All I want for Christmas is to play online, but Microsoft won’t let me
As of Wednesday the 26th, my experience with Xbox LIVE could best be described as “inconsistent”. I am randomly and sporadically kicked off of the service, and by that, I mean any time I try to do something — anything.
To make sure this wasn’t an isolated case of shitty broadband service on the part of my cable provider, or a local “malfunction”, I rang up some friends in various parts of the country to see if they were having similar issues — they were.
Around noon today, my annoyance got the best of me, and I called up 1-800-4my-xbox. I was greeted, as always, by the never-helpful automated super-dork — Max.
I’ve been down this road before, so I know to skip past his bullshit by spouting off “Agent” a hundred times until he finally gets the hint.
Anyhow, long story short, the agent tells me that the Xbox LIVE servers are having difficulty dealing with the massive influx of users that apparently got a 360 for Christmas. “Seriously?” I asked. “Yes, seriously” he responded.
In fact, it’s such a problem, that they have temporarily disabled the ability to create a new LIVE account. I went ahead and tried to create an account (out of curiosity) and I wasn’t able to.
I am unsure if this is the “official” Microsoft stance regarding the issue, but it does seem logical, and it did come straight from the mouth of a Microsoft employee — Tier 3 even! His Thetan levels must be off the chart.
The agent estimated that the problems will be fixed by the end of the weekend, if not by the end of the night. So I guess I just want to say “thank you” to Microsoft for making such a killer system. If it weren’t so awesome, I might actually be able to sign into the Chromehounds servers and, you know, play some freaking games.
by Dan Landis on December 28, 2007
1 comment:
Blatant I have told MS how I felt about this and stopped my live account until they can sort things out and they will get back to me ASAP I was told!!!
I am not botherd because the service will end up being free like PS3!!!
So jump in and play UT3 in style on PS3!!
Its all planned and engineered to shake up the service, because change and the PS3 of course !!!
Why disrupt the service so badly days before the holidays???
The same thing happened a few months before the 360 came out and all Original Xbox consoles started to stop working and blow up????? Mine did!!
"LIVE servers are having difficulty dealing with the massive influx of users that apparently got a 360 for Christmas."
What bogus bollocks!! and how many people play Xbox live???? so they all signed up couple days before Christmas at the same time???
STEADY
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