Xbox Live: Scheduled maintenance complete [Update]

by Xav de Matos { Apr 21st 2008 at 1:30PM }

Update: Major Nelson updated his initial post letting XBL users know that the tech team is aware of some issues with the rolling restarts. They are looking into the situation. Again, we ask that you be patient and just think about all the dudes you'll be shooting on April 29.

According to Major Nelson, the scheduled maintenance for Xbox Live that left the service offline since early this morning is complete. Before you fashion your trendiest riot clothes and pitchforks we'd like to remind you that while the service maintenance is complete users may experience rolling restarts around the globe. As an example, the service has restarted for our own Dustin Burg but has left this Canadian out in the cold (see what I did there?) with connection issues.

If you are experiencing connection issues we ask that you be patient before flooding our inbox with "ZOMG, they broked Live" news tips. Looking for something to do? May we suggest checking out X3F TV! While our Nielsen ratings aren't anything to write home about, we can at least assure you our gaming related videos are more entertaining than watching anything that Spike TV does with this industry in mind.

Tags: downtime, serive-down, xbox-live

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

killploki @ Apr 21st 2008 1:33PM

any idea what kind of maintenance they did? maybe something along the lines of fixing the recent lag?

Xav de Matos @ Apr 21st 2008 1:41PM

Personally I think it might have something to do with GTAIV that's hitting stores next week.

Preparing for that onslaught.

gamermasterman @ Apr 21st 2008 2:05PM

GTA IV is kinda what I thought, I think they did the same thing a week or so before Halo 3 If I remember correctly.

Bmurph @ Apr 21st 2008 2:07PM

I thought the same thing when I heard about this, Xav.

DILLONSHWING @ Apr 21st 2008 3:22PM

i hope so, i have been having the weirdest lag recently.
its weird my connection will drop in the middle of games and stuff like that. its getting really old

Juice @ Apr 21st 2008 4:24PM

I'm not planning on touching the GTA multiplayer until I finish the single player anyway so hopefully by then the servers will mellow out.

Excelio @ Apr 21st 2008 2:48PM

The update mess up my XBL! i cant play online anymore:(

Jez @ Apr 21st 2008 1:45PM

This is stupid I don't have a active network static now!!!!

ZEBRA NINER @ Apr 21st 2008 1:48PM

Yeah, Canadians don't need live... eh? Just get America's live up and worry about those "other people" when you can get around to it. ;) (the little winky face indicates my comment was made in jest, for those of you with no sense of humor)

LFotF @ Apr 21st 2008 1:53PM

I keep getting disconnected from Live. I can immediately reconnect, but then 5-10 minutes later, I get knocked off again.

xtremesniper @ Apr 21st 2008 1:54PM

I saw what you did there, but the 22+ degree weather outside in T.O. begs to differ.

Xav de Matos @ Apr 21st 2008 1:55PM

Hey I live on the Lakeshore, so I know. It's perfect outside in the TDot.

nosaj56 @ Apr 21st 2008 1:59PM

Call of Duty 4 online doesn't work, so XBL has failed me again.

k1ngvz @ Apr 21st 2008 2:08PM

Am I the only one who gets disconnected every 10 mins

ZEBRA NINER @ Apr 21st 2008 2:16PM

Yes.

From the post above: "we'd like to remind you that while the service maintenance is complete users may experience rolling restarts around the globe."

So yeah, you are the only one. w00t.

TORO @ Apr 21st 2008 2:45PM

LOL

joseph jozwiak @ Apr 21st 2008 3:49PM

nope me too

OBM @ Apr 21st 2008 2:00PM

Still messed up here in UK, another great job MS. And yeah, I think it's pretty obvious that the 'maintenance' is for GTA IV, because if there's an outage like the COD4 incident, people will not be happy at all.

Ample Salty @ Apr 21st 2008 2:01PM

I'm having some issues over here in England. I can log in and it tells me I have friends online but on the dash it says "Connect to Xbox Live", I cannot see the Marketplace or use the guide button.

onehunggary @ Apr 21st 2008 4:12PM

I got the exact same situation here in TX

consolecount.com @ Apr 21st 2008 2:02PM

Yeah it's still down.....

omg Xbox Live....

Gun Barrier (=Gamer Tag) SSBB: 3952-6696-7009 @ Apr 21st 2008 2:08PM

well, better have a scheduled outage then a surprize outage when every 360 owner tries GTA4 online.

aBs @ Apr 21st 2008 2:23PM

Its been an hour and a half and I am still a victim of rolling restarts, what is going on?

sammy2knuckles @ Apr 21st 2008 2:48PM

Its almost 3:00 on the east coast (D.C.) and still can't acess COD4 no ative network?

