XBL Subscribers Recieving Free XBLA Game Because of Downtime!

Dear Xbox LIVE Members:

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.

Thank you again for helping make Xbox LIVE everything that it is today!

Sincerely,

Marc Whitten

General Manager, Xbox LIVE

Gamertag: Notwen

Hope its a good one!

I guess you missed the part that there was no downtime. The service just hasn't been running as smooth.

I guess you missed the part that there was no downtime. The service just hasn't been running as smooth.

wmc540

[QUOTE="wmc540"]

I guess you missed the part that there was no downtime. The service just hasn't been running as smooth.

II-FBIsniper-II

I consider it downtime when I can't play games online. I didn't have any problems playing games online, but some of my txt messages weren't sending and like you said some of the dashboard wouldn't load. That really didn't stop anything though.

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Once again M$ is taking responsibility. Now I wonder what arcade game would that be, Street Fighter 2 Hyper HD Remix?

Once again M$ is taking responsibility. Now I wonder what arcade game would that be, Street Fighter 2 Hyper HD Remix?

ReverseCycology

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wewerebornlost

http://www.majornelson.com/Default.aspx

That's sweet....my questions are....

What's the point limit on the game?

Is it from a pre-selected group of games?

That's sweet....my questions are....

What's the point limit on the game?

Is it from a pre-selected group of games?

MikeE21286

Lets hope its pretty decent, I wish I could pick one, if so I would get Metal Slug 3.ArisShadows

[QUOTE="ArisShadows"]Lets hope its pretty decent, I wish I could pick one, if so I would get Metal Slug 3.II-FBIsniper-II

I would take that too.

[QUOTE="MikeE21286"]

That's sweet....my questions are....

What's the point limit on the game?

Is it from a pre-selected group of games?

II-FBIsniper-II

Yeah, that's what I figured......we'll probably get like Uno or something silly

[QUOTE="II-FBIsniper-II"][QUOTE="MikeE21286"]

That's sweet....my questions are....

What's the point limit on the game?

Is it from a pre-selected group of games?

MikeE21286

Yeah, that's what I figured......we'll probably get like Uno or something silly

I kinda wanted to get Uno, but didnt really want to pay for it.

[QUOTE="MikeE21286"][QUOTE="II-FBIsniper-II"][QUOTE="MikeE21286"]

That's sweet....my questions are....

What's the point limit on the game?

Is it from a pre-selected group of games?

ArisShadows

Yeah, that's what I figured......we'll probably get like Uno or something silly

I kinda wanted to get Uno, but didnt really want to pay for it.

Well HEY...Win Win for ya then!

I kinda wanted like Puzzle Quest or Super Puzzle Figther HD

yay, I didnt get any downtime, and plus I got a free arcade game to boot :D xbl ftwamorbis1001

same here

[QUOTE="MikeE21286"][QUOTE="II-FBIsniper-II"][QUOTE="MikeE21286"]

That's sweet....my questions are....

What's the point limit on the game?

Is it from a pre-selected group of games?

ArisShadows

Yeah, that's what I figured......we'll probably get like Uno or something silly

I kinda wanted to get Uno, but didnt really want to pay for it.

Let's just all hope, it's not Yaris 2 :roll:DXGreat1_HGL

not funny.

it be cool if you can select a game of your choosing. sucks if they make a game free that i already own.

Let us choose the game M$!

I don't care about the game. I just like the fact that they owned up to it PDQ and are offering compensation.

Public relations +1 bonus.

Good on ya MS.

It's cool they are offering something, yet at the same time it's complete bs.

They are most likely going to offer some rubbish game i don't want and that's supposed to make up for live being **** for about a week.

Yay! Not a free month of LIVE but a boring Arcade game! If its Metal Slug 3 or Streets of Rage, all is forgiven.jackvegas21

MS should do a poll of the game that should be free.

I hope it´s a good one...I want Castlevania!Or at least Bomberman Live...but I bet it needs to have something to do with Microsoft itself so I don´t think so...:cry:

Doom whould be great,but it´s not aviable in Germany...

probably something like Robotron or Joust:xPhantomSpartan

Lol can't believe people are complaining that it may be a game they don't want! It' FREE get it and try it out whatever it is!!Wats_o

Well if you are paying for a service and it isn't working correctly iy is nice to be compensated for your loss. If they give you a choice of a small gift it means you can get somethign of value to you. If they don't and you are given something which is rubbish, then it doesn't really compensate you does it.

This is assuming the free game is rubbish of course. They could surprise us and give us something cool.

[QUOTE="Wats_o"]Lol can't believe people are complaining that it may be a game they don't want! It' FREE get it and try it out whatever it is!!wiganath

Well if you are paying for a service and it isn't working correctly iy is nice to be compensated for your loss. If they give you a choice of a small gift it means you can get somethign of value to you. If they don't and you are given something which is rubbish, then it doesn't really compensate you does it.

This is assuming the free game is rubbish of course. They could surprise us and give us something cool.