+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted December 11, 2008 Subscriber² Share Posted December 11, 2008 With Microsoft sporting a cheaper console and the need to upgrade all new Xbox 360s to the New Xbox Experience come Christmas morning, it seems that a repeat of last year's Live crash is imminent.Not so, says Aaron Greenberg, group product manager for Xbox 360. "We?ve built a lot of infrastructure, a lot of behind the curtain no one sees," he said. "This is something that Microsoft is good at. "We are well prepared for the type of growth we expect this holiday." And if things do go sideways, Greenberg promises that Microsoft will be prepared. "We will have people standing by, more people on hand than we've ever had before," he said. "Knock on wood we will hopefully not have any issues." Source: http://kotaku.com/5106957/xbox-live-christ...nt-happen-again Good news as I'm sure with the influx of traffic at Christmas due to the 360 prices, we'll have a megaton of people trying to connect Christmas day. I mean, screw the Turkey, who doesn't want a massive dose of gaming on Christmas day:p:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunknMunky Veteran Posted December 11, 2008 Veteran Share Posted December 11, 2008 I think it goes without saying they learnt a lot of lessons from last xmas and will definitely be more prepared this time around. Sadly I won't be on XBL on xmas day, I'll probably be spending it at my mum's! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traxor Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 I'm going to turn it on just on the hope that I won't be able to connect, it'll mean more freebies for us Gold users (Y). I'm not going to be playing it though, I have far more important things to worry about, like PRESENTS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted December 11, 2008 Author Subscriber² Share Posted December 11, 2008 I have far more important things to worry about, like PRESENTS! Fair enough, but many peoples presents WILL be a 360 :rofl: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoraKX Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 hmmm, if they have all the infrastructure they need why was xbl timing out and slow as hell when nxe launched. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunknMunky Veteran Posted December 11, 2008 Veteran Share Posted December 11, 2008 hmmm, if they have all the infrastructure they need why was xbl timing out and slow as hell when nxe launched. I've not had any problems at all :blink: and I'm a pretty heavy XBL user! gtfo with fat jokes, you know what I mean! :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 well I finally decided to dust up the old 360 and play some Uno since they're giving out free play for Silver members in Dec :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunknMunky Veteran Posted December 11, 2008 Veteran Share Posted December 11, 2008 Rudy, you have to be the most hard to pleased gamer I've ever known. You even outdo Sethos! :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 Rudy, you have to be the most hard to pleased gamer I've ever known.You even outdo Sethos! :p Give me an HD remake a la SFIIHD (which looks AWESOME btw) of an RPG that was on the SNES and I'll buy it.....I might even buy it twice...just to show my support :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunknMunky Veteran Posted December 11, 2008 Veteran Share Posted December 11, 2008 If I could make it happen I would :p Just to see you happy for a change in this subforum! lol Although, I think it's unlikely since all the good ones you'd want are probably licensed to Ninty? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
what Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 Apparently Steve Ballmer was infuriated by what happened last year. If we get similar problems this time around you can bet there'll be some sackings in Redmond. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sethos Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 Last years problems were so damn annoying, specially because it was shortly after the release of Call of Duty 4 and it was impossible to play for weeks! But again, they gave us a great compensation gift :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 If I could make it happen I would :p Just to see you happy for a change in this subforum! lolAlthough, I think it's unlikely since all the good ones you'd want are probably licensed to Ninty? Not really, there's no reason why Final Fantasy or something like that couldn't be remade (another time lol....but this time it would be worth it, I loved the FF remake on the PSP). But there's a few good looking RPGs for the 360 that I still have to try out.... I just need more time (Chrono Trigger for the DS didn't help :() Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fix-this! Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 Source: http://kotaku.com/5106957/xbox-live-christ...nt-happen-againGood news as I'm sure with the influx of traffic at Christmas due to the 360 prices, we'll have a megaton of people trying to connect Christmas day. I mean, screw the Turkey, who doesn't want a massive dose of gaming on Christmas day? :p christmas should be spent with your families, not playing video games that will rot your brain. im glad im not a gamer and im pretty strict with my kids and gaming too, it's not healthy at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted December 11, 2008 Author Subscriber² Share Posted December 11, 2008 christmas should be spent with your families, not playing video games that will rot your brain. im glad im not a gamer and im pretty strict with my kids and gaming too, it's not healthy at all. I do spend the majority of Christmas with my family. But not the whole 24 hours of the day :rolleyes: I'm 21 years old, not 4. My parents/family and friends also like their own time in the evening, when they usually get drunk and talk nonsense haha. The turkey comment was a joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afusion Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 Audioboxer should play Halo 3 on Christmas day. That way we can carry our crazy forum discussions over headsets :p :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mystic MVC Posted December 11, 2008 MVC Share Posted December 11, 2008 Last years problems were so damn annoying, specially because it was shortly after the release of Call of Duty 4 and it was impossible to play for weeks! But again, they gave us a great compensation gift :rolleyes: Maybe out for weeks for some, but it ended up for me only having a couple hours out of say 3-4 days that were spotty, otherwise it was fine. On one had it was a huge problem, but on the other, it was just a testament to how many people were using their service which is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HawkMan Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 I do spend the majority of Christmas with my family.But not the whole 24 hours of the day :rolleyes: I'm 21 years old, not 4. My parents/family and friends also like their own time in the evening, when they usually get drunk and talk nonsense haha. The turkey comment was a joke. the question we should be asking is, what is he doing in the gaming forums, in a topic about box outages when he's neither a gamer o plays xbox... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spenser.d Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 christmas should be spent with your families, not playing video games that will rot your brain. im glad im not a gamer and im pretty strict with my kids and gaming too, it's not healthy at all. Quite the contrary. Videogames increase your visual/spatial abilities and can help reaction times. Too much gaming can be detrimental, but then again, too much of anything can be detrimental. As far as gaming on Xmas, I usually wouldn't, but then again that's usually because one of my family gatherings was always on Xmas day. It's not this year. I've one on the 20th and one on the 28th, so it'll be those two days that I'm not gaming. The crash last year didn't affect me much. I didn't have too much time to play among doing other things, so it wasn't a bother. -Spenser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrunknMunky Veteran Posted December 11, 2008 Veteran Share Posted December 11, 2008 and more and more games bring families together :yes: On xmas day 2006 I spent a lot of it playing Wii Sports with my mum :p Then we did the whole xmas lunch/dinner and at night they watched all the extra long xmas soaps or w/e while I played Zelda (Y) But continue trolling about something you don't completely understand / or have an interest in Smooth (Y) Nobody really cares about your anti-games attitude around here, you know..the Gamers Hangout etc etc ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afusion Posted December 11, 2008 Share Posted December 11, 2008 Quite the contrary. Videogames increase your visual/spatial abilities and can help reaction times. Too much gaming can be detrimental, but then again, too much of anything can be detrimental.-Spenser Right on the money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Audioboxer Subscriber² Posted December 12, 2008 Author Subscriber² Share Posted December 12, 2008 Right on the money Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afusion Posted December 12, 2008 Share Posted December 12, 2008 *saves* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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