Xbox Live down?

General Chaos · Post by **General Chaos** » 27 Dec 2007 11:43 am

Didn't this happen at about the same time as they started unbanning a shit load of 360's because they found a bung laser could result in the same bad disc readings as a modded drive with a copy..

Probably flooded the shit out of the server with all the work to do.

mech · Post by **mech** » 31 Dec 2007 03:14 pm

OMFG, is Microsoft taking the piss? I play Xbox Live probably once every few weeks, and every time there's some problem with the service. Finally found some time to play Halo 3 co-op with Vision and the whole thing doesn't work. Not even chat! It's a fucking PAID peer-to-peer match-making service, and it's frequently down or experiencing issues. What a piece of shit.

GreyWizzard · Post by **GreyWizzard** » 31 Dec 2007 03:17 pm

It's having issues because of the large influx of new users on live thanks to the christmas period.

Also, if you bought an older system and you want to sign up to live you have a very slim chance. The servers are only accepting responses from new machines.

This could be causing some of the issues most users are experiencing. Only accepting requests from new machines, shit like that.

Sure it sucks that it has been up and down of late, but grats on MS for getting slammed so hard by new users.

Blotto · Post by **Blotto** » 31 Dec 2007 03:18 pm

yep... considering ya pay for it, its quite the pisstake.....

GreyWizzard · Post by **GreyWizzard** » 31 Dec 2007 03:23 pm

GreyWizzard · Post by **GreyWizzard** » 31 Dec 2007 03:29 pm

morepeople crying

Some dude rang support, they gave him the 48 hour bit and when asked if users will be credited / compensated they said yes. So maybe free points for all?

Blotto · Post by **Blotto** » 31 Dec 2007 03:43 pm

which means we get the royal dry fuck over here in PAL land...

lotop · Post by **lotop** » 31 Dec 2007 05:28 pm

im having trouble with xbox live

lotop · Post by **lotop** » 31 Dec 2007 05:30 pm

hey can u help me with xbox live were the hell do i get stuff to use it
its really

so who knows were i can get eny

Twiztid Elf · Post by **Twiztid Elf** » 31 Dec 2007 06:14 pm

mech wrote:OMFG, is Microsoft taking the piss? I play Xbox Live probably once every few weeks, and every time there's some problem with the service. Finally found some time to play Halo 3 co-op with Vision and the whole thing doesn't work. Not even chat! It's a fucking PAID peer-to-peer match-making service, and it's frequently down or experiencing issues. What a piece of shit.

Seriously.....if you don't like it......FUCK OFF!
You know this is unusual for the service, but you want to jump all over it whenever you can and say it's shit.

I've been on XBL for what 3 or 4 years? The only time I couldn't play was when EA was fucked with Burnout3.

Fuck knows why people put up with things they don't like and then whinge about them on the internet......

GreyWizzard · Post by **GreyWizzard** » 31 Dec 2007 06:37 pm

I was playing cod4 all afternoon. Works fine

westical · Post by **westical** » 01 Jan 2008 07:12 pm

lotop wrote:hey can u help me with xbox live were the hell do i get stuff to use it
its really so who knows were i can get eny

You will need -

a) An Xbox or Xbox 360 console. Sold by all good department stores (Xboxs may be hard to come by however).
b) A broadband internet connection. Sold by all good ISPs.
c) A wireless adapter or ethernet cable. Sold by all good department stores
d) A startup kit or membership card. Sold by all good department stores.
e) A credit card. Sold by all good banks, building societies and credit unions.

HTH!

mech · Post by **mech** » 02 Jan 2008 08:00 am

Twiztid Elf wrote:
mech wrote:OMFG, is Microsoft taking the piss? I play Xbox Live probably once every few weeks, and every time there's some problem with the service. Finally found some time to play Halo 3 co-op with Vision and the whole thing doesn't work. Not even chat! It's a fucking PAID peer-to-peer match-making service, and it's frequently down or experiencing issues. What a piece of shit.
Seriously.....if you don't like it......FUCK OFF!
You know this is unusual for the service, but you want to jump all over it whenever you can and say it's shit.

I've been on XBL for what 3 or 4 years? The only time I couldn't play was when EA was fucked with Burnout3.

Fuck knows why people put up with things they don't like and then whinge about them on the internet......

A thousand pardons for expecting my PAID SERVICE TO WORK. Took me and Vision a while to get Halo 3 working again yesterday. What a joke. I've never had this problem with Steam or PSN and they're free.

