Xbox Live Maintenance 3/27

[DeaconBlade]

Prepare yourselves. Xbox.com and Xbox Live will be down beginning at midnight PDT on March 27. This will take 14 hours so around 2-3PM PDT, you should see the services restored.

Please curb all *****ing and moaning and screams of how awful this is :lol:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/community/news/2007/0322-xboxoffline.htm

And I recommend reading #5 on this list as Trixie shows Unscripted 360 some love once more.

:grouphug:

[Sirharper]

I am going to ***** and moan but only because this will affect the greatly anticipated Oblivion expansion.

Unless this is necessary BEACUSE of that expansion then this is the most (to use Mikey's word)...ignorant...timing ever.

[DeaconBlade]

Shivering Isles comes out that day?

[Sirharper]

Yep.

I will give MS the benefit of a doubt (certain people take note of this) and believe for now this update is a direct result of the implementation of the expanded achievements. Although MS does not imply it is.

[big isy]

I think its obvious, there's no other reason.....'cept maybe security

[Sirharper]

Yes, but I dispise jumping to conclusions. ;)

Some people think it's an Olympic event or their only form of exercise though.

[big isy]

Well, it seems rather suss to me.

[DeaconBlade]

i'll be at work so i'm never bothered by this :lol:

[DJSteel]

i wonder what they are adding/updating

[DeaconBlade]

^nothing.

[DJSteel]

lol

[Sirharper]

I love that the Oblivion update came out a few hours early. Single player while Live is down. :)

[DJSteel]

i kind of wish they'd do these updates in the middle of the night...

[DeaconBlade]

well they do it really early in the morning mostly which i think is better.

[big isy]

Its funny cause I thought it'd already happened :blink:

[IRISH]

^nothing.
yup...it's just scheduled maintenance...hopefully maybe to prepare for this "robust" spring update....

[DeaconBlade]

yeah it's a prep stage as well i'm sure.

[DJSteel]

i like it better when they say they are going to do something and never do it.

[DeaconBlade]

haha that's a first i've heard someone say that

[DJSteel]

lol that was the last update.. they said they were going to roll out some major updates.. did about 1/4 of that and Live was down longer that expected..

[DeaconBlade]

i hope the maintenance doesn't go longer than expected.

[IRISH]

i hope the maintenance doesn't go longer than expected.

as long as it is done by tomorrow I'll be fine...I got graw 2 chapter 3 to do tonight, so I'm good to go...tomorrow though, I need to finish 3 more co-op maps....:coolguy:

[DeaconBlade]

i should be getting GRAW 2 soon.

[DJSteel]

i've gotten 1 and 3 done... I completed all the campaign missions.. I need to complete 1 more quick mission achievement and I have to complete 2 more secondary objectives..

[IRISH]

[QUOTE=DJSteel;6436] I need to complete 1 more quick mission achievement QUOTE]

elite? ...if that's not the one you need, I got the rest rather easily...let me know if you want to play some co-op tomorrow night.....

[DJSteel]

actually it's the bulls eye.. 100% accuracy

[DeaconBlade]

http://unscripted360.com/2006/08/10/showcase-e/

e answers a little bit about the process for Xbox Live operations when the system has to be taken down. it just dawned on me that it applies :lol:

[Antediluvia]

It's still not back online... must... keep.. breathing...

[Mocha Jive]

Bull's eye is easy kill one guy nice clean shot then have your team do all the rest. I did mine I believe on the first quick mission after the training junk.

[IRISH]

Bull's eye is easy kill one guy nice clean shot then have your team do all the rest. I did mine I believe on the first quick mission after the training junk.

yup...thnx mocha...I meant to tell DJ that when I got home from work...guess you beat me to it.......:irish:

any tips for elite?

[Mocha Jive]

Bull's eye is easy just kill one guy nice clean shot then have your team kill all the rest of the guys and finish the mission. I did mine on the first mission after the traing junk.

[DJSteel]

i thought it was that easy but I didn't get the achievement...

[Gripman]

Another update.


“They’re still working on it. Lot’s of people running up and down the halls from office to office working on the issue. No ETA, but it should not be too much longer".

I am doing mini-updates on Twitter, since my site is either under attack from Digg or /. ;)”

http://www.majornelson.com/archive/2007/03/27/not-yet.aspxCheck this site out for more updates from Nelson.
http://twitter.com/majornelson

[Karma]

This was definitely just back end cleaning on the servers, right? No dashboard update or anything?

[DJSteel]

Major nelson says there is a surprise...

[Zarra]

I was hoping to download Shivering Isles tonight. I guess waiting one more day will not kill me.

[DJSteel]

MN says very soon...

[big isy]

I should mention the rumour flying around about Halo 3 beta being up after this update.

[Antediluvia]

I should mention the rumour flying around about Halo 3 beta being up after this update.

I had not heard about that, so I looked it up and found this (really big) thread from the Bungie forums with some excellent DeaconBlade-esque research into it: http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=10372987

[DJSteel]

that would fit..since my 360 is officially broken...

[big isy]

Live site is back up so I'm guessing Live on the 360 is up too.

[big isy]

strike that Live is down on the 360.

[IRISH]

xbox.com is back online.....I'm hearing live is as well, but you'll have to take my word for that........co-op graw 2 anyone?:irish:

[big isy]

Just checked Live and it ain't up. :)

[big isy]

no, wait its up! lol, I'm getting a headache

[IRISH]

I'm back online .... :irish: