Why couldn't I "Connect to Xbox LIVE"?

[Wolfpup]

Is anyone having problems connecting to Live right now? I haven't used my 360 in a few weeks, just powered it back on, and I couldn't log in. It sat on the "twirling 360 logo" screen for a minute and then dumped me back to whatever screen I was on.

My network tests checked out-it claimed it can connect.

After maybe the tenth attempt, it finally logged in, while I was writing this, but I'll post it anyway just to see if anyone else has had issues.

[Wolfpup]

I spoke too soon...it's connected, but something's still wrong as it thinks there aren't any game demos available to download. Ditto for X-Box 1 games and anything else I tried viewing.

[Callandor]

Well, nice to know I'm not the only one having problems right now...

On a possibly related note, Major Nelson's site seems to be down, and I can't log in at xbox.com online either.

[blackjaw]

My LIVE has been spotty all day...on and off.

[Callandor]

Well, we're not the only ones! :bomb: (http://forums.xbox.com/14/ShowForum.aspx)

[Inferno-X]

I've noticed this happening to me in the past week or so, not sure whats up with it.

[A Happy Panda]

K. Glad I'm not the only one. My dashboard tells me I'm connected but I can't join any games in COD4, it tells me I must have a internet connection to play XBL games.

[ryansxbox]

whew! i was goin crazy tryin to figured out why i couldnt play CoD4 either. It says I am logged into XBOX Live, but a popup says "Can't log in to Messenger."

Think it'll be back up soon? I really wanna play, lol.

I'll post once mine is back up, if someone would do the same thatd be awesome.

[hec204]

I've been having the same problems for about 2 weeks, wtf is going on!?

[Kapwanil]

Several days ago I couldn't connect all day. Not in the slightest. I thought it was my connection in some way, shape, or form but after a few diagnostics it ended up being Live. After checking Live's site and whatnot they posted that Live was down for different customers and they were working on it. Seems like it's been an issue for almost a week and it's quite random.

All I know is that when it hits I get upset. ;)

[PKRipp3r]

b/cytyan!!!!

[refusedchaos]

i know! it takes a minute or two for my Marketplace/Profile/Game blades to load up and it wont let me download any demos!!! it keeps on saying that i cant due to restrictions i have on my setting but i have them on unlocked

[life.exe]

Yeah, the xbox.com forums are going nuts.

[NWgamer666]

Major problems trying to create a new gamertag and signup to XBL for my little bro on his new 360. Way to sour the experience for new adopters MS.

[Braskley]

I received my repaired-from-rrod 360 from fedex on Wednesday and although it passed network tests and had an IP it wouldn't log in any live accounts. I gave up, but then a new game successfully connected to live to get updates.

Props to the fedex guy who wrote his cell number on the "sorry we missed you" tag stuck to the door. Called the number and luckily he was only three minutes away from me. I drove to meet at his next stop and signed for the package. He said there were five more packages just like it on the truck.

I wish I always had the number of the person with my package that is "On FedEx vehicle for delivery" since 6:55am. I would even be okay with just a 30 minute window of when they will be at my address.

[m3talst0rm]

same problems here....I wonder what is going on.

[torifile]

I had problems yesterday getting to the dashboard when logged into Live. I had to disconnect and then connect from CoD4. Even then, I had problems getting into games and then getting booted. It's pretty ridiculous.

[glare]

I was having problems yesterday and today trying to get on Xbox Live. It finally let me on about 20 minutes ago.

[kaptinmorgan]

mine was acting weird on tuesday, my 360 would log into live on the dashboard, but as soon as i started rock band, it disconnected and would not reconnect.

[kaaspeer]

I had some problems with xbl yesterday.

It connected to xbl no problem but then it couldn't retrieve my HALO 3 rank and connecting to servers was just a no-go strangely.

[munch]

I had crazy problems yesterday. It stopped waiting after 3 minutes for the dashboard to load. I kept getting that dotted circle thing for ages. It was only whilst trying to connect to live. I hope it goes away soon.

[torifile]

I had crazy problems yesterday. It stopped waiting after 3 minutes for the dashboard to load. I kept getting that dotted circle thing for ages. It was only whilst trying to connect to live. I hope it goes away soon.
Press "X" in the dashboard so you can do stuff. Once you load the game, go into multiplayer and you should be able to connect. I couldn't get to my dashboard at all while it was trying to connect to Live.

[munch]

Another problem I had was trying to download an update for Texas Hold 'Em. It literally took about 15 tries.

[sonicfreak5]

yea i spent about an hr trying to get xbl to recover my gamertag. it didnt work at all.. stupid errors. ill try it out today ... to see if everything goes well.

[munch]

I just bought a wireless adapter and thought that was the problem. I'm sort of glad to hear that everyone had problems.

[sonicfreak5]

still having problems signing but this time im getting furthur into the process and then getting the error. so.. i guess maybe thats better idk

[Wolfpup]

Well, I'm glad to hear it's not just me!

I received my repaired-from-rrod 360 from fedex on Wednesday and although it passed network tests and had an IP it wouldn't log in any live accounts. I gave up, but then a new game successfully connected to live to get updates.

Yeah, it's really weird. MANY multiple attempts to get logged in, but then Bioshock updated without problems...but it took an hour trying to get that free download pack for it.

And then once I *DID* finally get it to start downloading, both that and the Dark Messiah of Might and Magic demo I downloaded went super fast, like there was nothing wrong. It's just trying to actually START them that was bad.

[Ryukahn]

I get the notice saying I logged in and it even has the pop up for friends online, but it doesn't actually show them on the LIVE tab and instead has the connect to xbox live choice. Once I load up a game, I get the you have signed in to live notice as well as all my friend notices again, and it seems to be fine after that. Still pretty damn annoying, and these issues have been happening for like a week or so now.

[doubledown]

I have issues right now also....really weird, I cannot log into LIVE...grrrr.

[GuilewasNK]

Mine has been acting funky for a few days now. Pissed me off because I lost 2 XP in Halo 3. I never leave early and that was the first time I ever lost anything. I couldn't connect about an hour ago either. I thought maybe it was just me.

[TrueBlueLS]

Mine didn't sign in automatically and took about 3 minutes to even do that. Looks like Microsoft needs some more servers.

[KaneRobot]

I'm still getting the loading icon for an eternity as well. When it finally goes away it shows that I'm signed in to my tag but not signed on to the service.

[GuilewasNK]

I'm still getting the loading icon for an eternity as well. When it finally goes away it shows that I'm signed in to my tag but not signed on to the service.

I had that too. I was getting into 1 player Lone Wolves matches on Halo 3. Weird stuff.

[dpadilla4]

I am having problems as well. I can't play cod4 multiplayer but I can with GOW wierd stuff oh well.

[Marktg30]

From the XBox Support Page (which now has a longer explanation)






Status:


Up and running
Users may experience issues performing transactions dependent on Windows Live ID availability including but not limited to Xbox 360 and Zune account creation, renewal, recovery, all DMP transactions, and logging into or creating Windows Live ID accounts. We apologize for any inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

[dmaul1114]

Yeah, it's down again (has been for a couple hours). It's all over the x-box.com forums.

Here's the current message on the X-box live support page.

Status:

Up and running

Users may experience issues performing transactions dependent on Windows Live ID availability including but not limited to Xbox 360 and Zune account creation, renewal, recovery, all DMP transactions, and logging into or creating Windows Live ID accounts. Users will experience intermittent issues including but not limited to: Tournaments, Storage Downloads, Gamer Tile, Statistics through Arbitration, Match Making, and Messaging. Additionally, Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4 users may experience issues joining matches or posting statistics. Customer Support may also experience issues referencing customer data. We are aware of the issue and are currently working to resolve it. We apologize for any inconvenience.


This is getting a bit old.

[looploop]

I was finally able to connect for the first time all day. Hopefully my luck won't abandon me before the KUF:COD demo finishes downloading. :/

[Poor2More]

I was finally able to connect for the first time all day. Hopefully my luck won't abandon me before the KUF:COD demo finishes downloading. :/

Great demo also :), wow the XBL servers are getting slammed since christmas

[dmaul1114]

Damn. A poster on the xbox forums said they called customer support and asked for an estimate on when it would be fixed. Said they were told it would likely be tomorrow afternoon before everything was fully resolved.

[Poor2More]

Damn. A poster on the xbox forums said they called customer support and asked for an estimate on when it would be fixed. Said they were told it would likely be tomorrow afternoon before everything was fully resolved.

wow i hope thats false, I just bought a 1 month live pass 2 weeks ago, and xbox live worked maybe for a week, what a wast of cash

[AshesofWake]

^^^ same here, im paying monthly because of school..fucking MS

[Dicerion]

im joining the, my xbox live is messed up for some reason club. i can't connect to games in cod4 and i am having the same problems as all of you, making my winter break from college sucky and boring.

[ruffinra]

I really think Microsoft should offer some form of reimbursement because like many my live has sucked since xmas.

[Erikph2]

Since Christmas I have not been able to use Live which we are all paying for a service that does not function. At the very least a free month or so would be nice and a message that they screwed up.:bomb:

[Vulcan2422]

This is just sad. 50 bucks a month for a service that gets messed up almost one a Week for every month? I mean It must be nice for the Free Customers on the PS3 cause if there service goes down, they don't really have anything to complain about. But what about the people playing monthly? This is just sad. I hope we get some kind of Reimbursement.

[v1et r1ce]

Well you get what you pay for :roll:

Just finished a match in CoD4 so maybe it works now? I quit cause Patriots are coming up.

[dmaul1114]

Yeah, they really need to give everyone a free couple of days or something, if not a whole month.

But they won't as the license agreement says they're not responsible for technical difficulties, outages etc.

[starmask2k3]

to many people r online because of the christmas and new year

[RudyPants]

Hopefully MS does something about it this weekend, but I have a feeling most of their Xbox Live chronies are taking the Holiday weekend off. Prove me wrong MS, prove me wrong!

[Bathory]

to many people r online because of the christmas and new year

Thats what I think.

[A Happy Panda]

This is just sad. 50 bucks a month for a service that gets messed up almost one a Week for every month? I mean It must be nice for the Free Customers on the PS3 cause if there service goes down, they don't really have anything to complain about. But what about the people playing monthly? This is just sad. I hope we get some kind of Reimbursement.

$50 per year maybe?

And reimbursement? Doubt it.

Also, Major Nelson is updating his twitter, not his blog.

http://twitter.com/majornelson

[Aleryn]

This is just sad. 50 bucks a month for a service that gets messed up almost one a Week for every month? I mean It must be nice for the Free Customers on the PS3 cause if there service goes down, they don't really have anything to complain about. But what about the people playing monthly? This is just sad. I hope we get some kind of Reimbursement.

Its $50 per year and this is prolly the 3rd time in 4 years Ive had issues with the service. Others have had more issues, but damn is it a better alternative to the BS required for PC fps gaming.

PS3 does a good job, Sony really needs to streamline PSNetwork tho.

[ZForce915]

I fixed this problem this afternoon, I played my Wii instead. :-)

[Danil ACE]

Considering that you can get a 13 month card for like $40 (which equals out to $3.07 per month, which is $0.77 per week), LIVE is really cheap. Other utilities such as cable, cell, etc are like $50 a month.

[meesterjojo]

Is anyone having problems connecting to Live right now? I haven't used my 360 in a few weeks, just powered it back on, and I couldn't log in. It sat on the "twirling 360 logo" screen for a minute and then dumped me back to whatever screen I was on.

My network tests checked out-it claimed it can connect.

After maybe the tenth attempt, it finally logged in, while I was writing this, but I'll post it anyway just to see if anyone else has had issues.


www.xbox.com

Yes, there is a problem.

It's so bad forum mods on the Xbox site are capping most every thread under the XBL thread.

[BREVITY]

Didnt try to get on the 360 till just now and so didnt see this thread but I will add my voice. Live is broken. lol

[klwillis45]

I wouldnt be suprised if MS emailed out 1 month codes after this.

[GuilewasNK]

This is just sad. 50 bucks a month for a service that gets messed up almost one a Week for every month? I mean It must be nice for the Free Customers on the PS3 cause if there service goes down, they don't really have anything to complain about. But what about the people playing monthly? This is just sad. I hope we get some kind of Reimbursement.

You don't pay 50 bucks a month for Live. Also, nothing in this world is beyond the ability to fail. Give them some time to fix whatever the problem is. Live has been stellar for the most part since it went online many years ago.

[HighlightShow]

It keeps messing up for me, I don't know what the deal is.

[A Happy Panda]

It keeps messing up for me, I don't know what the deal is.

Goddamnit. Do you not read? XBL IS DOWN.

[AshesofWake]

this sucks, i can't play any game where i've downloaded legally purchased content offline, fuck fuck fuck. oh well, going to vegas in an hour or so. lol

[GuilewasNK]

Man, a lot of posters on Xbox.com are a whiny lot. They sound like a bunch of children crying about this situation. Yes it sucks, but deal with it like an adult.

[A Happy Panda]

Man, a lot of posters on Xbox.com are a whiny lot. They sound like a bunch of children crying about this situation. Yes it sucks, but deal with it like an adult.

XBL...bunch of children crying and whining? Not sure what you mean....

=p

[GuilewasNK]

XBL...bunch of children crying and whining? Not sure what you mean....

=p

Point taken. :lol:

[SynGamer]

Man, a lot of posters on Xbox.com are a whiny lot. They sound like a bunch of children crying about this situation. Yes it sucks, but deal with it like an adult.

We're paying $40-50 a year for XBL, and right now i have time off from college so i would expect this shit to be fixed by now...that's why i'm complaining.

[Poor2More]

none of my games can update now, this sucks

[GuilewasNK]

We're paying $40-50 a year for XBL, and right now i have time off from college so i would expect this shit to be fixed by now...that's why i'm complaining.


I'm sure they "expect this shit" to be fixed too. Most of us have had time off whether from school or work.

So, out of the year a few days go wonky. Since 2004 this is the first major issue I have seen. This is the holidays and tech people could be visiting family for all we know. 100% up time is impossible and none of us are IT people. They are probably going through hell trying to fix this and they certainly aren't half-assing it. Complaining isn't going to make them work any faster.

[Cryptosporidium-399]

I'm sure they "expect this shit" to be fixed too. Most of us have had time off whether from school or work.

So, out of the year a few days go wonky. Since 2004 this is the first major issue I have seen. This is the holidays and tech people could be visiting family for all we know. 100% up time is impossible and none of us are IT people. They are probably going through hell trying to fix this and they certainly aren't half-assing it. Complaining isn't going to make them work any faster.

