Anyone elses XBL really f***ed up right now?

[Sofa King Kool]

I keep trying to sign on, and I'm getting problems like I've never seen before. I turned on the Xbox, and it told me I signed onto XBL, yet the main page and the marketplace are both on the 'offline' screen. I'm getting the "You have 3 friends online" message, but I can't do anything. I put in COD4 and it, again, told me I signed into XBL and that I have three friends online, but I can't play online. Apparently, I'm connected, but my 360 isn't displaying any of the "connected" options.

This is very strange. Anyone else experiencing this?

[screwkick]

seems to be a widespread problem over at the xbox forums. i think i'll wait to update.

[Dezuria]

Yep, I turned on the PC specifically to check and see if anyone else's is messed up. So you're not alone.

[Sofa King Kool]

*Phew*

I thought I was going to see the red ring of death any second now...

[musha666]

I thought they said it would be down today in one of their message things. Maybe thats all it is.

[007]

Yep, that's it.

It said something like 8 hours, though I don't remember when it started.

[ricoraney]

Whew!! I thought something was wrong with mine. But that is it, they did send me a message the other day about the service being down for a while.

[relicbane]

was getting ready to fire my 360 up in a few minutes and then I saw this. I think I will wait until later on to play some games on there :D

[007]

According to Major Nelson, it should be up and running now.

[V4oLDbOY]

I just got my 360 from amazon today, pissed its not a falcon, but hey it was really cheap so i cant really bitch about it. I am trying to share my macbook's wireless internet with my 360, until my new router comes and I can install DD-WRT onto it. Everything works, the connection test completes and then it says there's an update to download. Wohoo I'm connected... No, sorry, update failed. Is this because of xbl/microsoft or am I doing something wrong. I guess I can live without xbl for a day or two anyways. Just any help would be great.

[poisonedpawn45]

XBL was down for a good portion of the day today for maintenance, try it now and see if it works.

If not, are you getting any specific error messages or anything that could help narrow the issue?

[DarkNessBear]

My fuck, Xbox Live is the shittiest add covered pay for everything piece of shit...

The 360 is a piece of crap.... If it's not the red ringing that gets you its the constant Xbox Live problems.
PS3 has a shitty online working and sucks registering/getting started and Xbox live is always fucked up and slow. Is it the NEXT gen where they fix all this...?

[SynGamer]

My fuck, Xbox Live is the shittiest add covered pay for everything piece of shit...

The 360 is a piece of crap.... If it's not the red ringing that gets you its the constant Xbox Live problems.
PS3 has a shitty online working and sucks registering/getting started and Xbox live is always fucked up and slow. Is it the NEXT gen where they fix all this...?
At least PSN is free. As a Gold member on XBL, i don't really see where my $50 is going since there are still ads...

[thrustbucket]

At least PSN is free. As a Gold member on XBL, i don't really see where my $50 is going since there are still ads...

You aren't paying to remove the ads. The only difference to someone paying for gold versus someone with silver, is online gaming.

It's suppose to be going to QoS (Quality of Service) that you are paying for. That means that online gaming should be consistent, easy, and fast. Matchmaking should be intuitive, work well, and consistently. And before someone responds with "Ha! it's rarely none of those things!".... First ask yourself if PSN is better.

Only someone that plays a ton on both PSN and Live can say if live is giving a better QoS.

When/if PSN starts offering a better QoS for online gaming than Live, things will change.

[SynGamer]

You aren't paying to remove the ads. The only difference to someone paying for gold versus someone with silver, is online gaming.

It's suppose to be going to QoS (Quality of Service) that you are paying for. That means that online gaming should be consistent, easy, and fast. Matchmaking should be intuitive, work well, and consistently. And before someone responds with "Ha! it's rarely none of those things!".... First ask yourself if PSN is better.

Only someone that plays a ton on both PSN and Live can say if live is giving a better QoS.

When/if PSN starts offering a better QoS for online gaming than Live, things will change.

I've had matchmaking restart on me countless times in a row, only to be matched against guys ranging from 1-35 when playing Halo 3. The content costs the same for both Silver and Gold members. Nothing is consistent nor fast when it comes to XBL. I just have a hard time justifying spending $50 to play with friends.

[V4oLDbOY]

still cant download update... ugg

It just days update failed and then says to test my connection... I do and then it sys there's an update, and then back to square one. I'll keep trying in hopes that its just a xbl issue.

[Sofa King Kool]

Don't worry. My XBL is still fucked too. It should definitely be better by tomorrow, so no worries.

[thrustbucket]

I've had matchmaking restart on me countless times in a row, only to be matched against guys ranging from 1-35 when playing Halo 3. The content costs the same for both Silver and Gold members. Nothing is consistent nor fast when it comes to XBL. I just have a hard time justifying spending $50 to play with friends.

