If you're having trouble signing onto Xbox Live, you are not alone. Microsoft is aware of the issue and is "actively investigating," according to the official Xbox Support Twitter account. The Xbox Live status page notes that users may have trouble signing into Xbox Live via Xbox.com, though we've experienced the same issue when logging in via the Xbox 360 itself.
Update Service is back up and running according to official Xbox service website.
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matchmaking is working though! so you can connect with...... no one.
Grammar Nazi mode off.
Look at that, only a few hours!
They fixed it faster than some other companies take their service down for maintenance. Heck, they fixed it faster than Amazon EC2 (cloud) fixes their outage for their enterprise ready service. The one that Netflix uses for their excellent streaming service!
That is why I love Xbox Live, they report issues, both on their website and the twitter page even if it only affects a small subset of people.
When XBL do maintenance, I don't even know, because the servers don't need to be taken down so you don't hear that XBL has a scheduled maintenance. It just happens in the background!
Heck, even the patches are done on the fly as in I don't have to log out or restart the game. The patch is downloaded and applied while my game is running and I'm good to go within a minute!
No large, slow downloads or game restarts.
Way too obvious.
Trying to hard again.
A spelling mistake is not grammar.
"the study of the classes of words, their inflections, and their functions and relations in the sentence"
NOT THEIR SPELLING LOL
Teacher Mode OFF!!
Confusing Effect and Affect is not a spelling error. It's a grammar error, same as "there, their, they're".
They were using the wrong word, if they had put "Efect", then you could call it a spelling error.
And of course on N4G, the Sony fanboys flooded to this post because it was a negative for Xbox
Saying N4G is full of PS3 fanboys is so 2009, get over it bro.
Whether you pay for it or not, it just sucks that you can't play when you want to. $hit happens, so it's too early to flame. I just hope it's back on soon since I actually have free time today.
You know how the internet is N4G at least is they see something bad about MS and the Xbox and everyone tries to jump on the band wagon claiming it happened to them too.
You can go back to your PSN if you think it is a better service. We won't miss you.
@optimus:
"One time, my internet was down and i made the mistake of saving my game in the cloud."
on XBL, the cloud saves are saved locally on your hard drive so you shouldn't have any issues when your internet goes down. The only time it is a problem is when you run out of the 512MB of space allocated to cloud saves, then some saves get deleted to save space for your more recent games.
wow, fanboy much ? :)
it's not better (except real servers vs uggly p2p), it's the same thing...but free ! (so most of smart gamers are already using it)
Microsoft and some users are reporting issues with Xbox Live but it's all a load of rubbish because YOU can log in!
The denial of some people on N4G astounds me!
Tell me what would you call it if you couldn't sign in? Jeez! Instead of getting defensive over the title, try reading the article itself!
And you know this how? Thats right. You don't! You think I don't because I said something bad against MS! Grow up! Not everyone has blind love for companies like some here do.
Either way I couldn't care less. Xbox Live is now back up for me so I'm off to play some Gears 3 online.
You know, you could have told him that without the personal attacks.
No matter if you pay or if its free it will go down eventually
...and totally missed his point. Unless you're one of those trolls on the 'psn maintenaince' articles, you shouldn't have to be offended, since it's directed at specifically those bias bums.
My workaround was 3G tethering, lol.
A paid for service should never go down because of traffic. That would be the worst thing ever as it's not an uncontrollable outside source.
this is the end!
When will the trolling end?!?!
"Wow, Lost Odyssey huh? That game garnished 6's and 7's galore. PS3 got Demon's Souls and 360 got Lost Odyssey, wow LOL...No wonder COD is pretty much the only game played on LIve. If those were my choices I would only play COD too. What a joke the XBOX 360 is."
"Really, because LA Noire runs better on PS3 and it isn't four discs like 360 version, it's one disc you fucking troll. There's plenty of other multiplats that look better on PS3 and don't screen tear like hell, latest would be Prototype 2 and Dragon's Dogma, so troll harder. Nice try though..."
"No screen tearing to be found here in PS3 version unlike the 360 version which is absolutely full of screen tearing, it's everywhere."
"Ummm, no. MGS4 has plenty of varied gameplay with fairly challenging boss battles. Please don't talk like you played it when you most certainly didn't. Oh, and MGS4 got a 10 over at IGN, what 360 exclusive have they awarded a perfect score to again?? Oh wait...."
"Fitness for the 360 crowd?? Yea....ok, good luck with those slobs LOL"
"Yup, SONY screwed up bigtime by not making this beautiful rpg exclusive to PS3."
You claim you own a 360 and pay for Live. In reality, you're a little boy that can't convince mommy to pay for Live. Please get out of N4G.
Bahahahahahaha! Troll harder tool.
OHHH!!!! It's XBox LIVE that's down. No one makes a big deal out of it when that happens. Figures...
http://n4g.com/
We looking at the same frontpage? And while you're looking for it. lemme know how much of the "bad news" hot topics are SONY related.
This kinda sucks, but hopefully it'll be up and running soon enough.
I think I get a weird feeling like people here actually want Xbox Live to get hacked or be down for an extended period of time just to prove a point or something.
In the seven years I've had Xbox Live I've never had a single issue, there is hardly even any type of maintenance down time.
I still got the free game though, so I cant complain. So basically your confirming what I said, Xbox Live rarely, if ever has problems.
This has to do with the log in servers not the market place. And not everyone is even having issue.
fair is fair live is down and that sucks and it sucks when psn goes down but if one can be slammed for said problem so can the other.
imo sucks even more when you pay for it. not knocking xbox cause i pay for psn plus and think it makes me madder now when it goes down.