Thanks for your input on this situation, Mr. Gates. Now that you've put us all in our place maybe you could explain why we should all buy a Zune?

...I'd be much more annoyed with Xbox Live if the Pats weren't losing...Let's Go Giants....

[GuilewasNK]

Thanks for your input on this situation, Mr. Gates. Now that you've put us all in our place maybe you could explain why we should all buy a Zune?

...I'd be much more annoyed with Xbox Live if the Pats weren't losing...Let's Go Giants....

:lol:

Yeah it's a good game so far. It's a good distraction from the Live issues. I've been jonesing for some Halo 3 and COD4 today but what can you do?

[A Happy Panda]

:lol:

Yeah it's a good game so far. It's a good distraction from the Live issues. I've been jonesing for some Halo 3 and COD4 today but what can you do?

Indeed.

I'll root for any team that plays against Bill Bilichick that asshole.

[eswat]

It's funny. I've hardly played on LIVE for the past few weeks, but now that it's gone to shit I suddenly have the urge to play some CoD 4 online.

Guess it's like the Wii craze. D:

[Fuzi0n]

Maj. Nelson said to try now, he is able to read msgs.

[Logain8955]

I just logged in, working fine right now. Haven't yet tried to play online though.

[CoconutSport]

Indeed.

I'll root for any team that plays against Bill Bilichick that asshole.

38-35? If I was the Giants I'd feel robbed.

[CoconutSport]

Indeed.

I'll root for any team that plays against Bill Bilichick that asshole.

38-35? If I was the Giants I'd feel robbed.

[sp00ge]

http://www.brokenpinata.com/pics/Funny/xblbroke.jpg

:lol: I'm bored at work... what can I say?

[SmellsLikeRandyMossGuy]

lol that picture is great

[GuilewasNK]

http://www.brokenpinata.com/pics/Funny/xblbroke.jpg

:lol: I'm bored at work... what can I say?

:rofl:

Nice.

[$hady]

LOL @ pic. Looks like it's back up I can actually check my mail now i'm gonna try to cap some asses in CoD4. :D

[m3talst0rm]

It's back for me...played some TF2.

[dmaul1114]

Came back around midnight EST for me. Played COD4 for 2.5 hours with no problems other than a couple laggy matches.

[Wolfpup]

GuilewasNK, what's the funky Next Generation thingee in your signature about? That's a riot.

this sucks, i can't play any game where i've downloaded legally purchased content offline, fuck fuck fuck. oh well, going to vegas in an hour or so. lol

That's why I'm not going for these console download services. Not until they have more fair DRM terms (like at least Steam you only need to authenticate once each time you reinstall an OS or change computers-similar with iTunes).

Considering that you can get a 13 month card for like $40 (which equals out to $3.07 per month, which is $0.77 per week), LIVE is really cheap. Other utilities such as cable, cell, etc are like $50 a month.

Yeah, but those actually give you something for your money. Everything Live does is done free on PC. There's no way I can justify $40/year for it, let alone $50. Not when a bit more buys a year of Gametap, or 2-6 games, or...

Anyway glad to hear people are reporting it's working again.

Maybe the Live servers all had to do Windows Updates :D

[dmaul1114]

Well, fuck. It's down again. :(

[yukine]

Yup, can't connect. They better fucking reimburse us for lost days.

[GuilewasNK]

GuilewasNK, what's the funky Next Generation thingee in your signature about? That's a riot.





It's a spoof on the skit Night at the Roxbury from Saturday Night Live.

This is the original clip. Someone just put Picard, Riker and Data's heard in place instead. There's other spoof with Bill Cosby, Randy Savage and others, but I like the Trek one the best since I am a huge Trek fan.

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/8238/e21a1a7124e7a4cc1c63d7fyh6.gif

[dmaul1114]

They finally got the status updated to indicate the problems.

Status:

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.

[Brak]

I'm glad I don't have broadband at my apartment. :lol:

At the momeny, anyway.

[Inferno-X]

Seriously, I was expecting this to be fixed by the time I got home from work today. I got Crackdown on Friday and I don't want to start playing it without the needed game update, but of course I can't get that update if it won't let me connect to xbox live. Ugh.

[Brak]

Seriously, I was expecting this to be fixed by the time I got home from work today. I got Crackdown on Friday and I don't want to start playing it without the needed game update, but of course I can't get that update if it won't let me connect to xbox live. Ugh.
Unplug the Ethernet cable from the back of your 360.

[Kapwanil]

They finally got the status updated to indicate the problems.

Status:

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.


Ugh, the only problem is that is the status message they've been posting on their site every so often since nearly last week. At least they're still working on it, even though it seems to have only short periods of functionality.

[A Happy Panda]

Christmas broke XBL =/

[yukine]

Santa broke XBL =/

Fixed.

Yeah, this really sucks.

[SynGamer]

After 15 minutes, i finally got into a game on Halo 3...3 on 2, was originally 4 on 2 but another person left on the other team. After that i couldn't connect to another game and gave up after 20 minutes.

[DarkNessBear]

Is anyone having problems connecting to Live right now? I haven't used my 360 in a few weeks, just powered it back on, and I couldn't log in. It sat on the "twirling 360 logo" screen for a minute and then dumped me back to whatever screen I was on.

My network tests checked out-it claimed it can connect.

After maybe the tenth attempt, it finally logged in, while I was writing this, but I'll post it anyway just to see if anyone else has had issues.
Thank you!

Im not alone!! :bouncy:

I play some Gears Multiplayer Local last night my game freezes... I turn it off the update fucks it up. Then this morning I try to play COD4 and it freezes then I try it again then the sound doesnt work... third try.

I hate 360 atm.

Froze again... am I gonna get red rings?

[DarkNessBear]

Why can't I play ANY games now!?!? Every game I play after 1-5 minutes it goes to a Blue/Pink/Green screen and freezes!!!

Is it because of this Xbox Live thing?! ='(

[v1et r1ce]

Mines just fucking freezes a lot. I try to press a button and it freezes. I did manage to get in one custom match with 3 other people but it took 10mins to get everyone in a room.

[lordwow]

This is lame as shit.

MS better comp us a few days for this.

[GuilewasNK]

This is lame as shit.

MS better comp us a few days for this.

Just realize this....

$50 a year for Live.

365 days a year.

That equals about 14 cents per day, so even with the outage being 3 to 5 days it wouldn't amount to much.

[triforcer]

they need to start using dedicated servers. enough of this peer hosting bullshit we pay for.

[GuilewasNK]

they need to start using dedicated servers. enough of this peer hosting bullshit we pay for.

Maybe that is why EA insisted on using their own servers? I always wondered about that.

[gsr]

live.xbox.com has been hosed for about a month..at least. It takes FOREVER to log in and see your friends and send messages.

MS really needs to get it together.

[lordwow]

Just realize this....

$50 a year for Live.

365 days a year.

That equals about 14 cents per day, so even with the outage being 3 to 5 days it wouldn't amount to much.

Still doesn't change the fact that I service I paid for is out for 3-5 days. If my cable or my internet goes down, I expect to be compensated the 3-5 days it's out. The same with Xbox Live. I don't think it's an unreasonable request.

