<![CDATA[ - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[ - Kotaku Comments]]> <![CDATA[]]> @What The Geek:
Sorry my Sarcasm didn't translate well.

sh0tgunn0strils

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Just checked UPS and my 360 has returned back to my town. Going to pick it up after work today...cant wait!

It went out on the 9th and is already back! Thats less than 2 weeks!!!

Heh, I just hope they actually fixed it :)

yashichi8bit

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @dead_red_eyes: Agreed, this is virtual chum for the F.B.s swimming around the internet.

BTW, no probs with XBL in SoCal to date.

Acute Gamer

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I'm hoping we get Undertow for free after this!!

TearsandScreams

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Live was shot for me last night, but I haven't tried booting up yet this morning. Oh, and I'm in Sacramento, btw.

Nitsuj82

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @DorkimusPrime: Don't you just have to download them again, or does that only apply to repaired machines?

tk.

]]> <![CDATA[]]> My 360 should finally return home today, so we'll see. It's been a long month.

tk.

]]> <![CDATA[]]> this is such good news for people like me who bought DLC on one console and got another in return for RROD reasons and now can't play with their DLC or XBLA games offline. *sigh*

DorkimusPrime

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I was having a lot of trouble last night in VA trying to download the condemned demo. It would sign me in then boot me right back off. Haven't tried today as I'm at work right now.

luraybell

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Fine for me.

susurrate

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I had trouble staying on for about 2 hours after the maintenance was completed. got kicked every few min. But it's been fine since.
I saw a couple guys on my FL who were signing in and out every few min last night though, they could be having a problem with it.

Xerxes 8933A

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Kicked me off Live last night and hasn't let me back on; NC

parasiteartist

]]> <![CDATA[]]> To everyone else who politely brought up the scheduled maintenance, it was on Monday, and it came and went as planned. By 1pm EST Live was back up and running - and it seemed to be running well until about eleven PM last night when I just got bumped out for no reason.

What The Geek

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @sh0tgunn0strils: Ummm - don't YOU read the messages? The scheduled downtime was Monday. Today is Wednesday. I'm no calanderologist, but if the scheduled maintenance was over on Monday, and today is Wednesday, then these outages are happening on a different day then the scheduled maintenance - making this an UNscheduled outage.

What The Geek

]]> <![CDATA[]]> It's a scheduled down time don't you ever read your messages?

sh0tgunn0strils

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I can sign in.... but about two minutes after I do I keep getting dropped.

Soooooo I guess no lessons were learned from the holiday debacle? I guess we'll all be swearing and complaining together next week when GTA comes out and the weak and frail servers are crushed by the car stealing behemoth? Come on MS, you're making a fuckton of money on us - give something back - like a working, fully functional xbox live.

What The Geek

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I was having problems when it first updated...it actually froze my 360 a few times. But its seems to have fixed itself and I'm back to playing online :)

Satis.24

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Lastnight went something like this:

Crap I can't get on LIVE...oh wait, I'm in...kicked out?!?...back on, yes!...WTF?...Alright, passed the connection test and I'm on. Hmmm, nobody on my friends list is on. Wonder what's going....FUUUUUUCK!

And with that I shut down my XBox for the night and watched hockey/basketball playoffs.

FreakyFraser

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I have not been connected to live since it was down in december.

Jamaces

]]> <![CDATA[]]> My wife had difficultly signing on for the first hour after the end of the scheduled downtime, but everything was fine after that. I haven't experienced any problems logging on myself, though.

Captain Impulse

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Could've sworn there was scheduled downtime this week...

DannoHung

]]> <![CDATA[]]> There was a message on my dashboard about planned downtime which I think was this week sometime, could that be it?!

TyrannosaurusRox

]]> <![CDATA[]]> No problems here in seattle, or with my friend in rochester.

wscreamer

]]> <![CDATA[]]> LOL, kool-Aid all around children, drink up!

who cares

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Libo:
Yeah that would be a major pain in the ass. I really hope XBL learned their lesson after seeing what happened right after Christmas 2007 when everyone and their moms started playing COD4 and Halo3.

