I've been on Live all evening, no problems here (UK)

OrazioAloeus

@dowingba: Thanks for the heads up. Ill probably call MS here in the next couple of days. I dont want to miss any Fable or Fallout time if I dont have to.

I think before they will repair it, it has to RROD and stay that way. I unplugged it for a few hours and that seemed to fix the issue.

Ive had no indication of issues with this console, its never so much as frozen on me before.

parad0x360

Alright, I am back on LIVE again. North America, Florida.

Quicksilver4648

@NorthernAvengeR: Yaris? The crappy XBLA game? Its free, you don't buy it.

Quicksilver4648

@kojirodensetsu:

I'm going to assume it's not in HD since they've done everything else purposefully retro.

bkchurch

@Horusz:
Correction: It's down here too.

Just got kicked out of a game with friends.

Horusz

When you are getting the best service, sometimes things like this happen.

cjcamilla

@Crippen: Can you invite them to games even when they're already in one?

brandoshido

@Crippen:

Thats ballsy coming from a Sony supporter..

OrionnoirO

Wow, this is VERY unexpected. I was literally on LIVE exactly an hour and a half ago (Florida), absolutely no problems then. But right now I can't get on like everyone else. I hope they get this fixed soon.

Quicksilver4648

@Gigaheart: Go back under your bridge. It's not your time yet.

CitizenInsane27

@NorthernAvengeR:

Microsoft has at least SOME humanity, thats why.

OrionnoirO

LOL!

MattB92

in the mean time get a job

Kadugen

you pay for a service that dosent work all the time?

Phew....i can play COD 4 on my PS3 ;)

Crippen

@Biomonkey:

Same... Paid up till next year on both of our 360s and it doesnt bother me either. Unless it gets to the point it goes a week without access or they dont improve as a result would I complain.

OrionnoirO

@dowingba: Exactly... In order of playability for MM9, I think it would be:

Wii
PS3
a rock
Atari 2600
360

bobtheduck

it's almost pointless to write this post but...I'm online too - Czech Republic

Macko

Uuuhhhh, right now as I type I am signed onto Xbox Live on not one but TWO 360s (me and my brother's, I don't have two). Since the update I have been fine :) Even though every other update usually stops me signing in for a week :P

Refused

@GrumpyJedi: Not to mention: just don't be so friggin' spoiled. I live in a small town where my cable internet sometimes goes down for 5 weeks at a time. A couple hours of Live downtime (which is a fuck of alot cheaper than cable internet access, anyway) isn't gonna kill you.

dowingba

I'm still signed onto Xbox Live.

I'm in the UK and it's 19:31 GMT

Grave of the Fireflies

Huh. I just logged on without a hitch. Saw a couple of friends online, as well.

serialman

Live seems fine for me, just added some points using a CC and was going to buy MM or WW... Still not sure, MM is horribly hard lol

OrionnoirO

Ever since the 24 hour downtime I've been unable to watch many of my videos on my 360 due to it not being able to connect to the video codec server or whatever it does. Why can't MS just load the codecs on my machine rather than needing an internet connection and who knows what else for it?

Mlong128ir

@Glare:

If you're going to troll, as least do it well.

dead_red_eyes

I was worried that this would happen even before it happened.

I'm REALLY looking forward to the new update. not so much about the avatars but having a better interface is a MUCH needed improvement.

nerdBOY01

@KaneRobot: Xbox Live has been "down" for approximately 60 hours (since midnight PDT Monday). It's been somewhat functional intermittently since then, but we'll consider it one large blackout for easier math.

If you buy Xbox Live a month at a time ($7.99), you've lost about 65¢ worth of service.

If you buy Xbox Live 3 months at a time ($19.99), you've lost about 54¢ worth of service.

If you buy Xbox Live 12 months at a time ($49.99), you've lost about 34¢ worth of service.

Take the free game.

GrumpyJedi

Where are you all writing from that you're able to play on Xbox Live right now?

broomperson

I have had some trouble the past day or so getting on. Although as of now I can get on XBL.

On a side note I downloaded the demo for MegaMan 9. Why is the game so blurry?

kojirodensetsu

@parad0x360: That sometimes happens (the RROD thing). It will probably RROD again in the next couple of days and then keep doing it more and more frequently until it will no longer function. You might not want to risk it as you can lose saved data if it RRODs while data is being saved etc.

dowingba

@Horusz:

We will get the problem too only later.

