No Frag For You! Xbox Live Outage Next Week

Nathan Meunier

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No Frag For You! Xbox Live Outage Next Week



Don't be banging your head on the table next week; plan ahead for some potentially lengthy Xbox Live downtime on September 29. You may just have to get your frag on elsewhere or *gasp* perhaps get a good night's sleep for once.


Today, word came from Xbox Live programming director Larry Hyrb [http://majornelson.com/archive/2008/09/23/xbox-live-service-maintenance.aspx] (many of you may instead recognize him by his gamertag: Major Nelson) of scheduled downtime for maintenance next Monday. Xbox Live will go down for up to 24 hours beginning at 12:01 a.m. PST (that's 3 a.m. for East Coast folks). Fortunately, this falls on a time when most rational human beings are fast asleep in their cozy beds - at least in this part of the world. Then again, we're talking about gamers here. Gamers that like to blast the crap out of each other in Halo 3 at ungodly hours of the morning.

As a result of the outage, Xbox Live and the "My Xbox" section of Xbox.com [http://www.xbox.com] will be down. Also, while you will still be able to read the Xbox forums during the downtime, posting will disabled. The rest of the site should work fine, according to Hyrb.

The maintenance is being done in preparation for the next Xbox experience coming later this fall. For those not paying close enough attention, Hyrb felt it important to re-stress the obvious. "Let me reiterate: When the service returns, you will not have any new features and you will not have the new Xbox Experience update. That will happen later this Fall."



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Alone Disciple

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Hmmm...What are all the underage potty-mouth, racist, homophobic tweeners gonna do during this time? Homework?
 

silentsentinel

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Alone Disciple post=7.72273.753683 said:
Hmmm...What are all the underage potty-mouth, racist, homophobic tweeners gonna do during this time? Homework?
Maybe they'll die of withdrawal.
 

Aries_Split

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silentsentinel post=7.72273.753699 said:
Alone Disciple post=7.72273.753683 said:
Hmmm...What are all the underage potty-mouth, racist, homophobic tweeners gonna do during this time? Homework?
Maybe they'll die of withdrawal.
Thank go- I mean, that'd be a shame.
 

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Alone Disciple post=7.72273.753683 said:
Hmmm...What are all the underage potty-mouth, racist, homophobic tweeners gonna do during this time? Homework?
DON'T STEREOTYPE ME!
No but seriously, we're not all homophobic, racist pottymouths
 

Aries_Split

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Spartan Bannana post=7.72273.753757 said:
Alone Disciple post=7.72273.753683 said:
Hmmm...What are all the underage potty-mouth, racist, homophobic tweeners gonna do during this time? Homework?
DON'T STEREOTYPE ME!
No but seriously, we're not all homophobic, racist pottymouths
Let's find out.

*Signs into XBOX live halo 3 Slayer.*
*Speaks clearly into mic "Who here likes cock?"*


Yes, you are.
 

Tsuki Tanaka

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silentsentinel post=7.72273.753699 said:
Alone Disciple post=7.72273.753683 said:
Hmmm...What are all the underage potty-mouth, racist, homophobic tweeners gonna do during this time? Homework?
Maybe they'll die of withdrawal.
Please, please, let's be realistic here; miracles don't happen everyday, my good man.
 

super_smash_jesus

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i better get reimbursed for my day of live i paid for....what to do with the 25 cents i get back, possibilities = endless
 

ElArabDeMagnifico

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super_smash_jesus post=7.72273.753948 said:
i better get reimbursed for my day of live i paid for....what to do with the 25 cents i get back, possibilities = endless
What if you paid all at once?! :O

(oh yeah, you still get a quarter back...oh well, tie it to a string and rob vending machines!)
 

SilentHunter7

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super_smash_jesus post=7.72273.753948 said:
i better get reimbursed for my day of live i paid for....what to do with the 25 cents i get back, possibilities = endless
aah, I was just about to post something like this. :)

I WANT MY DAY BACK, DAMMIT!!!
 

SilentHunter7

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Indigo_Dingo post=7.72273.754196 said:
Then what would Microsoft do without 95% of their market?
Make something that isn't like the countless UE3 powered shooters out there?
 

Johnn Johnston

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I'm assuming this is possibly to do with the Dashboard Update. Does anyone else have any idea about this hunch?
 

Alone Disciple

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Johnn Johnston post=7.72273.757249 said:
I'm assuming this is possibly to do with the Dashboard Update. Does anyone else have any idea about this hunch?
Ummmmm...yeah.. I think the article stated:

The maintenance is being done in preparation for the next Xbox experience coming later this fall. For those not paying close enough attention, Hyrb felt it important to re-stress the obvious. "Let me reiterate: When the service returns, you will not have any new features and you will not have the new Xbox Experience update. That will happen later this Fall."