Up to $300 with XBL now. $300!! For peer-to-peer matchmaking! That's down frequently!

I want to play games online but don't like how they've implemented Xbox Live (in the sense that you have to pay for it and it's more unreliable) - what am I meant to do, just not play games at all because you say so? How about you fuck off?

Candy Arse · Post by **Candy Arse** » 02 Jan 2008 08:44 am

PSN (free service) still going strong guys. Vote with your wallets and make the switch.

lestat · Post by **lestat** » 02 Jan 2008 09:11 am

mech wrote: A thousand pardons for expecting my PAID SERVICE TO WORK. Took me and Vision a while to get Halo 3 working again yesterday. What a joke. I've never had this problem with Steam or PSN and they're free.

Up to $300 with XBL now. $300!! For peer-to-peer matchmaking! That's down frequently!

I want to play games online but don't like how they've implemented Xbox Live (in the sense that you have to pay for it and it's more unreliable) - what am I meant to do, just not play games at all because you say so? How about you fuck off?

Seriously Elf has a point, I know you constantly loath the peer to peer aspect as do I, the best thing is to vote with your wallet and fuck off from the service.

You own a ps3 and pc, use them for online gaming. A lot of console games don't really need or have decent online anyways. I won't be renewing my sub when it runs out in a couple months, ms really are taking the piss charging for it imo and I find I don't use it as much as I used to.

jizzlobber · Post by **jizzlobber** » 02 Jan 2008 09:43 am

frequently down?

I actually use the service, so I can tell you that isn't the case at all.

lestat · Post by **lestat** » 02 Jan 2008 09:58 am

I think the problems are more related to US login servers. I haven't seen any downtime over the break, but I suspect mech is trying to play with his brother in the states.

mech · Post by **mech** » 02 Jan 2008 11:29 am

jizz: it's frequent enough that I notice it. No such issues with other FREE services.

lestat: Nah, the times I've had problems I can't even log in to live - the other day I couldn't even see my dash. WTF was up with that?

I renewed my service the other day because I still want to play online - had a ton of fun with COD4 in the beta which I'll get in to when I finish my current crop of games, and I am still playing Halo 3 online... and I imagine there'll be a few games next year that I want to play online. For games without dedicated servers I'd still take Live over PSN because of its ease of use, but it frustrates me immensely that even after paying for it there are still issues and down time on a regular basis.

Xbox Live's pricing may not seem like much for people who use it every day, but I just don't have the time and want to play every week or three, and for that it seems very overpriced.

mech · Post by **mech** » 02 Jan 2008 11:47 am

Even Microsoft thinks it's unacceptable. Glad to hear they think so, hopefully it'll be better in future.

mech · Post by **mech** » 02 Jan 2008 11:56 am

Oh and even Joystiq seem to think there have been a lot of problems of late:

Your friend and ours, Xbox Live, has been going through some tough times lately. In the past week, the service that many of us pay roughly $50 a year for has been up and down more frequently than a bipolar groundhog. If you want to tap right into a live feed of the Xbox Live operation, Apollo 13 style, sign up for Major Nelson's Twitter feed, which has devolved into a play by play of the network's status (last update: "Things were a bit wonky, but they appear to be getting better.").

Going to tell them to FUCK OFF and stop using the service too Twiztid?

General Chaos · Post by **General Chaos** » 02 Jan 2008 02:24 pm

I'm going to suggest that we will see how Sony go with their up time once they have had a service for 5 years.

It does suck and I blame them fucking around unbanning consoles. Someone fucked the DB.

Cletus · Post by **Cletus** » 02 Jan 2008 02:47 pm

The total downtime for Xbox LIVE last year was approximately 8 days. So although we paid for 365 days, we only got 357.

If you play once every three weeks then you're playing on roughly 17 days out of 365. You'd have to be pretty unlucky to find live down all eight times out of the 17 times you'd play each year. If that has been the case then you're really only getting just over 50% reliability from Xbox LIVE and at the rate you pay for your subscription, it just isn't worth it.

There is an option to pay month by month isn't there?

mech · Post by **mech** » 02 Jan 2008 03:38 pm

There is but I play at least once a month.

westical · Post by **westical** » 02 Jan 2008 03:40 pm

It's more expensive though.

I'd like to see MS credit everyone's accounts for the days it's been unusable.

Cletus · Post by **Cletus** » 02 Jan 2008 05:48 pm

$1.75 should just about cover it.