Halo: Master Chief Collection Servers Go Down

Update: Xbox Live is experiencing issues. Both "Purchase and Content Usage" and "Social and Gaming" are "limited." After intermittent issues with the live streamed event, HaloFest, it appears as though servers for Halo: Master Chief Collection have crashed.

[DragonbornZ]

Hm? I just played a few matches.
Started playing right after 12

[yarbie1000]

http://gyazo.com/aa72370d94...

[ZombieKiller]

See PlayStation isn't the only one with network issues.
XBL goes down too. Stop acting like it doesn't fanboys. Driveclub was a mistake, so is this. People make mistakes.

As long as it's fixed so you guys (and some of my friends) can play asap.

[BattleAxe]

^^^

Yeah, but Playstation doesn't currently have any games with the kind of demand that Halo commands. There are probably close to a million people trying to log onto the Halo servers right now.

[Cream]

It's not a competition...
Rip Microsoft a new one!
Maybe my service will get better... unlike AW.

[illAmpRefugee]

@Battle axe theres gaurenteed was more than 1 million ppl playin cod aw on ps4 midnight launch

[indyman7777]

So basically it will be back up, and we will have access to HALO at 1080P AND 60FPS to boot am I right?!

High res and smooth play! Take it to the hole!

[NobleTeam360]

@ZombieKiller, I would agree except XBL isn't down.

[turdburgler1080]

11/11/2014 4:50:43 PM CST:
Hi Xbox members, we are aware that some of you are having issues posting statistics to leaderboards and viewing the online state of other users on your Friends list. We're currently working hard to get these issues fixed and we appreciate your patience while we work. We'll update you again, right here, in 30 minutes.

Source: http://support.xbox.com/en-...
That's the only issue that's listed on xbox live status page so it looks like alls well again.

[kevnb]

Yet call of duty will easily outsell the master chief collection, even on Xbox one alone.

[Utalkin2me]

@iNFAMOUZ1

"Halo is my childhood", That shows me how old you are. And secondly MS never had the crown to begin with, how can they retain something they never had?

[beereal360]

Crown. Lmao. How are you making off getting sony rich. Ohh nothing. Get a life

[nicksetzer1]

Pretty large assumption to say that it is server issues considering it is not even globally launvhed yet and there are a huge amount of playlist, many peiple have to download a 60gb patch, etc. Most likely just not many players have the game up and ready yet it is only the east coast really so far.

Also, those other mode are not matchmaking...

@aluc I would hardly say widespread, most likely still just a small user base and large amount of playlists.
http://www.twitch.tv/direct...

Also, if servers are down why do custom games work fine?

[Alucardx03]

Check out the story. This is a fairly widespread issue. The servers launched over an hour ago and many people, including myself, still cannot connect.

[Bennibop]

I cannot connect either, already annoyed at waiting for the excessive sized patch and initial download.

[Kayant]

60GB???? Don't you mean 20GB. That would be one hell of a ridiculous patch size

[nicksetzer1]

Total install size, most people are bringing the disc home as of 12pm local time... it's about 17GB patch.

[Griever]

"Digital Future" my friend, digital future...

[CannonB8]

Isn't 20GB a ridiculous patch size?

[Volkama]

@CannonD8 It's not really a patch so much as it is the whole multiplayer component. The 4 games didn't fit on 1 disc, and apparently the xbox can't install off of 2 discs.

Having said that, there have been other day one patches that come close to that size.

[Kayant]

@CannonB8

Oh it is but 60GB is just BS.

@nick

Well you said "download" so...

[Nightcyberspud]

The 20 GB wasn't just a patch. It was multiplayer content that they couldn't fit on the disc.

[Give_me_head_strong]

@Volkama- "Apparently the Xbox One can't install off two disks.." Um, are you dumb? 343i already stated that they didn't want two disks in the package, hence the 17GB install.

[Volkama]

@Give_Me_Head_Strong No, I'm not dumb.

