them to have thousands pages/videos of documentation of when users can't connect. Chances are, by the time they record all the evidence, it's probably going to cost more in ink and paper than they will receive for their compensation. I'd rather get twitter updates from Major Nelson of future Xbox Live problems than a total of $2 from a class action lawsuit, (I've only had 2 weeks of days with a lapse of service) probably only actually seeing half of that after lawyer fees if M$ isn't forced to pay that also.
Read the ToS by the way, people are only entitled to a maximum of their monthly fee; even a 400 point XBLA title would still cost more than what I pay for a month of XBL. If people these people suing over a maximum of $8 put this amazing effort into more important things, maybe we could stop the polar ice caps from melting, or stop the extinction of certain species. I ramble on when I'm upset about something.. TLDR my own post, lulz.

bluesquareapple

I'm impressed.

Apparently 13% of all Kotaku users have never even heard of Xbox Live.

What the hell is up with that?

Kirbytheslayer: Punch the Penguin and Win a Prize!

No problems since last Thursday for me.

DaxterKing

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Oh the irony!

Sir_Crocidile

@d3anon
yeah, if we even get the first game. now with this class action lawsuit, who knows if we will still get it. if they can no longer provide us with updates on the status of live because of the suit,and by updating apparently is a confession of guilt, who knows what else they wont provide us with. who knows, giving us the game could be them admitting that they screwed up, and there lawyer wont like that. so these greedy kids from texas may have screwed us.

Ragnarok2103

@randomcitizenx:

Same here. This will be Xbox 360 #4 for :(

GamingNinja

I hope they give people an extra month of Live for free since we have to pay for this crap.

curtisawa

Had issues back in December, but I've been golden since then.

Moonshadow101

I had intermittent problems all weekend. Everything ranging from not being able to connect, and when I finally could connect I wasn't able to send messages to my contacts, and had numerous problems once I tried playing CoD4.

It seemed to work a little better last night, but maybe I'm just getting used to the sporadic performance.

Kdawg

Well it had been working ok on all my games except for TF2.....

But a few hours ago I spent an hour in Halo 3 Matchmaking!!! with....thousands of people on...Then when a game finally started it kicked all the players but me and proudly announced that I had won. -.-

d1sCo_d3aTh

Free game +2 from microsoft coming?

D3Anon

@Witzbold: It can really only be one of two things: Overloaded servers or a concentrated DoS attack that MS still hasn't traced down. Really though there is no excuse for either.

UNLESS (my personal theory) it was something in the Fall Update to Live that is causing the problems. Ever since that came out I've been having problems with COD4 matchmaking, a slow marketplace, and taking forever to sign into LIVE.

crazyscreenwriter

It clearly does not seem to be anything location-based. I suspect that when you first register for Live, you are assigned a particular cluster that you usually connect to (which is not geographically-based), and that some of those clusters are having issues and they can't locate the commonality factor in it (though evidence does seem to suggest that the Fall update played a part in it).

Cutriss

I just played COD4 for about 1 1/2 hours and everything seemed better. It did feel like something was off, maybe it was always like that. At least I can join matches and stay signed in.

Agnostic

COD4 is having issues and just seems slow to sign in when you boot up the console. But that has been going on for a while now. Since before the mass outages around Xmas.

crazyscreenwriter

@Witzbold:

Of course mate I hear ya loud and clear. Maybe UK servers are better, maybe I'm lucky who knows. TBH I have been playing more Ass Need (assassins creed) than I have GH3 or Halo recently... But i still play them to know XBL, not too bad.

Communist_Gamer

COD 4 is still having issues.

bloodyklown

No issues here since they fixed it. Just the usual probs with my paltry 4Mbits internet. Maybe its a regional thing now.

Of course i can expect alot of non-users and bandwagoners skewing the results abit.

Hope it gets a global fix for everyone.

joncoffee

i played COD for like 3 hours last night with shockingly ZERO problems. I was pretty psyched about that. Last week the xbox was completely unusable. My single-player games were freezing and the blades were all messed up from it.

tubby

I've been getting insanely long load times for the "online" blades, some lag in games that's been worse than usual, and trying to set up a private chat has been a nightmare. I've not actually been unable to play or been dropped off of Live though.

Korlis

@mnTwins07: The only positive thing I can see comming out of the lawsuit is MS being forced to tell the truth with whats going on. Thats about it.

Witzbold

Well I'm still having problems online with mine. Mainly just playing with others and sometimes can't sign into messenger. They need to refuckulate live if you ask me.

Johnnyhash

All good here in Northern Japan. I have had no problems connecting with friends in America even during peak times. They are on the East Coast though, if that makes a difference.

wahlumsurfer

by "very unofficial" do you mean "very inaccurate"? if only there were some way to measure how badly sony fanboys have skewed the results.

in the interest of full disclosure, i voted yes. i haven't had any noticeable drops, or login refusals, but live has been running a hell of a lot slower for me in the past few weeks than it ever has before.

legacyed

Ron Paul!

Wait.... wrong poll...

Still, It's a problem, it is getting better. but if there is a class action, the odds of us getting something, and the lawyers getting something is poor.

huginn

#2 My buddies and I can wait. An extra 10 minutes doesn't hurt us... actually it does hurt. Our defination of fun is to hit one's shoulder as hard as you can.

goldwings

I voted yes, but my probs have never been more than getting dropped 2-3 times a night. uhhh....a night of play is normally 2-4 hours.

GameraTheGreat

@DigitalHero: Yeah, it's a problem! You can't send messages that way, because you are unable to access your friends list ... you can't join games ... you can't send invites.

It's been happening to be, along with the insane blade load times ... it's terrible.

jayntampa

Last night XBL was telling me that I have a moderate NAT again and I couldn't hear members in my party during matches. I havn't had NAT problems in months and never have had mic problems.

x3n0cid3

@Adam In Texas: The losing stats problem is real..I lost 15 levels..if you see your stats changed do not play the game....apparently the game you finish is recorded too the servers and you lose your old stats...your suppose too wait until the hdd stats and the server stats catch up too each other..which is quite ridiculous because I never lost stats on gears of war.

Snukadaman

did Kotaku break this poll as an example of irony?

velvet396

Number 2, so far as I've noticed. Halo 3 has been working great for me. It takes a few tries to logon to Live sometimes, but it's working fine for gameplay.

GorbyGipper

I've been having problems with XBL since Dec 26, not being able to sign in.

Yesterday was the last time I encountered problems, today has been fine. However I've only been on for a few minutes so I still voted that I am still having problems.

Moosebox

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Adam In Texas

I sent it in as a tip but fourzerotwo.com (CoD4 people) have a post on their blog about people losing stats on CoD4. They said Microsoft told them it was "apparently an SQL Storage Database issue which has been addressed."

I thought that was interesting because you would never hear Larry Hryb specifically state something like that when reporting on the issues. At least I don't think he would. Couldn't this same SQL Storage Database issue be causing people to lose achievement points?

Adam In Texas

@Witzbold: I agree that it's an issue that needs to be ironed out, but I don't think Microsoft needs to be sued over it. Frivolous lawsuits FTW!

mnTwins07

@DigitalHero: Its still a problem none the less.

Witzbold

For me the problem (in Halo 3 at least) has gone from taking forever to matchmake or not making a match at all to extreme lag. In one game I was the only person on my map for nearly a whole minute in the middle of a game. I ruled out my connection (cable) since it's never been that bad before. Then again, last night things seemed to work fine between 8-10 pm MST.

snwbrder0721

@JorgieX: That's exactly what has been happening to me for close to 3 weeks now. I did the highly technical router reset (unplugging), and it worked for a few days. Then I got red lighted......:(

mnTwins07

@Barbara:
You really think that is a huge problem though?

DigitalHero

@JorgieX:

I have the exact same problem - weird sign-in issues. It says I'm not signed in, but I'll get the friends message. If I try to sign in, it fails. Once I'm in though everything seems to work ok.

Yeah, if you're not on XBL and your profile has ever been migrated, you must sign in to use the arcade.

The Wreckard

So this is what happens to me. I turn on my 360 and then the front end loads up. While it's loading up, pop-ups appear telling me who's online. Then the front end stops loading but it says I'm not online and that I need to sign in. This happens on my JPN account too. So yeah I voted for #1.

Barbara

I wonder what percentage of problems are not related to live's current issues and are "regular" user issues.

RetroBob

I was discouraged from TF2, every time I've given it a shot, it gets laggy. "Ah well, I'll just go back to playing Portal," I say to myself...

JohnnytheFuture

@cavingman: Lag in a game is a way of life occasionally. Even before all this I'd have lag now and then. That's the internet. It happens on PS3 and PC too. It's definitely not exclusive to any problems with the service alone (and doubt it's a problem due to it now).

MrBionic

I'm not affected, as I don't own a 360 anymore, but friends of mine are. I feel sorry for all people experiencing these problems, I hope it gets sorted out for all of you very soonish.

