I think Xbox lives problem was that everyone (internationally) was getting Xboxes for Xmas. The long lag time was due to everyone getting online in Europe, Mexico, and everywhere else were Xbox live servers are not as updated so the damm foreigners lagged everyone down. If you look at the online map now you will see that all of Europe, Mexico, and most of Canada (were it is not in the sticks) are all lit up and I believe that this is why Xbox Live was Xbox Blow$ over the holidays. Xbox should definitely give Gold members some live points for 30 minute long wait times to join a game. Oh ya and PS3 sucks too. Xbox still rules even if its laggy, one word HALO

Notice how this was never stickied.

Can you imagine if Playstation Network was down for 2 weeks, over the holiday season, Betanews would have that ****er stickied for a whole month.

Sad ****ers.

Oh boy, Joey logged out and back in with Steve.

If PSN was down for a month, five people would have been upset.

Steve / Joey / DaveBG / Benjamin among others are all the same pathetic lying POS in case anyone here is new.

I've proved it already, especially with "thier" uploads to imageshack all from the same Sony Cybershot.

No, it wouldn't even be news. No-one actually uses the Playstation Network. I'm pretty sure you'd be the only one who noticed it was down.

Playstation Network? What's that?

very true

FFS, what's it going to take to shut your whining up for 5 secs.?

You and your cronies complain that there's a pro-MS bias on this site; but when they put up a story about problems occuring with Live for almost 2 weeks, you still find a way to b**** about anti-Sony sentiment here!

You have a Wii what do care!

Because he's DaveBG.

The system is still screwed up, Xbox's own support page says, as of right now at 6.30pm EST 01/02 that "Users may experience intermittent issues with account recovery, matchmaking, and statistics. We are aware of the issue and are actively working towards a resolution. We apologize for any inconvenience."
I haven't been able to get on all day, either.

It's Larry Hyrb, not Larry Nelson.

People shouldn't expect much of in the way of compensation though. Downtime = $1.64 for the end user.

wow... well ive been on live for almost 5 years now, and this is the first time it relly cause me a major problem. ya sure they will have issues npw and then, but latly it has been have alotof trouble. but they fixed it it seems, everything was fine this morning.

$50 a year, its worth it... you know that they are doing somthing right, i mean look at all the high expectations from eveyone here. they wouldnt be complaning if it was a regular issue.

over all my live experiance hase been one of the most fullfilling cusomer experiance with microsoft. and have had much much worse experiances with other major electronics and services

This is the bright and shiny computing experience Bill Gates raves about every year? Pay for a service and witness it fail.

Terrible.

We suffered the same problems in the UK. What really grates me is that these problems are becoming more frequent with every new title released... COD4, say no more.

They didn't fix jack. They just waited until people went back to work.

problems with high traffic do tend to fix themselves. Im still interested to hear what amends they attempt to make for my service being interupted.

So your $50 360 subscription buys you:

Unreliable service.
Laggy peer-peer service
Adverts plastered on every blade
A service full of Childish Xbots

Don't forget it nets MS over a billion a year in revenue Joey / Dave. Too bad you talk out your a** and are a huge joke or people might actually believe you.

Maybe you can give us some insight as to what it's like to be a pathological liar with absolutely no life.

http://www.cnet.com/5270...0-2.html?userID=1150478

This is the same cnet that shows the 360 average review at 8.5 and the PS3 at 7.4

You have a great point. A week of spotty service over a holiday when everyone is playing their new games on their 360s (now those are consoles you can actually enjoy playing games on, not just shiny plastic boxes that cure cancer and have 3D worlds where you can play with dolls "coming soon") is surely enough to bail from an otherwise fun, affordable service. or not.

also, this was a great reminder for me to get my free hd dvd movies bundled with my HDA3. bbl.

Sorry, you are plain wrong. I am not DaveBG.

If I were able to prove this, I would, but you will still not be convinced...

You are such a jack as$. Funny how Warhack as you called it has had its share of online issues for starters. I have seen more childish antics on the Pscrap online then I have ever seen on live. You sure have a nack for blowing things way out of proportion. Loser.

Wow a little add on page that has no effect on the overall performance. Like there are no advertisements in $ony's crap.

If you knew anything the service is not peer to peer. Like I said what a jack as$

You are right, Dave may be a little smarter than you and that is real scary since he doesn't know anything either.

Sure, the service is not, but the games are; you host the game on your M$ XBox. I believe the Sony online service works the same way.

How would you know what Xbox Live offers, when you don't own a 360?

Sony's service is laggy, too. Personally, I've dealt with more connection issues and load times on the PS3 than the 360.

Every single video download on the PS store is an advertisement. How long until the PSN video store goes live?

100 'childish xbots' are still more tolerable than a single Sony fanboi, who's only opinions are based on his beloved's propaganda machine...

You are so creative with the M$ Xbox statement are you 12? SO I suppose that $ony doing it the same way makes them better. How about the service on the Wii, oh doesn't have anything mainly just a site to buy old games. Make an online function for their profit only and no enjoyment. Troll.

But what kind of online does the Wii have?

Well said pridewalker.

The Wii is not designed to work like XBOX live or PSN excatly. It depends on a freinds list if I'm not mistaken.

The only online I use with it is the weather, news and web browser as it has Wi-Fi built in, which I didnt know because I never read a single word of the manual.

The Wii is a great family gaming machine, not a serious gamers console, unless you are pitdingo, who seems to have the mental capacity of Jeffy from The Ringer. I just sent him a copy of Wii Special Olympics, you can wave the nunchuck in any direction and win.

Nice.

"but you will still not be convinced..."

Because it's already been proved that you are DaveBG by using the same Sony Cybershot when you posted your pictures on imageshack. There's no need for convincing, it's a fact.

What does the Wii have to do with my post?

How many sales does the XBox 360 have? how many outside of America? Let me give you a hint:

http://www.vgchartz.com/

He picked up on the fact that you are a troll.

What does 360 sales have to do with my post? See I can play that game too.

Go ahead and change the subject again you sad piece of well you know.

ps3 network, so far i have had wayyyy less issues than xbox live!

only thing that bothers me is I already gave bill $50 for a year of service to play my ONE pc game "shadowrun".

I'll stick with the better free service on my ps3.

goodluck guys!

That's because it's empty...

drumcat,

I think they have five members now, so I wouldn't call it "empty".

I would hope they don't have issues if they have 1% as many users as xbox live...

just wait until they get their SIMS doll house set up, then it will be filled with hotties...

My comment was deleted because certain people couldn't answer a single question correctly on the MENSA IQ test or distinguish sarsacm from a serious comment.

True story.

It wasn't a conspiracy. I had a number of issues with live. To the person that stated that he would stick with the ps3 since its free, I would say go ahead, but xbox live still beats out ps3 when it is only working halfway. Also, why would you pay 50 dollars a year for the crappy game shadowrun. That is totally stupid.

Thats why no one is asking you. Microsoft has been apologizing for the problem and yet your opinon is that its a conspiracy, smart.

dlab,

You need to get a sarcasm detector because I was kidding. Dave / Joey, you know the one who DOESNT own a 360 is complaining the most.

by the time mine dies, if it dies, i'll probably have gotten more use out of it than all the ps3s combined, minus the ones folding at home

i guess your form of wit simply goes over my head. Another timeless quip i seem to have misjudged.