Ett

Oh no! But I put on Microsoft points just to get the new Mega Man!

TomSkylark

I am online on Xbox LIVE right now as well, in North Carolina.

TheParsons519

Hmm... Halo 3 has been having a problem since the Monday XBL update. EXP is not being rewarded for winning games. Yesterday Bungie said they were aware of the problem, and indicated in subsequent updates that it seemed to be a larger problem with Xbox Live and was affecting other games as well. Seems like the tweaks they did on Monday caused a few problems. Hopefully the current downtime means they're fixing the problem.

Here's the posting: [www.bungie.net]

RoboticSpacePenguin

Maybe that explains why my 360 doesn't automatically connect to Xbox live. It still does when I tell it to, then it's fine. Not the end of the world. Much better than what is happening to the yanks then.

CrazyBlue

@KaneRobot: Spot on. I agree 100 percent. They can keep their bullshit Arcade downloads (only one worth while has been Castle Crashers).

DaPress

Can we make this like the Thompson thread.

You know, Xbox live is so down it puts Jenna Jameson to shame!

ba-dun-dun!

Rampage

I'm online now on Live. Europe here.

paulpc

@Surlaw-the-Mai: Why don't you get MM9 on the PS3? At least it has a working D-Pad.

dowingba

no problem here...

I just had a couple of games of Dukematch

theTOMSTA666

@Biomonkey: It works out at about 16 cents a day, so you're not losing much anyway.

DragonNinja

Jump in.

flyingsupernerds

@KaneRobot:

Do you know how to program? Are you in charge of a service that handles about 10 million users? Does your life end when XBL is down?

This isnt a "nothing" update. Its supposed to set the stage for a major UI overhaul. Seriously gamers are the most bitch happy consumers on the planet. Youd think people who's entire hobby revolves around technology wouldnt be so far up their own ass they couldnt understand technical glitches.

Go have some chocolate milk and relax.

Modus_Operandi

@Glare: Already have one, barely play it as it stands, I'm too busy playing on LIVE as I'm still connected :P

DragonNinja

I'm playing CoD4 atm actually.

SkutSkut

oh wait. nevermind. just disconnected for no apparent reason...

the_grimace

WTF? I want to buy and play Yaris. Why won't you let me Microsoft?

NorthernAvengeR

@DruDown007: It wasnt down for more than 26 hours when they updated. It came back online as it was suppose to. This is probably a glitch which is bound to happen when you upgrade a service like this.

Im sure considering all the new features they are about to put out there were bound to be an issue or two that didnt show up until some real load was put on the service.

parad0x360

@Gigaheart:

Wow. Incredibly false. PS3 online 'stuff' = same as Xbox 360's except for private chat and... that's about it.

depward

you can always check www.xbox.com/support there is a status for xbox live always on that page. You can occasionally check majornelson.com for updates as well. I pay monthly and I can live a few days without playing online.

Biomonkey

This actually started last night. I live on the east coast and was getting this exact error message around midnight.

Modus_Operandi

Interesting; I'm signed into live right now. It was however down for me last night at about midnight EST.

I also got RROD last night on my Elite but this morning it worked fine. I have no idea...

parad0x360

This is an architecture design problem. Live is more centralized server which prone to perform bad when scales up. PS3 network architecture is distributed which tends to fail less and performs better when scales up.

codeplus

@Surlaw-the-Mai: EVERY WEEK?? Damn, I must be like 12 weeks behind then. Oh wait....

CitizenInsane27

Even Xbox 1's online stuff > PS3's online stuff!

*~*

Gigaheart

@freemonk: I don't want a free game, I want the service I paid for. If I wanted a game, I'd buy it.

KaneRobot

@freemonk: Isn't it about time that we drop the dash from Xbox? Just askin.

CitizenInsane27

@Horusz: online here in ireland too

Finstern

Every time they do one of their "nothing" updates, we get these little intermittent fuckups for days after. Can't wait to see if this reaches December 2007 levels of bullshit. Oh goody, maybe they'll "repay us" by giving us another shitty game instead of crediting us for the days it was down due to their own failures like they should have.

Can't these brilliant, highly-paid nerds give us an update that DOESN'T fuck us in the ass for days afterwords?

KaneRobot

@Glare: Nope, with lots of other people, playing CoD4.

