Xbox Live System will be Down 16-06-2009

Soby

Starts at 7:01am and runs for about 24 hours...Just incased people didnt get the message from Xbox

amacachi

But that's one of my days off from the LC. What am I meant to do now?

Soby

amacachi wrote: »

But that's one of my days off from the LC. What am I meant to do now?

Get all your Xbox live buddies together and have a big Ofline party:D

Basq

amacachi wrote: »

But that's one of my days off from the LC. What am I meant to do now?

Oh.. I don't know.. study!

amacachi

basquille wrote: »

Oh.. I don't know.. study!

Quiet you. :P

Atavan-Halen

Is it possible we'll get a free arcade game from this?

ciano1

atavan-halen wrote: »

Is it possible we'll get a free arcade game from this?

Nah..This is just maintanance

The last time we got a free arcade game was when xbl was having issues for ages

NiSmO

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niallon

I forgot...tried L4D online...was denied...so I cried....feckers...

Katarn1

Soby wrote: »

Starts at 7:01am and runs for about 24 hours...Just incased people didnt get the message from Xbox

fair play man! forgot about this when I tried to log on this morning

have been trying to figure out what was up with my settings lol

cheers for the heads up

faceman

Phew, at least i managed to download the Fallout 3 DLC in time. That will keep me occupied today.

FreeOSCAR

faceman wrote: »

Phew, at least i managed to download the Fallout 3 DLC in time. That will keep me occupied today.

New DLC or old?

Twilightning

I wanted to fag out and download the Evanescence pack that was supposed to be released today for Rock Band 2. Guess I'll have to wait another day! :pac:

Peyton Manning

Was enjoying a crackin game of L4D this morning until it disconnected. Went about 8:15am.

skyhighflyer

They should have a status update for those of us (i.e., me) who missed the system announcement.

When you try to connect to live now it gives you an MTU error, which sent me on a fruitless hour-long search to find out what the feck that is and how to fix it.

I am aware that a smarter person probably would have checked whether Live was down beforehand :pac:

jayteecork

was wondering. Thought my connection was ****ed.

faceman

FreeOSCAR wrote: »

New DLC or old?

The new one with the increased Level cap, just hadnt gotten around to getting it until now!

CiaranC

wtf, a 24 hour outage on a paid service, thats unreal

Basq

CiaranC wrote: »

wtf, a 24 hour outage on a paid service, thats unreal

Christ almighty, it's 1 day out of 365!

Get over it - even if you paid €60 for your Xbox Live sub for a year, it's 16c a day!

amacachi

Yeah, paying for something should make it invincible.

CiaranC

basquille wrote: »

Christ almighty, it's 1 day out of 365!

Get over it - even if you paid €60 for your Xbox Live sub for a year, it's 16c a day!

If you want to be a smartarse about it, its 16c x ~6 million or around €960,000

What other paid service would see multiple planned 24 hour outages for routine maintenance?

amacachi

CiaranC wrote: »

If you want to be a smartarse about it, its 16c x ~6 million or around €960,000

What other paid service would see multiple planned 24 hour outages for routine maintenance?

And the guys working on it aren't getting paid. Plus the money MS are losing on advertising.

Are there 2 24 hour outages planned for today?

CiaranC

What do you mean they arent getting paid?

And this is not the first period of downtime supposedly designed to prevent the need for further downtime for routine maintenance.

I can imagine telling my customers that we are taking their services offline for 24 hours to work on them, they'd be delighted. Actually theyd tell me to cop on to myself

amacachi

CiaranC wrote: »

What do you mean they arent getting paid?

And this is not the first period of downtime supposedly designed to prevent the need for further downtime for routine maintenance.

I can imagine telling my customers that we are taking their services offline for 24 hours to work on them, they'd be delighted. Actually theyd tell me to cop on to myself

I was being sarcastic.

It's the first one to affect me.

If people don't like it they can stop buying subscriptions, simple enough concept.

Basq

To be honest, what services do you mean? I mean if it was ATM, Banking, Electricity (etc) or water, that's fair enough!

Those are essential in day-to-day-life.

But what you're getting upset about is the inability to play games online for a single day!

.DarDarBinks

should we expect better connections or any updates?

amacachi

Anyone know exactly what this maintenance is? I was playing online from 4 til 6 this morning against a load of yanks in Forza and the races ran smoother than I've ever had before, no lag at all and the chat worked quicker than a phone.

CiaranC

Who is getting upset? I just said it was unusual to take down a paid internet based service for a whole 24 hours for routine maintenance. My company provides subscription based internet services to people and it would never happen.

So cool your fanboi jets chief

amacachi

CiaranC wrote: »

Who is getting upset? I just said it was unusual to take down a paid internet based service for a whole 24 hours for routine maintenance. My company provides subscription based internet services to people and it would never happen.

So cool your fanboi jets chief

What shall I cool my "fanboi" jets with? Maybe I'll go play my PS3 for a while, or would that make me a PS3 "fanboi"?

Yeah it's unusual, and a little annoying, but I'm not too worried. And there is a difference between general internet services and a specific gaming service, one could be important, the other definitely isn't. :P

sparky360

jesus lads calm down............... won't somebody think of the children???

GrumPy

Have some ice cold lemonade guys. It's much more refreshing than arguing over xbox LIVE.

A little annoying agreed, not the end of the world so keep it cool up in this thread and so forth.