The 360 thread!

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:17 pm 0

This christmas has been a disaster for Live. Like Rod, I'm curious to hear how they will explain it away.

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Sat Dec 29, 2007 11:25 pm 0

Yeah, Live being down is annoying me, now. It might not be as bad if it hadn't worked perfectly for the entire time I've had my 360, right up until they changed the dash and added movie downloads. It's putting me off playing, a bit.

WiredWorm · Post by **WiredWorm** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 1:50 am 0

Hmmm, surely it's the worst time for them to start having problems?

All those new users who picked up 360's at Christmas are gonna be a bit peaved to find the online gaming isn't quite as reliable as Microsoft would suggest.

I can't help but think that maybe doing the Movie Marketplace promo for 300 between Christmas and New Year was perhaps a bad idea. That must have prompted a fair few people to suck a 5GB HD Video File down off their Servers and i'd be surprised if that hasn't at least contributed to the issues.

But yeah, it's pissing me off now - I tried some GH3 online last night and it was most annoying. When I finally did manage to start a game I found on a number of occasions that the other player would get disconnected mid-way through.......

RageMatrix · Post by **RageMatrix** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:18 am 0

Gah, Live is still borked. Looks like we're not the only ones having problems.

http://forums.xbox.com/17440787/ShowPost.aspx

This sucks - I can't risk playing anything and not getting my achievements registered. Its been what? 24 hours now?

RageMatrix · Post by **RageMatrix** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:26 am 0

Okay, just for the hell of it, I phoned XBox Customer Support and spoke to some MS droid about the Live outage. Apparently they are "having some issues" and don't expect the Live service to be back up until this evening UK time.

Oh, and I inquired about the achievements thing too - apparently all that stuff is stored locally on the machine and linked to our gamertag and any achivement obtained while Live is down should still be registered when Live is back up. Not entirely sure I buy that, but hey...

Kamineko · Post by **Kamineko** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:42 am 0

I've got absolutely no trouble believing that the cheesements are handled locally and then blasted at the server whenever it grabs a hold of Xbox live.

If you're feeling DESPERATELY DANGEROUS, try playing WITHOUT A LAN CABLE IN at all for a few days! OH NO!

teamonkey · Post by **teamonkey** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 11:45 am 0

RageMatrix wrote:Oh, and I inquired about the achievements thing too - apparently all that stuff is stored locally on the machine and linked to our gamertag and any achivement obtained while Live is down should still be registered when Live is back up. Not entirely sure I buy that, but hey...

Yeah, that's true. You can accumulate achievements offline. I can't remember if you have to play the game while connected to sync it up or if the dashboard does it automatically.

Oh, and the status seems to be back to normal again this morning.

RageMatrix · Post by **RageMatrix** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:01 pm 0

teamonkey wrote: Yeah, that's true. You can accumulate achievements offline. I can't remember if you have to play the game while connected to sync it up or if the dashboard does it automatically.

Ah, okay - good to know

teamonkey wrote: Oh, and the status seems to be back to normal again this morning.

The MS droid I spoke to all but admitted that the realtime status thing is lying. Like I said, there are apparently going to be "issues" until this evening.

RageMatrix · Post by **RageMatrix** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:43 pm 0

Simply too many new XBoxes trying to get on Live all at once...?

http://www.ripten.com/2007/12/28/too-ma ... -services/

I imagine they're frantically adding servers to the network as we speak

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 1:53 pm 0

teamonkey wrote:
RageMatrix wrote:Oh, and I inquired about the achievements thing too - apparently all that stuff is stored locally on the machine and linked to our gamertag and any achivement obtained while Live is down should still be registered when Live is back up. Not entirely sure I buy that, but hey...
Yeah, that's true. You can accumulate achievements offline. I can't remember if you have to play the game while connected to sync it up or if the dashboard does it automatically.

Some games may be bugged in that regard then, as when my nephew played Joust he got several achievements, but unknown to him my old router had disconnected from Live, so they didn't show up then and have never registered since that time (over a year ago).

PVB · Post by **PVB** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 2:22 pm 0

The latest from Major Nelson:

Xbox LIVE Status

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 weâ€™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.

also:

Next week on Arcade: Metal Slug 3

Kick off the New Year with Metal Slug 3 on Xbox LIVE Arcade. It will be available Wednesday, January 2, 2008 for 800 points.

Anders · Post by **Anders** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 2:55 pm 0

...and that no one on the team is going anywhere until the job is done.

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 2:58 pm 0

Major Nelson wrote: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.

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 6:01 pm 0

Major Nelson is basically this sortof new modern blog PR isn't he? It's not a "great experience" if you can't log in. It either works or it doesn't. Jeez.

Post by **Jedburgh** » Sun Dec 30, 2007 6:05 pm 0

Rod_S wrote:
Major Nelson wrote: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.

Digging your new style, man.