[GuilewasNK]

Still doesn't change the fact that I service I paid for is out for 3-5 days. If my cable or my internet goes down, I expect to be compensated the 3-5 days it's out. The same with Xbox Live. I don't think it's an unreasonable request.

I agree, I'm just saying it won't be much.

[boyward]

I can't get on either.

I feel bad for anyone who activated their 48-hour Gold membership just before this happened.

[sp00ge]

I agree, I'm just saying it won't be much.
It would be quite an expensive lesson to MS, however. $.14/day over 5 days = $.70. Now multiply that by the number of paying members. (Quick google search is showing 6-8 million, so we'll go with the low number). 6,000,000 x .70 = $4.2 million. That's for 5 days!

I know that's still a drop in the bucket for MS, but it's still enough to make their butt hurt. Of course, these numbers are sheer speculation, and I can't gaurantee accuracy.

[menikmati]

My XBL has been working smoothly ever since midnight PST, I played about 3 hours of COD4 with no problems and was able to get all the DLC I needed.

[TC]

This was happening to me for a while the other day. Turned off auto sign in and everything seems better. The items are still loading slowly, but I am able to manually sign in every time.

[DarkNessBear]

You'd think with all the ad money they make and paying subscribers they wouldn't have problems. =)

[GuilewasNK]

You'd think with all the ad money they make and paying subscribers they wouldn't have problems. =)

Mo' money, mo' problems as the saying goes.

At any rate, I was able to get in some Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force online gaming on the PC and I hadn't done that in a long time. Funny going back to Gamespy after being on Live so much.

[ighosty]

I can log onto live, but my friends list and messages don't show up in the dashboard. It tells me how many friends I have with the pop up, but I can't go look at my friends list. Did this yesterday for a while also.

[SteveMcQ]

This is ridiculous. The damn system can't decide whether I'm online or not. I get the usual prompts that I'm signed on, but the dash says otherwise. I pop a game in and it signs me out, then signs me in. I take the game out and I'm signed out and have to restart the console to get signed back on.

[anomynous]

they better fix this soon, its getting ridiculous

[Sofa King Kool]

Fuck. I just went out and bought CoD4 today and I can't play it online. They'd better fix this soon :bomb:

[DarkNessBear]

Ugh, now all the sudden all my games are freezing. What the hell happened?

This all started when the Kane and Lynch demo released. Revenge?

[doubledown]

Yeah, my dashboard froze today also....weird.

[torifile]

Just realize this....

$50 a year for Live.

365 days a year.

That equals about 14 cents per day, so even with the outage being 3 to 5 days it wouldn't amount to much.
That's a ridiculous way to look at it. MS is a business and they need to keep their customers happy. If they offered $.40 for this outage, it would actually piss them off more.

[help1]

I think 50 MS points for everyone would be nice.

[Richlough]

Check this out .

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/Richlough/DSC00217.jpg
Something's definitely f'd up .
Shrek 2 is a Xbox game .

EDIT**I guess this proves that they know which Xbox games people play and try to play .**

[GuilewasNK]

That's a ridiculous way to look at it. MS is a business and they need to keep their customers happy.

Despite the fact that it would be mathmatically accurate, you are right. :roll:

Believe me, I know more that most about customer service. I am pretty sure MS realizes they need to keep customers happy. It isn't like they are drinking champange while Xbox Live fades into oblivion with no one working on the problem.

[Scobie]

This is ridiculous. The damn system can't decide whether I'm online or not. I get the usual prompts that I'm signed on, but the dash says otherwise. I pop a game in and it signs me out, then signs me in. I take the game out and I'm signed out and have to restart the console to get signed back on.

I've been getting the exact same thing over the weekend, and I'm sure it's a common symptom. It's annoying as all get out. Everything ran better before the last system update, but it's been especially bad recently.

[sp00ge]

Check this out .

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/Richlough/DSC00217.jpg
Something's definitely f'd up .
Shrek 2 is a Xbox game .

EDIT**I guess this proves that they know which Xbox games people play and try to play .**

That's great. Shrek 2 isn't even a BC game. :D

[Richlough]

I've been getting the exact same thing over the weekend, and I'm sure it's a common symptom. It's annoying as all get out. Everything ran better before the last system update, but it's been especially bad recently.

No doubt all the new Christmas owners are putting a strain on the service .
I guess it'll go away for sure in a month when their trial subscriptions expire .

[Scobie]

No doubt all the new Christmas owners are putting a strain on the service .
I guess it'll go away for sure in a month when their trial subscriptions expire .

I dunno... I'd wager a good percentage of the new users will subscribe if they haven't already. It's the 360's killer app. MS just needs to add more tubes to their internets.

[RudyPants]

This is getting ridiculus. It's been a good three days since I've been able to play online.

It's nice that I'm able to get back into a few single-player games, but people are teasing me by sending me invites to Halo 3 that I can't connect too ...

[Wet Ninja]

Check this out .

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v208/Richlough/DSC00217.jpg
Something's definitely f'd up .
Shrek 2 is a Xbox game .

EDIT**I guess this proves that they know which Xbox games people play and try to play .**

Yeah, I popped in the original Halo to walk around the multiplayer maps and see how far the level design has come in Halo 3, and now I have Halo listed in my achievements. It's really pointless; even though Halo is one of the Xbox Originals titles, there are no achievements for it. I wish I could remove it from my list.

[Jesus_S_Preston]

I love not being able to access the dashboard when I'm connected to Live!

[SynGamer]

This is really beginning to piss me off. 9 days now that we have had shitty XBL and still no fix...

[eswat]

This is too funny. I can see games in TF2 (haven't bothered to join any), but XBL insists that I'm not connected. Make up your fucking mind.

[DesertEagleXIX]

I've been unable to connect all weekend. Starting to get withdrawl....

[eswat]

I vote that everyone refrains from buying Xbox 360s as Christmas presents next year. Who's with me? :lol:

[tokitoki50]

Boo at Xbox Live freezing my entire xbox when I try to look at my friends list!

Oh well, back to finishing Assassin's Creed.

[Jesus_S_Preston]

Also? I'm so glad I'm using a 1-month free trial and don't actually pay for this crap.

[hec204]

I demand 9days + whatever more it lasts of free xbox live!

[lunchboxfett]

I'm getting upset that I can't play my arcade titles because my box was replaced a month ago.

[MasterSprtn117]

Same here, lunchboxfett. I can't play my arcade titles except the ones on the Arcade Unplugged Vol. 1 disk that I got for free. Kinda frustrating since the only ones I haven't finished are Texas Hold 'em and Bejeweled 2. Bejewled 2's achievments are impossible, and I'm too impatient half the time with Texas Hold 'em.

[Interstella 5555]

I'm having the same conneciton problem with my 360, but I can get mine to connect. I just make sure I have a game in the console (I use COD4) and let it run, then I push the Xbox button on the controller and connect from there. I hope that helps, that's how I get on.

[DarkNessBear]

I think the new patch for 360 = worst patch ever.

It like made everything slower and shittier. Now its broken, even more shitty. Ugh. I just want to know why all my games are freezing now!!! It's so frusturating!! =(

[Sofa King Kool]

I'm just going to ask this here because the thread is active and the question is too small to justify a new thread.

Does anyone still play Bomberman Live? I got a points card today and I'd like to get Bomberman, but only if people still play it.

