Conundrum: Xbox Live tops 2 million simultaneous users

by Richard Mitchell { Nov 12th 2009 at 8:05PM }

In a positively baffling announcement, Microsoft's Major Nelson has tweeted that Xbox Live has reached a new record: Two million simultaneous users. That means two million people were logged into Xbox Live at the same time earlier today. The puzzling question is this: What in the world could have possibly driven so many people to sign synchronously onto Xbox Live? We can only assume that people are taking part in some seriously heated matches of Dragon Ball: Raging Blast. Barring that, it could be that the Final Fantasy XI Ultimate Collection has brought thousands back into the fold.

We just don't know what else it could be.

Tags: culture, microsoft, records, xbox-360, xbox-live

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Aurailious @ Nov 12th 2009 8:08PM

I was a part of this group. Am I proud? Probably not.

iluvmyzune @ Nov 12th 2009 8:23PM

me 2

Cody @ Nov 12th 2009 9:43PM

2 million simultaneous losers.....

LUUULLLZZZ!!!!1!!1ROFLOMGLMAOOOOOOOOOO

Levi @ Nov 13th 2009 12:01AM

they hit a milestone despite banning over a million of it's users just a few days ago??

salmoncannon @ Nov 13th 2009 12:26AM

This hasn't happened before? I thought this was an honest post about how baffling this is. Because I know I've been playing Halo 3 matchmaking before with well over 1,000,000 other people playing it. I guess no one plays anything besides Halo and Call of Duty.

Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith-ATDF Co-Founder @ Nov 12th 2009 8:08PM

Wow, that sounds...LIVEly...

Bobby Kotick - Co-Founder of the ATDF @ Nov 12th 2009 8:10PM

Boo.

james @ Nov 12th 2009 8:11PM

puns are fun

Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith-ATDF Co-Founder @ Nov 12th 2009 8:12PM

Oh, that's rich. Bobby Kotick is critisizing MY jokes...

CheeziePotato (ATDF's Super Saiyan) @ Nov 12th 2009 8:08PM

Please don't say the name of the game, people. We all know what it is.

Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith-ATDF Co-Founder @ Nov 12th 2009 8:10PM

Star Wars The Clone Wars: Republic Heroes?

Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith-ATDF Co-Founder @ Nov 12th 2009 8:11PM

Cheezy, you gotta get rid of the (') in your username...otherwise, we can't reply to you.

Vcize @ Nov 12th 2009 8:13PM

Seriously, who QA'd this stuff? Apostrophes are one of the first things you're supposed to test with web development.

CheeziePotato (Super Saiyan of the ATDF) @ Nov 12th 2009 8:14PM

Fixed it

Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith-ATDF Co-Founder @ Nov 12th 2009 8:15PM

Apparently, it's a Javascript error.

Java sucks, so it's almost expected.

Quiggy @ Nov 12th 2009 8:21PM

Javascript and Java are completely unrelated. No comment on the level of suckage of either one, I use C++ primarily.

Ashitaka @ Nov 12th 2009 8:40PM

NERD FIGHT! (I'm in the second year of my... I don't know how to say it in English. Computer university course? Oh well, you'll get it :P).

Anyway... PYTHON >>> ALL xD

Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith-ATDF Co-Founder @ Nov 12th 2009 8:42PM

I think my coding guy uses Perl. He likes that one better.

Choke A Smurf @ Nov 12th 2009 8:10PM

Dragon Ball Raging Blast. They already said it.

nofriendo @ Nov 12th 2009 8:12PM

I think its because of this little game called Call of Duty 2. A World War 2 shooter that has seemed to rekindle interest since the 360's launch.

I could see this franchise growing into a third maybe fourth installment for World War 2 enthusiast.

Annoying Poster @ Nov 12th 2009 8:22PM

and the crowd goes: assssshollleee, assssshollleee, assssshollleee

iSwarm @ Nov 12th 2009 8:12PM

No it is Borderlands

Mazrael @ Nov 12th 2009 8:12PM

for the past 11 hours.. I've been playing Dragon Age..

tmacairjordan87 @ Nov 12th 2009 8:13PM

Glad to see so many people, many of them being casuals, playing a great game in huge numbers for once. You know it's good if it's actually got me playing multiplayer :P

Cody @ Nov 12th 2009 9:44PM

"many of them being casuals,"

FALSE.

