In a move reminiscent of what happened on April 1 (twice in one month MS, for shame!), Microsoft has announced that Xbox Live will be down for maintenance. Only this time instead of going down for only three hours, the service is scheduled to be going down for eight hours. According to Major Nelson, everything will be down from 2am to 10am Pacific Time on April 21. That is a Monday, so traffic would likely have been a bit light, but this does mean that those with downloaded content from a previous console will not be able to access their games. Just so long as it's maintenance of the type that prevents any kind of the hitches the service has seen in its recent history, then it should be worth it. Well, at least we're forewarned.
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4-18-2008 @ 12:20AM
UNSCleric said...
Final prep for spring update/GTA IV.
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4-18-2008 @ 12:42AM
Jonah Falcon said...
Yeah, it's getting a few servers online for the massive GTA4 surge when everyone decides to check out MP first.
4-18-2008 @ 12:42AM
Jonah Falcon said...
Yeah, it's getting a few servers online for the massive GTA4 surge when everyone decides to check out MP first.
4-18-2008 @ 12:32AM
D Love23 said...
This had better address the Apple Time Capsule connectivity problem....I've been off of Live now for weeks while I've waited for a patch. I refuse to buy a bridge for this and running ethernet cable simply isn't an option as the 360 is on another floor from the router/modem. My online gaming has been forced to my PS3 and I hope that doesn't become permanent.
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4-18-2008 @ 11:19AM
Chris said...
I think that's Microsoft last priority to fix.
4-18-2008 @ 1:22AM
Riine said...
Prepping for the MGO Beta.
...kidding...
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4-18-2008 @ 2:16AM
Maci said...
haha my thoughts exactly. Well, perfect timing for me.
4-18-2008 @ 2:30AM
Kennii said...
wow my b-days on that day!
that sucks
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4-18-2008 @ 10:32AM
Grant said...
happy birthday!
mine too.
4-18-2008 @ 2:58AM
Bubs said...
Could it be preparing for spring update ?
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4-18-2008 @ 5:01AM
mattclarkie said...
Spring update anybody?
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4-18-2008 @ 6:38AM
AceNorton said...
If you downloaded the content on a console that was repaired, you can repair the licenses on all the DLC, which would allow you to play it during the outage. FYI.
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/systemuse/xbox360/account/postrepair.htm
~Ace
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4-18-2008 @ 8:22AM
peeweejd said...
yeah, but those of us whose disc drive broke and bought a new console rather than pay the $99 to get a ^*%*#$ing crappy used console back are screwed.
eventually everyone's consoles are going to be out of warranty... oh what fun the internets will be when that happens..
4-18-2008 @ 7:15AM
Boff said...
Well I just worked that times out for GMT and it's 6pm Sunday 20th until 2am Monday 21st.
Great. That's my Sunday night session out the window then.
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4-18-2008 @ 9:05AM
AL7AIR said...
You do realize that each time zone is adding an hour or a half towards Europe when starting in the US? So the maintenance starts at 10:00 UTC/GMT.
4-18-2008 @ 9:07AM
AL7AIR said...
Monday morning 10:00 that is ... so Xbox LIVE downtime from 10:00 to 18:00 GMT in Europe.
4-18-2008 @ 12:19PM
xenocidic said...
It starts at 11 PM EST on 4/20 ...
wtf are all the stoners gunna do without LIVE ?
4-18-2008 @ 12:21PM
xenocidic said...
oh, and GMT wise I think it's 05:00 to 13:00
not sure what you were talking about Boff
4-18-2008 @ 2:55PM
xenocidic said...
^^ sorry, that was way off. ^^
but it's still on monday and not sunday.
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=4&day=21&year=2008&hour=2&min=0&sec=0&p1=234
4-18-2008 @ 7:17AM
Sacredleader said...
That image is so awesome!
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