I Have No Name

@Glare: YOU ARE INCORRECT SIR! *pointless comment*

CitizenInsane27

I'm not the angry mob type, but, because we pay for this service shouldn't microsoft be letting us know these things? I mean, waiting on Home to arrive and be buggy and brick ps3s is one thing, (cuz it's free), but they could have sent an email or sumpn letting us kno it was going to be down past monday.

DruDown007

@I Have No Name: By yourself?

Glare

OK so everyone go buy a PS3.

Glare

I'm still online on Xbox Live at the moment.

I Have No Name

I believe this started around 11:45 PM last night. Everyone I was playing with was kicked off, could not reconnect, could not find anyone to play with, etc.

Will they offer me a free game that is something no one buys anymore to compensate, instead of say extending my contract a few days for free for the time I missed? Probably. Well, more probable that they'll do nothing unless it's sporadically down for 40+ days.

Yukichu

X-box Live has been playing up ever since they switched it back on on Tuesday.

It was all laggy this time last night. I keep getting booted out of games on Halo 3, so switched to Call of Duty 4 where I couldn't even get into a game due to lots of error messages.

This morning, Live went down again. It went back up again a few hours later, again with lots of lag....and now it's down again!!!

Here's hoping X-Box do the same as the last time this happened and give the Live Subscription holders some free.

freemonk

SHIT U MEAN IM NOT IN UNO?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

tyddraig

Same thing happened to me this morning (with the system idling like in the picture). I just opened up disc tray while it was doing that and went back to normal.

KiySeph

Lol, Microsoft can never have a smooth update. Its a good thing that Xbox Live is so good, or I would be angry.

BC4T

Strange, I have a few friends online playing right now.

The Chicken Kicker

really? im on it right now. not playing anything online, but i am signed in and a few of my friends i see are online too. I can access the store and the other dashboard online features as well

the_grimace

great, it was messing up all last night also. Can't a fella just get in to download Mega Man 9?!?!?!

Also, I would like to point out that my PS3's online capabilities never seem to have this problem... but then again its free... and then again, there is a software update every week...

eh.

Surlaw-the-Mai

Well my 360 Red Ringed last week so I guess I'm not too worried about this at the moment...

bDizzle

Really?? Xbox Live failing after maintenance?? That´s something i´ve never seen, i hope this doesn´t destroy the Internet as we know it :( /sarcasm

Daisuash

Red ring of Xbox live!

codeplus

weird, i am online as I type this, Im in europe BTW.

Horusz

Oh well...I'm still working on the Orange Box (HL2) anyway. No need to pwn noobs online atm.

LosDaddie

Poof... Died right in the middle of halo humiliation.

G_the_fresh

I was able to download Megaman 9 this morning. I'm good without.

Still seems quite annoying but then think of how many times anything else has screwed you over that you use on a regular basis. The idea that it should be guaranteed to work on a 24/7 basis is just insanity.

XanderSan

How f*ed up is it that when I lose X-Box LIVE:

1. Any XBLA game I've updated from Trial to FULL sets itself back to trial version.

2. Some videos I've downloaded refuse to work because they can't download the codec.

3. I can't use TVersity to stream movies to the xbox.

They've got me held hostage now. I can never stop my yearly xbox Live injections otherwise I lose all the cool stuff that I already paid for. :(

KindaGamey

I was having issues with Live last night too. Downloaded the new Chili Peppers album for Rock Band 2 and it stalled at 99% ... twice. :(

Slint

Shouldn't everyone get 2 free days of live now?

goggzilla

personally, I like it better this way. I don't have to put up with the constant "(insert name here) wants to be your friend", or "(insert name here", has sent you a message"...etc.

thefutureisnow

I was able to go online all the time, but disconecting from time to time and unable to download any goods while online

I'm in Mexico by the way

Edwinik

yay!

shade-black

@bkchurch: I got a 12+1 month membership card for $39. I am paying exactly $3 a month.

Quicksilver4648

@bkchurch: Yeah, Cable goes out, cell phone reception goes out, internet service goes out, but when XBL goes out they better send out fruit baskets and rebate checks gal darn it!

I noticed it was down last night but I hardly play online anyways so it didn't affect me.

ExistentialEgg

@RonCey:

Oh no, I didn't do any of that. I didn't even know it existed. Thanks for the tip!

Inferno-X

@dowingba: Once, i tried putting my 360 in a vertical position and, 30 minutes after that, i got RROD. I unplugged it, waited another 30 minutes, put it back in its usual horizontal position and never had any trouble since. It's been like 6 months and no sign of any problem at all.

Just keep it laying there.

Dynosaulo

@Inferno-X:

You're old xbox should have gotten it's license transferred to your new one before they sent it to you. Did you re-download your games to renew the license?

If that doesn't work then you gotta use the license transfer tool on their website.

RonCey

Panic ensued last night at midnight Eastern in the GTA races. Not from me of course, just from the people that couldn't hear grenades dropping.

Americo

@bkchurch: Haha, exactly.

CitizenInsane27

For me Live just keeps going up and down ever since the maintenance. I'll just randomly get disconnected in the middle of a game but I can get back on in a few minutes. It's like that time they gave us Undertow for free. Fun, fun.

cheesecake000

@bkchurch: I don't remember the old MegaMan games being this blurry though. :(

kojirodensetsu

Hooray DRM. Because my box red ringed twice and I had to exchange them, I now sit here now not able to play a XBLA game that I was looking forward to playing after work.

Grump.

Inferno-X

This is clearly the result of one thing. Demand for the return of the Blue Bomber was greatly more than anticipated, and has flooded Microsoft's servers with requests for the full game.

Under the might of the fans of favorite robot, Xbox Live's servers crumpled like Little Mac on the receiving end of a Mike Tyson Super Uppercut.

Sure they keep struggling to get back up, and they hit select during the break in rounds to try to pad their life, but we all know that if they go down three times it's game over, man. Nobody gets up that third time, TKO or not.

And Mario's standing there, taunting. "1... 2.... 3... Don't you wish you could download Mega Man? 4... 5... 6... Hey look, all of these numbers are Mega Man games! 7... 8... 9... this wouldn't have happened if you downloaded it on MY console... 10!!!"

Screw you, Mario. Screw you.

ColdFury

I'm on live and I see no problem. In fact, I just sent a text message and got one back! :O

Killa_Charlie

You should probably mention its not affecting all users as their are a lot of us currently on CoD4.

Walker

It amazes me how quick so many people are to crucify XBL when it's down for a day and a has a few hiccups every once in a great while despite the fact that in between these rare occurrences it is the most stable online service most of us have ever had the privilege of using.

People seriously want compensation for this? XBL is like $4 a month. It was down for a day (which anyone who pays attention would have known about a week in advance) and it's having a few hiccups after an update prepping for a MAJOR system overhaul. What the hell do they "owe" you? Like 26 cents?

bkchurch

That was kinda creepy. I am playing music on my 360 and browsing my RSS feeds and right after I read the headline of this I flip the monitor to the VGA side only to see the notification popping up that instant - "Disconnected from Live"

FR3SH JIV3

I'm in the Uk been on since i got home!

infestedDemon

OH NOES! I can't play CoD at 2 in the afternoon on a Wednesday! Oh Gods, why have you forsaken me?

Dear XBLA population: Get a job and you won't even know this is happening.

Razgriz1

xbox.com is struggling as well...

f0cus

I was playing offline Viva Pinata and it was fine. I had a mandatory update following service, and all my game saves instantly became corrupted.

I lost my widdle penguin!!! :(

lionkitten

What free game will we get this time?

headcrab

@KindaGamey: Fix your license with the tool and it should allow you to play all with Live being down.

inajeep

Thank goodness I got MM9 earlier!

SwimOdin

Well Halo 3 has been buggered since Monday but no-one is reporting it. Im not surprised that it's all gone tits up this morning, they need to sort it out.

CanaryWundaboy

No issues getting on last night but I didn't notice that I only had half the normal amount of friends online than usual. Can't get on now. Hopefully they just downed it to fix it.

inajeep

@codeplus:

Where's the red ring?

Unless you confuse Orange with red...than I'm sorry.

Vecha

@thefutureisnow: Damn you for being popular!

Currently for me and my friends it seems to be luck of the draw for getting on. I managed to get on and dl all of MM9 while my friend got disconnected halfway through.

Hdfisise

yeah it was a little strange last night. Kept kicking me out, but each time I would reset my router and Xbox and it was back up.

I thought it had something to do with RB2 servers since I was fanatically pulling down a bunch of DLC.

yashichi8bit

I just bought a 360 and i tried to connect little did i know that live that down and i was getting really annoyed then i remembered that live was down and was all balls i need some updates.