The Baron @ Nov 12th 2009 9:48PM

I don't even know what casual and hardcore mean anymore. Lonely housewives are casuals, and nerds are hardcore, right? So where do fratboys fit in, or is it more of a spectrum?

tmacairjordan87 @ Nov 12th 2009 9:51PM

Frat boys are casuals because they mostly just play shooters (and only online, no single player even!), racers, and sports games.

And cody, I believe I saw you at the MW2 launch. You were that 16 year old wigger in G-Unit clothes doing burnouts in the parking lot in your 1995 beat up Taurus.

Cody @ Nov 12th 2009 9:58PM

sigh...

tmac: you live with your parents. You are a child. Your opinion in regards of anything and everything in this world until otherwise are null and void. Your assumption that I am a "wigger" (whatever that means) falls upon deaf ears

I make and earn my own money; you ask your parents for "allowance". Enough said.

tmacairjordan87 @ Nov 12th 2009 10:31PM

Since we're going to copy and paste comments:

Hey douchebag, I earn my own money and pay rent. I'd live on my own if I wasn't going to college, and unlike you my mommy didn't pay to get me into UF so I could waste my time learning how to "make hip hop" music.

Yeah, real good use of your parents money there. You're a 25 year old poser wigger, which was kinda funny back in high school but it looks really bad for someone your age. You can't hide it either, because most of us have seen your myspace.

You're a 25 year old (supposed) adult, still pretending to be black. Let that sink in for a bit.

Marius Returns @ Nov 12th 2009 8:17PM

is it Modern Warfare 2

Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith-ATDF Co-Founder @ Nov 12th 2009 8:18PM

NO! Don't say it!

You C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!

Bobby Kotick - Co-Founder of the ATDF @ Nov 12th 2009 8:18PM

I see you clicked the link at the end, Capt. Obvious.

Phix @ Nov 12th 2009 8:19PM

NOOOO!

I'M MELLLTTIIING!!!!

CheeziePotato (Super Saiyan of the ATDF) @ Nov 12th 2009 8:19PM

Goddammit Marius

Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith-ATDF Co-Founder @ Nov 12th 2009 8:21PM

And he's not trolling, so the ATDF can't even attack him! Damn!

Mike @ Nov 12th 2009 8:21PM

Bible Navigator X?

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/12/extreme-bible-reading-app-coming-to-xbox-360/

Farseye21 @ Nov 12th 2009 9:52PM

Yes, I believe Jesus made everyone log in simultaneously because of Bible Navigator X!

Whocares @ Nov 13th 2009 4:50PM

To feed the money to the evil beast that is microsoft!

Baanu_Rass @ Nov 12th 2009 8:27PM

I have a tendency to leave my Xbox on for no reason. Typically at the results page in Rock Band. I hope I contributed to that number by doing nothing.

Caveman @ Nov 12th 2009 8:28PM

I wish I was online today to be apart of that.

URM0MLIK3SME @ Nov 12th 2009 8:43PM

Haha almost got me there!!! There were no 360's in the stone age. Your good but not good enough apparently...

Go back to doing your transvestite lizard commercials!!!

Bane @ Nov 12th 2009 8:29PM

Everyone bought Band Hero so they can get their Taylor Swift on.

Marius Returns @ Nov 12th 2009 8:30PM

I really want that game

Bobby Kotick - Co-Founder of the ATDF @ Nov 12th 2009 8:31PM

You would.

Darth Bradwart, The Dark Lord of the Sith-ATDF Co-Founder @ Nov 12th 2009 8:32PM

Funny...the shelves in the stores I've been to are crammed with unsold Band Hero boxes...

Electro Poof - ATDF Secret Agent. @ Nov 12th 2009 8:43PM

Bane, I'm really happy for you, and Imma let you finish, but...

Aww fuck it! Its not funny anymore.

finnith @ Nov 12th 2009 9:24PM

It was funny once, maybe twice.

FireFighter214 @ Nov 12th 2009 8:33PM

I was logged in today, but I was playing Dragon Age: Origins.

Cal @ Nov 13th 2009 9:44AM

I wasn't logged in, but I was playing that, albeit on PC

Ben @ Nov 12th 2009 8:35PM

I wasn't part of it, been at work all day. Now i feel left out :(

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