Reminder: Xbox Live down tomorrow

by Richard Mitchell { Jun 15th 2009 at 1:00PM }

This is just a friendly reminder folks. Xbox Live will be going offline for maintenance tomorrow (at 12:01am PT) and will remain offline for up to 24 hours. So, you'd best get your fragging done now. Be aware that the My Xbox section of Xbox.com will also be down, and the forums will be read-only. The rest of Xbox.com should work fine with "limited interruptions."

Don't cry. It's only one day.

[Photo: Pedro Klien]

Tags: microsoft, xbox-live

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

xenocidic @ Jun 15th 2009 2:53PM

That kid looks ticked... is that even a real photo? Those are some serious stress lines.

L4MB @ Jun 15th 2009 2:57PM

Wonder what they are doing?...
could be something awesome!
but probably not.

joeybeast @ Jun 15th 2009 4:16PM

Back end stuff for twitter/last.fm etc.

juangrande386 @ Jun 15th 2009 2:57PM

in before someone cries about how they need a refund from microsoft for 1 day of no XBL, oh no 24hrs!!! what will all the no lifes do tomorrow........maybe play with real friends if they have any

wut @ Jun 15th 2009 3:08PM

Yeah, silly people thinking they should be refunded for something they paid for and didn't get...

Grailknight @ Jun 15th 2009 3:27PM

Yes, give me my 8 cents back :(

Scott Summers @ Jun 15th 2009 3:00PM

So ridiculous...especially with the release of Ghostbusters.

cosmic @ Jun 15th 2009 3:49PM

Will I still be able to download content?
I must get my new Rock Band tracks!

Josh @ Jun 15th 2009 6:44PM

You won't even be able to sign on if I remember past times it's gone down like this. So no, you won't be able to.

Shadowman @ Jun 15th 2009 5:36PM

I do hope that Live Authentication works tomorrow, I'm planning to play a good bit of Rock Band 2 and need that magic Live tick to get my content working again (since it's going to be on my brothers 360, not mine, and most of my Rock Band tracks are licensed to my old RROD'd system.))
Also does anyone know if I get Castle Crashers now, Sign in and play one level, will it save my characters levels so I can play during off line time. (Since I leveled them up playing on my friends copy using my Gamertag (And yes, it does store levels server side hence why it doesn't have a save))

Mouthsmasher @ Jun 15th 2009 7:07PM

The Zune service has also stated that they'll be down:

On Tuesday, June 16th from 12:01 AM PST for up to 24 hours, the Zune service will be offline for maintenance. As a result, the Zune Social, the forums on Zune.net, and all of Zune Marketplace will be offline.

As you may have heard the Zune and Xbox systems are coming closer together and this service maintenance is to prepare for some of the recently announced Xbox LIVE features that will be available later this year.

It is important to note when the service returns, you will not have any new functions or features. This is for scheduled maintenance only.

DRE Fei @ Jun 15th 2009 9:17PM

There will be 14884793934 fewer racial/homophobic slurs on xbox live tomorrow than there would have been without this downtime.

UNSCleric @ Jun 15th 2009 9:39PM

When isn't Live down these days?

meth0dical @ Jun 16th 2009 3:12AM

Strange, you must be using a different Live than the rest of us... I can't even remember the last time XBL was down for more than a few minutes.

Shadowman @ Jun 16th 2009 4:02AM

Last time Live went down was back in Christmas 07, what a Grim Christmas that was.

UNSCleric @ Jun 16th 2009 4:19AM

It's gone down many times since then.

meth0dical @ Jun 16th 2009 4:46AM

forzamotorsport.net is crippled as well

meth0dical @ Jun 16th 2009 4:49AM

Well it seems as though people are posting, I just can't get logged in with my gamertag.

Scott Summers @ Jun 16th 2009 5:14AM

@Meth0dical---- Yeah, it took a really long time for me to get in with my gamertag and even so, I'm still off of XBL. I was worried that it was my 360, considering it RROD'd me earlier today due to a brownout but is working fine now.

Hurlockscale @ Jun 16th 2009 8:42PM

So since Live is down AGAIN. Can we be reimbursed? It's bullshit that this happens so often when you've paid money for something to actually work.

Hurlockscale @ Jun 16th 2009 8:46PM

I want refunded for the MULTIPLE times it's been down. Fuckin A. With how crappy everythings been in the consumer world I don't think it's too much to ask for something to work properly. And I seriously DOUBT it's an important update. Probably a something retarded like new shoes for the gay avatar/wii rip off thingy.

meth0dical @ Jun 17th 2009 12:39AM

wahhhhh one whole day waahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Just do what you do the rest of the time you're not playing Live... play with yourself.

Brian @ Jun 16th 2009 11:31PM

It shouldn't be hard for Microsoft to perform a quick update using SQL Server.

Mind you, I don't know what their exact table or field names are, but since we're getting screwed out of a day, they should add a day onto everyone's accounts.

UPDATE account SET dateexpire = DATEADD(d, 1, @dateexpire) WHERE level = 'GOLD';

xsirxx @ Jun 17th 2009 3:04AM

My question is, what takes 24 hours, which its looking like they wont make - that they couldnt have done on replicated servers. Orr rather replicated servers with very little data entered. I love the fact coding wise that microsoft gives developers easy tools to work with, but more lately within the past 10 years - it seems that they are content with releasing buggy code that is hard to update for themselves. I wish they would be more content with fixing bugs\problems than pushing new info. Any other large company would never have these issues. Now before the flame bois jump in, i love what microsoft has done with their direction, dev tools, and investments. I am a huge supporter, but this kinda stuff just isnt acceptable nowa'days.