[DarkNessBear]

What the F did this patch do?! Did my 360 fans turn off? I think my 360 is overheating. Say if I had my 360 off for an hour it would work for 5 minutes, then if I only have it off for 5 minutes it would work for 1 minute and if I have it off for like 30 seconds it would work for like 10 seconds. And it even froze at the Xbox Logo boot up.

It would get all distorted colors. Like patterns of blue or a blue screen or green lines.

Does this relate to the problems with Live? I unplugged my internet and took out my hard drive and it still freezes.

T_T The 360 is a peice of shit.

Lolol. I called and talked to the guy and told him about my freezing problem and he said, "Well it seems like its a hardware failure. You are going to have to pay 90 dollars for this repair" and so I quickly said, "Oh, it just gave me 3 red rings. What does that mean?" (I was lieing I just know you get free shipping if you say that) so then he was like, "Oh, ok then it will be free and we will ship you a box and a free xbox live membership". Nice.

Fuck now I have to wait 2-3 weeks.

I was the only one of my friends that has had no problems with the 360. So that makes 4 + me of my friends with broken 360's and only 4 of my friends own a 360. The POS award of the year goes to 360!!!

[DarkRider23]

This is really beginning to piss me off. 9 days now that we have had shitty XBL and still no fix...

I really hope they give us at least a WEEK of free Xbox Live. This whole christmas break has been plagued with barely being able to go on Xbox Live. I can play alone fine. I get minor problems when trying to play alone online. When I try to play with my friends, which I always play with, we get so many hosting problems that it's ridiculous.

[Gourd]

Wow. I just tossed a router into the garage because I thought it was the source of these problems...

[benjamouth]

They'd better get this fixed quick, I've been having problems all week and I'm paying for this crap.

Not happy :bomb:

[A Happy Panda]

IDK what people are talking about, 9 days of bad service...?

Why did it stop working for you 2 days before X-Mas?

I didn't start noticing problems since last Thursday, and even then I've been able to find other things to do...

Also, whoever is complaining about the patch, I think you're in the minority. Also, why would it start acting up now versus when you first patched it?

[eswat]

I actually hope they give something like free points or a XBLA game (yeah right) instead of free time, since I'll be resubscribing again regardless.

[Mookyjooky]

This is just sad. 50 bucks a month for a service that gets messed up almost one a Week for every month? I mean It must be nice for the Free Customers on the PS3 cause if there service goes down, they don't really have anything to complain about. But what about the people playing monthly? This is just sad. I hope we get some kind of Reimbursement.

Once a week? Man, thats your shitty ISP connection, not XBL.

I've never had a problem until now and when they shut it down for a couple hours to update the servers. Which they absolutely have to do, and yes it requires hours.

Sounds to me that they're just having issues because of all the new kids with 360s... Everyone needs to stop being and whiner and give it some time, its only been a coulple days, and most people can still play games, its just delayed and buggy. I didnt even have any trouble till last night.

Also, whats up with the 9 days? I count 6 from Xmas right now... and I never had an real issue (other than just slow) till last night.

What you people need to realize, is that what they're doing with XBL is A> Never been Done before, and they're treading new water, B> The scale of XBL is enormous. It would be nice if companies could spend billions on updating servers and speeds to never have this issue... but in all honesty... making XBL isnt free, and making it into what it is now is pretty insane. I'm a systems administrator for a defense contract company, and I know a very minor bit of what makes XBL work, and let me tell you... the amount of work to keep something like that up and stable is pretty mindblowing.

What I'm saying is Relax, when shit like this happens... you get people staying 24+ hours on the clock to fix it. They knew the problem before it got to this scale, sometimes it gets worse before its gets better. Im sure they're implimenting new servers.

Also, for Darkness Bear.... of course PS3 is never slow... PS3 doesnt have a third of the online traffic.

The bigger the network and enabled connections, the harder it is to balance it. You can expect for it to never have issues.

[lilboo]

This is STILL going on. It was actually pretty bad for me last night. I had rented Lego Star Wars II: TOT and it had a title update..I couldn't even update the game because everytime I connected I got disconnected while trying to update. It was really annoying..

Again, I understand things happen.. but c'mon. This is getting really old, really fast.

[doubledown]

Yeah, I wonder if anyone tried calling 1-800-4MY-XBOX and see what they had to say. This does suck though....Halo 3 was a mess trying to get a game last night.

[Mookyjooky]

"I wonder if anyone tried calling 1-800-4MY-XBOX"

I lol'd

[spydey]

I've been having the issues too. It's really annoying.

[help1]

IDK what people are talking about, 9 days of bad service...?

Why did it stop working for you 2 days before X-Mas?

I didn't start noticing problems since last Thursday, and even then I've been able to find other things to do...

Also, whoever is complaining about the patch, I think you're in the minority. Also, why would it start acting up now versus when you first patched it?

Thats what I am thinking. Mine was only acting up yesterday and maybe it will be broken today, haven't played yet.

[lilboo]

Yeah, I wonder if anyone tried calling 1-800-4MY-XBOX and see what they had to say. This does suck though....Halo 3 was a mess trying to get a game last night.


I would, but I don't speak Indian.

[eswat]

Yeah, I wonder if anyone tried calling 1-800-4MY-XBOX and see what they had to say. Yeah... I'd rather just keep my tabs up with Major Nelson's Twitter (http://twitter.com/majornelson) than waste my time phoning support.

[sunnysky]

Why bother phoning in to support? They obviously know there is a problem at the moment.
I imagine when they are back to FULL staff, they'll be able to dedicate more people to the problem. Rather than trying to rely on the "On call" staff, and those willing to work DURING their holiday vacation time.

[dmaul1114]

IDK what people are talking about, 9 days of bad service...?

Why did it stop working for you 2 days before X-Mas?


It's been totally down on the afternoon/evenings of the 22nd, 29th and 30th so far for me.

Haven't noticed problems other times.

[dmaul1114]

Sounds to me that they're just having issues because of all the new kids with 360s... Everyone needs to stop being and whiner and give it some time, its only been a coulple days, and most people can still play games, its just delayed and buggy.

Most of the time on the 22, 29 and 30th I couldn't get into games or anything on live. That's been the case for most (very late at night through early afternoon excepted) from reading the x-box boards.

Yep, it's probably just the spike in new consoles and people being home for the holidays giving them problems. But it is annoying because:

1. It's not like they don't know that x-mas is the peak time for sales and new XBL accounts, and that it's probably the peak play week for many gamers as its one of the few times a lot of people have a week or more off, plus they just got new games for X-mas.

In othewords, the surge was predictible, and if that is indeed the problem, then you think a company as big as MS would have the foresite to do a big server expansion every fall to be ready for the X-mas rush.


2. Related, it sucks more since people have the week off and planned to catch up on some Live gaming and can't.

[Dragon_Master]

It signs me in than it disconnects me 2 seconds later. Its annoying cause I have a game that says there is a update available but it wont let me download it.

[SmellsLikeRandyMossGuy]

Call them repeatedly until yoy get free stuff ;) It's fun!

[v1et r1ce]

Me and my friend finished a matchmaking match in CoD4. Though the weird thing is before the match started, he was kicked out saying there was an error so he just played by himself and it worked.

[yukine]

Wow, it's really fucked right now. It won't even try to connect, an error automatically pops up and says XBOX Live is unavailable.

