(As none of you will remember, a few months ago I bought a PS3. I was fed up with MS and the service I was paying for. A service which was broken for a month and which Sony are giving away for FREE.)
Dear Sir/Madam,
I have just been perusing a
few of my
favourite websites on this internets and discovered a sadly bitter, and familiar set of articles referring to Xbox Live. The service you charge me the price of a full game for, once per year.
As you may remember from my previous letter (01.04.2008 -
Dear Xbox Live: You Asshat.) I have been disappointed by your efforts in being able to cope with predictable traffic spikes. You told me you had learnt from your mistakes, and that everything was fine. You even gave me a free game to make up for it.
This made me happy and I assumed, as you said, everything was fixed. Then these new map packs came out for the best game ever, Callings of Duty. You knew how many people had the game, you also knew several of these people might want to get these maps. Yet, once again, you failed to provide a solid backbone to your service. You failed to adequately provide a working service.
So, you didn't really learn anything did you? What exactly has changed since January?
Please, either make the Live service free, or make it worth the money. There is no middle ground here. Home is just around the corner and unless you want
Mr. Sterling to be right, I suggest you sort your shit out. Fast.
Yours
hugs and kisses
disappointedrox
Oh look, another post from Wardrox moaning about something Call of Duty related!
However, on this occasion (and this occasion only) I agree with you, the extra traffic for the CoD4 maps cannot have been that much greater than at Christmas.
If Microsoft really did fix their servers why the hell are we still getting crap service at times like this?
Dear MS; Sort it the fuck out. Much love. McSnow
yawn.
I agree. Live was pretty much bent over a barell, if you know what I mean. Though I did have a fun time with you guys playing Halo 3. I'll make sure to come again next time.
@ Ron, beta.
You have inspired me sir.
So true, so true...
They could have p repaired for this. You know airports run more flights in times with more air traffic, that sort of thing. They need servers that can at least handle the number of subscriptions they have.
I like how you gave them hugs and kisses. It's like when your dog bites your hand multiple times but you feed it stale kibbles and bits anyway.
Also, sonsabitches.
OH NOES.
But if you go, you'll never feel the epic joy of getting Undertow 2 for free! Oh, Mister Gates, surely now you see the folly in distributing COD Maps without a plan. How are we supposed to move to digital distribution when your system can't even handle a popular piece of DLC. Just imagine if the popular file were an HD movie; the single compy486 running the service would explode into itself and form a black hole. Yes, a similar black hole to where our money goes when we have to buy additional blocks of microsoft points for the odd amounts.
I missed a large chunk of the Euro FNF because of this and that makes me one angry panda! one more reason why CoD4 sucks!
O so true Microsoft really should be better than this, it's quite sad their not, hell even Nintendo's crappy online service works more...
@Seth
Did you really contrast the reliability of xbox live to the airline industry...apparently you havent ever been overbooked for a flight on christmas eve
Dammit not again I guess Ill go back to my triples to sooth the wounds witha game or two of CoD4
emo
Emodrox strikes again!
As much as a love my Xbox and the Live service I have to admit that it is a giant pain in the ass, I live in fear of the console and the service, it could explode at any time - it scares me.
PS3 on the other hand, while not as robust and developed as Live, is extremely reliable in comparison, I don't think I've ever had an issue with it that wasn't my fault.
I'll go play some lag-free Mario Strikers while its down. Worth mentioning that after the Christmas crash my Live didn't get working again until February.
Oh well, another chance to get Undertow free eh?
;_; moar plz
he pays for it so hes entitled to bitch.
the same rule applies to people who bitch about their government and they actually vote.
*another bites the dust*
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I couldn't read your post to well, correct me if I'm wrong but you said, WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, EVERYTHING DOESNT WORK LIKE I WANT IT TO WORK, WAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
Is that about right?
Go back to PS3 and the soon to be home, I'll begin the countdown now for the inevitable, "PSN SUCKS AND IS SO SLOW WAHHHHHHHHHH" blogs that are bound to happen eventually.
I love you, wardrox. Now come...let us bask in the glory of free online gaming — on the dark side.
EMODROX
You know, even if PSN does start to suck and have some hiccups at some point. Guess what, I won't be too upset because I didn't pay one single red cent for it.
angrydrox.
good work, stand us for the little man for once. although i have personally had no problems, too right with the letter as all my friends whine like bitches about their connections