Free Xbox Live Arcade Game Due To Network Troubles
Sunday, 6 January 2008 Posted at 02:35
Over the holiday seasons its been hard to miss how sucky Xbox live has been. Most days i couldn't even log in and when i did i got a slow and delayed service. The problem was worldwide and in a statement from Mark Whitten the Xbox Live general manager said:
"the problems with Xbox Live downtime were caused by an influx of new users who had gotten an Xbox 360 over the holidays. It's been a record-setting season for Xbox Live.
This included our largest sign-up of new members to Xbox Live in our 5 year history and just yesterday you broke the record for the single biggest day of concurrent members ever on the service"
Major Nelson the Xbox live guru quoted the problems were like "peeling an onion" So i guess layer upon layer of problems caused live to come crashing down for a long period of time.
Its quite unfair of the new users over the holiday who have been given a bad impression of live as the service is normal quite responsive and reliable. Microsoft have hit on that and there giving away a free xbox live arcade demo to all xbox live users both silver and gold accounts. They haven't said what the game will be yet nor when we can have it so keep checking and lets hope its a good on, a full price one at least.