ReyDEEEEZY

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @ReyDEEEEZY: Not really, I'll never finish the singleplayer campaign unless the servers go down. Here's to hoping it DOES go down when GTA4 comes out.

Libo

]]> <![CDATA[]]> 12:26 AM Seattle time - Live is back on.

ReyDEEEEZY

]]> <![CDATA[]]> man this sucks. I was just about to go grab the new rock band songs. was in a voice chat with a friend too. now it is completely down. well i am typing this from my ps3 web browser. going to go play some more hot shots golf. microsoft really needs to get their shit together.

Ken Edwards

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Like folks are saying; Better now than when GTA4 is released....

ReyDEEEEZY

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Yep, down it goes. I'm assuming everyone just got kicked off? As my entire friends list is offline.

Libo

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I never had problems all day until now.

ReyDEEEEZY

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @ca$h:

I hear you man. I will for a couple of minutes before I attempt to log back in. It would be a bummer not to play COD4 tonight.

ReyDEEEEZY

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Can't log in right now. Been fine up until tonight. Been having problems all evening.

Pink Tiger Jet

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I just got kicked; OC California.

Gordon_Shumway

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @ReyDEEEEZY:
Yeah, that's exactly when mine died (permanently) too. It's been kicking me off every once in a while all night though. $50 well spent! At least when the PSN goes down (like, never) you can't bitch because it's free.

ca$h

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Yeah Live isn't working for me either.

ca$h

]]> <![CDATA[]]> As of midnight pacific time in Seattle, my Xbox Live went down.

ReyDEEEEZY

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I've had nothing but issues the last 2 days.

GeorgeLiquor

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I had problems on tuesday. Signing off Xbox LIVE, uable to connect and play in cod4 ... But 12 hours ago it seemed to work well in Sweden.

Nightsearch

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @ChunkOFunk: yeah, my 360 disconnected me from live while i was playing guitar hero III, so i tried halo 3, and it froze at the main menu... twice.

vancealmighty

]]> <![CDATA[]]> A ninja stress test for impending doom on the 28th.

Fyren

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I've been up and down tonight on xbox live, more up time than when this usually happens.

Pornosaur

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Live is down for me, and I read something about this on Major Nelson's twitter a few hours ago, so I assumed it was widespread.

Callidux

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I connected fine but nobody on my friends list were on. Maybe this was the reason...

Barbara

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Ascully:
I've yet to play online but I'm sure its a lot better than xbox due to quick response. May be wrong though. ur thoughts?

Null-Python

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @ChunkOFunk:

Same here. It's working in Moses Lake, WA

Handbanana37

]]> <![CDATA[]]> It's been fine all day. Had a few problems yesterday where I was signed in and could receive invites and stuff but I couldn't actually access any of the features or matchmaking. I thought that there was some behind the scenes work going on before all of this happened so I'm guessing there's just some growing pains or something.

I'd like to see Kotaku remove the countdown that is still adding to an unrelated incident. Maybe start a countdown of how many days the MGS Beta has been messed up?

jihadjoe343

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @108:
rondo of blood? for wii? when did that happen? too many games to play, little time. Aarrgh. & only to add persona 3, gta4 & mario kart. oh man

Null-Python

]]> <![CDATA[]]> signed in no problem and it appears to be ok

javajoe96

]]> <![CDATA[]]> It's laggy as hell, and bounces me in and out. Thankfully, I'm just using it for the sports ticket at the moment.

superbus

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Its been up and down but i was playing some crackdown with a friend successfully...

Scazza

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I can't log on at the dashboard but I don't have a problem doing it after a game boots up.

Nedge

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Mrmoo2002: Well, there are less people on PSN. Still, I was excited to play the new COD4 maps and the service has been down for a bit. I'm in LA. I hope this doesn't happen when the new COD4 maps hit PSN on thursday.

symeon6

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Dakobah: Not all of us do. I've been playing without online for 3 months now if I'm not mistaken(no time to play) but really during the holidays when it was out my subscription was about to expire in 15 days and xbox live being down was the worst thing that could happen.