343i said they didn't want you to have to swap discs. Which you wouldn't have to do even if the game came on 2 discs, because all games install and play directly off the hard drive. Unless for some reason the Xbox can't install data off 2 discs, which is possibly somethng they over-looked when "flipping the switch" on how discs work.
____

Halo franchise development director Frank O'Connor has said that the game was "designed to run as a single, unified product", something that switching discs would have interrupted.

"Digital is seamless obviously, but we also wanted disc users to have the same experience, without swapping discs,"
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[Alucardx03]

The problems are affecting Xbox Live as well...

http://support.xbox.com/en-...

[nicksetzer1]

That has been up since 11/8 and has not yet gone down, it was up at 12pm this afternoon also, well before release. Not sure why as it clearly isn't down.

Again though, you have provided no evidence of "server struggle" on this situation just matchmaking issues. People are clearly playing and custom games are working. Also, MS or 343 have not reported it, so until then making up reason why is not the correct procedure.

If you article was "matchmaking issues" and not "server struggles" it would be accurate. However making assumptions (that are most likely incorrect) is surely not a good idea.

[Alucardx03]

You wanna take down that report now?

Xbox members, are you having a tough time matchmaking in Halo: The Master Chief Collection? As you read this message, we’re working with our external partner to correct this issue right away. We appreciate your patience in the meantime! We’ll update you again when we have more information.
Additionally, it’s come to our attention that some of our members are having a tough time viewing the online state and activity of other users on their Friends list. Hang in there, folks! As you read this message, we’re working with our partner to correct this issue. Thanks for your patience while we work. We’ll update you again in half an hour.

[DragonbornZ]

They aren't down, but they are struggling. I just got done with a Halo 2 classic match after struggling to find more players for a Team Anniversary one.
That's why I was like "huh"? The title is misleading (Unfortunately as this place shall be filled with trolls because of it *sigh*), but the article is on point.

[TheBrit]

then you probably shouldn't say 'a 60 gig patch' as that is very misleading. The original day one patch was 20 gig and they dropped it to 15.

[xTheSociopathx]

im in cali and the servers are down but i aint trippin so much content to rifle through while they get their servers sorted.

[qwerty676]

as long as it doesnt effect ACU, one more hour

[Jaqen_Hghar]

You should be playing the single player anyway. In fact if any of you Halo players aren't enjoying SP which has infinitely more replay value than any MP because it's telling a well crafted story (think of re-reading your favorite book or popping in the bluray of your favorite cinematic masterpiece). A man loves that he never liked a single online MP for more than a week before getting bored but can get infinite hours out of a great single player because you can always go back and enjoy the story on easy (doing it right now with Uncharted 2 actually)

[mhunterjr]

As much as l love Halo's single player, I've put thousands of hours into halo2's MP as a youth. Both modes provided replayability, but the desire to hit level 50 certainly brought me back more than the campaign. I went online almost daily for two years.

[Acrodragoon]

Ummm... No. While the campaigns in Halo are enjoyable, the multiplayer is far and away the best experience halo has to offer. To say the MP gets boring in a week combined with you recommending to play campaign on easy forces me to believe you are just bad at FPS's. It's a shame you took such a great characters name as your tag, somewhere out there a man is displeased with your representation.

[EmptySkyForm]

But But But, Xbox Live is so good! There's no way their servers would go down! PSN will forever be trash!

In all seriousness people need to wake up. It can happen to any server. Remember how the destiny beta brought down xbox live? Yet people seem to want to forget that. Let's just hope this gets fixed asap so you lucky bastards can enjoy your halo.

[beastModeOn]

You speak the truth man. Now wait for those disagrees.

[marlinfan10]

no, no disagrees. the ps fanboys all flocked over together so you're looking okay. i asked someone else to do the same, but why don't you link me somewhere where you see xbox fans saying xbox never has any sort of problems? id really like to see where people have been saying that, cause ive never seen it. i doubt ill get a link though so just keep on trolling buddy

[Kemo_Spear]

@marlinfan, no need for links. Just go to any Driveclub story and you will see them.

