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PGL
01-04-2008, 01:11 AM
Xbox LIVE Holiday Performance


As many of you know, I have keeping you up to date on the status of Xbox LIVE. Here is an official message from Marc Whitten (Notwen (http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/profile.aspx?pp=0&GamerTag=Notwen)) GM of Xbox LIVE on where we are and what we are going to do. Again, thanks for your patience.


Dear Xbox LIVE Members:

During this past holiday season you helped us break a number of Xbox LIVE records. This included our largest sign-up of new members to Xbox LIVE in our 5 year history and just yesterday you broke the record for the single biggest day of concurrent members ever on the service.

As a result of this massive increase in usage we know that some of you experienced intermittent Xbox LIVE issues over the holiday break. While the service was not completely offline at any given time, we are disappointed in our performance. I would like to take this moment to thank you each and every one of you for your patience and understanding as our team has worked around the clock to return the service to a stable state.

At the same time we would like to offer a token of our appreciation to all of you in celebration of record success for the service. And as a thank you for your loyalty during this holiday period, we will be offering all of our Xbox LIVE members around the world access to a full Xbox LIVE Arcade game that will be available to download free of charge. In the coming weeks we will be sharing the specific details of this offer with you.

Thank you again for helping make Xbox LIVE everything that it is today!

Sincerely,

Marc Whitten
General Manager, Xbox LIVE
Gamertag: Notwen (http://live.xbox.com/en-US/profile/profile.aspx?pp=0&GamerTag=Notwen)

WPG KillerDope
01-04-2008, 10:16 AM
I'd rather have a month free of LIVE for all the time I wasted! Waiting half an hour to sign in properly, then waiting half an hour to find a match, day in day out, and all I get is a copy Defender II?

Bunk

Jatar
01-04-2008, 10:26 AM
I knew there was something wrong... see at the same time all this apparently started happening I bought a new router and changed my internet provider. Naturally I thought it was one of those things that was causing the problems. lol.

Urban Fighter
01-04-2008, 02:34 PM
I knew there was something wrong... see at the same time all this apparently started happening I bought a new router and changed my internet provider. Naturally I thought it was one of those things that was causing the problems. lol.

Same thing happend to me... I thought it was my wirless internet that i just changed to. i think we should get the month free because of this crap. honestly... I can't even recover my accounts.

WPG KillerDope
01-04-2008, 06:45 PM
I called Xbox to ask what the problem was, all I got was "Live is down. It will be up tomorrow." Yeah...that was more than 2 weeks ago

Jatar
01-04-2008, 10:01 PM
I was watching "Attack of the Show" on G4 and that was one of their news stories. The guys they were talking to suggested Microsoft points to all accounts to compensate. They guys they were talking to were like... gaming magazine writers or something.