Major Nelson acknowledges Xbox Live connectivity issues

Yeah, so it seems to be affecting a lot of the new NXE'ers, me being one of them.

Now I can't even sign in? Whats up with that?

There are more people playing the 1 xbox 360 game gears of war 2 online in 1 day, than the total combinbed ps3 online users for LBP, Socom, and Resistance 2 in 1 day.
then you add all the other xbox 360 users playing halo 3, cod 4 & 5, etc.

IMO psn would crash if the amount of users were playing online that play on xbox live.
this happened last november too when so many people were play cod4 and halo 3 online.

I had a few sign-in problems on Friday, but none on Saturday.

:shrugs:

Simple answer, don't release half a gajillion uber-popular games with online capabilities within a week of each other, and completely overhaul the online service software within a period of one month.

i don't think live is a bad service, i just think basic online play should be free since it is a part of games you pay for along with internet service. all that extra stuff people gush over can stay part of gold memberships.

I haven't had any problems connecting and I played Gears 2 online yesterday for awhile without any issues.

If you can pay $60 for a Xbox 360 game, you can afford $49.99 a year for XBL.

So stop with the excuses. XBL isn't perfect, but I'd rather play games on a more realible network than a free one.

It would seem as if this connection issue to Live has become a ritual now around this time of the year.

This is actually one of the most ridiculous things ever to bitch about. I won't go into the whole 'is XBL worth paying for' argument, as it's perfectly acceptable for people to make their own judgments on what holds value FOR THEM, but no... I'm talking about the ridiculous 'GIVE ME MY MONEY BACK' mantra that some people always seem to scream when something like this happens, on average, maybe twice a year.
There is some sort of threshold where downtime becomes 'unacceptable' and 'refund worthy', but I assure you, XBL has never crossed said threshold.

'You pay for internet but your ISP has problems now and again' is a perfect example of this. Or a car, or ANYTHING overly complex that is impossible to protect from faulty hardware, acts of god or regular old 'peoples fuckups'. My internet regularly goes down or has issues of some sort. Hell, if I could keep my ISP issues down to twice a year, I'd be a happy camper.

But there's also a flip side to this. How do you know the issues they're having isn't THEIR ISP's issue? Microsoft doesn't own the internet and they rely on someone for their access just as much as the next guy. And yes, while generally any sort of business class connection will be much less susceptible to issues than your local 'consumer class' ISP, they aren't impervious to them. There are actually a handful of times that the T1's at our office (I'm a system admin for a local, medium sized business) have gone down due to COPPER THEFT. Not to mention the several times some random dude on a backhoe at a construction site didn't get the memo that there's 200+ strands of fiber buried in a pipe where's digging.

Trust me, shit happens. If it happens to you, it happens to them.
People need to chill and realize that the things you care about (and pay for) aren't any less susceptible to damage and downtime than anything else in life that breaks, normal people accept as 'shit happens', shrug, and move on from.

This seems to happen every time there is an update, or close to the holiday season. Not that I'm whining too much, I've been mostly offline with Fallout 3 and Silent Hill: Homecoming anyhow.

You guys think frequent disconnects for $50 a year is bad? Over the weekend, on World of Warcraft, there were 1000+ people queues, with a wait time of over an hours, to even log in. And us WoW freaks pay $15 a month.