Can I still earn achievements while not connected? I assume it'd just update everything once It's connected again.

[eswat]

Can I still earn achievements while not connected? I assume it'd just update everything once It's connected again.
Yes you can, but the dates you get the achievements won't be recorded. Yeah, it's stupid.

[Sofa King Kool]

Hmmm. I just connected and everything seems to be working fine now :-s

I'll try joining a game.

[dmaul1114]

It's just been hit or miss so far today on whether I can connect.

[dmaul1114]

Got 3 or 4 CoD4 matches in, but now looks to be having problems again.

Lobby froze up,and now getting the "must have an active network errors" again. :-(

[spoo]

It is nice to see the Live team working on this throughout the holidays but this problem is annoying the hell out of me.

[Sofa King Kool]

I was able to play CoD4 online for about two hours, then it died again.

[nasum]

Oddly enough I get the little "Buddy X Has Signed On" messages, but if I attempt to send them a message or get online on the dashboard I get nothing. I think a server or two of their's must have gone down so the ability to logon has gotten spotty.

I'll bet there's also something to do with a few thousand new xboxes coming online in the last few days.

[SpazX]

I've been able to play CoD4 online for the past few days, but it has been a huge pain in the ass. I have to try at least 4 or 5 times just to get into a lobby to wait 10 or 15 mins to get a group that might or might not just drop out a few minutes later.

Fun as hell when it stays connected...

[v1et r1ce]

I think it's getting better. Played a bunch of CoD4 with a few friends. Nothing big exept 2 matches lagged like hell and disconnected.

OT - Major Nelson uses a Mac..lol just read it on his twitter.

[Monsta Mack]

It's no doubt better because It's not the weekend. Wait come this weekend and it will be hell once again. With that said I had no problems at all today, got in five CoD4 matchs that were lag free, and just checked recently and everything was working good.

[Sofa King Kool]

CoD4 is acting strange. I can get into a deathmatch as soon as I turn the game on, but if I leave, can't get back in. I can only do deathmatch too, nothing else will work.

Also, this may be completely unrelated, but the achievements arn't working properly. I should have gotten:

Man of the People - Save the farmer.

Bird on the Ground - shoot down an enemy helicopter with an RPG in the single player campaign.

Three of a Kind - Kill 3 enemies in a row with your knife in the single player campaign.

But I didn't get any of them. As soon as I disconnected, the achievements started working again. Any ideas?

[suko_32]

I can actually see my Dashboard now while logged on to Live! I guess it's getting better.

[Ronin317]

CoD4 is acting strange.

I think it's just that with the networking glitches that have not been patched yet in CoD4, coupled with the Live issues this week, it's just magnifying the flaws in CoD4 Multi-player. I'm certain it will all be fixed by this weekend. Hopefully the CoD4 patch will be approved by MS this weeked too...

[looploop]

ugh, I keep getting booted from Live during online Rock Band songs :/

[The0ne]

Halo 3 was terrible online yesterday. I was over a friends house and we tried to join a game but every time we got matched players, the search would restart. Every like 6th try we would get into a game. It was annoying. MS should honestly give everyone like 200ms point for the downtime or something.

[TehMuff1nM4n]

Phew, I thought it was just my connection at first.

[Wolfpup]

It's a spoof on the skit Night at the Roxbury from Saturday Night Live.

This is the original clip. Someone just put Picard, Riker and Data's heard in place instead. There's other spoof with Bill Cosby, Randy Savage and others, but I like the Trek one the best since I am a huge Trek fan.

Cool! Yeah, I *LOVE* the Next Generation version. Way cooler than the original :D

I'm a big Star Trek fan too. Heck, I even enjoyed Voyager and Enterprise even if they kind of failed to use their premises very well most of the time. Liked seasons 1, 2, and 4 of Enterprise better than 3 though.

I saw later on you mentioned Elite Force-I loved that game single player. I've got to play through that again sometime.

What the F did this patch do?! Did my 360 fans turn off? I think my 360 is overheating. Say if I had my 360 off for an hour it would work for 5 minutes, then if I only have it off for 5 minutes it would work for 1 minute and if I have it off for like 30 seconds it would work for like 10 seconds. And it even froze at the Xbox Logo boot up.

It would get all distorted colors. Like patterns of blue or a blue screen or green lines.

Does this relate to the problems with Live? I unplugged my internet and took out my hard drive and it still freezes.

T_T The 360 is a peice of shit.

Lolol. I called and talked to the guy and told him about my freezing problem and he said, "Well it seems like its a hardware failure. You are going to have to pay 90 dollars for this repair" and so I quickly said, "Oh, it just gave me 3 red rings. What does that mean?" (I was lieing I just know you get free shipping if you say that) so then he was like, "Oh, ok then it will be free and we will ship you a box and a free xbox live membership". Nice.

Fuck now I have to wait 2-3 weeks.

I was the only one of my friends that has had no problems with the 360. So that makes 4 + me of my friends with broken 360's and only 4 of my friends own a 360. The POS award of the year goes to 360!!!

Yeah, I don't know anyone "in real life" that hasn't been through a few. The last holdouts who bragged about their launch units had them bite the dust this year. A couple have switched platforms from all this. And yeah, I don't think your problems have anything to do with the network issues. So far I've had my Falcon randomly power down on me once in 100+ hours, which is better than my other units ever did. WAY cooler too.

Hope they fix it for you free even though it's not a red ring of death. I mean clearly whatever it is it's their issue. I don't think that 3 year warranty should be limited just to one particular way it can die. (Only one of mine actually died with three red rings, the other two were weird error codes e62 or 74 or some random thing.)

[Brak]

Maybe that is why EA insisted on using their own servers? I always wondered about that.
Nope.

This is EA we're talking about.

They do it so they can update their in-game advertisements, so they can forward your information to third-parties and so they can shut down the servers of year old sports titles, so the consumer is forced to buy the latest and "greatest" if they want to play it online.

[doubledown]

I'm still having issues....I could not see my dashboard except the Media page, so I loaded a video, played it, then left and my dashboard showed up. Played one game of Carcassone, then I went to shut down my console and it froze up. I know it is a LIVE issue....grrrrr.

[Sofa King Kool]

Mine seems to be working fine now. I guess I'll finally download bomberman. That is, if people still actually play it.

[VanillaGorilla]

Nope.

This is EA we're talking about.

They do it so they can update their in-game advertisements, so they can forward your information to third-parties and so they can shut down the servers of year old sports titles, so the consumer is forced to buy the latest and "greatest" if they want to play it online.In game ad updates and third party information sure, but it wouldn't make financial sense for them to leave Madden 2006 servers running, which costs money. I'm pretty sure, if I tried playing NCAA College Hoops 2K3 on my PS2, the servers would be shut down.

[Sofa King Kool]

It's being shitty again. I was just disconnected from a really intense Gears of War match :bomb:

Now I can barely do anything.

[dmaul1114]

This is getting absolutely ridiculous.

Blades not loading at all, had to go to system blade to launch the game. CoD4 still having issues, can get to the lobby and see some other people, but it keeps dropping out and saying lobby closed before the match starts.

:bomb:

[aerotive]

This is becoming intolerable. Better be some weeks added on to my Live subscription.

[torifile]

Still having problems? Argghh. I don't have time for this shit. I just want to play, not wait in the lobby for a game that might not happen. If I wanted to just wait around for a game to start, I would have kept my PS3...