PogiJet

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Dakobah: weird. a couple of my friends I just IM'ed said they have had no problems at all. If it was something to do with GTA then I'd think it would affect everyone....or they would let people know. Then again, the fact that it's happening at night on a tuesday (relatively low number of people on right now compared to other times) suggests it could be just maintenance

Mrmoo2002

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Was playing Gears Of War PC earlier and live kept signing out, I decided to go play Call Of Duty 4 on the 360 after 3 or 4 laggy games Xbox live signed out again.

Lets hope this issues dont continue into GTA week.

Ascully

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Mrmoo2002: ummm they were preparing for GTA, we are (albiet blowing wayyyy outa proportion) just expierencing the bugs and hiccups of installing new servers to XBOX live, ITS GTA MONTH!!!!!! i dunno.....

Dakobah

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Has been up all night, just went down about 20 minutes ago. SD, CA

tool7f

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I've been having problems all day. Tried to play Halo for two hours, only got three games in, both slightly laggy within themselves. Oh Xbox Live, what's happened to you?

TheRedBayonet

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Wow, considering PSN is free and has yet to go down, I wonder what MS will have to say about this. Last time was "understandable" given the load on the servers during xmas but this time....tuesday in middle of april?? I dunno....

Mrmoo2002

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I got kicked off ONE SECOND before a Halo 3 match went to the lobby.
I won the game, but it didn't count.
And I lost EXP.
I was mad.

Teh Emo Penguin

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @ChunkOFunk: My console froze twice in the past week on the orange box

still working fine.

Murderdolls

]]> <![CDATA[]]> For the past few days I've had trouble logging into XBL in general. I log into my profile and it says it can't connect to live. Then I do a network test and then after that I try again and it'll usually work. It's kind of annoying.

Then today Live disconnected me a few times. And sometimes I'll go to my guide button and it says I'm not on live but I am because I can still get messages from people and stuff. It's weird.

kojirodensetsu

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Who knows what would happen come GTA4 & services are down. (others need to cross fingers)

Null-Python

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I've been playing Uno and COD4 on live today.While getting on an online game for Uno it does ask me to sign into Live after I know I had. And I got a couple "you need to be singned into live to play" on COD4 that has been the extent of my problems.

madman83

]]> <![CDATA[]]> saying "status watch day whatever" isn't really that big of deal, they don't say "Xbox blows 2008: this time it's personal" or anything like that, it is a status watch, good OR bad. there is just no point in posting news if all is fine and dandy... "Xbox live status watch: day 105...this just in, LIVE is up and running, i repeat UP and RUNNING..." i think the title is just fine, and reminds me of when i lived in texas and we had "Killer Bee Watch '98" on every news channel

HawaiianActor

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Ok i'm calling it.

Anyone that posts anything like "M$ has been fucking us over for too long, Live should be free" after this post is a dick that doesn't read other comments.

XBOX LIVE IS UP AND RUNNING IF YOU WANT IT FOR FREE THEN STOP PAYING FOR IT.

Cchrist

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @eban:

You missed out on your chance for the free game months ago. I don't think that you're going to get Undertow now.

@okenny :):

Whoa, playing for 13 - 17 hours at a time?! That's some serious work right there. It's frozen one me maybe once or twice on a loading screen ... usually it's quitting to the in-game menu that causes it to freeze for me. So I usually just save my game, then bring up the in-game dashboard and press Y to quit. It never freezes that way.

dead_red_eyes

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Good on my end

exkon

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I can't sign in, either!

. . . . . . oh, wait, that could be because:

1. I'm at the office, not at home

2. My friend used my internet connection to upload massive amounts of data in one day, so the provider choked my connection off

3. I don't have a LAN cable long enough to connect the Xbox to the router anyway

:-/

In other news, last night, I carried my Wii into the office to try to download Rondo of Blood and holy lord it gave me an error for every page. It would load and load for two or three minutes before returning an error and bumping me back to the start menu.

Eventually got it to work, though!! Only took an hour!

