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Xbox Live GM Apologizes For Downtime, Offers Free XBLA Game |
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Xbox Live GM Apologizes For Downtime, Offers Free XBLA Game |
In a statement to the press released tonight, Marc Whitten, the General Manager of Microsoft's Xbox Live service for the Xbox 360, has apologized for technical issues on the service over the holidays, due to the "massive increase in usage" from new members - and offered an Xbox Live Arcade title for free by way of compensation.
According to comments by Whitten received by Gamasutra, the Xbox Live GM explained the outages on the service as follows:
"During this past holiday season you helped us break a number of Xbox Live records. This included our largest sign-up of new members to Xbox Live in our 5 year history and just yesterday you broke the record for the single biggest day of concurrent members ever on the service.
As a result of this massive increase in usage we know that some of you experienced intermittent Xbox Live issues over the holiday break. While the service was not completely offline at any given time, we are disappointed in our performance. I would like to take this moment to thank you each and every one of you for your patience and understanding as our team has worked around the clock to return the service to a stable state.
At the same time we would like to offer a token of our appreciation to all of you in celebration of record success for the service.
And as a thank you for your loyalty during this holiday period, we will be offering all of our Xbox Live members around the world access to a full Xbox Live Arcade game that will be available to download free of charge. In the coming weeks we will be sharing the specific details of this offer with you."
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=16822"
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