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Xbox Live breaks concurrent users record News

Xbox 360 News by Ellie Gibson

13 November, 2009

A new record has been set for the number of Xbox Live users online at one time.

"We just hit a new Xbox Live record: Over TWO MILLION people connected to the service at once," wrote Major Nelson on his Twitter page.

Shacknews pointed out that the release of Modern Warfare 2 might have had something to do with it, as nearly a million people were playing the game on Live yesterday.

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t8yman
13/11/09 @ 08:56
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and meanwhile, the PSN is broken. no mention of that yet EG?
Since tuesday I (and everyone I know IRL) has found it completely impossible to connect to friends on the PSN for MW2. is there an official line?
muscleblade
13/11/09 @ 09:04
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I know i did. Need to get more stars. Addictive stuff that special ops.
rotmm
13/11/09 @ 09:04
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Yes, there is:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/mw2-ge...

""It's a server overload not a bug in the code. They're working to have servers back up ASAP," he wrote last night. "MP Servers gradually coming back online. Some users may still experience issues," he added a couple of hours later.

"Looks like it was the amount of connections at once that killed PSN. They're enabling 20,000 users at a time to connect now," he continued later in the evening. "I believe this is Sony/DemonWare's temporary solution while they work on fortifying the infrastructure.""


Looks like you haven't been one of the 20K people yet, but I'm sure it'll all be up and running soon.
mingster
13/11/09 @ 09:08
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PSN is not completely broken.
Played online all last night and with friends.
There is a bug in the friend invite but you can work around it by going to acvcount management press triangle - sign out - then sign back in and select your friend game invite. It works every time and you join your friends party.
mingster
13/11/09 @ 09:09
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Yeah we played special ops a lot too only got 10 stars and have put 8hours into it!
Toothball
13/11/09 @ 09:10
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I was on Xbox Live for several hours yesterday evening. None of those hours were spend on Modern Warfare.
mcmonkeyplc
13/11/09 @ 09:15
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I was on Halo waypoint last night for abit. I am a member of the rebel 1 million users!

cyacomini
13/11/09 @ 09:23
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Was playing Worms on Live! last night - hardly a bandwidth hog :)

I refuse to buy MW2 until I've finished WAW and MW1
Mongoose
13/11/09 @ 09:32
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I was playing Operation Flashpoint. Good news for Xbox Live though.
jambo74
13/11/09 @ 09:44
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@Mongoose

Trying to play you mean....
With all the 12 people worldwide who still play.

That game needs major work!
t8yman
13/11/09 @ 09:46
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no, my issue isnt with the complete arse failure of PSN on weds, its the fact that you cant invite or join any friends. google it, everyone has the same problem from what I can see. there is a workaround, but its a bit fiddly, and you obviously need all your friends to know the workaround too. it is still broken. the failure on weds was the complete inability to even get to a lobby. this is different.
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13/11/09 @ 09:50
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@jambo74 Yeah I know, in fairness I was playing co-op, which works flawlessly for me on Live. But certainly they ballsed up the multiplayer in general considering it was the series' strength.
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13/11/09 @ 09:57
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2 million people playing xbox - jesus christ, that's like, what... 40 girlfriends angry too.
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13/11/09 @ 10:00
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Suddenly PSN being free is catching up with people. You really don't get something for nothing people. Least of all a reliable online service!
dr_faulk
13/11/09 @ 10:08
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I've never seen so many people play the one game on my friends list. Only GTAIV came close.

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metalangel
13/11/09 @ 11:00
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No doubt a record has also been set for the number of 12 year olds shrieking 'fag', 'n00b' and 'nigger' at each other while teabagging furiously.

I was playing Puzzle Bobble, locally, with SWMBO, so she wasn't angry.
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13/11/09 @ 11:56
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@superted
So you are saying if I search for xbox live down in google I will not encounter results ? like this http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2008/... ? or this year http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/sho... so tell me again what do we get and what don't we get when we pay and don't pay.
Brogan
13/11/09 @ 12:48
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And all of them were better than me.
davisorle
13/11/09 @ 15:31
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Its ok.. you can keep bitching about ppl that pay a total of 40$ for whole year of great online and how free PSN is. Well stick with it, really. Just stop compairing a perfect online service with the freebie. Simple stuff. Other than that my PC always comes first and where ive been playing MW2 at. Amen to Spec Ops.

And no my GF plays with me some times, my games too :P She's no miracle but she knows how to play very well actually. And complains that we cant play S[ec Ops on the same Screen cause on the damn PC version at least there is not splitscreen.. :/ Is there on the console version splitscreen? I havent looked it up.
beckyh
14/11/09 @ 11:49
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Over two million users and xbox live puts me into a game with French speaking users. What is that all about then?
tnt_2008smum
14/11/09 @ 18:48
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"2 million people playing xbox - jesus christ, that's like, what... 40 girlfriends angry too."

wow you are so f**king funny!
Wyrm
14/11/09 @ 20:54
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What what? PSN has been rock solid for me. Clocked in a fair few hours of MW2 yesterday and today and not a hitch.
richyroo
15/11/09 @ 09:36
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I own a 360 and bought a PS3 the other week. I have been playing MW2 on the PS3 and have to say it has been performing online just as well as the 360's live service. The only thing I miss is I dont have a mic or the frinds on the PS3, but as far as an online service goes, I have no complaints!
JimmyT67
17/11/09 @ 08:42
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Sounds like PSN went through what XBL went through when Halo 3 came out, just couldn't handle that many users.

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