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XBOX Live down April 1st for upgrades

XBOX Live will be unavailable on April 1st starting at 2:00 PDT for upgrades. Full message after the jump.
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Published: 49 days 16 hours ago | News | Xbox 360
 
 

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Silellak - 49 days 16 hours ago
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That's a poor choice of day to take it down :P

"Microsoft takes down XBox Live permanently - leaving console business!" suddenly becomes a believable April Fools Day gag if Live is ACTUALLY DOWN when people go to check.
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dantesparda - 49 days 11 hours ago
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What are the updates that they are supposedly doing?
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rogimusprime - 48 days 17 hours ago
1.2 - April Fools...
fools....
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green - 49 days 16 hours ago
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i believe it's due to gta4 because if that game sells more than Halo3 then expect Xbox live to crash again.

They need to make it as robust as possible this time around.
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power of Green - 49 days 13 hours ago
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Agreed. I think they're preping and doing maintenance.
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tgh machines - 49 days 11 hours ago
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That game won't sell more than halo 3 (for the 360 that is), at least on day 1.
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KillJoi99 - 49 days 16 hours ago
3 - Yes they do.
They took Live down for Halo 3 and it still crashed for 3 weeks. Plus theres this new update problem that a bunch of people are getting that needs to be fixed.
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gta_cb - 48 days 7 hours ago
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XboxLIVE didnt crash when Halo 3 was released, neither did it crash in the same month, i know this because i was playing Halo 3 online doing matchmaking and also the 4 player online co-op. if you disagree then please provide evidence and i will say sorry.

the only time i have known XboxLIVE to fuk up for a vast amount of time was over Christmas.

i do know they took down XboxLIVE for the launch of Halo 3 im just saying it didnt crash when Halo 3 was released.
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toughNAME - 49 days 16 hours ago
4 - I like that they tell you well in advance
but yeah lol why on THAT day?

I hope there are some actual, physical upgrades
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BeaArthur - 49 days 15 hours ago
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I just want the ability to be able to preview themes. I mean it's bad enough they charge us for them. Why can't we look at what we are buying?
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Premonition - 49 days 15 hours ago
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Is this april fools? maybe maybe not cause it says April 1st.
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gta_cb - 48 days 7 hours ago
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no april fools, i got my message a couple days ago, if you dont believe me PM me and i will take a pic and prove it.
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Dlacy13g - 49 days 15 hours ago
6 - I say....April Fools.
That is a link to a forum post.... Has anyone seen such a message come to them? No, no...I am afraid we are being subject to an April Fools joke.

I stand corrected....it looks like this is indeed real:

Official statment posted on the Battlefield: Bad Company forum, posted by EA confirms it....

http://forums.ea.com/mboard...
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Z F1GHT3RS - 49 days 13 hours ago
6.1 - IT IS TRUE
I GOT A MESSAGE FROM XBOX LIVE TELLING ME ABOUT THIS!!:)
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Captain Tuttle - 49 days 12 hours ago
6.2 - No need for caps...
But I got the message as well. The April Fool's part is that they're claiming that it will only be down for 3 hours. I'd bet 36-48 hours, based on past experience.
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Z F1GHT3RS - 49 days ago
6.3 - no not that long
as an xbox owner from 05 they have done this every year for 3-5 hours.
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Captain Tuttle - 48 days 22 hours ago
6.4 - I've had mine since Feb 06...
And it ALWAYS takes longer for the updates than they predict. Every single time (maybe not 36 hours though). I understand it's an incredibly complicated system but at least give a more reasonable time frame...6-8 hours maybe?
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mboojigga - 49 days 15 hours ago
7 - For some of you that are not familier
This is normal practice for MS to shut Live down which last about 24 hours or less for upgrades. Nothing new.

UPDATE: This isn't fake just checked my email and at 1109 today I recieved the message it will be down 1 Apr starting at 0200 PDT

So check your messages on your 360.
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Dlacy13g - 49 days 15 hours ago
7.1 - Oh it is normal for sure...
But I am not trusting a forum post when NOTHING on xbox.com or any other major sites has ANYTHING to say about this let alone any kind of proof of this "official" message.

EDIT: well, I am big enough to admit I was wrong... see my post above. (+Bubble to you)
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KillJoi99 - 49 days 15 hours ago
7.2 - Hey
Just posted a picture.
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TrapperDan - 49 days 13 hours ago
7.3 - @7.1
Dude, those guys run a tight ship. There admin actually makes the posters show proof. There's only two forums I trust, that one and neogaf. The rest tend to just let anything be posted.
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Truplaya - 49 days 15 hours ago
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please M$, give us the ability to chat to more than one person at once
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Dareaver1 - 49 days 4 hours ago
8.1 - umm... care to specify?
Voice chat or Video chat. Last time i checked, you could voice chat with up to 3 other people at a time while all playing different games. Video chat is another issue, but i can imagine the bandwidth issues to basically have a video conference on Live.
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predator - 49 days 15 hours ago
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ist not an april fools joke as xbox live leave you a PM on LIVE that clearly states it will be down, no joke
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BenzMoney - 49 days 15 hours ago
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Is this the spring update or just maintenance? Although if I'm not mistaken, I believe the spring update is always just a back-end (invisible) upgrade to prepare for the coming fall update's new features...

Regardless of what it is (update or maintenance) I doubt if we can expect to see any new features this time.
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mboojigga - 49 days 15 hours ago
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They would notify clearly if it was the spring update. It won't come around until May/June IMO.
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DrPirate - 49 days 15 hours ago
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IT's an April Fools joke.

Imma laugh at all the fools who are saying "BUT ZOMG MS IS NOT TELLING TEH LIES!!!!!!"

That's kind of the point of an April Fools joke.
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Dlacy13g - 49 days 14 hours ago
11.1 - its real....
I certainly didn't believe it was real....but I do now. EA has it posted from an EA modderator...and now a picture is posted of the message.

So thats about as real as it gets for me.
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BigKev45 - 49 days 14 hours ago
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There getting ready for GTA IV, they don't want their service to crash when the game comes out like it did around xmas 2007.