Allcars

I demand a free crappy XBLA game to compensate!

Samutz

PSN still going STRONG!!!

Thomaticus

@Razgriz1: It happens to be 8.45pm in the freezing wilds of Scotland. There is more than one time zone in the world.

SPni

I didn't see it stated, what free game was provided in December 2007 when this happened? I'm just glad I was about to get my last Halo 3 achievement this morning (besides the Vidmaster ones). Now to crack open Sonic Chronicles!

PS: Friend me if you want to do the Vidmaster Annual achievement.

OriginalGman

@Gigaheart:

even retards can use a keyboard!

the internet does not love you.

dojita

@Glare:

dude whut?

i think a better comment would have been...

OK so everyone go make microsoft make live free...

what's that phrase again? ur doing it wrong....

dojita

@Surlaw-the-Mai: I fail to see the logic behind your post. A pretty blatant fanboy comment. You should be ashamed of yourself for stooping so low. Advantage Masters PPD.

Masters PPD

What do all you people complaining about this do outside of video game?. I wish I had as much time as apparently many of the people here do to play video games.

Just today for example I have class until 4, I have a story to finish writing/editing for my college paper, I have to go bug the administration about a FOIA request I filed but have not heard back on yet, hope to get some ultimate frisbee in, gonna cook dinner for my girlfriend, and maybe if I have time catch up on Fringe and Chuck. This isn't even considering the chapters I should be reading for some classes.

Are some you honestly not able to cope without live for a couple of days? Seriously go ride a bike, read a book, or god forbid play single player. It just boggles my mind to see a majority of the internet melt down every-time live goes haywire for a little bit.

tmoney1492

@Surlaw-the-Mai:

That's right! damn them giving you new stuff! Nobody asks for that anymore!

btw wasn't the last update 2.42? wasn't that in...july? isn't it... october?

damn thats one hell of a week...

dojita

They better resolve this before, 16 hours has passed from now. Then i'll be sitting at this exact spot, with a spanking new copy of fifa 2009 in my hands, and let's just say that i would be sad if i couldn't get to show off my SKilzz online straight away ;)

vhn

@Razgriz1: That'd be great if the world was America.

Theoris

I'm on Xbox live.

roylink

@Horusz:

I was playing a team doubles match, it was the last minute of the match and the score was tied 23-23.

Then, *POOF*

lordargent

Down Monday, Tuesday night, and Today?

B.S. Where is the consumerist?!

Jonpaulk

It's up again here (netherlands)

Yay!

Horusz

@Gigaheart: is glare using two accounts to opposite troll and get some flame wars going?

Sorablade

Why the FUCK do I pay $50 a year for this trash service?

Kujen

@Gigaheart: May I pass, mr troll?

Shod

aaagh! i wish i had checked this earlier! ive been re-wiring my phone socket, after i switched on my xbox kept telling me i was online, then i wasnt....i really thought id fucked something up!

juscallmeweasel

Figures I am home sick and XBL is not working right. It had better not be the same thing as last holiday season.

JustJake

@DruDown007: They sent me an email letting me know it was going to be down for scheduled maintenance on Monday. Are you registered with xbox.com?

DaFron

I was on this morning but had issues last night. I'm sure this will pass shortly. (It's been awhile the last time there was an issue with Live).

ReyDEEEEZY

@Razgriz1: Who the hell still plays CoD 2 anyway?

.digiwalsh

I wonder how many people are spamming e's new xbox.com e-mail address right now?!

I'm sure e and maj will touch on the problems in the next podcast.

dcuk7

It's disappointing when us XBL users could pretty much see this coming a mile away when they annouced the down time early last week.

TRT-X

Just tried to download something, the 4 megabyte media update. It got to 25% in 5 minutes (the whole thing is usually done in a few seconds). Then it decided to disconnect me, damn that is annoying.

BC4T

I got booted off last night which totally sucked since I had friends over and they were kinda getting a bad feeling from microsoft seeing as their service was down :(

erona

@OriginalGman: I think it was Undertow.

TRT-X

href="#c8080436">tmoney1492: This is no different than if my internet or cable connection went wonky.

While neither is a "neccesity" both are services I pay a monthly service to use.

Each day they are not available is essentially a day that the provider is taking my money wihtout returning any product.

