NEWS: Microsoft Offers Free Xbox LIVE Arcade Title for Outages

GEEK: Microsoft Offers Free Xbox LIVE Arcade Title for Outages

Earlier this month Microsoft's Xbox LIVE service was unreliable at best. Users were greeted with either frequent Yo-Yo disconnects (Connected! Not connected. Connected! Not connected.) or cryptic messages about Windows LIVE IDs - just in time for the post-Christmas present game-fest.



As they attempted to address the situation, Microsoft assured their loyal players that it was not the result of hackers or hardware failure, but the "largest sign-up of new members to Xbox LIVE in our 5 year history," according to LIVE's manager Marc Whitten. And instead of a simple apology, they decided to hand every LIVE subscriber a free game for their trouble.

The game description, from Xbox.com:

punk invites Xbox enthusiasts to check out the Xbox Et Al Group.

Well, while I wish I could get any bloody game I wanted, I'll take what I can get.

Thanks for the update, punk.

-TM

Sucks for folks who already have Undertow, too.

Here's hoping I get my xbox back from the Red Ring of DeathCamp in time.
I'm all about free games.

Wish they just give me gamerpoints, but YES to free achivments

Is it just me, or does Undertow really suck? I'm loving the part with the free game, just not the part with the squinting at impossible to see pin-head sized graphics.

Maybe its time for a new TV.

Undertow is a crap game, they should have given us microsoft points instead to the equivalent of the arcade game we would like. But then I think this is a lame compo anyway