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Xbox LIVE Still Experiencing Issues *Update4: Broken again* Posted by XanTium | December 28 23:21 EST | News Category: Xbox360

Since December 21st Microsoft has been having on-off issues with their Xbox LIVE service. After the long xmas weekend the problem was said to be solved, but it seems that LIVE's 'Intermittent Issues' are back again. Currently they updated their support page with this message: 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. There also news on Major Nelson's website and Twitter: You may have noticed that the LIVE service has been having a few issues over the past few days. This includes things like signing in, matchmaking and account recovery. Not everyone has had problems, but I know some of you have and I wanted to give you and update. While the service was never completely offline, problems like this are not acceptable. The entire LIVE team has been working day and night to ensure that you can have a great LIVE experience. While we're not done yet, I wanted to let you know that things are getting better each hour and that no one on the team is going anywhere until the job is done. Thanks for your patience. Twitter (newest msgs first): * I don't have an ETA on things getting better since things are happening really fast. Some things (NOT ALL) are already fixed and working. * Hey folks, we know some of you are having problems. We're working on them. *Update* I updated the above info with the latest LIVE status message and new MN's Twitter messages. It's seems to be mostly solved now, but still some problems apparently. *Update2* Added MN news post. *Update3* Problems seems to be solved ... for now. *Update4* New Problems lol (twitter and status messages above updated) Too many people bought an Xbox 360 for Christmas? lol

[Beauregardy]

Some people were saying that they will give away copies of viva pinata for the bad experiences... i don't know what you have to do to get qualified for that yet though

[BasicAir]

I haven't had time to turn on my 360 in weeks, but what's the deal? If it's just getting hit hard with traffic, surely they would have simply stated that by now. But it appears to be more. Much more....

[the_nerdy]

I love how he says

"Just because it is the holidays does NOT mean the Operations Team is not working hard....
* the issues are being worked on,"

lol.

Then it follows up by.

I'll update when I get back.


LOL, sounds like someone is leaving for vacation.

nice to know how important this is to them.

[SueMiBlitch]

yeah... COD4 has been a nightmare to play online... it goes in and out

lets hope they fix it soon and perhaps give a free month for the inconveniance

[brandogg]

Download speeds are absolute garbage too. I used to be able to download a 1GB demo off XBL in about 30 minutes, the other day the GH3 demo (543MB or so) took me about 3 or 4 hours.

[PerfectGun]

I can't imagine what kind of complicated setup Live has so I guess problems are to be expected.  However, it's a shame that this pay for service is performing worse than the free ones.

If this is related to the fact that so many new Live members are joining I can't believe they don't have the foresight to prepare for the influx.. Leave it to MS to try and do the bare minimum and just get by until it breaks.

Doesn't effect or matter to me because I'm banned and am enjoying my PS3 now.

[readmore]

I have been trying to redeem my free 500 points from the giveaway but all my blades (except Media) just show the spinny login icon.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Grr

Talk about giving the new Xbox owners a bad first impression. Especially on a weekend!!!!!

[ILLusions0fGrander]

lots of disconnects and network errors on CoD4. kinda lame really.

[4real*leb]

QUOTE

* Just because it is the holidays does NOT mean the Operations Team is not working hard....

Haha if you look on the site it actually says:

QUOTE

Just because it is the holidays does NOT mean the Operations Team is working hard....  

See for your self:

http://twitter.com/majornelson

[XanTium]

QUOTE(4real*leb @ Dec 29 2007, 07:30 AM)

Haha if you look on the site it actually says:
See for your self:

http://twitter.com/majornelson

yes, but the next 2 quotes correct it ... so I decided to correct the sentence in the quote on x-s to make it less confusing lol.

[angryyoungnpoor]

...and god forbid they ever offer some sort of compensation for not allowing people to play their system the way they want to.

They go on and on about how great live is, but the more and more I played COD4 the more and more annoying it was. I haven't played in weeks, yet I'm paying for the shitty services they "offer."

[tecatekxf]

Another problem they are having is I've been trying for 2 days now to recover my gamer tag,Keeps saying live signup is down try again later.

[4real*leb]

QUOTE(XanTium @ Dec 28 2007, 11:34 PM)

yes, but the next 2 quotes correct it ... so I decided to correct the sentence in the quote on x-s to make it less confusing lol.

Haha your fixing his mistakes. I wonder if he noticed what he wrote yet.

[mduga]

This is starting to get ridiculous.  The problems have been on/off since before xmas.  I think its finally time to call in and bitch and get a free month for this.  We pay for this service, and it's taking forever to fix.  I could understand if it were a free service, like on PS3, but it's not.