In closing, no matter what's wrong with Xbox Live, it ain't as bad as Wii.

108

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Cchrist:

Thanks for having my back.

[rant]Sure, Live has it's issues here and there ... and it very well should, because it's a HUUUUUUGE service that caters to over 6 million (results from March of 2007) people . Shit's bound to happen. In all honesty it hasn't been that bad since Christmas/New Years for me. Maybe everynow and then I get disconnected ... but I log back in and things are smooth as silk. The last time things were wonky was with Call of Duty 4, and that was understandable. All in all, I'm still a very happy Xbox Live subscriber. Some people just expect it to be pristine I guess, and they get all bent out of shape when it's down for a little bit and they complain how it shouldn't be down because they pay for it ... as if that $50 a year was all the money in the world. Shit, I spent that much at the bar in 1 night ... even a sack of Oregons finest almost costs the same.[/rant]

dead_red_eyes

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Well looks like I wont be connecting the Xbox until GTA next week. Come Mr. Wii let us have some laggy fun in Super Smash land.

TheeAhaMoment

]]> <![CDATA[]]> The 125 day title is still valid if the issue still exists. Unless Earth Day is some new everyone has a day off super holiday I haven't heard of. They can't blame this on a bunch of people playing all at once like did through Christmas.

lkgemini

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @rannic: Exactly. We are ALWAYS WATCHING, but only report in when there's a problem :)

Luke Plunkett

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @dead_red_eyes: I think all my crashes have happened in oblivion during loading screen... of course this is like when I'm playing for 13 - 17 hours at a time (yes, I was addicted D: ) and I think it had something to do with my cache. Other games just don't crash on me... wait... the FlatOut Demo did force me out to the guide once.

okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Brooklyn NY, Been having trouble since Friday night. Have not been able to sign in for more than two min. Just like in December. By the way still have not gotten my "Free Game". I'm calling XBL support tomorrow to wast their time while I complain.

eban

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I was playing COD4 and kicking ass, then...it was gone. Why Xbox Live? Why?

TechnoPirate

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @dead_red_eyes: Yeah, this is kind of overboard when the service has been running fine for a few months other than the COD4 map problem for a few hours one night a couple of weeks ago. If you seriously want to do an XBL Status Watch and note the number of days then you should be over 1800 at this point since Live has been up and running for over 5 years. There are some things that need to change, like not taking the service down for maintenance, but "Day 125" doesn't apply since there hasn't been a continual problem.

Spartan1308™

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Knight-Zero:
Network infrastructures aren't 100% downtime free.

ManjiKengo

]]> <![CDATA[]]> How the hell can Microsoft get away with that?

Knight-Zero

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Remember, ps3s can freeze too. These game systems are less than perfect computers.

ManjiKengo

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @RedRaptor: - "I think the headline here is a bit biased"

Tell me about it. I've been trying to get Luke and crew to quit this whole fiasco, as it's just gonna get people all pissy and it ALWAYS starts a stupid fucking flame war in the comments. Soon enough we'll have some commenters saying:

"Hahaha, that's what you get XBOX suckers. PSTriple is where it's at, and it's a free service!"

dead_red_eyes

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Had issues yesterday...came back.

Had issues tonight, played a Halo slayer game with my clan and then down again.

LanceJr

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @dead_red_eyes: I'm with dead_red_eyes here. It's not necessary.

Cchrist

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I can sign in and play my BFBC beta but im just getting HORRIBLE lag

TheExiledLeader

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Been disconnected here & there tonight. I'm playing solo FIFA so its no biggie but they better make sure its stable when GTA 4 takes over their servers.

Nexus6

]]> <![CDATA[]]> screw that! This Ohio, Cincinnati kid is getting murked!

Live has been down like a dying hooker and all I can seem to get are little "hold me overs"

...eat me, MS.

MistaSergio

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I think the headline here is a bit biased - Live's been working great ever since that long up-down fiasco over the holidays. Today's issues were probably just a few problems caused by the maintenance they did yesterday.

