An Open Letter about Xbox LIVE

Albion Knight · 01-04-2008, 02:44 PM

A free Game That's Sweet!

What will you choose?
PuzzleQuest is pretty fun

I wonder if this will include Xbox Originals

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An Open Letter from Marc Whitten about Xbox LIVE this Holiday

Published January 3, 2008

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

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Dark Drakan · 01-04-2008, 03:21 PM

A nice offer by them i must say.

Just hope they dont limit the choices too much.

projectego · 01-04-2008, 07:02 PM

Thanks for posting this, Todd!

I posted a comment on your frontpage article.

Albion Knight · 01-04-2008, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by projectego

Thanks for posting this, Todd!

I posted a comment on your frontpage article.

Thanks Steve

Did you digg it as well?

Dark Drakan · 01-04-2008, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Albion Knight

Did you digg it as well?

I did...

Tsuyu · 01-04-2008, 08:03 PM

I'm so gonna get Contra... I hope I can.

Orpheus Lupus · 01-05-2008, 02:23 AM

Great. Now as soon as I can actually recover my damned gamertag...

Arseface · 01-05-2008, 02:28 AM

I'm gonna get Hexic 2

It's the best game ever

Wait... it's not good at all

cometojames · 01-05-2008, 04:12 PM

im still having problems my machmaking for cod4 dont work

runeblade265 · 01-05-2008, 08:04 PM

OMFG! I just got the rrod

Dark Drakan · 01-05-2008, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by cometojames

im still having problems my machmaking for cod4 dont work

Im yet to try COD 4 again but i will be doing so soon.

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Originally Posted by runeblade265

OMFG! I just got the rrod

It work again afterwards or was it the real red ring of death? I had a brief instance of it but turned console off and back on again and it was fine.

Albion Knight · 01-06-2008, 05:07 AM

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Originally Posted by Arseface

I'm gonna get Hexic 2

It's the best game ever

Wait... it's not good at all

Yeah the demo wasn't that good but Hexic is

Dark Drakan · 01-06-2008, 08:25 PM

Ok ive just had a nightmare of a time getting online with Call Of Duty 4. Worked fine for hours and now ive had more errors and disconnections and random issues with Live freezing than i could shake a stick at.

blue crow · 01-08-2008, 10:29 PM

Wow free arcade games thats so cool ... not. They could of gave us one free download or mp. Cause i want to change my gamer tag to XXX Rated Ownage.

Amanda · 01-09-2008, 11:03 PM

That's pretty awesome but I have no idea what game I will choose. Any word on when we will be able to do this?