Update 2: According to Major Nelson's Twitter and various reports from readers, Xbox Live is back online. Again, we'd warn you to expect some rolling restarts as millions of gamers attempt to reconnect. "The storm has passed," Major wrote. "Back to Live you all go." Well, then? Go!
Update 1: Looks like Xbox Live and Xbox.com have gone down again. According to the Xbox.com support page, Microsoft is aware of the issue and is currently working on a solution.
Update 1: Looks like Xbox Live and Xbox.com have gone down again. According to the Xbox.com support page, Microsoft is aware of the issue and is currently working on a solution.
Xbox.com also appears to be having issues as it is not displaying player profiles and is loading pages slowly. Currently, Xbox.com's support page does not list the service is experiencing any issues other than TruSkill and EXP rewarding problems associated with Halo 3. We'll keep you posted as details come in.
Original Update: According to the Xbox Technical Support phone line Xbox Live is experiencing network issues that are keeping some customers from accessing the service. Microsoft is aware of the issue and is currently working on it and recommends users attempt to reconnect in one hour. Don't shoot the messenger.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
10-01-2008 @ 12:02AM
Conner said...
This is bull****. I wanna play xbox!
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10-01-2008 @ 1:37AM
halo 3 sucks. said...
i finnaly get the thing to work, and halfway through a song on guitar hero, live goes down again. i score 287k on sweet child o mine, my new high, and its not gonna be on the leaderboards. awesome.
10-01-2008 @ 12:04AM
btfosho said...
was playing UNO and it went down. I checked x3f and saw no posts. I was scared
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10-01-2008 @ 12:05AM
Sylvanus said...
holy crap, i thought it was just me! I tried calling the support and their phone line is down. I was definitely freaking out. Thank goodness you guys are here. Here in the bay area, CA I got signed out of xbox live in the middle of a game. sucks!
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10-01-2008 @ 11:54AM
Alex said...
It's just like 28 Days Later...
10-01-2008 @ 12:06AM
Angel said...
I knew it wasn't just me... for a second, I thought I was banned. Kept asking myself "why would xbox ban little o' me?"
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10-01-2008 @ 12:06AM
btfosho said...
I'm reallll sad
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10-01-2008 @ 12:07AM
rTwelve said...
This is so fun to watch on twitter
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=xbox+live
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=majornelson
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10-01-2008 @ 12:08AM
wa27 said...
WEB2.0
10-01-2008 @ 12:09AM
rTwelve said...
I KNO RITE
also, truskill/exp started working for me just before i dropped.
10-01-2008 @ 12:08AM
Josh said...
First you deprive me from Rock Band DLC now this! You are making me so angry! I hate to be a prick and say they need to compensate but they def. got some splaining to do.
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10-01-2008 @ 12:08AM
JonDiesel said...
Here's hoping for surprise NXE update release!
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10-01-2008 @ 12:10AM
krellish said...
Yeah, they better give us something good for our troubles (free XBLA game anyone? undertow didn't do it for me..)
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10-01-2008 @ 12:10AM
TC AZZ said...
OMG We have our XBL COD 4 Competitions Finals sponsored by Activison tonight in Australia worth $4000 and this bullshit happens
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10-01-2008 @ 12:11AM
mernmern said...
Xboxlive = The new crack.
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10-01-2008 @ 12:12AM
Logan T. said...
Me and my friends were an hour and a half into the Halo 3 Vidmaster: Annual acheivement and about 10 minutes away from finishing when Xbox Live went down!
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10-01-2008 @ 1:42PM
Chance Morgan said...
We finished our ghost run about 15 minutes before it went down. Damn good fun...I would do it again to help my other buddies any time.
10-01-2008 @ 12:13AM
Cyantre said...
Xbox Live just can't handle the awesomeness that is Mega Man 9. =P
(I hope it's added to the download catalog when Live goes back online.)
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10-01-2008 @ 12:15AM
Xoviet chiK said...
I'll take Rockman 9 as my free game please!
War World will also suffice.
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10-01-2008 @ 12:21AM
KenC said...
Seriously this is Last winter all over again..... Huge update that takes it down all day (even after they state that will never happen again) then it goes back up part of LIVE are hosed then on and off LIVE continues to go up and down. I'll take the NXE as comensation Microsoft thank you very much!
My indication something was not right is that my amount of points shown was "...." instead of the 1700+ I actually have...
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