[quote name='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.[/quote]
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.