Hi everyone. Xbox Live has been up and down for many of you all day. We will be disabling the streak counters tonight... so everyone gets a free pass... So if you see an entry tomorrow saying that you didn't play...don't worry... it won't hurt your streak. I will try and put a little note in there too so that it makes it clear your streak is still alive.
Update 8:40pm CT
It appears that the Xbox Live outage is also preventing us from determining if you have a Gold account or Silver account which is blocking access to joining challenges. There isn't much we can do there... we hope the live issues are resolved ASAP. We check it real time so that people can upgrade their account and immediately join the challenge... maybe we need to rethink that for situations like this.
Update 11/11/2007 8:06am CT
It appears the outage caused a variety of issues with our data capture... and as luck would have it, there was a power outage at our data center... so we are now running on diesel generators! Good times... anyhow... there is some corrupted data and we are working through cleaning it out to get things back on track... you might see some missing pictures... some missing gamerscores... some missing entries... some missing streak updates... all of which are in the process of being investigated and repaired... thanks for your patience out there...
Update 11/11/2007 7:06pm CT
Things are pretty cleaned up at this point and measures have been taken to prevent THIS version of outage from greatly disrupting us again... it seems every outage is different!
Oh noes, Xbox Live is being killed by ur new awesome features. This always seems to happen. :(
Posted by: Peter | November 10, 2007 at 10:28 PM
Somehow I don't think it is us :)
Posted by: Trapper Markelz | November 10, 2007 at 10:30 PM
Maybe they are preparing for the Fall update? That would be infinite win. :) lol
Posted by: Peter | November 10, 2007 at 10:40 PM
Nah more likely someone just dorked out and broke something.
Posted by: Trapper Markelz | November 10, 2007 at 10:43 PM
That would suck to be that person, they would probly get fired on the spot.
Posted by: Peter | November 10, 2007 at 10:50 PM
I don't know what this post is referring to...I've been on Live all night and even earlier today and haven't experienced any problems at all...
Posted by: FamousLastX | November 11, 2007 at 12:37 AM
Glad it's not just me that's been having live issues. For an hour there I thought maybe my ISP cut off access to Live or something.
Posted by: Andre | November 11, 2007 at 01:05 AM
I think it's back online now.
Posted by: MooBaloo | November 11, 2007 at 02:47 AM
I am tracking each day(every 10 minutes) the status of xbox live, and creating
statisical images, this shows the biig picture on how "live" xbox-live actually is :)
http://www.acddv.com/
Also these statistics are available for the public as-well
Cem Aykan
Posted by: Cem Aykan | January 05, 2008 at 12:24 PM