LIVE problems

[paintba||er]

Damn, I'm having issues once again. In CoD4 it keeps saying "Unable to join game session" and I have to try it about five times before it actually starts looking for a game rather than spitting out that error message. Then it starts looking for people, and the lobby will instantly fill to 12/12 people, say its balancing the teams, everything freezes and becomes completely unresponsive for about 15 seconds, and then everybody instantly leaves.

 

[tank]

Damn, I'm having issues once again. In CoD4 it keeps saying "Unable to join game session" and I have to try it about five times before it actually starts looking for a game rather than spitting out that error message. Then it starts looking for people, and the lobby will instantly fill to 12/12 people, say its balancing the teams, everything freezes and becomes completely unresponsive for about 15 seconds, and then everybody instantly leaves.

ditto.....it pisses me of when if finally find a game and then it just freezes up

 

[Dinner]

Yay official word

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 you 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

 

[King Wiired]

Yay official word

Sweeet where did you get this message? Roll on free arcade game..

 

[SensesFail]

nice, free arcade game!

 

[Celestial]

Crap... I need a hard drive so I can get this free game

 

[blueovalboy7]

Yay official word

Keep us updated on this.

I was having major issues with Live last night, twas pissing me off.

 

[Dinner]

^Will do.

I wonder which arcade game is worth that one download =X.

 

[Minto]

anyone know when we will get the arcade game?

 

[blueovalboy7]

No idea, but this past night was the worst time I've had trying to get on Live playing COD 4 took over 30 minutes to get a game to work correctly.

 

[King Wiired]

I repeat..
What's the source for this 'Official Word' ?

 

[Dinner]

^Oh sorry lol

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/live/serviceissue.htm