[Ripsta7th]

How come you guys always try to play the victim first?!? I have yet to see a single comment up therefrom any xbox guys , just you Sony fans alredy playing the victim before anyone has said anything

[Why o why]

Lol...try going into a driveclub article or any sales article then tell me about 'playing victim' ....blinkers dont suit your costume my friend.

I'm sure they'll be up soon enough. . Nothing is infallible. This is nothing for anybody to be gloating over either....it sucks for gamers and despite our differing preferences, we're all still gamers.

[MrCherry]

Thk you, 10 years down road gamers say sony and thiy say what?

[MrCherry]

Oooo nice to see you care.

[SJPFTW]

LOL but in all seriousness has Xbox Live ever been down for a whole month? This is one games servers, on launch day, not the whole network, like cmaan hardly equivalent.

[Oschino1907]

So you are equating being attacked by a group of hackers to server problems probably overload ones at that?

Got to love the Xbox fanboy logic. I see more PS fans and fanboys basically saying "see, it can happen to the best of them" even if obnoxious about it which is far more mature compared to the average Xbox fanboy comments.

[SJPFTW]

Like PSN never had server issues with launch games? Yes PSN was hacked, because of flaws in the networks security due to Sony's oversight. Unable to play a game for a couple hours is not as bad as having your personal information and credit card number being stolen.

[dragon82]

There has not been one reported case of someone having their credit card info stolen. Sony also gave away a free year of identity theft/fraud protection to all PSN users just in case.

I think it is about time people stop using that as some kind of ammo.

[Copenhagen]

Consider this if you can okay. MS has 2 platforms for xbox live to support okay TWO...Sony supports every PSP version,PS3,PS4 with PSN the PS3 has more active online users than live because PSN is still free on on PS3's and PSP's. It's complete idea u to even attempt to compare the two when across all platforms I'd venture a guess that PSN has double the online users of the 360 and X1 combined. More traffic is more issues and when only one of those platforms is the only one bringing in money that being the PS4 yeah you're going to have more issues than Live with half the users. People just don't stop and truly think anymore they just write whatever comes to mind and it's the act of being willfully ignorant.

[jznrpg]

But the Azure servers are made of magic and there are 500000 for each game.

[supersonicjerry]

Only fanboys think that servers can't go down for Microsoft but everyone knows that xboxlive is way better than PSN. Lets just see how long it takes them to fix this issue with Halo.

[DLConspiracy]

I love how people are excited and waiting for something to go wrong on a launch of MCC. All that does is build more peoples intolerance when PSN inevitably will go down. Nobody ever said XBL was perfect. They just said it was better.

However I mostly played campaign at midnight but also tried out multiplayer last night. It was working it was just taking a long time for each match.

[Bodge]

Consoles, they just work.

[Jonny5isalive]

barely.

[Jaqen_Hghar]

Guess this is what "dedicated" fans get, if you get a man's drift ;) ;) nudge nudge

[RobLoPR]

That only proves how many Xbox owners are playing online... I live in Puerto Rico so we are used to downtime, slow internet speeds and lag... itll be fixed soon... a little patience people.

[staticdash22]

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[THC CELL]

People need to stop tit for tatting

[Kingoftherodeo]

i think its up now couldn't connect since 1am est but now I'm having no trouble finding people

[Ra3030]

I just got my X1 last week and It took 3 days for my Halo MCC to Dnload 3 days! Now I can't even get into the game. I give up.

[RyujiDanma]

nice try, ur anti X1 comments say otherwise

[XiYakushijuAkeginuXi]

Lol what a poor poor soul. I do not understand why people pretend having consoles

Edit: That's two poor souls. You two should get married! Your names also start with the same letter. You two have a lot in common!

[beastModeOn]

And you spout anti ps4 rubbish.
What's the difference?

[hudsoniscool]

Really it took me only 4 1/2 hours.

[N4GDgAPc]

Just bought a X1 this week to play halo which installing right now. For how much praise I hear x1 live is its slow as hell. got the assassins creed package. Downloading unity took around 6 to 8hrs. Ps4 would of took 3/4 the time to download. But maybe its slow because of xbox live having problems now. Hopefully when fixed that improves it.