[lilboo]

I completely agree.. this is getting a bit absurd.
I said it before.. a few days is OK, IMO, but it's been a week+..and we pay for the service.

Though, I wouldn't expect us to get anything special because of this. I'd say give every gold member who signed in (or tried to, :lol: ) between certain dates gets a free month..

[SynGamer]

I read an article earlier today, and they mad ea great point...as Gold members, we're simply paying for multiplayer. Since it's been on and off for over a week now, what are we paying for?

[Jesus_S_Preston]

I believe you're paying for the inability to even see the dashboard when you're logged in, right?

Whenever I want to go play an arcade game, I have to sign out, go to the dashboard---->the game, and THEN sign in once I'm playing. Today was the first day the dashboard has worked for me, signed into live, in a week.

[SpazX]

Man it has been as shitty as ever today. I just opened the orange box and went to play TF2 tonight and jesus I couldn't stay connected for 5 minutes when I could even move after connecting.

[A Happy Panda]

Man it has been as shitty as ever today. I just opened the orange box and went to play TF2 tonight and jesus I couldn't stay connected for 5 minutes when I could even move after connecting.

TF2 sucks on 360 anyways unfortunately. The game itself has problems with online play outside of XBL.

[Rig]

I was locked out of my Gamertag profile for a few days. I had tried to recover my account on a friend's 360 for some Lego Star Wars, and it wouldn't go through. Tried three or so days, at many different times, to no avail.

Finally got it back on my console a day or two ago. Still having some freezing/loading problems. Getting ridiculous at this point.

[torifile]

Well I just played CoD4 for 1.5 hours without a single problem. Finally. Hopefully they're getting this sorted out.

[Sofa King Kool]

Well I just played CoD4 for 1.5 hours without a single problem. Finally. Hopefully they're getting this sorted out.

Same here. Hopefully this will be all cleared up by tomorrow afternoon.

[akilshohen]

for some reason themes weren't working

[dg7md]

GH3 works perfectly online; NBA 2K8 is still horridly laggy online and completely unplayable, has been for like 5 days now. Haven't tried anything else recently online.

[aihuman]

Can you play online with silver membership?For some reason Xbox live wont let play online games.

[DarkNessBear]

Hmm, seems to be working fine now.

[A Happy Panda]

Can you play online with silver membership?For some reason Xbox live wont let play online games.

No. You need gold.

[M1C13]

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/?WT.svl=nav

They updated their support page it says everything is up and running but who knows if this will last.

[doubledown]

I had issues last night around 10:30PM EST....not sure if it has been fixed now.

[007]

Not sure about playing online, but I at least still had some issues with downloading. It kept saying 'unavailable' for the first few times I'd hit something, and then suddenly work. Also, there was a 50/50 shot it would be unable to complete the download the first time.

So, it ultimately works, but it's WAY more of a hassle than it should be.

[Drnick]

I JUST got a 360 for X-mas and have had a TON of Xbox live problems. I guess I'm not the only one.. I was getting ready to replace my router to see if this was the issue (I already did the port forwarding but that didn't seem to help)

I assume they are getting hit hard from all the folks (like me) who just got an Xbox and are now hopping on live. But man, M$ really needs to get its act together, I know how great an Xbox live can be, but a lot of people may hit these roadblocks and decide its not worth it. I wouldn't exactly blame them for that.

[AshesofWake]

is live still being shitty? I can't connect to xbox live, it says im logged in but it keeps "loading" on the xbox live and games blade....fuck im pissed again, i thought everything would be fine when i got back from vegas ;_;

[anomynous]

This is ridiculous, it's been 9 days for me being screwed up

[torifile]

is live still being shitty? I can't connect to xbox live, it says im logged in but it keeps "loading" on the xbox live and games blade....fuck im pissed again, i thought everything would be fine when i got back from vegas ;_;
I was playing CoD4 earlier and I got disconnected from the server. I don't know if that's the reason but I suspect it is.

[Ryukahn]

I still have problems with messagner and friends list not loading right away.

[robdees]

I've had problems off and on for the last few days too. All I wanted to do was play some COD4 before winter break was over.... No such luck. :(

[yukine]

It's been working perfectly in the past two days for me.

[dmaul1114]

You're lucky the. Was good yesterday morning, shit when I tried last night. Seemed to be that way for most, as per the xbox forums.

Haven't had time to try today (and probably won't).

[Sofa King Kool]

I played Gears of War successfully for two and a half hours, then live went down again

Im getting so fucking tired of this.

[v1et r1ce]

It's kinda working. I could play by myself but when I try to get another person to play Team Deathmatch or anything, it won't work.

[dmaul1114]

Down again.


Xbox LIVE Service Status

Status:
Users may experience intermittent issues with account recovery, matchmaking, and statistics. We are aware of the issue and are actively working towards a resolution. We apologize for any inconvenience.

[dg7md]

I'm STILL having lag problems... I cannot play anything online without it being unbearable. A week of this is pitiful and highly irritating. I understand they spent nearly the entire holidays working on it, but it's hard to believe they didn't expect a total meltdown like this eventually, especially with all the new 360s out there now because of Christmas. I hope this is fixed long term, for a long, long time.

It sucks because a lot of people now aren't having problems at all, but yet I can't play anything without horrible lag, and the dash takes ages to load up, too.

[lilboo]

Can't wait until we all get a free code for Joust for this :bouncy:

[gamegirl79]

I've been having problems for about a week and thought it was an ethernet cable or router issue on my end. I should have checked this forum! I can connect to live for about 10 mins. at a time before it disconnects. Very frustrating.

[Brak]

Can't wait until we all get a free code for Joust for this :bouncy:
Yuck.

[lilboo]

Yuck.

Exactly. If they were to give us a game, why would they give us something good?

If not Joust, then I'd expect Robotron.

[AshesofWake]

im good with either lol

[DarkNessBear]

So, the online started working for me.

Then...HEHEHEHEHEHEHEAAADDD SHOTTT. My 360 red ringed...

sweet...

Dear Microsoft,
Suck on some donkeh balls.
Ty.
redringer#4092355

[AshesofWake]

mine has been working now randomly, but then again ive just been playing oblivion, i played COD4 earlier, was able to play one game, next game gave me a "connection interrupted" jiggly and kicked me out, so i said fuck it..


ugh i should just reactivate WoW...

[dg7md]

Exactly. If they were to give us a game, why would they give us something good?

If not Joust, then I'd expect Robotron.
Don't forget Frogger or Contra!

I actually expect all golds will get a free month added to their account, wouldn't be bad at all. But for those of us that have Live on auto renew, that wouldn't make too much of a difference.

[AshesofWake]

they should give us 500 marketplace points....or more...


>_<

[tokitoki50]

Who says they'll give us anything?

[Rig]

It seems my console locks up if I have signed into Live and I try to stream my music from the PC (custom soundtracks). I assume this is because of the issues they have been having, because it has never done this previously.

If I start the streaming process before signing in, it seems to work.

Then again, my console just froze while playing Half-Life 2...ugh. I surely hope this was due to me being on Live, and not my console beginning to crap out!

[Monsta Mack]

I've played over 20 call of duty matchs in the last few hours, no problems.
But I'm sure the problems will be in full force this weekend. Looks like the Wii is gonna get turned on.