I am not saying I don't believe you.

Is all of that stuff you listed better or at least the same on PSN?

If the answer is no, then nothing will change.

[V4oLDbOY]

My router isn't working right at the moment. Is the xbl problems fixed yet or what, because if they aren't I wont press to fix my router.

[Bretters]

My cousin and I can't even sign into xbox live. :/

[greyzieoriental]

maintenance was only supposed to be 8 hours so it should be done by now, but unlike PSN, they try doing maintenance on not so high peak hours
all my friends in Vegas are on now so its definitely over in the west coast

and my $25-$35 a yr for xbox live is worth every penny(thanx to CAG)
-i rather pay and have less problems with my xbl live by paying
-not having to enter in my CC info to get xblm points is also a plus
-also the ease of adding friends/sending game invites even when my buddys are playing other games
-a one button internet connection test is the way to go(a real plug and play)

if i get more than an hour of gameplay per dollar i spent i think its worth it (about 13 cents a day if you pay $50/yr)
my xbl gold membership pays for itself on Halo alone

[V4oLDbOY]

OK, fixed the router, if only it was as easy as it was on South Park... But I just downloaded he update and its all fine now. Finally.

[SynGamer]

I am not saying I don't believe you.

Is all of that stuff you listed better or at least the same on PSN?

If the answer is no, then nothing will change.

Bad consumer. The download speeds of PSN are perfectly fine...considering it is free. Matchmaking doesn't work all that well as of late so again, PSN is just fine.

[V4oLDbOY]

Bad consumer. The download speeds of PSN are perfectly fine...considering it is free. Matchmaking doesn't work all that well as of late so again, PSN is just fine.

yes, the download speeds on psn are fine. Infact they are faster than xbl, from what I've downloaded. It is taking forever to download the Biochock demo. On psn a download of a gig+ doesn't take as long, but maybe due to higher volume on the servers, xbl is slower. But there are definitely more things to download on xbl, thats for sure. I think my ps3 is going to be designated for movies and great single player games. MGS4 being the big one. And of course LBP. But I am going to switch to the 360 version of cod4. I have been very impressed with xbl.

[Brak]

My fuck, Xbox Live is the shittiest add covered pay for everything piece of shit...

The 360 is a piece of crap.... If it's not the red ringing that gets you its the constant Xbox Live problems.
PS3 has a shitty online working and sucks registering/getting started and Xbox live is always fucked up and slow. Is it the NEXT gen where they fix all this...?
You sound drunk.

[foxdvd]

Maybe we can get a free game I already own because of this....

[KiLL3r]

XBL Status ATM

Users may experience difficulties when matchmaking and using client voice communication within Xbox LIVE.


Users may not be able to connect or log into Xbox LIVE. We are aware of the problem and working to resolve the issue.


We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your patience.

[spoo]

This is the place to go for status reports, right side of the screen:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/?WT.svl=nav

Currently we are at an Orange threat level.

[DarkNessBear]

You sound drunk.

Nah, I was "angry posting". That never works out to well.

[V4oLDbOY]

I keep getting disconnected. Its pissin' me off since I'm trying to download the Bioshock demo.

[janglypangly]

Ahh I can't connect to XBL :( The network check showed everything else is okay, so I'm guessing it's them not me :)...wait NO! :(

[Tha Xecutioner]

It's back up.

[VipFREAK]

I take it the update is to blame for being connected and disconnected to XBL? I log on but then that stupid stupid loading icon shows on the marketplace, xbox live, and game blades. I can't see anything because it hangs there. If I press the xbox button on the controller however it says I'm connected online.

I dunno wtf is going on...

[Rig]

I had to turn my 360 on just to see what all the fuss was about...

Mine is running just fine. Downloaded a theme and a picture pack to test it. Everything was moving at normal speeds.

Didn't try to get into any online games though, since I'm supposed to be finishing a paper for 9:30 AM.

[VipFREAK]

I guess it's a little better now... although I was tryin to get a co op terrorist hunt via system link with a friend and we couldn't do it.

[Bretters]

I get randomly disconnected occasionally, but at least I can connect now. :)

[kaaspeer]

it doesn't do shit here... I can't sign in at all

[eswat]

It disconnected me while I was playing Lost Odyssey. When I tried to sign in again, LO said my profile settings changed and just threw me at the main menu without saving.

Yargh! Who came up with that stupid shit?

This happened around 9:30PM central for me. When that happened I just stopped playing for the night.

[aknowlesjr]

I'm having an issue too. It lets me sign in and I can even play some rounds of COD4, but then I'm signed out. It's kind of annoying. It looks like I'll have to just unplug the internet when i get GTAIV, b/c there is not f*cking way that Microsoft will be able to handle that load.