[N4GDgAPc]

Looks like it was because Xbox live problems because that 15gb halo update downloaded pretty fast.

[mhunterjr]

Pretty sad to see how Xbox lives reliabilty has actually taken a step backwards this Gen. This was arguably the biggest game of the year, MS should have had their Ducks in a row to prevent any outages tonight.

[MattE]

Well it is a big deal.. This MCC game ;)

Could have been worse.. And been flawed by an update ∆

[Father__Merrin]

I thought with 16 billion dollor azure servers this would not happen, this is a let down. Should be running soon anyhow

[dragon82]

It should help but big games will always stress the hell out of a network on the first couple days. People rush to play them right away the first few days and then settle back into normal gaming habits after that.

Azure servers are pretty nice. Most of their use comes from the corporate world though. Xbox is actually a very small piece of the Azure pie.

[lolosgolos]

What matters is how you deal with challenges. That's the difference between good and bad support

[objdadon]

Yeah.....I wasn't there for halo's origin, I'm gonna have to say I got into one match and the halo 2 controls suck ass! I need a modern setup or its back to destiny fast as hell for me!

[Farmassy]

yeah... destiny sucks.

Halo 2 is SO much better. Try learning the controls before complaining

kids these days

[objdadon]

Yeah try to understand that everyone is not a kid. I'm a grown ass man so stfu! Internet thugs these days! All I'm saying is halo 4 had a modern control layout option, you can't even sprint in this but people are saying phrases such as "the king is back". Lmao, so far I'd have to say I just don't see what there is to like about halo! Rather bland compared to destiny multiplayer. And yeah, I've probably been playing games since you got your first pimple so gtfoh!

[dmeador]

@objdadon Haha, you sound like a child for such a grown man. Especially considering you are horrible at put downs. Since he got his first pimple? Really? So when he was 14 you started playing games then?

You must be a child if you are complaining about the lack of a sprint button

[Farmassy]

wow. look at the disagrees.
there must be a lot of playstation fans in this article... how could so many people think destiny is better than halo 2? Its clearly not

[Flames76]

Been playing Halo since midnight for over 3 hours just now jumped off.Not a problem one with it but nice try fanboys.Yes Halo had around a half a million pre orders so it is alot but no problems at all as of yet on live.Damn between Advance Warfare being pre ordered most on the XOne and Halo having a half million pre orders live is really being put to the test.Keep up the good work microsoft

[JMyers]

Keep up the trolling

[G20WLY]

Yeah, Microsoft are probably lying about all the problems on their xbox live status page.../S

[MRMagoo123]

You know CODaw sold more on PS4 right ?

[Joeblow75]

Call of duty is for bad kids so do u, and stay of a real games blog!

[objdadon]

I'm throwing grenades with the left trigger.....wtf????

[SUCKxITxEZ]

You don't belong here. Go back to CoD, we won't miss you

[Farmassy]

yeah I don't understand how the control scheme is surprising people

suddenly people are saying, "What? It isn't like every other game I have played?"

also, these games have been out for a long time. How are people surprised by the gameplay?

[Steptoe]

The irony is undeniable.

[Joeblow75]

Disc taking forever to download can anyone tell me why?????

[sAVAge_bEaST]

The Xbone's glass house.

http://s24.postimg.org/6b35...

[Golden_Mud]

Go offline then download it , then come back on.

[DLConspiracy]

Whenever I have that problem it seems to have downloaded/installed faster than it shows. I soft restart it a couple times to check. Soft restart = not unplugging it just tapping the off button then on again . The few times I did it I was already downloaded and ready to play.

In fact, because I soft restarted. I was able to play 2 1\2 hours early before midnight. So I didn't complain.

[ManiacMansion]

This article is simply from a PS fanboys..

nothing is down... its all working fine.

[SmielmaN]

Sooooo MS official website is lying?

[Mr_Writer85]

Yes, Sony fanboys hacked it and pretended that Live was having issues.

Hahahahaha sorry I couldn't resist.