MS better give everyone a code for one month of Live free at the *VERY LEAST* considering everyone pays for the service.

[yukine]

It's been working perfectly in the past two days for me.

Scratch that, I haven't been able to connect for most of today. :lol:

[A Happy Panda]

I'm about to hook up my box and see if I can get on. Maybe its a regional thing? AKA regional servers getting pwned while others aren't?

UPDATE: I just played 2 games of COD4. It gave me a little issue connecting to games, but other than that, seems to be working.

[looploop]

I still keep getting DCed during every other song in Rock Band. :/ I hope it's Live and not just my connection... never had any problems like this in any other game though.

[SuperSnake2012]

COD4 only works for me in the middle of the night when there is no traffic... but during the day it cannot connect to any games... very aggravating. :(

[suko_32]

Live is working great for me now.

As for CoD4, I have it for PS3 and it's really messed up right now (online). Don't know if that also affects the 360 version.

[R1V3R5]

Worked fine tonight. Weird because we were having router problems the same week as LIVE was acting funky. LIVE seems to be working a lot better and our router problems were resolved tonight with some trial and error. Played COD4 for a bit and had some good fun.

[javeryh]

is live still being shitty? I can't connect to xbox live, it says im logged in but it keeps "loading" on the xbox live and games blade....fuck im pissed again, i thought everything would be fine when i got back from vegas ;_;

I had the same exact problem last night. It's highly annoying.

[menikmati]

It's humorous to me seeing how many people wanting free shit from this whole debacle. Yeah, I know its fair to us to be reimbursed for XBL being unforgiving, but we really have to end with "I DEMAND (insert random shit here) FOR FREE CUHZ OF DIS!"

[Nate1986]

It's humorous to me seeing how many people wanting free shit from this whole debacle. Yeah, I know its fair to us to be reimbursed for XBL being unforgiving, but we really have to end with "I DEMAND (insert random shit here) FOR FREE CUHZ OF DIS!"

if the problems persisted for a month or longer then I think the people who use Xbox Live Gold should be offered a free month or something reasonable

[getmyrunon]

It's humorous to me seeing how many people wanting free shit from this whole debacle. Yeah, I know its fair to us to be reimbursed for XBL being unforgiving, but we really have to end with "I DEMAND (insert random shit here) FOR FREE CUHZ OF DIS!"

Actually I see no problem in people wanting compensation for this. When a service that you pay for is effectively rendered unusable due to circumstances beyond your control, I feel one is legitimately entitled to some form of reimbursement, contract extension, etc. I pay for Live so I can play games with other people, not so my system can lock up whenever it's plugged in.

I (and hopefully) others wouldn't be asking for things if this was the PS3 network.

Other major networks that have gone down (XM satellite radio, Blackberry network, etc.) have all offered (albeit paltry) compensation to their users. Live is in a position where they can easily offer a week of coverage or a free download without really "losing" any money. As a show of good faith, I hope they do so.

[Ikohn4ever]

It's humorous to me seeing how many people wanting free shit from this whole debacle. Yeah, I know its fair to us to be reimbursed for XBL being unforgiving, but we really have to end with "I DEMAND (insert random shit here) FOR FREE CUHZ OF DIS!"


except it broke at the main time people wanted to use their service. Many people had a lot of time off and wanted to play with friends and family and they thwarted by the crappiness of the XBL servers. Most people won't have that much available time to play until the same time next year. Its like if your cable went out during the superbowl or something, you would expect the cable company to step it up for the outage.

[kevlar51]

except it broke at the main time people wanted to use their service. Many people had a lot of time off and wanted to play with friends and family and they thwarted by the crappiness of the XBL servers. Most people won't have that much available time to play until the same time next year. Its like if your cable went out during the superbowl or something, you would expect the cable company to step it up for the outage.

Also, a lot of people just got their systems at Christmas. So for many of these people, this is their first experience with Live. It'd be a good PR move to compensate in some way; it would help ease parents' fears that they didn't just throw a bunch of money down the toilet.

[doubledown]

except it broke at the main time people wanted to use their service. Many people had a lot of time off and wanted to play with friends and family and they thwarted by the crappiness of the XBL servers. Most people won't have that much available time to play until the same time next year. Its like if your cable went out during the superbowl or something, you would expect the cable company to step it up for the outage.

Actually, my cable box broke during New Years last year and I don't think I was compensated for anything besides the 2-3 days I was without cable. So yes, MS should give everyone a week or two free (extended) to their GOLD accounts. I would assume MS will give people a month, that seems to be a common occurence, they gave me a month when I get my broke 360 back from RROD repairs.

[v1et r1ce]

Ugh looks like I'll be playing Assassin's Creed this weekend and no CoD4 :(

[dmaul1114]

Actually, my cable box broke during New Years last year and I don't think I was compensated for anything besides the 2-3 days I was without cable. .


I've had mixed experience with cable outages. Sometimes I just get the days credited. Other times they've thrown in something like 3 months free HBO for the troubles.

[ananag112]

This is such BS. I couldn't play any of my XBLA games all week (except a game or two of Pac-Man CE and Uno) because of problems with Xbox Live. Only reason I am keeping my 360 is for Ninja Gaiden 2.

[R1V3R5]

Scratch what I said earlier, LIVE is running like shit right now.

[richierich]

yup it's asstastic today

[eswat]

Heh, Lucas Kane has turned into a server application error on the other forum I have this sig on (which uses the Xbox Gamercard). Awesome.

[A Happy Panda]

Sad face. Wanted to get in a quick game of COD4. No go.

[Liquid 2]

Status:

Users may experience issues performing transactions dependent on billing service availability including but not limited to: purchasing premium content, music, video, account management (renewal/recovery), linking Gamertags on Xbox.com, and purchase/redemption of Microsoft Points. Users may also experience issues recovering gamertags. Resources have been engaged to correct the issue. We apologize for any inconvenience.

This thread is pretty unnecessary.

[SynGamer]

This thread is pretty unnecessary.

And you're completely unnecessary.

[dmaul1114]

Especially since that status thing tends to lag several hours behind when problems start popping up.

[dmaul1114]

This is getting ridiculous.

None of my blades (other than system) will load). CoD4 online a no go.

It's not just that it's been down so long, it's that MS hasn't came out and said shit about. No info on what the problem is. No info on when we can expect things to get back to normal.

But then again, it is MS, so we shouldn't expect anything resembling customer service. :bomb:

[insano]

I just need to vent...right before the FALL update and right after, we all experienced a few LIVE/COD4 problems. Then right before Xmas and right after, through till today, we're still been having LIVE/COD4 problems. Seems like in the morning and late at night it's possible to get some games in, but god f-ing forbid you get some games in 3-10pm (obviously cause of a sh1t load of people on). Ridiculous, I've never really complained much bout LIVE, lucky to have it, but my good god this is getting out of hand. It's almost as if Gold members are getting shafted because ump-teen 1000's of people got xbox 360's w/LIVE and COD4 for Christmas. Microsoft really needs to do something about this in a faster manner then they are handling this right now. O-K, feel better now :]

[getmyrunon]

Tried COD4 around 2pm, and couldn't get into a match. Popped in H3, but was experiencing a lot of lag and some weird server drop issues. Put COD4 back in about an hour later and just played for around 3.5 hours straight with no problems at all. I'm on the West Coast. Where are you guys who are having problems?