Rumor: Microsoft 'doing something' for inconvenienced XBL members

I can't even log in to my profile because it is tied to my Live account...is there some way around this?

I can understand that stuff breaks sometimes, but a paid service should be reliable, and this has been about a week for me...all I want is for this to be fixed and some sort of explanation for what is going on. Come on, can they just tell us that a server went down, or they were putting new code, or something? I can't stand the "We're working on it" deal when they won't even say what "it" is...

I want a reunion tour of The Refreshments. It's fun to want things.

I don't WANT, I NEED MORE COWBELL!

I bet you voted for the last one :D

I did actually, but mostly because none of the others fit. I spent like 90 minutes playing Rock Band on PS3 online today. I've been playing some 360 too (PGR4), but not online. In general, I don't play a lot of online on 360 unless my friends want to play because the average person on Live seems to be rather an asshole.

Just curious, why did you pick Rock Band on PS3 over 360? With the controller fiasco I'd surely think the 360 had the advantage.

Yeah XBL users are a great bunch arn't they?

I bought it before the controller fiasco surfaced (the one about GH3 guitars not working). But regardless, I wouldn't care anyway. I didn't have GH2 for 360 and I sold my GH3 rig because GH3 sucked and the guitar is poop next to the RB Strat. I have two SGs (PS2 GH1 guitars) which I was told would work on RB for PS3 with a USB adapter. I have the adapter and they don't work. That kinda stinks. F Activision.

I am currently buying all games that are equally good on both on the PS3 instead of the 360 because the PS3 is more reliable (my 360 died in November 2006 and again in November 2007 each time being away for a month), I don't like paying for games and then not being able to play them because my console is broken. Also, the PS3 is a lot quieter, the 360 helicopter noise drives me nuts. Additionally, I polled all my friends who had consoles and most of my PS3 friends planned on buying Rock Band, so I bought Rock Band so I could play with them. Later one of my friends with both consoles decided to get Rock Band too and I convinced him to buy it for PS3 also since he already knew 3 people who had it for PS3 and none on 360.

I'm currently trying to buy all games that are equally good on PS3 instead of 360 (due to the reliability and noise), but honestly, this hasn't come into play in many games yet! Most aren't as good on PS3 as on 360, and I didn't buy Assassin's Creed or COD4, nor do I expect to get Burnout Paradise (in a rare case, the demo convinced me not to buy a game I was sure to buy before). I kinda think I'll get DMC4, that'll probably be on PS3.

Oh, one more. I bought DiRT on PS3 instead of 360 because the 360 only has one driving wheel of note and it is crap, while on the PS3 I can use my GT4 wheel or my (awesome) G25. DiRT isn't the best example of this, since it isn't much of a huge wheel game. But I'll prefer to buy driving games on PS3 over 360 because of this. MS is driving me up a wall with their proprietary controller strategy lately, kinda ironic they ended up in the better position on Rock Band vis-a-vis controllers.

tl;dr :)

Well it sounds like you more than justified the purchase of a PS3, I don't mind people owning them except when they toot their horn saying all the other consoles suck.

I have a friend who happened upon a high end gaming PC, someone needed some money I guess, so instead of a 360 he opted for the PS3 and recently got a Wii so he has all his bases covered.

LS2/7: You just said you don't play online much anyways... and have been playing Rock Band on PS3... then why are you complaining so much about Live being down? ;) So not only do you complain about something 360 related on this article (which would be justified) and admit to not playing online much at all anyways, you also praise the PS3. Typical fanboy tactics.

They can remove the goddamn ads while they are at it!
And gimme a free XBL game bitches! I am suffering here! (heh heh)

I hear ya dude. What is really great is that my shoddy repaired Xbox started screwing up for a while now and I finally have time to play online because of the holidays. Well Xbox live screws up and my 360 gets the RROD again. Well sending my 4th xbox in, along with a bomb and gonna go buy an Elite I think.

Don't buy an elite. The RROD issues come from the overheating GPUs. Since even the Elites still have .90 GPUs, the solution isnt truly there yet. Wait for the .64 GPUs. That's what I'm doing. I gave up on my fifth 360, sold it to a friend. He's since sent it in an additional 2 times...

The problem with the 360 isn't really overheating, it's incompetent design. PS3 generates more heat than 360 and doesn't frag itself.

As such, you can guess that MS perhaps fixed the problem even on the later 90nm models, perhaps they only fixed it with the 65nm chips or perhaps they still can't find their ass with two hands and a map. Take your pick.

Sadly, having had a 360 since day one, and having MS said in fall 2006 that they had fixed the problem, then watching them ship at least 5M more with the same problem after that I can't believe a word they say. My latest replacement model is noisier than either of my previous two and has a messed up optical drive, so I don't place a lot of stock in MS' competence right now.

Yeah, from the Dashboard, press A on your gamertag, select "Profile management", select "Account Type", change stuff there.

Your a hero, thanks!

Have some cake.....

The cake is a lie.

(Even more fitting since I just beat Portal)

My forth one went out on me right after Christmas. Boy what a holly jolly christmas this one has been. Talking to people from India who could care less about the customer.

as fickle as gamers are...

MS will just add a week of service, a free 400 MS points or something comparable to the time lost and everyone will forget this all happend...we gamers have the same disposable attention spans that 14 yr old teenage girls have for pop music. for better or worse.

look at the halo 3 beta...look how quickly people stopped caring about the 1-day lag for crackdown players when MS/bungie added a week to the beta.

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I know, lol. It's just sorta a joke between me and a friend.

Ack, forgot to confirm this at the time I posted. 3 hours later, smooth sailing. We jinxed it.