It' s been that way on & off since the 21st, but today is especially bad.

The first day I' ve got a working 360, a hard-drive, a working controller, a live subscription card and a copy of Call of Duty 4 in the same place at once.... live flakes out.

I' ll be online this week, and I' ve been getting my CoD skills up to snuff again. Anybody up for a match?

Yeah, lives been messed up for a few days. Mine and my friends aren' t as bad as most people complaining about it, but its effected things such as accepting chat invites is taking forever to accept, and it kicks me off when I first turn on my 360, but as soon as I put a game in it logs me back on. IMO its something to do with the Winter update. Lives been weird since the update.

Its been messing up for me as well, seems to just hang when trying to log on to live. Mostly been a problem in the evening though. Seems to rectify somewhat when I launch a game. Will be on live for CoD4 tonight.

Yah, Live is really pissing me off atm. In order to get the right codec' s for a lot of the AVI' s I have you need to be logged in to XBL, but that is hard when it only works 10% of the time, and logs you out randomly.

I wanna play some CoD4 but all I can get to work is FFA, and even that doesn' t work smoothly.

Yeah I tried downloading " The Condemed" the other day, but Live kept ***ing up and in my frenetic clicking I accidentally presseed play before it finished downloading and I lost the movie without realizing it.

I also kept getting interrupted while playing Geometry Wars (disconect from Live). By ther way, if I' m playing that game, don' t send me any invites! Notifications really piss me off when playing GW. I know I can turn them off but if I do I forget the put them back on. I won' t rest until I get 10 million.

Man, I love that old school quest-for-the-high-score style of gameplay. It' s a cool kind of hypnotic gaming. I' ve been relishing the same experience in Pac-Man CE.

I wish I had epilepsy for a day just so I could try it on this game

MS is going to compensate XBL Gold members. Most likely a 400 pt. game that I already have, but hey, at least its something I guess.

ORIGINAL: Eddie_the_Hated

Anybody up for a match?

Yeah ill give u one when live starts working again, the only match i could get into on COD4 last night was private and that worked fine, i dont know why though as surley it is all done through the same server!!

After the last update I get this strange behaviour from my 360:
-I play a demo, things are fine.
-I exit the demo by pressing the circle button on the controller and then Y (exit to dashboard), everything is fine.
-Now is where the strange things start happening, I don' t come to the dashboard. I come to the " select memory device" screen .
-I press B to exit the memory device screen. But I don' t come to the dashboard, instead my 360 starts whatever game is in the disc tray

Have I done anything wrong in the options to mess things up or did they do something wrong in the latest update?

The update has been giving me sporadic issues. None like that, but it wouldn' t surprise me if it was update related.

The only problem mine had was a minor inconvenience where XBL would kick me off if I was in the dash board, but if I put a game in it would sign back on. Some of my friends couldn' t get on at all though. One guy I know had the 360 loading screen(the 360 with lights being lit around it) on all of his blades.

That actually happened to quite a few people. I must' ve bugged the hell out of a lot of people though last Sunday when I was trying to log in. It must' ve given me the " Eddie_the_Hated" is online screen, and given me a friends list (meaning they all got a blip that I was on) 20 odd times while recovering my profile, only to spit me back out.

Mine is still barely working, I' m really starting to get pissed off. I don' t pay a monthly fee for this bullshit.

The letter Marc Whitten(XBL GM) sent out said that ALL XBL members will get a free XBLA game and that they' ll be giving more details in the few weeks. I dont know if this means silver members will also get the free game or maybe he meant all gold members.

Not Carcasonne again.

I never had any problems with LIVE, do I still get the free game?

I never had any problems with LIVE, do I still get the free game?

I guess so... unless you want to write to them and explain that you don' t feel like you deserve it!

Personally I hope they give away Space Giraffe... a game that deserves some forced attention!

I wish they would just give points instead of picking one game. 2/3 of the times they do things like this, I already have the games they' re give away.

I agree they should just give you points.

Last night I was playing COD4 with Mass and some other people and we were sitting in the lobby and we were about to play another game with the same people we had played with at least once, and it counts down and then I get an error message that says something about wrong version: server version 1.0. WTF?!

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/library/xboxlive0108suit.pdf

lulz