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 As many of you know, last Christmas (2007) Xbox Live shat itself and caused no end of problems for many members both Gold and Silver. Everything from account recovery, dashboard hangups, online match-making problems etc etc. According to Microsoft, that was due mostly to all the new XBL members who signed up during Christmas when they got their new X360's.
Unofficially, I believe it's people like this clogging the gaming interwebs with their enthusiasm. Or perhaps these kids have a cousin in Redmond, Washington who peed on a server at daddy's Christmas party, who knows.
In any case, Microsoft has acknowledged, apologized and plans to compensate Xbox Live members for their troubles sometime in the coming weeks. Here's the official statement from Marc Whitten on the www.Xbox.com website:
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
A nice gesture and no doubt both costly for them and a big logistical undertaking to set up. Hopefully it'll be a really good game, no doubt a Microsoft Game Studio published one and one that will fit on the small memory cards.
I'll take a stab at it and guess it'll be either Hexic 2, Catan or Jetpac Refueled. if it's a 3rd party title, Pac-Man CE, Uno or Metal Slug 3. Yeah MS3 is new, but that's my surprise pick. There's a possibility it may be a game not yet released as well, giving away a title that a million gamers already own would be a bone-headed move on their part after all.
In the meantime, I'll keep an eye out for more details and will post them ASAP. Until then, keep reading, there's always something on channels 3 & 4.
Original Article:
http://www.xbox.com/en-US...ort/live/serviceissue.htm
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