Xbox Live - The Christmas Zombie 160
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.
Re:Predates Christmas (Score:5, Informative)
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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Re:Predates Christmas (Score:5, Informative)
Re:this isn't the first time (Score:3, Informative)
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.
Re:this isn't the first time (Score:3, Informative)
WoW is down all the time. XBL has much better uptime then WoW.