Microsoft's Xbox Live Holiday Issues Resolved
Microsoft's Xbox Live service offers the best and most consistent online gaming experience of any of the current consoles, easily beating the hodge-podge -- but free -- services offered by Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii. But at $5 a month, gamers aren't always getting what they paid for, especially when Xbox Live goes down. Gamers definitely weren't getting their money's worth over the holidays, with Xbox Live having problems ranging from timeouts during matchmaking (joining games) to failures during login.
This is doubly frustrating given the time of year, considering the fact that gamers are most likely on vacation with plenty of new games to play.
Microsoft's Xbox PR face Major Nelson confirmed the issues and has indicated that the problems have been largely fixed at this point. A recent test confirms Live appears to be operating normally, but it won't be much consolation to those who had hoped to spend a few hours (or days) online over the holidays and are now back at work!
From CrunchGear and Major Nelson
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jason gibson @ Jan 2nd 2008 12:20PM
It really suprised me that XBox Live was having so many problems. Considering some 200,000 people logging onto COD4, maybe even more, did not even get a chance to play the game. What peeves me the most is that people pay by month, and year. Add that together and thats a lot of money. They should have more servers, and then some to capacitate bandwith.
Tammy @ Jan 3rd 2008 7:42AM
Yes my son's x-box went bad during the Christmas season. We sent it in to be fixed and now fed ex says it's not on the truck for delivery. They said they'd call me today. So we'll see what happens here. Where is the x-box? we don't know.
Lost or what!! Son is disappointed:(
Jason Gibson @ Jan 8th 2008 8:22PM
I filed the lawsuit against Microsoft, but I did post the comment above.
Jason Gibson