XBL gone down?

[Dirty Sanchez]

You just know the compensation is going to be one of the original Arcade games. Not even something good, but one of the real crap ones.

Bonus for me is that I've not had my 360 on to notice, too busy with looking after relatives over Xmas, cooking, eating etc.

[RuBiQ]

I hope this compensation they are talking about is something decent, a good load of points would be nice.

what compensation is this ?

[ChrisF]

They should give everyone 24hrs to download as much as they can from the store (for free).

[Space Monkey]

Yeah, that would be a good test for there servers too

what compensation is this ?

I saw this mentioned on xbox-scene

http://www.thebitbag.com/index.php/2007/12/31/microsoft-taking-care-of-its-gold-members-after-last-weeks-live-outage/

[EvilBoris]

They should give everyone 24hrs to download as much as they can from the store (for free).

Imagine the Irony when the servers break from all the traffic though

[Red Hogg]

Rez HD for free will suffice.

[MikeF]

fixed my arse, both CoD and Halo were playing up big style again tonight.

lost count of the number of times by dash and blades froze

[Spatial]

Same here. Dash and blade lockup's aplenty until about 00.00 when it was much more steady

Quick check of Major Nelson says there's still problems (no ****) and they're working on it.

[ezee ryder]

Taken from MajorNelson.com

As many of you know, I have keeping you up to date on the status of Xbox LIVE. Here is an official message from Marc Whitten (Notwen) GM of Xbox LIVE on where we are and what we are going to do. Again, thanks for your patience.

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

Free XBLA game, not bad compensation, hope the free game is actually a decent one.

[bignige]

let's hope it's Yaris 2!

[watusi]

hope its a new release rather than some old crap that most of us already have!

[TEENWOLF]

Free title is bound to be something they've reduced already, Frogger or Bankshot Billiards etc

They should give us a choice out of any of them or refund everyone Live points to spend on what they want.
What if it's a title I've already purchased? Im still having to put up with the wanky Live service at the minute for nothing.
It's been a week or so since Ive even been able to play an online game of anything.

Bah!

[ChrisF]

Silver members are getting the free download as well apparently.

[capcom_suicide]

According to the MN podcast everything is now fixed.

Is this correct? Are the issues that we had all the way to 23.30 last night fixed? Or was this podcast made before, and they weren't aware of the issues?

Seriously pissed off now. They can keep their Arcade game, I just want XBL to work.

[MartyG]

Taken from MajorNelson.com

Free XBLA game, not bad compensation, hope the free game is actually a decent one.

You know it's not going to be anything more than 400 points and something no-one is buying - I predicted "New Rally X" back in post #120