If this were the Wii Connect 24 or PSN it would be less of a prolem as there is no cost for the service. However this is not the case here.

TRT-X

@Kujen: because it's the awesome, super sexy bestest thing in the whole wide world...

Striderhayasa - Phillyyakk on PSN and Live.

@codeplus: PSN has NO architecture which is why it's sooo crap!

f0cus

I didn't know live was down. I should see if it's back up yet.

KOTAKU loads great and looks fab on my psp here at starbucks.

휘성

@Glare: It's ok , you tried. Then you failed.

휘성

@GrumpyJedi: It's not very accurate to break it down like that. There is a significant inconvenience factor here that is missing from your equations. If Live cost 1/7th of what it did currently but you could only play from 2AM to 2PM on Tuesdays and Thursdays, that wouldn't exactly be an enticing proposition. Reliability is supposed to be one of the things you pay for as part of the LIVE fee, or at least that's what advocates of the service seem to want us to believe.

It's not a big deal to me right now, but I can understand the frustration of those who were hoping to get back in the game after the update was applied on Monday. Hopefully whatever is causing problems is resolved in the next day or two.

Toasticus

@Gigaheart: What a Inane random comment to make. Go you.

휘성

Msoft just took another $50 of my money from my account without even asking and at the same time they're stiffing me on access to the service they make me pay for. I'm not about to denounce the 360, but if you're going to charge us shmucks money to play online, then at least throw us a f-ing bone (and not Undertow!) for once. I want 800 spacebucks. I think all of us lowly subscribers should get 800 spacebucks. It's not like I'm going to spend it on Rock Band tracks or anything, right?

Anarchist_Gamer

i experienced this last night. i got kicked, and couldn't log bag in. and my page on xbox.com was intermittent, at best. hope they work this out soon.

darthpepito

Here Here man,... The reason I'm in IT is because i was so interested in games as a kid it made me want to understand everything about how they worked... and with a better understanding of how it works comes much more appreciation for what they get right, and not every little thing that goes wrong, especially after a large back end update...

Ruiner13

Next time they plan to bring down Live for maintenance, they should post this message:

"Xbox Live will be brought down for maintenance on Monday for about 24 hours, but since we're gonna fuck it up like we always do, be prepared to experience problems logging into Xbox Live for up to a week after the scheduled maintenance date. Because at Microsoft, maintenance really means fuck things up."

"Thank you for your understanding and patience."

Mini-Boss

I didn't realize that you can't watch Divx media on the Xbox when you can't connect to live (or at least I could not yesterday). I watch it pretty much every day, no issue, doesn't have any problem.

Is this just with files you haven't played before, or is this everything? I was rather disappointed that my media STB was fuxxed because I couldn't connect to their server. I'm working off of a NAS, if that makes any difference.

StartingAces

@.digiwalsh: Folks who can't read, obviously.

Razgriz1

How about credit in days for the amount of time Live is down. (Including the regularly scheduled times). Seems unfair for them to just say sorry. Say sorry and then give me extra days of Live membership. Guess they don't have any "idea men" down there.

GOLD5

I have to laugh cause I'm a late-nighter (I usually play between 2AM to 6AM) and Live's been having all sort of intermittent problems since the update.

Here's to hoping the update is REALLY worth it.

Alana

@kneehighspy:Err, you pay for continuous services, so you should get compensated by getting an addition day or two added to your subscription. That seems the most fair.

jackydoe

it's amazing how much people complain about a little downtime and then want something in return. if the service is down a day or two then that's the breaks. that doesn't entitle people to free games or a free month of service.

if the service was down for more than a week, then yeah compensation would be appreciated. not a free retail game or a free month of service, but perhaps a free xbl arcade title. if the service was down a month, then yeah you would be entitled to a free month of service or something of equal value to the month of service ($4 or $5).

it's just that most people always want something for nothing or feel they deserve great compensation for a little inconvenience.

kneehighspy

@Surlaw-the-Mai: The problem with that is that you may not have to worry about PSN going down, but you do have to worry about Sony's "updates" bricking your system. FW 2.4 anyone? I was one of the lucky ones who updated, and end up with a very large $600 paperweight (60gb PS3).

Woden501

It was weird that none of my friends were online last night. I thought everyone went on a massive bender at the same time.

