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

[quote name='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?[/quote]

Thats what I am thinking. Mine was only acting up yesterday and maybe it will be broken today, haven't played yet.
 
[quote name='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.[/QUOTE]


I would, but I don't speak Indian.
 
[quote name='doubledown']Yeah, I wonder if anyone tried calling 1-800-4MY-XBOX and see what they had to say.[/quote] Yeah... I'd rather just keep my tabs up with Major Nelson's Twitter than waste my time phoning support.
 
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.
 
[quote name='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?
[/QUOTE]

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.
 
[quote name='Mookyjooky']
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. [/QUOTE]

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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
[quote name='yukine']Can I still earn achievements while not connected? I assume it'd just update everything once It's connected again.[/quote]
Yes you can, but the dates you get the achievements won't be recorded. Yeah, it's stupid.
 
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. :whistle2:(
 
It is nice to see the Live team working on this throughout the holidays but this problem is annoying the hell out of me.
 
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.
 
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...
 
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.
 
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.
 
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?
 
[quote name='Sofa King Kool']CoD4 is acting strange. [/quote]

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...
 
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.
 
[quote name='GuilewasNK']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.[/quote]

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.

[quote name='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!!![/QUOTE]

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.)
 
[quote name='GuilewasNK']Maybe that is why EA insisted on using their own servers? I always wondered about that.[/QUOTE]
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.
 
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.
 
[quote name='Brak']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.[/quote]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.
 
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:
 
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...
 
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..
 
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?
 
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.
 
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.
 
[quote name='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.[/QUOTE]

TF2 sucks on 360 anyways unfortunately. The game itself has problems with online play outside of XBL.
 
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.
 
[quote name='torifile']Well I just played CoD4 for 1.5 hours without a single problem. Finally. Hopefully they're getting this sorted out.[/quote]

Same here. Hopefully this will be all cleared up by tomorrow afternoon.
 
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.
 
[quote name='aihuman']Can you play online with silver membership?For some reason Xbox live wont let play online games.[/QUOTE]

No. You need gold.
 
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