Josh @ Apr 21st 2008 2:53PM

help me the same is happening just keeps restarting etc. :( what do i do

Angryfinne @ Apr 21st 2008 3:01PM

So Mr. Hryb she's not fixed yet, needs a little more time in the shop. Gotta mail order a part from the Ukraine.

Teabag @ Apr 21st 2008 3:04PM

As usual MS has done a crappy job with the maintenance. Usually, there would be a delay for a few more hours than initially planned but this time around, they bought Live up on time but never fixed the problem that usually causes the delays! Ha!

Stupid.

Josh @ Apr 21st 2008 3:10PM

then how come all my other friends are playing happily?

jesusivan @ Apr 21st 2008 3:18PM

this update sucks i cant play anymore takes me out and say unable to connect even i can go into market place and download stuff can some pls fix this!!!!!

David @ Apr 21st 2008 3:17PM

Anyone have any info on what the update did?

ZEBRA NINER @ Apr 21st 2008 3:25PM

The update made it so D-bags have trouble getting online.

ZING! Ba dum dum!

Actually, I've heard it's in preparation for GTA.

OBM @ Apr 21st 2008 3:29PM

Tip for people playing COD4, go to join session in progress, matchmaking seems to be down.

JohnHeist @ Apr 21st 2008 3:38PM

The update fixed it so you can't sign on to Live, so everybody will buy and play GTA4 in single player.

My friend is online, and it shows I have 6 friends online actively playing games, but I get a rolling connection.

My friend lives a few blocks away from me.

Gh3tt0 Child @ Apr 21st 2008 3:45PM

finally it came out

joseph jozwiak @ Apr 21st 2008 3:47PM

No i been getting the random disconnects too. i dunno why but its annoying as hell.

Anticrawl @ Apr 21st 2008 3:53PM

Freakin ghey, after I connect I have like 5 seconds to check my friends list and then it immediately disconnects. Apparently 7 of my friends are not having this problem.

zourskittles @ Apr 21st 2008 4:14PM

exact same thing, i dont understand what makes these people so special.

onehunggary @ Apr 21st 2008 4:12PM

MS, I demand you comp my waiting time to my live account, I want all 2 hours of my life back :p

ZEBRA NINER @ Apr 21st 2008 4:16PM

I'm sure a lawsuit will come from this.

JohnHeist @ Apr 21st 2008 4:17PM

I have 11 friends online now, but can't connect.

Screw this noise, I'm going over to my friends house. Hopefully he can recover my profile before he loses connection.

SadisticHam @ Apr 21st 2008 4:34PM

Europe would like a day of XBL back Microsoft. You kindly charged us for it and then took it down from 9am to oh, it's 9:30pm now and it's still not up right.

Surree didn't affect me till i got home but all the same bloody annoying.

onehunggary @ Apr 21st 2008 4:37PM

skit on my xbox, skit skit on my xbox, and we are PAYING for this gaming service? Get your money you fat dogs. If i ever see Bill Gates, im gonna hit him in his jugular

brendan_sully @ Apr 21st 2008 4:39PM

They say the mainteance is finished then why cant i connect to live in Ireland to play COD4

weezy F baby @ Apr 21st 2008 4:44PM

idk??

brendan_sully @ Apr 21st 2008 4:55PM

What the f**k xbox cancelled my 3month gold membership after only 2 months.Any 1 no whats going on and how to fix it

Bob @ Apr 21st 2008 4:53PM

WTF? The downloaded update screwed up Gears of War. I cannot play it in any of the settings (campaign or XBL). Are you kidding me, MS?

JeebZ v2 @ Apr 21st 2008 5:03PM

im trying to play halo. so i go to lobby and clikc "start matchmaking". sount down gets to 0 then freezes, on 0. also, i cant invite people to my games, and cant join any sessions in progress. is this the same problem as you guys? dang

brendan_sully @ Apr 21st 2008 5:11PM

sure is !!! cant find games, cant start games, cant join games then all my mates seem to be playing games i cant join :(

Neon Jebus @ Apr 21st 2008 5:18PM

Every time we have extended outages I get reminded of how much I am sick of Microsoft and their DRM on the Arcade titles. If they don't get this DRM crap fixed these outages are finally going to trigger a successful Class Action lawsuit. I want to be able to access my paid for content even if their service can't connect to my system.