Was on from 11-2AM PST on COD4 last night though with no problems. :p

jollygoodlad

Well I was playing a few hours ago and it was all good, actually great even team fortress 2 had a great connection. nevertheless I hope this gets fixed soon, I dont know if users will be able to stand for long with another xbox live is down sorry.

HELLSRIDER

I think its only for specific games. The same message was on the site last night but I was able to play BF:Bad Company for 5 hours with no problems.

CHunterX

I'd have patience for this stuff except I pay for my xbox live. It's not free. Will we get a few days added for this downtime? Probably not. So basically they are stealing money.

Lumice

@Mini-Boss: You didn't get that copy? Bill must really hate me :(

Laser_iCE

" bkchurch
12:42 PM
People seriously want compensation for this? XBL is like $4 a month. It was down for a day (which anyone who pays attention would have known about a week in advance) and it's having a few hiccups after an update prepping for a MAJOR system overhaul. What the hell do they "owe" you? Like 26 cents? "

$26 Cents across million users....

dazyluz

@Modus_Operandi: @Dynosaulo:
I went from horizontal to vertical after about a year and a half of horizontal and it bricked 3 weeks later. it will never be vertical again

they sent me another in about 2 weeks.

later...

Zatoichi666

I took out (gunned down) a McDonalds (employees AND patrons) over this.....thanks Microsoft...

trunk666

Noticed that you can't dl the preview of some Rock Band songs during this ordeal.

FatFrank

I dont understand why people whine so much about xbl going down for short times. I mean, its so trivial and the fee so small yet people are complaining?

I pay for internet service, but it goes down atleast once a month for a minimum of a few hours, sometimes more.

I pay for Cable TV, which goes down roughly once every couple months for a few hours, sometimes more.

I pay for Gas, which sometimes gets shut off for a day every few months or so.

I pay for Electricity which also gets shut down on occasion due to natural events(maybe once a year)

And the list goes on, point is we pay for a lot of things far more important and yet we never recieve compensation for those. Yet here we are whining about $5 a month on a service that is non-essential because "we pay for it"?

It just doesnt make sense to me.

RuneX21

My 360 is currently in a UPS box on the way back from the Texas service center after it's 2nd RRoD, so I am not too put out by this news.

sobjw

@Gigaheart: Defiantly agree I dont think Xbox 1 will ever be surpassed by anyone? What are you talking about dude? That's the most nonsensical crap ever.

Barf#1

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Algerian

I guess this pretty normal when you have a patch launched. Unforseen stuff happens and somebodys pissin their pants right about knowing that they didn't catch this before it left the gates and got installed on everybodies xbox. In addition as an xbox owner i would be kind of peeved.

Barf#1

This isn't a big deal unless you have content that requires Live to play or use, it which case it sucks balls. If a service is charged for, and said service does not work for a period of time, I believe the user should be reimbursed or credited for the lost time (Hear that, Comcast!?)

Strangelove

lolololololol

Since everyone is taking your fucking comment too seriously, I'm just just gonna post another comment because I'm so board. lol

masterbanana

Wait, wait...I gotta say it. I just have to.

Why am I paying 50 dollars for this garbage?

Oh, so I could get crappy arcade games for free for a limited time only.

lol.

masterbanana

@Vecha: Oh, come on, let him get the joke him, give him some integrity.

Smells like teen spirit, anyway.

masterbanana

@RonCey: Unfortunately it doesn't always work that way. I love xbox live, but when mine ringed my wife couldn't play any downloaded content unless she was using my gamertag that had to be signed in at the time. I tried redownloading the content and using the license transfer tool with no joy. Ended up having to spend an hour with 3 different people on customer support before I got to someone who had a clue what the problem was and how to fix it. After that no big deal but I held off on making that call for damn near 6 months because I knew it wouldn't be resolved quickly and easily, and that an hour or more of my life would be lost for good. Oh well, still a good service for the money.

evilcartman

@masterbanana: To answer your question, you are paying $50 so MS can make money.

ChiChi_BBQ

@RuneX21: Consumer FTL spokesperson.

SirM

Logged in fine last night but VP:TiP couldn't detect my online status. Recovered my gamertag (took a looong time to complete) and everything was spiffy.

D00mM4r1n3

@jackydoe:

perhaps so, but since the going daily rate for xbl is like .20 cents a day, i think personally i won't miss the .40+ cents.

but the days down could be added back to people is only fair, but i don't think microsoft accounting software can do a daily sub rate.

kneehighspy