Xbox Live was having problems again tonight. Major Nelson’s Twitter [the only way to actually hear of things like that]:
00:28 majornelson: Yes, we know some people are having issues w/ LIVE. They ARE working on it. As soon as I get an update, I’ll make a post.
00:36 majornelson: I know some of you can’t recover your gamertags. That is being worked on. It will get fixed ASAP.
00:45 majornelson: Yes, e’s team is working on the issues. Thanks for the messages…
00:55 majornelson: Updating my LIVE STATUS post
01:17 majornelson: If you were having LIVE issues…please try again now. We may be out of the woods.
01:26 majornelson: BTW: Thanks for bearing with us.
01:46 majornelson: So far things are looking good.
To ‘great’ messages such as:
01:50 majornelson: It bums us out when we have problems. Trust us.
Back to it:
01:51 majornelson: Also, just so you know any issues on Xbox.com are completely different.
01:53 majornelson: Those are being looked at as well, but right now the priority is making sure the Xbox LIVE service is working and stable.
02:06 majornelson: Thx for the messages. If you had issues w/ LIVE….please try again as things are being updated/fixed very quickly
02:21 majornelson: …and if you ARE still having problem, rest assured they are being looked at.
02:29 majornelson: IMing with some of the engineers about our status. Things are trending up.
02:32 majornelson: Engineers continue to tweak-n-tune to make the service run better
02:48 majornelson: Grrr. We hit a little bump. It’s being looked at.
02:54 majornelson: Ok…I need to step away from Twitter for a bit (per the wife’s request) the issues are being worked on, and I’ll update when I get back
03:00 majornelson: I am following all replies on Twitter. If you are having a problem, please know we are aware of them. Thanks.
A little bit of Comic Relief:
03:04 majornelson: Just because it is the holidays does NOT mean the Operations Team is working hard….
Realising his mistake:
03:06 majornelson: …they are working hard. Very hard.
03:08 majornelson: err…yea. Operations is working hard. That’s what I want to say. Ok..stepping away from Twitter before I get smacked :)
04:12 twitter: majornelson: Ok, no more updates until I have something more to say…but that does not mean work has stopped. Much work is happening to get us on track
And now, at 06:15 it’s still not working properly.. This is what I’m paying £39.99 [$49.99] a year for? For a service that’s been problematic since September/Halo 3′s release?
Talking about it, can someone explain to me why I can’t download films and just get errorcode 8007019c? It’s been like that for a week now..
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Leave the xbox360 behind & become a PC gamer…you know you want to! LOL :)
Haha, to have compatibility, upgrade and DRM issues? No thanks!
Your error codes are probably due to the whole service just not working well right now. I have heard that pretty much every feature that could be broken has been broken this past week. :(
Yeah, I’m hoping it’ll be fixed soon. Otherwise I’ll have to ring up customer support to get the points back. After all it was about 400 points..
It works fine now :)
Rumour has it XBOX Live Gold members will be getting a refund… http://www.consolemonster.com/newspost.php?id=0000002859
Well, I still can’t download that video. Been trying to for the last 10 days several times a day. Guess if it doesn’t work tomorrow I can look forward to my call to MS support.
I heard about that too and I don’t give it much hope.
I’m thinking along the lines of them giving a price reductions on all the XBLA games I have already or
a free month Live if you subscribe for another year [I'm letting this subscription run out, I've been too ill to play Live for months and have lost interest in it] or
some dubious promotion that involves signing up to three sites and you receive something in six months when you’ve forgotten about it again or
maybe it’s only for people who’ve just signed up as MS really doesn’t seem to like people who’ve had their 360 for longer than 1 1/2 years, but not since the beginning [I've been unlucky with anything they've previously offered with free XBLA games, etc].
Maybe I’m just very cynical, but I don’t see anything good happening with it.
Gratz on being staff. Been meaning to say that in a while. :)
I have had a few comments on my CoD4 posts commenting that xbox live & PS3 online are both playing up badly…seems to be an ongoing trend…
Yeah, I read those, still playing up for me as well. Been around two weeks now…