Irenicus-the one and only

i get my friends online pop up saying i have friends online but my dash says i need to log in and I can't do anything like message or look at my friends list. Also, when I can't sign in my XBLA games ae all turned into demos...what the freak..!!!

JorgieX

@randomcitizenx: Mine too. I guess this is a "good" a time as any to have your xbox dead.

Luis

I avoided the whole Live is down fiasco and played nothing but PS3 through christmas break. I got on Live again earlier last week and it has been primarily smooth sailing.

DigitalHero

@Communist_Gamer: Remember you are but a single person with "no" problems.

Its exactly the same with folks who play PC games. Not everyone is going to be able to install / run the game the same as others. But does it make what they say less credible than your own statement?

Witzbold

@Communist_Gamer: Ha.. The PS3 guys hijacked our xbox live poll. I demand a recount!

mnTwins07

@Saxboy: Actually I doubt that. Since if there was no pressure to speak the "truth" then they would just brush off everyone with the usual corporate gutterspeak they usually do.

Its pressure that makes the truth come out. Not the other way around.

Well usually anyways.

Witzbold

i WAS doing fine, last night i had lag issues with tf2 though. only when the opposing side would make a push and everyone was in the same room though, so i dont know if it's a tf2 issue or xbl issue...

cavingman

Ive had not a SINGLE problem on Live in the year 2008 and I just dont see why everyone else is. Or maybe the poll has a lot of PS3 fanboys voting lol :P

Communist_Gamer

@Saxboy - Nah, Microsoft was pretty tight-lipped about it before the lawsuit, doing little more than congratulating themselves on having a super-awesome holiday sales season.

I forget who said this and where it was said, but it deserves mention -

If Microsoft was simply unprepared for the holiday rush, then what exactly happened last year, when a bunch of people got 360s instead of Wiis and PS3s? Live seemed fine back then...

Cutriss

I rarely use my 360's online capabilities, but other than a lag to log-in, it seems fine.

I'm starting to appreciate the PSN more and more.

sascha23

I keep getting logged out of XBL. It's been a good indicator to me that I shouldn't even bother trying to do matchmaking on Halo 3. Also, from time to time it takes me forever to load my friend list, and I also sometimes have to switch to the Media blade to start a retail game, since the Games and Xbox Live blades are too busy not getting Live content to allow me to start the disc tray.

Not to mention that I've been cut off from some of my XBLA downloads because of the shoddy LALALAWECAN'THEARYOU DRM system Microsoft insists on using.

Cutriss

Microsoft would probably be more open about the problems if there wasn't a class-action lawsuit against them. Pretty basic rule is "don't speak lest you incriminate yourself" - so perhaps if there was no lawsuit, the MS attornies wouldn't keep the higher-ups so tight-lipped on the issue.

Saxboy

Dashboard takes a while to appear for me, and downloads are a little slow. Nothing too major though.

Destruction

@mnTwins07: I played TF2 on Live a TON when Orange Box first came out, but I haven't really touched it since early November. I got caught up playing other games.

Stormrider900

@mnTwins07: Seconded. :x Which is why I never got to get in on the TF2 fun with everyone else on the 360.

My PC COULD run it if it didnt OVERHEAT. (Gonna get that checked out this weeked by a mate of mine)

Witzbold

@DerrickDS: People on the 360 play TF2? Every time I try to play I have two servers to choose from.

mnTwins07

I am on and off with it. Most of the time it is just fine, but right when I think it is fixed it messed up again.

So I picked no.

Figcoinc

Been fine since New Year's for me.

4dSwissCheese

God bless the PSN.

PissedPS3Fan

no more problems as of last week, for the most part. that whole "irishninja2099 signed onto x-box live" and then "4 friends online" followed by my home button reading "you are not signed onto x-box live" was annoying shit.

TheIrishNinja (PSN), IrishNinja2099 (XBL)

Last time I played TF2 on the 360 with my friends online, I had no problems, and no one complained about any issues. Before that though, there were quite a bit of problems.

DerrickDS

my sexbox live account has never had a prob... oh we are talking about the other thing. yeaa... dont own one of those boxes, but in other news Coleco Vision has awesome graphics :-/

myrlin

Im guessing my problems are stemming off of trying to connect to other folk with problems. But if I connect to people within Japan / Asia it seems to be ok.

Or at least thast what Im assuming.

Granted though trying to use the US marketplace does act oddly though with long loading times like others are saying, or it kinda hangs for a long time leaving me stuck for a couple of mins.