[SideNote]

I know, its so sad though that these people think their making any sort of difference to their so called war. Sure there's a few xbox fan boys just as embarrassingly dumb, but you have to applaud the Nintendo crowd for not getting involved in such petty things. Its sites like these that make me never want to ever own a ps4.

[jznrpg]

Sad you won't buy a console for those reasons , plenty of people I'm sure you won't care for on all products , Maybe more pedophiles play Nintendo you just don't know it.. Anyway buy them for the games you like , the main reason you should buy a system . By your logic you wouldn't own anything in this world , because there are assholes who buy the same shit we all do.

[kenshiro100]

Rofl, you guys are funny. This is proof that even XBL can have issues.

Now run along and trash talk PSN, as usual.

[fhizikz]

I doubt it will be down for 3 weeks

[Predaking77]

Oh karma comes to take its toll!

And making every xfan looks like a fool once again.

This is why you don't throw rocks to others when you have a crystal made rooftop.

[Stapleface]

To all the Sony trolls...I don't own an Xbox 1. But I did own a 360 last gen. I lost connection to XBL 1 time in 10 years. Since I bought my ps4, I have lost connection at least 10 times. Is it impossible for XBL to go down? No. Is is super rare? Yes. Do you have a card in the game when comparing online services when talking about stability? Absolutely not. Not even close. If I had to rate the stability of the two I'd give PSN a 2/10. XBL a 9/10 because nothing is perfect.

[mochachino]

I had a 360, Live was down a lot more than once.

[S2Killinit]

@stapleface
seriously? you must not turn on your console too often then

[Stapleface]

Actually I'm quite an ill person and I turn on my console(s) everyday. It's no different than the people who claim PSN isn't down when it is. However, for me, it never was, more than once on XBL. Down times don't always effect everyone, maybe I was just lucky. I understand there is always that scenario as well. Maybe it was down more than once for you, but there was never more than that one time I couldn't go online with my xbox 360. I'd be willing to bet I put more actual gaming hours in than a lot of you. I don't have comments on N4G from every hour of the day because I actually play my games instead of talk about them all day long.

[Jason_Plays_PC]

Funny that cause i got a platinum in bf3 on ps3 and never dc,d once..and that was alot of hours.. 2/10 is just trolling mate.

[Alsybub]

I'm on here a lot, reading the comments, and I have to say that I don't understand why everyone has to deal in extremes.

I've not really seen people saying that Xbox is never down, yet the anti Xbox people in here are saying that it's all Xbox fans ever say. Just seems a bit weird and kind of pointless. All it looks like is that those people are bitter for some reason. I don't want to look that way so I won't be involving myself in the dirt slinging. I'm just making an unbiased observation.

Also, most of the comments so far are from PlayStation fans. I really don't see the point. Even if it were Xbox fans throwing their toys out of the pram, because Live is down for a couple of hours, I'd still think it were pointless but I could at least understand that people can get passionate when they want to play their new game.

[BX81]

Thats what happens when you deal with children.

[IrishSt0ner]

The most popular Xbox stories on N4G are negative by a large majority. Check back any day of the week, been that way for quite some time now.

There were a few days around FH2 launch... filled with relevant good news, however the comments we populated with either 'why's there so many xboners lately?' or 'SEE proof this site isn't biased'... needless to say didn't take long to go back to 'normal'.

OT: Live has been stable for me, but it's not infallable, there's been more bugs on the network lately but personally I'm rarely affected by them.

[kenshiro100]

Maybe if those same Xbox fans didn't trash talk PSN in the first place when these problems are bound to happen on both consoles.

Just because Driveclub had its share of problems, doesn't mean PSN is a trash service. Just because Halo has its problems, doesn't mean XBL is a trash service.

Things happen.

[addictedtochaos]

Same thing happened when Halo 3 launched. This is nothing new.

[kstap33]

I played at 1:30am without issue.

[BabyTownFrolics]

God the discourse on this site is pathetic

[Neonridr]

Wow.. the maturity on this page is just overflowing..

Enjoy this game XB1 owners. I am super jealous...

