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GeeZa wrote: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.
Yeah, Major Nelson is probaly a communal log-in for MS's damage limitation/PR department. Just blog it and everything will be OK.
Live's still not working. This is really piss poor.
Major Nelson's page - "Server too busy". So even the PR department is borked.
Will we all be given a few days free to make up for this? I know that when MS sent me a month "free" when they had my broken box for 6 weeks, the bloody card that they sent out didn't work! Grr.
A free XBLA game would be nice, but I don't think it will happen. Like Rod suggested, I think they will put a positive spin on it, ie "overwhelming demand", "huge success", etc.
Viscount Charles wrote:Major Nelson's page - "Server too busy". So even the PR department is borked.
Will we all be given a few days free to make up for this? I know that when MS sent me a month "free" when they had my broken box for 6 weeks, the bloody card that they sent out didn't work! Grr.
Free subs, MS points or free games are meaningless. They need to explain what went wrong, why it happened, and how they're spending our Live subs to make sure it doesn't happen again.
A bit of downtime here and there is totally acceptable and what MS would call "within tolerance" - this is a disaster though, considering Live is *the* USP for the 360.
From Nelson's twitter page:
Things are moving fast. The teams are troubleshooting and fixing in real time
Trust us...we're fixing it. We know.
A few random issues have popped up on LIVE. We're on it.
Nope...the engineers have not gone anywhere...they are actively fixing any issues that pop up. Again...Apollo 13 style
Xbox.com being slow is a different issue that will take longer to fix. The priority is making sure that the LIVE service is stable.
I know there's quite a bit of MS hatred going on with the live outages (which picked a great time of year to fuck up, but is the first noticeable fuck up I've had ever since I joined 4 or so years ago) but this made me chuckle:
I feel for them though, I suspect they're on a skeleton crew and a very rapidly recalled network operations team. Some folk won't be getting much of a new years celebration this year
And I suspect MS will chuck out some free live time or some free MS points to gold members affected. Not that it bothers me seeing as thanks to the botched repair I still can't get back on Live - I'll be calling them first thing tomorrow morning for an update...
Viscount Charles wrote:Major Nelson's page - "Server too busy". So even the PR department is borked.
That's Larry Hryb's (probably spelt incorrectly) personal blog, hosted independently and paid for by him (as he has previously stated in his shows and here I believe). It's no "All I want for xmas is a PSP". If the guy is on damage control it's because quite frankly it's never fun to admit that something you've poured your heart and soul into isn't fecking working
No real surprise. The big hold up is getting mods onto the 360. Last I heard epic planned to put them through certification (which (a) is interesting and (b) is going to cost them a bomb).
