Yesterday Xbox Live was scheduled to go online at 1:00PM EST after an 8-hour hiatus for maintenance. However, like any guarantee, Xbox Live suffered from staggered connection issues well into the evening. According to the Xbox.com support page and Major Nelson, Xbox Live was back to business early this morning. Today, in a rare poll, we wonder what your experience is like. Fire up the Xbox 360 and connect to Live, play a game or two online and let us know what your experience is like now that the dust has settled on the connection problems.Poll: Xbox Live back in business, how is your experience?
Yesterday Xbox Live was scheduled to go online at 1:00PM EST after an 8-hour hiatus for maintenance. However, like any guarantee, Xbox Live suffered from staggered connection issues well into the evening. According to the Xbox.com support page and Major Nelson, Xbox Live was back to business early this morning. Today, in a rare poll, we wonder what your experience is like. Fire up the Xbox 360 and connect to Live, play a game or two online and let us know what your experience is like now that the dust has settled on the connection problems.
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4-22-2008 @ 3:36PM
ZEBRA NINER said...
Fine, just fine. Didn't have one issue.
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4-22-2008 @ 9:43PM
JerkfacedFed said...
Yea seriously, people make way too much of a big deal out of an hour or two of downtime. There are no problems, everything is and has been working perfectly since it came back up. The people submitting anything else are full of shit.
4-22-2008 @ 3:39PM
BorgDroNeZ said...
my only issues are with campers in Rainbow Six Vegas 2
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4-22-2008 @ 4:29PM
marklar said...
LOL, +1 for you
4-22-2008 @ 3:39PM
Ben said...
Played some COD4 MP this morning. Noticed a little lag, but only for a minute. Other than that, no problem.
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4-22-2008 @ 3:40PM
Jay900 said...
the last 2 days really haven't played anything so i never noticed lol. well just offline games nothing online
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4-22-2008 @ 3:41PM
Social Outlaw said...
Neither of mine is connecting correctly. Last night my Pro would connect but not my Elite, today neither is making a proper connection
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4-22-2008 @ 3:47PM
Chad C said...
last night my pro would fully load dashboard, but elite would load nothing, when my pro loaded up i couldent do ANY online gaming.
i went to bed, and now today, neither system will even load the dashboard correctly.
i dont know what the deal is, but i know that for the first 2 days ive had off work in 2 weeks, im really miffed i couldent game online whatsoever.
4-22-2008 @ 3:52PM
Social Outlaw said...
I spoke to customer service this morning and they had me recover my gamertag twice even though I told them it would work on one console and not the other. After spending close to 90 minutes on the phone the Rep spoke to his supervisor who said they are experiencing known issues they are working on. If you look in the forums on Xbox.com one person spoke to Rep who said the issues are known, global and random.
We'll see if it's better when I get home from school tonight.
4-22-2008 @ 3:48PM
Josh said...
Went home on lunch and played a few rounds of Halo, no problems at all. The new maps are awesome!
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4-22-2008 @ 3:57PM
xFenixKnightx said...
It's Tony the Tiger Grrrrrrrrreat!!!
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4-22-2008 @ 9:58PM
amart said...
... meh..
:P
4-22-2008 @ 4:02PM
Procris said...
I actually experienced 0 problems after the service went back up after maintenance yesterday. My friend had problems signing in, i myself did not. So yeah, its working great for me.
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4-22-2008 @ 4:04PM
Lewis said...
I happened to get ono around 1:03 PM ESt yesterday, and I recovered my friends gamertag around that time.
I expected issues to pop up but everything was fine and we played Rock Band normally.
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4-22-2008 @ 4:08PM
Muffin_man said...
I have had 0 problems with LIVE.
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4-22-2008 @ 4:11PM
andyg8180 said...
omg the new XBL dashboard is so 133t!!! i love the new spring update... everything runs so smoothly, and i've been playing rainbow 6 at 94fps... Now THIS is how they should have done the fall update last year!!
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4-22-2008 @ 5:18PM
Sacredleader said...
Your sarcasm is astounding. ;)
4-22-2008 @ 4:31PM
PWND said...
Another poll should be: "Did anyone actually have issues BEFORE this maintenance outage?"
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4-22-2008 @ 4:38PM
wickedpheonix said...
odds are that the people that did, do not read xbox360FANboy...
4-22-2008 @ 5:04PM
Randal said...
I haven't had a chance to see the update. After the little pre update patch on Friday my Xbox started locking up. It finally red ringed on Sunday.
My neighbor's died the same day too, but I'm not sure he is online.
It figures, I preordered GTA 4.