Microsoft can't talk about Live's status

by Justin McElroy on Jan 14th 2008 1:30PM

Sometimes, news is just dumb. You can try to spice it up or cover it in jam, but it won't change anything. It'll just make the news all sticky. Take, for example, Major Nelson's recent revelation that Microsoft can't talk about Xbox Live's status thanks to a lawsuit currently pending in Texas. You know what that is? Dumb.

We're not even sure who the dumb party is, the legal system for gagging Microsoft, or Microsoft for not just buying Texas and settling this old school. Boy, first The Alamo and now this. Will Texas ever stop letting us down?

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Tags: lawsuits, major-nelson, microsoft, Xbox-360, xbox-live, xboxlive

Reader Comments (90)

Don't mess with Texas.

=)

Yeah, it's not nice to pick on the mentally challenged...

i kid, i keed

but seriously there is definitly something in the water down there... best leave them be...

i kid

Let's go Texas!!

Last 2 sentences should read
"Boy, first The Alamo, then Fernando, and now this. Will Texas ever stop letting us down?"

I never liked you before Fernando, but now that I know you're from Texas, I think your an alright guy. Keep representing the Lone Star State. (no sarcasm intended, I'm also from Texas)

How is any of this news? Microsoft never disclosed any reasons before why Live had problems other than to say "it was issue on top of issue". Now that the lawsuit is out, all it has done is prevent them from being vague to saying nothing at all.

Nothing on top of nothing is still nothing.

Its nice to see you live in Texas and are from Mexico, just like me, Fernando.
Go Texas!

OMFG -.-

:\

I agree acctually...

I havn't been able to get on XBL for a good month now, i still can't get on...

There's no basement in The Alamo!

Tell them large marge sent you.

This is just another strike against Texas, as far as I am concerned. I would be all for setting a string of charges off to release Texas from the American continent, and into the gulf as a huge island, but I don't think Mexico deserves to be the only country attached to it.

Texas rules dude!

Thats acctually outlawed by the Geniva Convention, it's cruel and Unusual Punishment :-P

I Kid

...says the Texan TF2 Engineer.

What's all the hate for Texas? Some of the biggest pioneers of games are from here.

I get the feeling this is going to turn into a bash texas thread REALLY quick :\

so i figured i'd apologize :-P

Texas is an important part of the united states.... and umm... after all our President is from there, and we all LOVE him...

I tried :(

Yeah, you tried... way too hard.

see, trying leads to failure. right ps3?

i kid!

ugh, Bad bush jokes. stop it.

WATCHING THE COLBERT REPORT DOES NOT MAKE YOU WITTY!!!

I think that´s the problem. If they stuck to oil beef and electronics, it would be alright. But they had to go and try to lead us somewhere and that´s where we all figured out just how upside down the lone star is.

As for the MS gag, thats just what happens with any lawsuit or investigation - they always shut up about it because anything they say can be used in the court of law blah blah blah. You know, Law & Order

I play Texas Hold em more than all other 360 games combined but it is broken now because of live. When Live crashed you lose. I sepnt years earining millions and now it crashed every single game. For the first time I hate my 360 and Live and wish PS3 had better games. Why can't they just fix it? This shows Microsofts (the software giant)incompetance more than anything they have ever done.

note to mexico: feel free to take texas back any time.

Thanks, but no thanks.

We've our own share of crazy people.

Don't forget California, that was a part of Mexico too.
You member? You memberrrrrr, member?

but texas is the one that's extremely fucked up, even more than dysfunctional california

Texas more disfunctional than California? You fail right there, man. Texas isn't the one who is trying to control people's thermostats and going bankrupt.

Eat a bag of dicks!!
Texas FTW!!

...

Texas FTL?

Kthxbai2u

oh, can I get a double order, please?

I think this is more about a vocal minority than a huge issue anymore. I think a huge chunk of the problems are resolved because for the past week I haven't had any issues with Live. In fact, just yesterday I was on the Burnout Paradise demo playing online with 7 other people. They're obviously fixing something.

I haven't had a problem in 2 weeks. I was actually under the impression that it was fixed already.

@baby sea tuna

Nope, still going on for a lot of us. I had issues all weekend. What sucks is every time I turn the 360 on it sits at a blank dash for quite along time trying to connect to Live. It does odd things too. For example, while it's trying to connect it will sometimes pop up the message telling me how many friends are online, but when it's finished trying to connect it will show that I'm not online. So apparently it was able to connect long enough to tell me how many friends were online, but this it disconnects.

If this keep up much longer MS is going to owe me more than 1 game. Thankfully PSN still works perfectly. I've mostly been playing Warhawk recently because Live has turned into such a turd.

they should try rebooting

JIGGLE THE CORD!!!!

NO, NO, CLEAN THE GUNK OUT OF THE MOUSE!

CTRL+Q!!!!

-_-

Why not just... umm... you know... get those engineers on it... you have those right? Guys that keep the service running? Why not, you know... make them work?

CTRL+ALT+DEL those servers.

ctrl+alt+delete? WTF, you mean the LIVE servers area bunch of DOS boxes? No wonder the damn things keep crashing. Maybe they forgot to add emm386.exe to the config.sys file?

It begs the question as to whether LIVE servers are Windows-based or Linux-based

I had the same problem too, I would turn on my xbox and it would tell me how many friends i had online but show I wasnt connected, I thought "Thats weird", so I put in Halo 3 and when the game loaded it said Bladev1 signed into xbox live. Havent had a problem since! so to every one having this issue just put in Halo 3, and if you dont have it, go buy it!

Ok Since my comment was ate, by joystiq, let me try again. I don't own an xbox360 so can't people with live service just cancel their accounts, rather than go through this law suit. I mean wouldn't massive amount of people canceling teach MS an even bigger lesson?

Good luck of going through the nightmare of canceling your LIVE account.

A lawsuit is a better path.

Where's the outrage for MS and the botched $50 service we're paying for? Damn near a month and XBL runs like crap...and this whole "10 million new XBL subscribers during the Holidays" excuse sounds like utter BS. Even if it was true, they know how many consoles are out on the streets. Prepare! If this were a free service or the outtage was only for a short time, I'd have a little more patience. But this situation has been going on for too long and now the lack of new info from Maj. Nelson imho is just a cop-out on MS's part. Frankly I don't think they know what has gone wrong...

I have no outrage because I have no outage. My Live works fine, as does that of all my friends (both around and away from my geographical area). It seems like the people who don't have it make noise about that and the people who do have it don't say anything cause we are off playing on it.

Luke - you do know that when you're asleep at night people on the other side of the world have daylight, right?

My point is, your experience may not be the same as someone else's... In particular, it sounds like your LIVE experience is still OK. But you can understand that others are experiencing trouble, no?

I'd like to think the reason why there is no outrage is because a majority have enough common sense to realize that shit happens, even if you pay for it. Luckily Live is working for me and I hope that everyone else who's suffering through this will be able to go back on live soon.

Can we return Microsoft as well?

I'm from Texas.

*braces for downvotes

My condolences.

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