Xbox Live maintenance slated for June 16, could be down all day
Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:46PM EDT
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Does someone at Microsoft HQ really, really hate me? There I was, all planning to celebrate my 40th birthday next Tuesday (please, no presents) with some fast and furious "Halo 3" deathmatches, and now I hear that Xbox Live—the online gaming and media service for the Xbox 360—will be down for the count that day (and potentially all day) for, like, "maintenance." What gives?
Indeed, Microsoft appears to have learned its lesson after the infamous Xbox Live meltdown of Christmas 2007. Since then, Live (which boasts upwards of 17 million members) has barely skipped a beat, even after the big "New Xbox Experience" overhaul last November. (The same can't be said about Xbox 360 hardware, unfortunately.)
On his blog, Xbox Live's Major Nelson (a.k.a. Larry Hryb, director of programming for Live) writes that the scheduled downtime—slated to begin at 12:01 a.m. PST on the 16th and lasting for "up to 24 hours"—is for "maintenance only," intended primarily to "prepare for some of the recently announced features" on tap for the fall.
Those features, announced during E3 last week in Los Angeles, include goodies such as Facebook and Twitter access, an enhanced Netflix player that will let you browse for new movies, and streaming 1080p videos over Live's upcoming, Zune Marketplace-powered video store.
If the price for all those new features is a day of Live maintenance, well … I guess I'll live. (And besides, at least the maintenance is scheduled for a workday and not over the weekend.)
In any case, consider yourself warned: No Xbox Live next Tuesday. Hey, single-player mode isn't so bad, right?
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2 Posted by simpleman5457625 on Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:38PM EDT Report Abuse
Ha! I remember the down time. My 360 had just been shipped off for it's 2nd ring of death. Barely noticed it. My brother on the other hand...
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3 Posted by mblaha2003 on Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:59PM EDT Report Abuse
This is BS!! They need yo ask me first before they decide when to update!! Will they pay me for my day of lost service? I sure wish MS would have a complete feature rich service like the Wii. .....I guess I will go out side and throw some rocks at the neighbors that day.
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4 Posted by amcafeworker on Thu Jun 11, 2009 5:08PM EDT Report Abuse
#3 where do you live. I will send you the $.14 that you lost. Get a grip.
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5 Posted by monko12105 on Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:08PM EDT Report Abuse
I got the ring of death playing Red Faction with my xbox sideways the day rfg came out. I put it back upright and there hasn't been any problems yet( i guess im lucky unlike all my other friends).
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1 Posted by xb33m4nx on Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:08PM EDT Report Abuse
I do agree that xbox live maintenance is not a bad thing but when they have 3 maintenance days for each dash update (the pre-update maintenance, the actual update, and then the post-update fix all the bugs maintenance.