With yesterday's release of the Xbox 360 Fall Update, Xbox Live got hammered. No, not drinking hammered the kind of hammered that happens when millions of gamers clog Xbox Live's network causing all kinds of clunky things to happen. We confirmed with Major Nelson and his Xbox Live ops crew that there were Xbox Live network issues going on last night, but they've since been fixed and everything should be cleared up by now. So, know that it wasn't the Fall Update that was making your console and Xbox Live to act funny, it was simply Xbox Live getting hammered. Now go, enjoy and embrace your new Fall Update without a drunken Live dragging you down.Network strain, not the update caused Live to act up
With yesterday's release of the Xbox 360 Fall Update, Xbox Live got hammered. No, not drinking hammered the kind of hammered that happens when millions of gamers clog Xbox Live's network causing all kinds of clunky things to happen. We confirmed with Major Nelson and his Xbox Live ops crew that there were Xbox Live network issues going on last night, but they've since been fixed and everything should be cleared up by now. So, know that it wasn't the Fall Update that was making your console and Xbox Live to act funny, it was simply Xbox Live getting hammered. Now go, enjoy and embrace your new Fall Update without a drunken Live dragging you down.
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12-05-2007 @ 1:41PM
xenocidic said...
What about all the problems written about in this post?
http://forums.xbox.com/17126057/ShowPost.aspx
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12-05-2007 @ 1:45PM
TORO said...
Minor problems on my end, xbox guide would hang occasionally, but I believe it was all ironed out by the end of the night.
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12-05-2007 @ 1:50PM
dunnypop said...
yeah after restarting my 360 a couple of times, my friend and I realized it was a network issue, which fixed itself after a few hours. Then the system was running insanely fast.
the divx feature is pretty sweet. and the new dashboard is a bit more organized. Not a fan on how reliant the dashboard is to the Xbox network.
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12-05-2007 @ 1:56PM
Captn Apollo said...
Well the update bricked my system... and I think many others too.... can the 360 Fanboy boys (and girls) follow up with some info about the many Rings of Death the update caused? And why?? Please...
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12-05-2007 @ 2:06PM
Deezul said...
Great, it WAS Xbox Live's fault. So can Bungie restore any lost EXP from Halo 3 due to network issues? I got a DNF, as well as a few team members.
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12-05-2007 @ 2:07PM
phant0mgrave said...
Yeah my dashboard took forever to load...I was like WTF!
But I'm glad it's all better now.
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12-05-2007 @ 2:13PM
Josh said...
Everything went smooth for me, only took 10 seconds to download the update. Overall I think it was a great update with stuff that I'll actually use.
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12-05-2007 @ 2:21PM
todd said...
Not that much of a biggie to me but really what do we pay for ha, and they of all companies should be able to handle a load of traffic to their site. Bet it was their crap Windows server OS.
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12-05-2007 @ 2:47PM
alex said...
if only my xbox had actually been returned from repair, I would have got the update. 2 months next week ive been waiting. 2 months!
Captian appolo said, he got the RROD, I wish you luck in getting your system fixed, its a bloody nightmare. But hey, captian, BE NICE TO THE GUY OR GAL ON THE PHONE, because they are sending me a wirless controller, Kameo, and 6 months free gold live membership. Ofcourse I know that this is only a sweetener to keep me as a customer, afterall this will be my third xbox 360 since launch so I suppose its the least that they can do.
See you online around easter time captian appolo
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12-05-2007 @ 7:45PM
Captn Apollo said...
dude... I was nothing but nice, I know the lady on the other end wasn't at fault for my system RRODing. However all I got was one month of Live Gold out of the deal, probably to compensate for the month (hopefully) that I will be without my system. Too bad Christmas is ruined... oh well.
12-05-2007 @ 8:13PM
DjDATZ said...
WHAT?! I sent mine in for the 3rd time in august and all i got was the measly 1 month of free live card...next time i'm asking for more. fuck that shit. the only special treatment i got was a manager to handle my initial request, and some annoying bitch to call me every 2 days that she has no new news on the console...i ended up pulling a string from within and wow...magically...shit started moving. my console came back 1 day short of exactly a month of dying...
12-06-2007 @ 8:27AM
xenocidic said...
@apollo, the free 1 month is a standard gift for xboxen in for service. you have to beg/whine for anything more.
i wasn't able to get anything [more] out of them when mine was in for service, but i'll be more persistent if it ever goes in again.
12-05-2007 @ 2:49PM
BerZerker117 said...
Interesting.. I was wondering why it was taking over 10 minutes to load my dashboard when signed in on Live.
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12-05-2007 @ 2:53PM
dunnypop said...
I don't like the fact that the dashboard is so reliant to the network. if the network is down... you can't do anything on your dashboard.
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12-05-2007 @ 3:13PM
Jonah Falcon said...
Yeah, Microsoft must be upset there's TOO MANY people using Xbox Live. (grin)
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12-05-2007 @ 3:23PM
Nate said...
Free online services can crash, trash, and blow up, but when I pay for something, it better work. Microsoft is the king of selling things that don't really have customer service.
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12-05-2007 @ 3:27PM
Christopher Mitrione said...
HAHA. The MODS used Mac OS X Mail for that sticky!
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12-05-2007 @ 3:35PM
Chroma said...
Oh ya, I noticed this too.
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12-05-2007 @ 3:40PM
lothar said...
It wasn't a big deal even for my mere $50 a year geez your paying less than price for a game title for a years service that is down how many times? I'm pretty certain its up more than my ISP.
So I had to wait a little bit and there was some slowness, big deal. This update had the biggest feature that just about every 360 owner has asked for (DIVX) plus a whole lot more. Something to consider not everyone that has a live connected 360 goes straight into live and start downloading things immediately, well that is what this update did for all connected 360s but all at once. All the people getting home from work connected up and started downloading the update, then started checking things out streaming video previews, downloading the DIVX Codec, downloading new content, downloading the new music videos, downloading XBox classics.
It was the best Dashboard update period, everyone should be very happy. I am.
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12-05-2007 @ 4:03PM
geekinabox said...
Though I'm happy (enough) with the update, and though I'm patient and not overly affected by the problems that occurred, I'm still surprised that MS can't somehow isolate the network issues of distributing a new dash away from the core-functionality of XBL.
I do server IT for a living and we regularly dedicate separate infrastructure (network, servers, CDNs) for various purposes to isolate one piece from another. While I'm sure there are smart folks architecting the XBL infrastructure, sure sounds like they could do it better.
Oh, well ... nothing tests like production.
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