Microsoft will remain tight-lipped on XBL status thanks to lawsuit

Xboxic, January 13th, 2008:

Major Nelson, on his weekly podcast, has revealed exactly why nothing has been said for a while about the Xbox Live issues that remain. Thanks to the lawsuit filed in Texas, it means Microsoft can no longer update users on the situation due to legal issues.

[Nameless]

Lawsuit or no lawsuit Microsoft would have told us nothing. This lawsuit is just making it easier for Microsoft.

[wageslave]

This is a nonsense article. There are two things at issue here:

1) Is the service running, without problem at present? Yes. And, you can goto the Status page to see this.

and

2) What were the issues around the holiday? They've already told us some information, but BECAUSE of the LAWSUIT, they wont tell us more.. im cool with that, its in the past.

Now, we are talking about #2, not #1.

*AND* the system has been running flawlessly, this "issues that remain" is inaccurate, that suggests the PRESENT TENSE, which is INACCURATE.

Why? #1 hasnt change -- goto the status page and see that yourself.

This is silly.

[drewdrakes]

But guess what, they cant tell us anything about our free game until the lawsuit is over, which is why this sucks...

[Hannah Montana]

Lamest excuse in the history of gaming!

@ below: here we call it the goods and services act. Look it up.
I'm sure you have it in the states. It's called the consumer protection bill.

[jaja1434]

A legal reason is the worst in history?

[BloodySinner]

Damn.

[werdb]

am i the only person on xbox live not having any problems? my live is working fine and has been

[Bathyj]

You must be. But I'm sure all the Bot crew who I dont need to name claim they are also having no problems. Just like they all claim they've never had RROD yet most of them have 2 or 3 Xb's for some reason. Bizzare.

[WilliamRLBaker]

never had one problem. sept for a down time of like 5 minutes.

[Blademask]

Or it could be, a majority of xbl users are having severe issues.

[Bathyj]

Ha, see?

PS
Dont get me wrong, I should say I'm happy for you that you have no problems, and I wish you no ill feeling.

[Rocko]

Just more droid FUD.

[wageslave]

No, Ive not had a problem yet. Nor my friends / family. My nephew created his Xbox LIVE account without issue on Dec. 25th.

No troubles.

Nor are their any at all right now:

"Xbox LIVE Service Status
Status:

Up and running."

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/s...

[AlexQuevedo]

I haven't had any real problems either, save for one voice message one (it didn't send the actual recording). Other than that, I've downloaded songs for Rock Band and I've played lag-free games online (and no quit outs, luckily)

[prowiew]

This last week I had no problems signing or playing live, but sometimes it acts a little strage. But in December it was a mess. I couldnt play halo3 nor call of duty 4. Sometimes I couldnt sign in to live.

[dantesparda]

Um D!ckheads! MS themselves has said there is a problem. Wow! you people are just so delusional, that you's dont even wanna hear it when you master, MS, even says so. I've had intermittent problems, where it keeps logging in and out, my roommate had his friend list page all blanked out, and my friend was also having a hard time getting in too, and he was making a new account (he just bought the 360 of my other friend, he really wanted a PS3 but since my friend was giving him such a good offer, he couldnt refuse)

But you 360 fanboys are a sick bunch who deserve exactly what you's are getting. That's right keep denying everything. So that the problems will keep presisting.

And this is coming from a 360 owner (who's on his 3rd replacement, that's been freezing up and disc read erroring since i got it)

[Whoooop]

Xbox 360 is falling apart piece by piece.

[BLUR111]

yea so is your life whooooooooop

[Bathyj]

M$ had one of their janitors (probably Mart) file a lawsuit for 20 bucks so they dont have to talk about it. It all seems very convenient.

[v1c1ous]

how much is sony paying you to frequent n4g?

[Bathyj]

Nothin', I do it for Luv. ;)

[v1c1ous]

don't see many of those in this site

/sarcasm

[Bathyj]

I'm a fan, not a fanboy. I like my Xbox too, I just dont like M$ much or how they treat their customers/competitors or anyone for that matter. They're just bullies with money to me. Oh well, each to his own.

[FunnyBone]

The Sony Trolls are out ...
Hide your children...

[ichimaru]

i don't agree that that microsoft isn't dealing with the probelm. i mean honestly how many of you could fix a server problem while being flooded by user contiuously trying trying to sign on. however i think the better fix it soon becuase this isn't fair to te consumer. and please give something like micropoints for compensation.

[BLUR111]

wow ps3 needs mgs 4 bad or something so these losers will get off this site thats why this ng4 beta is flooded with sony and bluray fanboys they have nothing better to do

[ReBurn]

All I know is that I'm not paying another dime for Xbox Live until they get this worked out. I have the free month that they sent me with my repair that I won't use until I know that I can use it.

[AllroundGamer]

it just keeps getting better and better... could 2008 really mean the beginning of an end for xbox?

[caffman]

wasn't 2007 supposed to be the beginning of the end for xbox?

[Darkiewonder]

Just wondering.

[The_Engineer]

how certain posters lash out at people personally with insults for discussing a real issue.

[Rocko]

GTFO.

[wageslave]

What "real issue"? Their is NOTHING wrong with the service.

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/s...

"Xbox LIVE Service Status
Status: Up and running."

Get it?

This is a NON STORY. The story is this: "MS, because of a lawsuit, cannot tell us more about what happened at Xmass."

This is IN THE PAST.

[Kyur4ThePain]

Here,

http://forums.xbox.com/1/17...

Read through all 154 (at present) pages and tell yourself again there is no real issue.

[kevin1122]

you are seriously retarded, people are having issues and you want to stick up for a major corporation. I mean come on.

[Hagaf22]

...when gamers fight back... microsoft has got the hounds on there heels this time...

[pshizle]

today =)

[holdaway]

[I just dont like M$ much or how they treat their customers/competitors or anyone for that matter. They're just bullies with money to me.]
Sounds a bit like $ony to me. And Appl£. And guess what, just about any large corporation that's more interested in it's shareholders than in it's customers. So that'd be all of them then.