RedRaptor

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I got a few games of Call of Duty 4 in, but everyone I played with got dropped and I wasn't able to sign on again. A friend of mine told me the same thing happened to him and the rest of his clan.

Dmartin001

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @ChunkOFunk:

I'm sure that every 360 owner out there has had a system freeze. It happens often when quitting your game in Oblivion, when you're looking at your media footage in Skate ... and other games have their quirks too.

dead_red_eyes

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Lou3000: LOL... hows about them fixing any issues first. Sure I want a free service but regardless of whether it's free or not, it should work. Being free doesn't give a product a "free" pass to suck! I'm not implying anything here so don't out yourself on my account ;)

okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)

]]> <![CDATA[]]> i actually like these moments. we get free XBLA games as an apology, wonder what we get this time...

Dakobah

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Can you really say it's day 125 when it's been consistently up for quite a long time?

BlackPawn

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Complain when something you are -paying- for doesn't deliver. Otherwise you are sheep led to the slaughter.

RaepGoblin

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Live is up for me in TX.

My cable modem has been down more than live. HOW BOUT THEY GIVE US FREE CABLE?

Spilt_Milk

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I am up and running in Mississauga, Ont.. in fact I was told I had an update and I just installed it.

Crooked

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @LittleBigPlaneteer: Day 125 of the Live Status Watch. There just aren't any Live Status Watch posts on good days. :)

rannic

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Luke, I think that you guys really need to kill this whole "Xbox Live Status Watch: Day 125". It's been smooth as silk for me (my 3 best friends and my girlfriends brother) ever since Christmas/New Years was over. You're just gonna get people all worked up with the whole continuation of the XBL Status Watch from Christmas.

dead_red_eyes

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @ChunkOFunk:

=( Good luck

sooiee115

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @Lou3000: Here we go again.

Cchrist

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I was playing cod4 and blam EVERYONE on my friends list went offline and i dropped too.

ManjiKengo

]]> <![CDATA[]]> On a completely unrelated note, though, my 360 just froze, and I'm too afraid to turn it back on for fear of getting RROD'd

ChunkOFunk

]]> <![CDATA[]]> The netherlands. Up and running.

Cchrist

]]> <![CDATA[]]> To all the people that continually defend Live despite the downtime, I think this is finally enough reason to start complaining. This year has been TERRIBLE.

Well, they did give us that shitty live game to make us happy.

How about making the service free?

Lou3000

]]> <![CDATA[]]> @LittleBigPlaneteer: - "Day 125 = biggest flamebait ever"

I have to agree with you there.

@xvitium:

Yeah, it was down for me too for a bit ... but then I was able to log back in. It logged me out 3 times today already, and once yesterday.

dead_red_eyes

]]> <![CDATA[]]> i have been having alot of live problems all day when i was play call of duty 4. hope they will fix all of the porblems with it soon. thanks

AznBombr1022

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I haven't had any problems the past couple of days, but a friend who lives just two blocks north of me started being frequently disconnected tonight.

rannic

]]> <![CDATA[]]> oppsie-daisy... did someone trip over the cords again... or could it be the new COD4 or Halo 3 maps?

It can't be people buying new 360s for GTA4 that pushing the service? I can't wait to here the reason for this one
*crosses hands and starts tapping left foot*

okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Maaaaaaaaaaan, you guys are crazy, I'm on live just fine. Eastern Washington BTW.

ChunkOFunk

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Spring update problems maybe?

Hopefully that's it. I'd love some new features. Saying day 125 is way harsh. It was fixed and now there's probably a new problem.

egyptomix

]]> <![CDATA[]]> it's been down since 10 pm est, you guys are a bit late

JackDaniels19

]]> <![CDATA[]]> I'm up and playing Gears

Orionsaint

]]> <![CDATA[]]> First I've heard of this problem. I did have a connection issue with some ranked games after the server downtime, but it has been smooth as silk since then.

Libo

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Scratch that... back up now

xvitium

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Day 125 = biggest flamebait ever

LittleBigPlaneteer

]]> <![CDATA[]]> Live is down here in Oregon.

xvitium

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