[Veneno]

Why would you be jealous when you can go out any day and get yourself an Xone and a copy of MCC?

[Neonridr]

Because I don't have an Xbox One. I have a PS4. With a wife, a kid and a mortgage/bills It's hard to justify purchasing another game console for one game.

I am jealous because I wish I had one so I could play it.

Some day you'll understand.. ;)

[GoPanthers999]

Just remember to turn off your network when installing from disk. That way the online update won't delay the install. I really expect these companies to master servers for online, it is definitely a "no duh" that a ton of people are going to jump online at a games release. Especially since we are being hit with day one updates.

[GodGinrai]

lmao @ this thread. How much crow are you guys going to eat, when an article goes up by the end of the day, saying 'problem solved'?

[gangsta_red]

Exactly,

If the Halo multiplayer is down for three to four weeks, features are not complete and Phil comes out and says something that was promised to Halo fans is on indefinite hold, THEN these Sony fans can come out and start dancing on the ceiling.

But until then it's all ignorant, misplaced trolling.

These guys are just waiting in the trenches for any Xbox One game to score low, or any hiccup in XBL.

[Spotie]

Why would anybody be eating crow because of that? The only ones who'd have to eat their words are the Xbox fanboys in every Sony article acting like XBL is infallible.

Though I guess now that never happened, right?

[ironmonkey]

Down already? Disappointing.

[Ps4andxb1]

Driveclub servers down for weeks = tiny article

Halo MCC servers down for 10 mins = N4G explodes

[Clown_Syndr0me]

This sucks, I have work in like an hour. Been playing couch co op though, damn ive missed this.
So much fun! Shame I cant play online before work though, sort it out!
Don't want another Driveclub now do we!!

[joebeta]

I've been trying to find a match since midnight, and have yet to have luck.

[yarbie1000]

I've got several friends online playing atm

http://gyazo.com/aa72370d94...

[maxxco]

Wish I could be playing now but my disc is not here yet. Is this resolved yet?

[BX81]

10am in florida still cant get on.

[mochachino]

Seems like both companies need to work on their network stability.

[feraldrgn]

*gasp* shock horror.
Am I doing it right?

On topic, the internet is not stable in its entirety, you can expect this to happen with EVERY service.

[LAWSON72]

I am having no luck and have to go to work in a hr, so looks like I won't be playing til 6, hopefully it is running well by then. Either way, I checked out Halo 3 maps and IMO the game looks great and that 60 fps just blew me away. Can't wait to play some SWAT and Anniversary playlist, aswell as some Halo 3 MP.

[HeartlessGamer]

http://memecrunch.com/meme/...

[Kribwalker]

Oh the hate is so strong. Been connected to live no problem. Been playing custom matches with the kids across live on our xboxes,

having trouble with matchmaking, takes awhile to find a game, but that'd hardly be XBOX LIVE IS DOWN

COD works fine, as does sunset overdrive. Live isn't down, it's matchmaking issues

[peshkavusCA]

I see more concerned PS4 fanboys complaining about the server than actual Halo Players :)

[GodGinrai]

LOL, so true. They have REALLY been showing their asses ever since FH2 was picking up near perfect ( and a few perfect) scores across the board. They are not right in the head. I just have to laugh. No point in responding to them.

[dkgshiz]

Hmm..MS really likes big day one patches. I remember Dead rising 3 with its 18gb patch day one.

[1Victor]

Denial it's not a river but it run deep in the Internet

[ThatOneGuyThere]

drive club is up. ;-)

[NeoGamer232]

But how is the PS+ Edition?

[ThatOneGuyThere]

touche. haha

[rxl209]

how is the games with gold edition of the master chief collection? oh wait.......lmao

[IGiveHugs2NakedWomen]

Machines break. Get over it.

[MetroidFREAK21]

I can play online, but it takes awhile. Halo 4 finds a game fastest from my testing.

[GuyPearce]

Down, down it goes.

[hankmoody]

All you have to do is look at the agree/disagree ratios on the varying posts to know that this site is overrun with the absolute worst of the Sony fans. It's these very same people who make me hesitant in buying a PS4 in the first place.

