Major Nelson Speaks About Recent Xbox Live Issues..

Gikoku Harakami · 12-30-2007, 10:27 PM

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Major Nelson

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Originally Posted by Joystiq

Many of you might have noticed a bevy of problems facing Xbox live over this past week: An unresponsive marketplace, the inability to recover a gamertag (or even sign in), and aggravating matchmaking wait times, to name a few. Major Nelson issued a statement last night explaining that while there have been no complete outages of the service over the past week, "problems like this are not acceptable," and that they are working to get the service back to normal. Sadly, no time frame was provided on when repairs to the service would be complete.

There's been no official statement on why the service has been so shoddy lately, but if we were the guessing type, we blame it on the holiday season. We're sure that tons of people found a 360 under their trees (or candles), and immediately tried to hop online; only to collide with the millions of vacationing gamers who were already playing.

Dark Drakan · 12-30-2007, 10:41 PM

Glad to see that they are saying any disruption to the service is unacceptable. Although i personally didnt notice any issues, though i was busy playing Mass Effect so havent played online properly for a while.

RedBullKid · 12-30-2007, 11:57 PM

Yep ive definatley had problems like the ones described there, its only just now that ive been able to get onto CoD4.

Angel · 12-31-2007, 02:00 PM

This has been driving me insane...Oblivion needs an update BADLY and I cannot get onto Live at all...just when I sign in, it goes nuts and signs me out and then gets upset with itself.

Hopefully they will sort this out asap...

projectego · 12-31-2007, 09:55 PM

Xbox Live seems to be functioning all right at the moment, which is good since it was really playing up last night. Angel's right, we couldn't even download the patch for Oblivion that allowed us to continue playing Shivering Isles.

And thanks for including the pic of Major Nelson, Gikoku. It's nice to be able to finally put a face to the name now. +rep for the article