XBox Live outage - reason?

Fingleberries

Does anyone know what the deal was with the Outage yesterday? I know it was a planned one, they were calling it a maintenance window, but the last time they (MS) did that it was to prep Xbox Live for the 360 launch.

Surely it wasn't being upgraded for the new Elite console. Is there anything else behind it?

ntlbell

plugging security holes at a guess :P

DarkJager

Theres rumours of it being upgraded to introduce a fee based scheme for some online games.

Kimbot

http://www.xbox365.com/news.cgi?id=EplkuEklZlhmBryYYB2878

DarkJager

Jonny, I can't open that link (work firewall is blocking it!). Can you copy and paste the info? Cheers.

Helix

ntlbell wrote:

plugging security holes at a guess :P

id imagine so, especially after the reports of people having their live accounts stolen

Kimbot

Basically updaes to allow users operate clans better and the likes!!

koneko

I'm pretty sure it has been down for maintenance like that before, after the 360 launch, so it might not be for anything major, just security and feature updates (and possibly general maintenance).

Kimbot

Xbox Live will down and out for 24 hours starting Wednesday, April 24, for a huge update. Microsoft have called this update Tsunami, and it sounds like major changes are in the air for all of you XBLers. According to a series of posts by the XBL Big Cheeze, Tsunami will include four types of additions...


TEAMS
Developer support for integrating team/clan functionality into their titles.

COMPETITIONS
Easily build different types of competitions into titles that can be created and administered by the publisher and/or users.

MSN ALERTS AND MESSENGER INTEGRATION
What It Is: Invitation and Presence-based alerts and a new Xbox/MSN Messenger tab with user contextual information.

TITLE MANAGED ONLINE STORAGE
What It Is: Provides user profile data storage along with a simple way for titles to dynamically manage game influencing data on the fly.

Nelson points out that developers will have to program in implementation into the games they are creating. The good news is that the SDK for Tsumani went out several months ago, so the delay shouldn't be too long.

mcgovern

koneko wrote:

I'm pretty sure it has been down for maintenance like that before, after the 360 launch, so it might not be for anything major, just security and feature updates (and possibly general maintenance).

Yup it has been.

Ciaran500

Helix wrote:

id imagine so, especially after the reports of people having their live accounts stolen

They weren't stolen through any security holes, they got them by tricking the tech support into giving out passwords.

ciano1

jonny24ie wrote:

http://www.xbox365.com/news.cgi?id=EplkuEklZlhmBryYYB2878

that article is dated 4/19/2004

Ronan

jonny24ie wrote:

http://www.xbox365.com/news.cgi?id=EplkuEklZlhmBryYYB2878

eh, that article is dated 4/19/2004

Brianb8802

Ronan wrote:

eh, that article is dated 4/19/2004

:D:D:D

Helix

Ciaran500 wrote:

They weren't stolen through any security holes, they got them by tricking the tech support into giving out passwords.

allegedly

Kimbot

Ah sorry, I have 2 links so I will throw the other one up when I find it again!!

chrislad

Bit annoyed as the outage as it ruined my 36 or so day playing streak on 360voice.com. I did play but since Live was down, it didn't register. Ah well.

Helix

would yis rather they didnt fix the problems?

Branoic

The wikipedia entry for the Oblivion expansion Shivering Isles suggests that the outage had something to do with uploading the expansion

Ciaran500

The expansion was available on live before it went down.

Fingleberries

Helix wrote:

would yis rather they didnt fix the problems?

I'm just curious is all - being relatively new I thought the only other 'planned outages' were for big upgrades to the Service. (e.g. tsunami and when the 360 was released).

I know (and am rather disappointed) that this was just a regular maintenance window.