[PraxxtorCruel]

Amen.

[Bytor]

Do you know why it's because when this happens on the PS4 you get 10 articles saying in the title what shit the PSN is and all these Microsoft fan boys pretending they have a ps4 and complaining about it.So they get what they deserve

[Veneno]

If fanboys dissuade you from buying a console, why would you even have an Xbox?

[hankmoody]

Both sides have their fanboys but they've actually written entire articles about Sony fanboys being the worst of the bunch. You don't see that being done in regards to the Xbox fanboys.

[ainTgoTTime2bleed]

This is to be expected, almost 13 mil players going at it at once....oh wait, nevermind...lol

[Yetter]

Played a few matches last night right when it released and I've played a few today. Took forever to find a match though

[kenwonobi]

HAHA! Xbox Live sucks. "It never goes down" proven wrong. Well it was expected. Just get a PSN account and join the majority of gamers.

[ainTgoTTime2bleed]

13mil and counting;)

[GodGinrai]

@kenwonobi and ainTgoTTime2bleed

So much fail in your comments. lets start with you, Kenwonobi..

"HAHA! Xbox Live sucks"

If XBL sucks then what does that make, PSN which is KNOWN to have hiccups WAAAAAY more than XBL?

""It never goes down" proven wrong"

Nobody ever said THAT. What is commonly said is that it is a more robust stable service than PSN. A few launch day hiccups with halo does not change that. Try harder.

Your turn, ainTgoTTime2bleed....Its all good and well shouting "13mil and counting" but guess what? there are only 8 million PSN+ accounts VS 45Mil XBLG accounts..given that the PS3 install base is much larger than PS4...are you willing to take a guess, how many of those are on PS4?...didnt think so..

http://gamerant.com/playsta...

Anyway..neither of you own an abox, yet, here you are in every halo article. repeating yourselves like broken records. Hoping somebody will believe you if you say it enough. Pathetic.

[DougLord]

177 comments - only on N4G would 100+ of them be fanboys gleefully celebrating that people they don't even know are less then happy.

Fair enough, Xboners did the same thing to Sony fans with Drive Club, but this tit for tat BS is what killed the Hatsfields and the McCoys!

[corroios]

What comes around goes around.... Did you see what happend with Driveclub more then 300 comments from fanboys...

I think its really weird that Microsoft network cant handle this kind of traffic and people still talk about cloud will help. Maybe in 10 years.

The infrastructure isnt build yet to handle mass gamers...

And get ready, because there gonna be another huge comment when someone puts the news that Halo 5 multiplayer is running at 720....

[kenwonobi]

Well to be fair Xbox hasnt had any "mass" traffic as PS4 has for all its games online till this one. So its understandable the 1st game to get as many people online would have it's hiccups. I mean 13 million users for PS4 is a big load to handle online for its gamers.

[strike101]

it's all lie and rumors... the Cloud will take care of everything

[Give_me_head_strong]

Running through the H2A campaign on Heroic while I wait for the server issues to be corrected.

[parentsbasement]

"Everybody got off work at the same time and now there is a traffic jam.....I don't understand?????"......... why is this news for either system?........if this bothers you then you may want to wait to leave work a little later on.....

[Reaper29r]

I love all the people trying to act like XBL going down over the release of the biggest blockbuster of the year actually compares to all the times PSN has gone down. But.. but.. double the install base. Get real folks, it's not like all 13 million are trying to log on at the same time for the same game. It takes something on the scale of HMCC to collapse XBL, that shows the strength it has. Where as PSN goes down consistently under a lot less stress. Only one I'll give it is Destiny. Maybe some of you didn't have log in issues with Destiny on PS4, but my friends and I definitely did. I got dropped an average of 4 times a day after I was finally able to log in. And it's not even fan boys, you can see every FB page for PS4, Destiny, Drive Club, and any pro PS4 website the biggest complaint fans have is.. the network. Fans always commenting for Sony to get their stuff together and fix PSN. It's why it's earned the nickname Playstation Notwork. Truth, and no amount of disagrees or bubbles you have can do anything about it.