Witzbold

It seems slow at times but only during peak hours.

Zytokis

played COD4 without a hitch this morning, last night, and every night for about a week.

Leyland's_Lungs

For me, in the last couple days things seem to have gotten better during peak hours. Wednesday through Saturday afternoon I was getting the neverending dashboard loading animation but I could still sign in if I went directly to a game (choose from the Media blade). Before that, even sketchier - sometimes just couldn't sign in no matter what I did.
Last night (as well as Saturday), signed in during peak hours without a hitch. No disconnections (fingers crossed) either.
Either they're closer to resolving the problem or all of the "extra holiday traffic" is beginning to subside.

AryzonaBay

wait whats an xbox live?

Raziel3333

No problems here in the UK that I've encountered.

Pombar

I don't consider a few extra seconds to sign in now and then to be a problem, so I voted no. I *was* having problems, but haven't for over a week now.

Everything's hunky-dory for me. Sucks that so many are still having problems though. (Although I have to wonder how many voted "yes" even if it's just a matter of slow sign-ins now and then.. you know who you are.)

MrBionic

#3 for me. PC (free online + $10 cheaper + better looking games) FTW.

smitty1123

The last 2 times I booted up and connected it worked, but for weeks before that it always failed or dropped off or something went wrong.

Vegasadelphia

No. I had problems for a week or so after Christmas but it's been fine ever since then. Sometimes it takes a little bit longer than usual to load, but not much else.

Stormrider900

I played CoD4 for 6 hours on Saturday with NO problems, started it up on Sunday and had nothing BUT problems...

COLDBLOODED BMC

No problems here. In fact, it's been working just fine for the last two and a half weeks now. Also, the poll won't take my vote. I DEMAND A RECOUNT!

<.<
>.>

Phoenix9286

I voted no, but that's only because I let my subscription run out and I just haven't bothered renewing it yet because I haven't had the time to play games. >_>

twesterm

I said no seeing as any problem is minor and only lasts for a few min for me. Ask me around Christmas and you would get a huge YES.

AnTi PRO

I've been fine the past few days. I was having issue's connecting to almost all of my COD4 games and I would get weird stuff like 'Sign into XBox Live' would be on my main screen... at the same time it was telling me which friends were on line and that I was signed in. But it's been cool since Thursday or so.

GameChad

@Sloopydrew: "What's xbox live?" got my vote! GO DOGS!!!

gamestoremanager

@Sloopydrew: It takes a while to update, happens here as well.

Candlejack

Yes I'm still having issues with live. I still get signed out every now & again, and I'm having problems with downloading stuff.

HuhSon

Not every night, but probably 3 times a week since christmas I can't log in.

supps

It was fine last night for a few CoD4 sessions. Even the main tab loaded quickly (<5 seconds).

Hiero Glyph

Got the "circle,circle,circle" spin on the dash yesterday but it was MUCH improved over the last couple of weeks. The dash finally loaded after about 30 seconds of wait time.

elliottsa

its been on-and-off the entire time for me, but my dad has had nothing but problems. then again I dont play much multiplayer so most of my troubles have been listening to voice messages and downloading stuff off marketplace, and occasionally, connecting at all. They only bother me a couple of times a week.

DarrenIndeed

I'll see when I get home, but at last check (day before yesterday) I couldn't even connect to Live.

TitillatedOcelot

No problems here

I_Hate_This_Place

During the first reported problems, nothing serious happened. It was after the fact about the third week in that I was having serious problems usually revolving around it saying that I was signed into Xbox Live, then wait 5 minutes for my dashboard to show up and then it says that I'm not connected to Xbox Live.

Phazonmasher

I've been playing Halo 3 online all week with 0 problems. The only time live has not worked was on the 25th of December.

Tiberian

It worked fine for me all weekend. I found matches easily. Didnt try the marketplace or anything.

ballaboy311

Weekends are terrible. Week nights are tolerable.

MeanMF

Working fine for me, played COD4 and H3 last night. Ever since the "supposed" fix everything been working real well..

But login in XBL at the startup of the 360 is a little slower than usual.

exkon

I have problems once in a while, but nothing too bad, overall it works.

DefHamsterJam

@Witzbold: Must resist joke about XBOX 360 in Japan on Banhammer Monday. Must resist joke...

