shadowprophet
January 19th, 2008, 00:11
During the holiday season most of us experienced Xbox live problems due to increased holiday traffic. To many this was a small issue. But to some, losing hard earned matches and rankings in leader boards due to lag was unacceptable.
MS made an announcement some weeks ago that they would be giving an xbox live arcade game to all gold and silver members as a method of amends to what microsoft called unacceptable performance.
The time has come and Microsoft has made its announcement on what XBLA game we will be getting for free.
Here is the full article followed by the update.
An Open Letter from Marc Whitten about Xbox LIVE this Holiday
Published January 3, 2008
Dear Xbox LIVE Members:
During this past holiday season you helped us break a number of Xbox LIVE records. 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.
As a result of this massive increase in usage we know that some of you experienced intermittent Xbox LIVE issues over the holiday break. While the service was not completely offline at any given time, we are disappointed in our performance. I would like to take this moment to thank each and every one of you for your patience and understanding as our team has worked around the clock to return the service to a stable state.
At the same time we would like to offer a token of our appreciation to all of you in celebration of record success for the service. And as a thank you for your loyalty during this holiday period, we will be offering all of our Xbox LIVE members around the world access to a full Xbox LIVE Arcade game that will be available to download free of charge. In the coming weeks we will be sharing the specific details of this offer with you.
Thank you again for helping make Xbox LIVE everything that it is today!
Sincerely,
Marc Whitten
General Manager, Xbox LIVE
Gamertag: Notwen
Updated January 18, 2008
We’re pleased to announce that from 2:00 a.m. PST Wednesday, January 23, 2008 through 11:59 p.m. PST, Sunday, January 27, 2008 you can download the full version of the recent Xbox LIVE Arcade game, Undertow free of charge.
undertow.. I've never played it, I know nothing about it. But free cant be a bad deal or can it?.
What are your opinions guys?
Is undertow worth the nearly full month of lag problems a lot of us experienced?
Lets hear it.
Here is your chance to defend microsoft. Or let them have a swift kick "go department" Undertow. Does it make up for all the problems ?
MS made an announcement some weeks ago that they would be giving an xbox live arcade game to all gold and silver members as a method of amends to what microsoft called unacceptable performance.
The time has come and Microsoft has made its announcement on what XBLA game we will be getting for free.
Here is the full article followed by the update.
An Open Letter from Marc Whitten about Xbox LIVE this Holiday
Published January 3, 2008
Dear Xbox LIVE Members:
During this past holiday season you helped us break a number of Xbox LIVE records. 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.
As a result of this massive increase in usage we know that some of you experienced intermittent Xbox LIVE issues over the holiday break. While the service was not completely offline at any given time, we are disappointed in our performance. I would like to take this moment to thank each and every one of you for your patience and understanding as our team has worked around the clock to return the service to a stable state.
At the same time we would like to offer a token of our appreciation to all of you in celebration of record success for the service. And as a thank you for your loyalty during this holiday period, we will be offering all of our Xbox LIVE members around the world access to a full Xbox LIVE Arcade game that will be available to download free of charge. In the coming weeks we will be sharing the specific details of this offer with you.
Thank you again for helping make Xbox LIVE everything that it is today!
Sincerely,
Marc Whitten
General Manager, Xbox LIVE
Gamertag: Notwen
Updated January 18, 2008
We’re pleased to announce that from 2:00 a.m. PST Wednesday, January 23, 2008 through 11:59 p.m. PST, Sunday, January 27, 2008 you can download the full version of the recent Xbox LIVE Arcade game, Undertow free of charge.
undertow.. I've never played it, I know nothing about it. But free cant be a bad deal or can it?.
What are your opinions guys?
Is undertow worth the nearly full month of lag problems a lot of us experienced?
Lets hear it.
Here is your chance to defend microsoft. Or let them have a swift kick "go department" Undertow. Does it make up for all the problems ?