Xbox Live choking

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Microsoft's Xbox Live service has been experiencing technical difficulties throughout the Christmas period. The issues have been acknowledged on Major Nelson's blog, the Xbox Live team's avenue for communicating Live-related news and developments.

Based on comments on the blog post, the problems appear to be affecting users in the US, the UK, Australia and Canada, and are presumably service-wide. The issues, which began around December 22 and are yet to be entirely resolved, include difficulty logging in, downloading updates and demos, playing multiplayer matches and accessing statistics.

According to Major Nelson's blog post, the Xbox Live team is working as hard as it can to resolve the issues, and 'no one on the team is going anywhere until the job is done'.

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31 Comments

Fetidchimp

4 years ago

Trying to play arkadian warriors co op the other day was nigh on impossible.

IISpacebreakII

4 years ago

The wii shop channel is also a disaster at the moment. That update has stuffed up something and I can never really browse the shop channel for more than 5 minutes without an error.

teashades

4 years ago

I unfortunatly bought my 360 fairly recently and it was suffering from dropouts then, then they for some unknown reason lost my live account and now I have a new gamertag there are more dropouts....

Not happy so far... I hope this is not usual.....

Fetidchimp

4 years ago

nah, it started recently, i think its pretty random at the moment, i couldnt sign in for about 9 hours on the 23rd, but i havent had any problems like that before

drunknmonkey_au

4 years ago

Hopefully MS will get this sorted out quickly. I've been having trouble signing in to live for the past week now, some times it'll work without any hassles other times it'll take forever to sign in or just not sign in at all.

Newland

4 years ago

Thank god, I thought it was just my 360 going screwy. Even contemplated about returning it.

slapshakle

4 years ago

I lost my account in limbo for 24 hours after I tried to recover my account from a 2nd console.

BovineDeath

4 years ago

It's a bit of a worry. I'm about to go to work for a few nights, hopefully it's fixed by the time that I get home.
If my wife finds out that live is down, she may want affection. Please help me Microsoft!

Maikii

4 years ago

And some of you pay for this 'service'?

Kurupt

4 years ago

I've been unable to play games with my friends list. GH3 and CoD4 I can play against randoms, but always timed out trying to hook up with friends.

slapshakle

4 years ago

Maikii wrote

And some of you pay for this 'service'?

Yep. Some of us pay for sex too, and that sure as hell doesn't work all the time.

TheAnswer

4 years ago

Was very annoying this afternoon, took 4 goes to download the patch for Crackdown as the first 3 times it would time out during download and then freeze the game

Kurupt

4 years ago

Maikii wrote

And some of you pay for this 'service'?

I sure as hell would happily spend $80 a year and have a good service like LIVE, then pay nothing and have a service like the Wii online system.

ppjim3

4 years ago

I've been playing Halo 3 a lot (and sign into XBL every time the console is on) and have had absolutely ZERO problems within this time frame. I've read about this all over but I have had no problems - and Halo 3 seems to be running faster than usual too!

I must be extremely lucky. With that said I will now wake up tomorrow morning to a broken XBL as karma punishing me for gloating.

Maikii

4 years ago

Kurupt wrote

Maikii wrote

And some of you pay for this 'service'?

I sure as hell would happily spend $80 a year and have a good service like LIVE, then pay nothing and have a service like the Wii online system.

It's just that if you pay for a service and it doesn't do what it is supposed to (and at the most critical time of the year) you should be entitled to some compensation - allot of Live users are feeling this way:
http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2007/12/31/unhappy-xbox-live-users-demand-compensation/

GroovySamurai

4 years ago

Theres so much I'm trying to download right now but its so damn slow.. I actually have a new gold subscription sitting here I want to activate soon but these speeds are really bad, hope this all gets sorted out soon.

NismoR34

4 years ago

I'm another one who hasn't really had any problems. There was one night where I couldn't send messages (kept getting the 'this message cannot be sent' message) but otherwise everything has been fine. No login issues, playing online has been easy (like always) and yeah everything has just worked like normal. Which is why it is sorta weird reading about everyone else having issues. Whatever caused them, it's certainly serious but not serious enough to affect everyone.

merlingt

4 years ago

I know here in the US, it choked enough that the online status for live was changed and that major nelson was updating twitter with the tinest of progress to appease people. didn't work.

Passa

4 years ago

I've been unable to even sign in lately, which is annoying since my Gold expires on the 3rd and I haven't gotten around to getting a 12 month card yet. Compensation would certainly be appreciated.

NeoSanity

4 years ago

Mine has been alright until you decide to actually play another person online, then Call of Duty 4 doesn't want to recognize you online. Microsoft really need to review it quickly before holiday gamers go vigilante on Redmond.

Fetidchimp

4 years ago

They deleted 10 pages of people complaining off the xbox forums when it first happened.

merlingt

4 years ago

There was one i was participating in, it was 87 pages and they locked it when it got violent.

Fetidchimp

4 years ago

^

can't just take away people's crack like that

crescent fresh

4 years ago

Yup have been having the same problems discussed in the article (mainly being unable to login)
Hopefully this is a temporary thing and will be fixed soon