Xbox Live is experiencing a few problems with apps on the Xbox One while the Xbox 360 service undergoes maintenance.
The Xbox 360 launched in North America 18 years ago, and is now officially old enough to buy you a drink in Europe.
Great platform, and many of its games (not bc) still hold up well to this day. Like the PS3, I keep a 360 hooked up for those games you can't play any other way.
The last gasp of greatness from XBox, you are missed, except the RROD that was lame, but amazing exclusives until the Kinect dropped.
I really enjoyed my X360, some great exclusives on it. Used to play the shit out ot Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, two masterpieces
It's been 20 years to the day since Xbox Live brought online play to consoles.
I remember when Live turned five and they had special edition controllers made and everything. Kind of wished they would do that again for the 20th.
Happy Birthday. OG XBL (and later 360 XBL) really revolutionized online gaming on console.
Never understood the obsession with live...but I was gaming online on PC so not sure too much of what live did that the PlayStation didn't.
I had a PS2 and it's online experience was fine but it didn't have the same level of polish voice chat never worked for me but I was trying to play from Australia where not many people played PS2 online to the point where many devs simply dropped the online mode from the pal version.
That's not all PS2 games mind you there were plenty that worked perfectly but it was more on the dev and not the platform
During that era I also played a fairly large amount on online PC games and they were undoubtedly better than both systems. PS2 from functionality and Xbox because it was free
Playing my friends original Xbox it was a really polished experience it felt robust yet simple things just worked there was zero config.
Yeah but the time ps3 came the experience was the same on both based on what I played...not too much online though to be honest. But I do think that the xbox did help bring online into the console space a lot. As well as PC games to consoles.
Today would of been the perfect day to drop halo 2 the original bc version free on gwg.... If only
Xbox Live 1.0, the first instance of online servers for the original Xbox, is set to return via Insignia, a free third-party service that's currently compatible with 20 titles, such as Call of Duty: Finest Hour and Counter-Strike.
Lobbies, Matchmaking, Leaderboards, Voice Chat, Content Downloads, Friends Lists, all set to return
Halo 2 set to come later as it requires additional services to run online.
Beta sign ups available now with beta launch of 11/15/22. Certain features of XBL will roll out over the future.
So netflix, youtube and xbox fitness are down? That is a weird group of things to be down, they seem unrelated. Luckily, everything else is still fine, and netflix is working for me ok.
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This has been a weekly thing.
Things happen.
Love my consoles but man these issues should be a thing of the past.
Microsoft won't start monitoring less even though the Negative Nancy dramas are causing bad publicity due to that they're monitoring over 100+ apps individually.
Although I love how thorough and forward thinking that Microsoft is, I sometimes wish they'd only monitor essentials the way PSN does, that monitors 13 services rather than 100+ Apps individually that get prominently displayed at the top of Microsoft's status page "daily" when any one of those 100+ services has an issue (that may not even affect many people).
I've also noticed PSN doesn't report problems until they're undeniably problematic; however, I noticed that before they implemented their new status page... they may still do that though.
People also don't realize that sometimes ISPs have trouble even though the cloud provider does not. For example, because of routing problems, I saw a problem with Comcast not connecting to Intermedia's mail service (they're one of the largest Exchange services in the world that has one of the highest up-times). Although it could have seemed as if the problem was with Intermedia's service, it was just inevitable Internet routing issues (that lasted for 3 days, BTW)... by connecting to a VPN provider for gatewaying out somewhere else, it was possible to work around the routing problem.
I get the impression that Microsoft may often report service issues even when it is an Internet routing issue rather than a problem with their services directly. I think people report connectivity problems due to Internet routing issues that then causes Microsoft to report issues on their status page, and I think that's why many people claim they don't have any issues with the services that the status page shows is experiencing problems... because their routing is different than those affected.
Obviously, another problem is that imbeciles think it is "smart" to symbolize their selves as fLAMERS by being hard on the backend of "Ms" for Superiority OVER... lo(w)BOT(T)omizing a backend is always an act of an imbecile who is ignor(e)ant of how humiliated they should feel for causing that kind of drama (similar to being proud of Fing crap, AKA being a crap head). That sort of ignor(e)ance is caused from "lacking SENSE", such as not smelling what is under their nose or such as not noticing how that they're symbolically "sniffing for open backdoors to insert their code"... ALL such drama is symbolically bad in similar ways, such as "man in the middle attacks", etc.