[Tedakin]

It's currently broken-ish. getting into SOME games. Others not so much.

[corroios]

Dude, Microsoft received billions with XBL since Xbox 360 and is always talking about the Cloud and the power of 200 mil servers.

The playstation network was free on the ps3 and just with the PS4 is starting to get payed.

The diference is eight year getting money from the gamers...

Is the PSN perfect not even close, but the XBL should be miles and miles and miles ahead.

What happend with first big game online it crash and there are only what 4/5 millions xbox one gamers and how many bought the game? all? 500 thousand?

Dont attack sony, but attack Microsoft that on the biggest franchise of the company they show that werent ready and that XBL cant handle high traffic...

[NeoGamer232]

I game on both networks and XBL is miles and miles ahead of PSN...

Collecting money is no excuse. MS and Sony are offering network services. If the network service is not functioning than there is a problem. Sony should've starting charging from the start, but they didn't think online gaming would become so big. So, there mistake was underestimating the trends in the industry.

The differences as far as I can tell, is that XBL has less outages and they are fixed very quickly. PSN has more outages and some last several days and even weeks before getting fixed (I still haven't seen them post the PS+ version of DriveClub).

Neither vendor has a perfect record, but MS seems to be much better at managing the network issues than Sony is.

MS seems to be taking security much more serious than Sony. Its bad when in addition to PS+ you have spend an extra $30 to safeguard your credit card and personal information through Sony's stupid insurance. That's funny if I had to pay every online store $30 to get the ability to receive compensation on their stupidity I would be broke. But somehow Sony gets away with it.

[Pogmathoin]

I thought PS fanboys were bigger than this.... so they say...

[jaixvx]

I wish MS would put more money back into XBL so this doesn't happen anymore. So disappointing.

[StormLegend]

That's not good at all.

[StormLegend]

I hope it gets fixed!

[2pacalypsenow]

And people were giving sony and driveclub a hard time. Only difference is that sony didn't advertise 300k dedicated servers..

[Malacath]

Total disaster of a launch.

It's now been 22 hours since the game launched here and in all that time I have only managed to get into 2 games.

This is starting to look like the Driveclub of xbox.

[kenwonobi]

Disastrous launch. Oh well. Back to the days of people not taughting xbox Live.

[acemonkey]

That sucks i hope they get them back on... any system it sucks when your game of choice doesnt work... i wanted to get an xb1 for this collection

[urwifeminder]

I have not tried online yet , but it would not surprise me if it has something to do with people not updating their firmware yet. My console is not on auto updates and I have to check when an update is available so I guess some people have not checked it.

[Malacath]

It's nothing to do with firmware updates.

My console has the latest update.

It's the game or the servers.

Also you don't have to manually check for updates. All firmware updates become mandatory after a couple of days which means you can't even connect to Live until you accept the prompt to update

[urwifeminder]

I disagree because I can .

[Afterlife]

This is normal but Microsoft hyped up their cloud power. I expected it to be invincible. I know I shouldn't but I did.

[x_RadicalAura_x]

Just gonna point this out (as a holistic PS4 + Xbox One + Halo MCC owner), but isn't it ironic how Xbox fanboys are always the first to jump on PSN for having maintenance/going down? That's ironic considering the Halo MCC server issues and this: http://support.xbox.com/en-...

With the demand of the Halo MCC, this doesn't surprise me, and I'm not complaining. Just think it's a bit hypocritical.

[xlSAVAGElx]

Over the course of 2 hours I have managed to play 3 games LOL wow what a mess...

[Butters360]

I'm still waiting for the my collection to finish installing. Stuck at 97.5% on HALO 2 and hasn't even begun yet on HALO 3.

[warzonegamer]

im tired of waiting this xbox one will be sold tomorrow smh i waited all this time and now halo is here and i cant even play fail boxone

[Joeblow75]

Campaign is not saving every time I go to save for another day it don't fucking save WTF!! Is there a special way to save in here!!!!!!!??