Update: Aaaaaand it's back. Bet you didn't even notice.
Just a quick public service announcement: Major Nelson informs us that Xbox.com as well as the Xbox.com forums will be
down for maintenance on November 18 from 12:01am PT until 4:00am PT. The maintenance, as you may have guessed, is being done in preparation for the
New Xbox Experience, which launches this Wednesday. Major Nelson stresses (in big, angry red letters, no less) that Xbox Live will
not be down during this time, but who's to say, really? After all, aliens could attack, which we're pretty sure would render Xbox Live inoperable. So let's just say Xbox Live isn't
scheduled to be down tomorrow.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
psychohog @ Nov 17th 2008 6:24PM
Damn I hate babies.
Alex @ Nov 18th 2008 1:42PM
Me too. And kids. And toddlers. In fact, I hate anyone under the age of 14, and until they reach 17, I still hate most of them
OptimumEDGE @ Nov 17th 2008 6:28PM
Probably updating the site with the new online marketplace shizzle.
Ellianth @ Nov 17th 2008 6:56PM
and a new layout. They keep telling me to do a survey on their new website layout... except all I see is the same old layout. Has the site asked anyone else to do a survey yet?
(I don't have spy/adware!)
Sujay @ Nov 17th 2008 6:31PM
I always love your crybaby pictures.
RedSonRising @ Nov 17th 2008 6:32PM
hmm.. well, xbox.com AND XBL were down last night, 5am est to around 530 or 545am est... similar failure for me and all my friends the night before, not sure what time..
they didnt announce either of those outages, im betting theres gonna be more failures leading up to and after the NXE is released..
Andrew Whiplash @ Nov 17th 2008 6:48PM
actually they did Monday night
http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/11/16/xbox-live-service-maintenance-11-17.aspx
even tho it was kinda last minute
and i didn't have any trouble saturday night, tho others did...
but i don't see much happening since they keep saying they are prepared...
RedSonRising @ Nov 17th 2008 8:37PM
i dont remember an x3f post about the downtime.. hell, i check a dozen sites a day looking for 360 news and i didnt know.. too little and way too late..
instead of posting notice on Major Nelson's page how about sending a message to XBL users about a shutdown.
OptimumEDGE @ Nov 17th 2008 10:14PM
What the hell are you even doing up at 5 am in the morning? lol
JAmerican @ Nov 18th 2008 6:12AM
Playing the new and laggy Gears 2 of course.
Viridium @ Nov 17th 2008 7:01PM
Great. NOW how am I supposed to track the lack of progress on my RROD repair?! Although I guess that since it only took ten days to actually get them to START a repair, I shouldn't expect the coffin here tomorrow or anything.
Procris @ Nov 17th 2008 7:17PM
If aliens did attack, i doubt the first thing they'd target would be the XBL servers anyway. :p
john paul @ Nov 17th 2008 7:28PM
What if the aliens were Sony loyalists?
+++volume+++ @ Nov 17th 2008 7:50PM
Then may god help us all.
D:
BJ is Gooder @ Nov 17th 2008 7:48PM
Anybody want to take odds on XBL crashing soon after everyone updates? I've got a bad feeling about this Christmas season as well...I still haven't forgotten about the mass shutdown the last days of December last year.
Tricause @ Nov 17th 2008 10:27PM
I remember that -- it was a very annoying two week period and Microsoft should have been prepared, but as always they try to screw the people who subscribe to peer-to-peer service.
Type2Compensator @ Nov 17th 2008 7:50PM
Is Fancast down too, today?
+++volume+++ @ Nov 17th 2008 7:52PM
I hope not. I think my voice clip may be in the episode. But I've got Major Nelson's to listen to either way.
KenC @ Nov 17th 2008 8:35PM
Ummm thats 4 am PST guys take a look at major's blog you guys might wanna fix that it's only a 4 hour downtime on xbox.com not 16 hour.
Richard Mitchell @ Nov 17th 2008 10:14PM
Oops. Quite right. Fixed.
Chase @ Nov 18th 2008 5:50AM
Would you fix me a sandwich, please?
X,L113TFD @ Nov 18th 2008 7:42AM
It's back up.
Hannahrae11s@aol.com @ Nov 19th 2008 12:45AM
I can't wait till the new update! I'm just so excited to turn on my xbox when I get home from school 2marro :D