[Lokki]

It disconnected me while I was playing Lost Odyssey. When I tried to sign in again, LO said my profile settings changed and just threw me at the main menu without saving.

Yargh! Who came up with that stupid shit?

This happened around 9:30PM central for me. When that happened I just stopped playing for the night.

yeah, I was playing NHL 08 last night in World Tournament mode. I played a few games and then went to save it for the night and it said that my lead Profile wasn't active. I checked and I wasn't signed in anymore. I then signed in and tried to save again and it still said that my lead profile wasn't active and that I'd have to go to the game's main menu to make it active. The problem with that is that I had to leave the Tournament menu without saving to get to the Main Menu. I just turned off the 360 and called it a night. Sucks that I need to replay my games now.

It happened around the same time as your issue as well.

[lunatic_pandora]

Yeah, I've been having problems like that too... Very strange. I hope they fix it soon.

[JohnnyDrama]

Last night I kept getting booted off Live during Burnout Paradise and Naruto, definitely sucks

[Sofa King Kool]

Shit, is XBL fucking up again? I thought this thread would just die after the update was finished.

[jakehoss]

Last night i was experiencing lag last night and it booted me and my buddy from xbox live twice.
it was weird cause im in vegas and hes in cali. it calmed down towards the end of our session.

[VipFREAK]

You too? I thought our 360's were just allergic to each other. xD

[ryanbph]

I was logged in for a couple hours each day playing single player army of 2. Didn't have any issues, or any issues DL tv episodes or trailers/demo's.

[jer7583]

Team Fortress 2 isn't letting me join friends' matches or showing any player/ranked matches in the search.

[VipFREAK]

I couldn't get on an RSV2 online game at all or it would come back as Operation Failed or whatever... Later that night it asked for an update but I couldn't update at all. I guess I'll try it sometime today again...

[V4oLDbOY]

I have been getting disconnected again today, but more infrequent than yesterday.

[D4rkewolfe]

Haven't been on today but last night I did suffer the same fate the others did...well I kinda lucked out, as it allowed me to log back in to save.

[ighosty]

I was having problem yesterday just staying signed into live. Would log in and get logged out a couple minutes later. Haven't tryed today yet, and probably won't do to work and nba playoffs.

[Mechafenris]

Yeah, I'm having issues at the moment as well... seems like it is lagging severely, then poof, you're disconnected.

Then it takes a minute to "retry" successfully, claiming there's something wrong with my connection (there isn't, because you can test connection and all is well... then I'm able to log in...)

*sigh* Ah well... hope it gets better.

[poisonedpawn45]

Still having lag problems and random signouts

[Sofa King Kool]

Played for several hours this afternoon. No problems.

[eswat]

Didn't have a single signout while I was playing LO tonight, which is good. Though it's also disgustingly-long to login now. First time I booted LO the screen stayed black for several seconds before even spinning the disc (I'm assuming it was waiting for the sign in process to complete).

[DarkNessBear]

I get randomly disconnected occasionally, but at least I can connect now. :)

Yea, I thought it was fixed. But the other day, like every hour i'd get randomly kicked out. Really annoying.

I'm having an issue too. It lets me sign in and I can even play some rounds of COD4, but then I'm signed out. It's kind of annoying. It looks like I'll have to just unplug the internet when i get GTAIV, b/c there is not f*cking way that Microsoft will be able to handle that load.

Good idea, I'll probably do that.

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with disconnecting problems. I thought it was my router.

[VipFREAK]

Welp... updated and thought it was all good. tested co op online it was fine. Then I played co op online with my friend for a couple hrs then he went to sleep. I tried to get back on co op online and it says "Operation Failed" again now... I turned the 360 off.

[pjarvi]

I was getting disconnected last night, but didn't get a single disconnect tonight. However, I saw people on my friends list continually popping up (notifications), so I assume Live is still having problems.

[VipFREAK]

It's great to see no rhyme or reason of a pattern... wouldn't be an M$ product if it did.

[crunchb3rry]

I can't sign in at all tonight.

[Ragekod]

This better be fixed by Tuesday, or else MS is gonna have a big problem from the live community. I had troubles on monday night as well, I wasn't able to play a lot of my games online since XBL was jacked up.

[Viva Las Vegas]

Could sign in, but couldn't join any games.

[Sofa King Kool]

I'm still not having any problems. I played COD4 for several hours this afternoon without so much as a hiccup.

[ph33r m3]

Can't sign on.

[dmaul1114]

I had no problems at all last night playing CoD4.

[DarkNessBear]

I'm having less problems in MGO (a beta...) then playing anything on Xbox Live.

Not to say MGO isnt a pain in the ass.

[VipFREAK]

No problems at all tonight other than getting kicked off an RSV2 T-Hunt game for asking "why do you guys keep dying and I'm the only one left...?" lool