BloggyMcBlogBlog

worked fine just half an hour ago on TF2.

iamnotdryad

Workin' fine for me. Played a few matches of Halo 3 yesterday, and was reminded why I haven't played that online since launch.

omgJOHN

I'm definitely frustrated with Live right now ... I think a lot of people are having problems.

jayntampa

It doesn't register my vote. But yes, I'm currently having problems with Xbox Live.

Legally Major Nelson can discuss the status of Xbox Live. MS has muzzled him, or he's decided to muzzle himself.

And "What's an Xbox Live?" is such a funny choice, I wouldn't be surprised if it won.

Sloopydrew

yes I'm still having problems

ERMC

I'm with PROROK - I've been making use of my already-downloaded XBLA games, PSP and Wii.

MrMcdoobie

live still intermittent here in japan.
muzzled maj. nelson? another excellent customer service maneuver.

semyeotic

It seems in Japan I dont have as many problems during the off peak hours with the US. But if I try to get on during US peak hours there seems to be problems. :x

Asides from that Ive been using the PS3 more until its resolved so...

Witzbold

I have big problems.. so im playing my ps3 for the time being.

ProroK

I was able to get Omega Five last Wednesday but ever since then it's been nothing but problems for me.

天人

I voted #3 because my Xbox is still off in repair land.

randomcitizenx

I voted option #3.

Candlejack

also having problems with the Zune marketplace, which is all the same to me.

v00deux: mostly ignored, but still correct

@smitty1123:

Don't forget the rampant cheating :)

PC, indeed.

SeeOne

Live is working fine here in SF, CA.

DaveKap

Did the free xbox live arcade game give away ever happen? Or did I black out when they were being handed out? They really need to get their things together over at Microsoft, I love my xbox 360 immensely, but enough is enough.

pancho_villasan

It is better than it was this past weekend, but only in the sense I can now log on. I haven't been able to play Halo (game disc left at friend's house an hour and a half away 2 weeks ago) since this all got really bad though, so we'll see when I get it back this weekend how it goes.

DaiMacculate

I voted yes, but I'm having a lot less problems than I was a week ago. Still not perfect, but a big improvement.

PhantomVI

I voted for 1, but to be more accurate, the service has been patchy lately, but completely unbearable about 2 weeks ago. As the cheap ass gamer forums would say I think this is a YMMV (your mileage may vary) situation.

RonJeremy4Pres

I'm having problems with this poll not working in firefox

noelix

Just got the 360 back today and no issues. But I'm not cashing in the free month of Gold anytime soon...

Any chance somebody can post the address of the lawyers and their shill and we can just embarrass the crap out of these Class-Action rednecks?

Brackynews

Yes, since the 23rd of December.

I mean I can get on now every once and again, but usually only during the day when everyone is at work.

wickedcobra03

I only had problems for a day or two.

Dauragon88

I haven't had problems with live. But I haven't tried to download anything and I most always play late at night.

madman83

It logs on and off really, but I wouldn't say I'm having any problems. However, I've been playing SP stuff and haven't needed to be online. I haven't checked for any lost achievements though.

RPGZero

Recently I've had problems signing into live but once i finally get that far I have smooth sailing until the next time I want to play.

soccerhawk

Slow to log in, timeouts, disconnections...Live has been a mess for a couple of days for me. It seems to be getting worse in the last 6-12 hours.

JimK

After recovering my account last week after about a week and a half of failed attempts... it's still not working. CoD4 matchmaking gets me into games, but can't keep me in for their duration without my getting the boot. It's really frustrating and I just want it to be fixed so I can play the stuff I paid for.

TheBrianIsAstonishing

I managed to play most of this past weekend without a single problem.

Two weeks ago was a completely different story...

SaintFaucet

I had problems for a couple days in early January, during US peak hours. Fortunately, my playtime rarely crosses over into peak times so it has only effected me for 3 of the 142 hours I have put into CoD4.

Libo

I get the spinning thing going on when I first sign into live on the blades. Once I get into a game (halo 3) it works fine though.. so I don't know.

Kotae

@DomZ: Your evidence is astounding. Really.

I'm not on XBL, but I know a good number of people that are, and it's really hard to get an accurate percentage of who's having problems and who isn't. For some people, it seems like Live is working well enough one day, and the next, they can't even log in.

Lezard

Half of those "yes" votes are PS3 fanboys reveling in the glory of their free service. I haven't had any problems for at least 2 weeks now.

DomZ

Works just fine for me right now.

Alazar

I only had some problems after Christmas.

Cornerb0y

If working fine means I'm not prevented from experiencing the regular deluge of elitist assholes, racists and hatemongers, then yes, LIVE is working just fine.

avgbear