Xbox Live Marketplace and Live Arcade discussion Part III

**mgoblue** · 12-31-2007, 01:43 AM

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Originally posted by chippered

So if you disconnect your console from the internet, you still cant play games? That sounds like you may have something wrong with your system. Maybe i'm no understanding you.

I think he needs to recover his gamertag to his Xbox and he can't do that....so he can't use saves and whatnot used under that gamertag

**Bruins** · 12-31-2007, 02:19 AM

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For what it's worth, I'm not having any problems at all right now.

Logging in is slow, but it still works.

**Flawless** · 12-31-2007, 02:28 AM

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Originally posted by Bruins

Is this true? It's still listed as 400 points on the Marketplace...

No, I was joking.

**Flawless** · 12-31-2007, 02:42 AM

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Xbox Live Is Very Sick, Needs A Lie Down

You may have noticed that the LIVE service has been having a few issues over the past few days. This includes things like signing in, matchmaking and account recovery. Not everyone has had problems, but I know some of you have and I wanted to give you and update. While the service was never completely offline, problems like this are not acceptable. The entire LIVE team has been working day and night to ensure that you can have a great LIVE experience. While we're not done yet, I wanted to let you know that things are getting better each hour and that no one on the team is going anywhere until the job is done. Thanks for your patience.

**mgoblue** · 12-31-2007, 03:02 AM

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Major Nelson even said "Nice Kotaku photo on the troubles we have had." in his Twitter

**bkfount** · 12-31-2007, 03:05 AM

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Originally posted by mgoblue

Major Nelson even said "Nice Kotaku photo on the troubles we have had." in his Twitter

funny how the we want free MS points movement is gaining support across the major internet blogs though.

**chippered** · 12-31-2007, 12:30 PM

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Originally posted by mgoblue

I think he needs to recover his gamertag to his Xbox and he can't do that....so he can't use saves and whatnot used under that gamertag

Ahh, I see.

Originally posted by bkfount

funny how the we want free MS points movement is gaining support across the major internet blogs though.

As well it should. There is only one way to show your customers you are truly sorry for an inconvenience: FREE STUFF!

**bkfount** · 12-31-2007, 01:06 PM

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Can't play XBLA games either, since my original xbox 360 died. I'm probably going to cancel anyways. I actually just noticed that I pay monthly, instead of annually..lol. $8 a month is twice what the retail price of a 12 month card costs. I have no idea why I never changed or noticed it before.

**Behindshadows** · 12-31-2007, 01:39 PM

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Originally posted by bkfount

Can't play XBLA games either, since my original xbox 360 died. I'm probably going to cancel anyways. I actually just noticed that I pay monthly, instead of annually..lol. $8 a month is twice what the retail price of a 12 month card costs. I have no idea why I never changed or noticed it before.

Actually they are 13 month cards for $49

**Gibbz** · 12-31-2007, 07:02 PM

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Is Live messed up?

I can barely sign in and then the dashboard never loads on my Live account.

**SPTO** · 12-31-2007, 08:58 PM

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It was working wonderfully in the wee hours of this morning.

**chippered** · 12-31-2007, 09:02 PM

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Originally posted by gibbzilla558

Is Live messed up?

I can barely sign in and then the dashboard never loads on my Live account.

I was on between 6 and 7 this evening and everything was A-OK.

**Laettner32** · 12-31-2007, 10:49 PM

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Just played some COD4, and Live was working great.

btw, Im here in Austin.

**CaptainZombie** · 01-01-2008, 08:20 PM

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Microsoft To Compensate Customers For LIVE Downtime?

According to The Bitbag, Microsoft will be compensating their Xbox LIVE Gold customers for the problems the service has been having over the holiday—somehow. An unnamed Microsoft contact told the site:

...we will definitely be doing something for our Gold members that weren't able to get online over the last week.

Subscriber rights to some sort of refund seem a little vague here, especially since Microsoft has said that the service isn't technically down. It's like if your satellite or cable was working, but the channels you actually wanted to watch weren't coming in—is that a full refund situation, since you only bought the subscription for those channels anyway? Or, since you can still watch HGTV and the 24-hour Oprah Channel...well, I think you get my wordy metaphor.

It's just a shame that LIVE is having so many problems during a time when people can actually play (with plenty of newly gifted games to boot.)

**chippered** · 01-01-2008, 08:34 PM

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Originally posted by candymanGT

Microsoft To Compensate Customers For LIVE Downtime?

According to The Bitbag, Microsoft will be compensating their Xbox LIVE Gold customers for the problems the service has been having over the holiday—somehow. An unnamed Microsoft contact told the site:

...we will definitely be doing something for our Gold members that weren't able to get online over the last week.

Subscriber rights to some sort of refund seem a little vague here, especially since Microsoft has said that the service isn't technically down. It's like if your satellite or cable was working, but the channels you actually wanted to watch weren't coming in—is that a full refund situation, since you only bought the subscription for those channels anyway? Or, since you can still watch HGTV and the 24-hour Oprah Channel...well, I think you get my wordy metaphor.

It's just a shame that LIVE is having so many problems during a time when people can actually play (with plenty of newly gifted games to boot.)

This sounds interesting, but I doubt they'll do anything too drastic.

That last part is the truth though. They had a chance to make a real impression over the last couple of weeks, but they kinda dropped the ball.

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