XBox Peace Offering
Did anyone else get pissed off trying to sign into Xbox Live over the Holidays? It was so frustrating have time off work to stare at a non-functional xbox and not play new games!
Turns out that Microsoft actually felt sorry for users and is making a peace offering. Check this out:
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
Pretty sweet eh? What’s a good Arcade game to grab?