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Xbox Live downtime announced for 29th September

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Xbox LIVE and Xbox.com will be down for 24 hours from 0900 UK time (1000 CET) on September 29 - but it's not all bad news! This downtime is really important as the Xbox LIVE team will be using it to prepare the service for the arrival of the New Xbox Experience later this year!
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wotta - 457 days 15 hours ago
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1 - What are the chances?
Of the new experience launching around the same time as the Fable II release, which also happens to be around the release of Little Big Planet and the rumoured Playstation Home release?
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meepmoopmeep - 457 days 15 hours ago
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this downtime is in prep for:

Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiiiivatars!
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whoelse - 457 days 15 hours ago
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So much for that VGChartz rumour.
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KillaManiac - 457 days 15 hours ago
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If I wanted stupid avatars for 6 year olds...I would of bought a Wii.
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power of Green - 457 days 14 hours ago
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What are the chances my ass, all the things you mentioned had the release dates announced after E3 lol.

You know the new XBE will launch around this time because MSFT said so months ago lol.

PS3 fan logic is funny.
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y0haN - 457 days 12 hours ago
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power of green you have serious attitude problems when it comes to generalizing people because of the console they like. Not only that, but you're just a troll. A lazy troll.
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dachiefsman - 457 days 15 hours ago
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I just hope this goes over well and the whole LIVE network doesn't turn upside down. After all we are paying for this service.
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Wii60Fan - 457 days 14 hours ago
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2.1 - Sarcasm
Isn't your strong suit.
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Steven Colbert - 457 days 15 hours ago
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1 day isn't so bad.Maybe I will finally finish Psychonauts on the old Xbox
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christian hour - 457 days 15 hours ago
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Looking forward to the new xbox experience (although I think the names a bit much... don't you?)

I don't see myself spending time in the digital world that is "Home" because... Why would I want to boot up a digital world, so I can then gather my friends and go into an online game... when With the click of a button I can just bring up my friends list and invite them all into a game on XBL. Sure yeah, Home is free, XBL isn't yadda yadda yadda.

But Home just hasn't impressed me. Sure I'll download it once it comes out... but I don't see myself spending too much time in there. Avatars, I don't mind so much.. because they're there on start up, and it doesn't really change the quickness of socializing on XBL. Just wish they didn't go with the Mii approach.

But yeah. Bring it on!
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Steven Colbert - 457 days 14 hours ago
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Same here.I am skeptical of HOME but as long as I dont have to pay for it,whatever.
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Wii60Fan - 457 days 14 hours ago
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4.2 - Uhm
You can do the same thing in xbox live now with game invites. Home just sugar coats everything in a sims inspired cyber world.
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DJ - 457 days 14 hours ago
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4.3 - I can't wait to try the new Home interface.
Calling it a "Sims Ripoff" seems a bit off since the Sims is about taking control of the lives of simulated AI. HOME is about meeting up with new people and enhancing your gaming experience.

From what Sony's announced, all the HOME features will be added to the XMB interface so people who hate HOME will never be forced to use it. I like the idea of photo-realistic avatars though since they give a lot more context than screen names.
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1Shot1Kill - 457 days 12 hours ago
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I'm in the HOME beta and it's actually a lot more appealing than I thought it would be.

It's a 24hr a day dance party and surprised to see as many females in it as I have. I just hope the place doesn't turn to crap when it rolls out of beta. Too many immature idiot gamers(as N4G proves daily) and right now there is just a few and when they start throwing out slurs everyone gangs up on them and tells them to GTFO.

Sorry to go off topic.
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christian hour - 457 days 9 hours ago
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What makes you think they're really girls? :P haha. Havent you learned ANYTHING from the internet? :D
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No Way - 457 days 5 hours ago
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4.6 - @christian hour
Haha. I was thinking the same thing. =D
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DJ - 457 days 14 hours ago
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5 - Sweet!
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X AVE IT X - 457 days 13 hours ago
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6 - life goes on
im sure they need time now and again to prep or sort out probs
better it be of line than laggey as they mess about
i cant wait for the new dash
and hard drive loading
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poeo - 457 days 13 hours ago
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New Xbox Experience? seriously what is that? something exciting?

should i finally get a 360 for that?
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squablo - 457 days 11 hours ago
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8 - What I am really waiting for is....
I'm waiting for the 8 person group chat. In the days of old on the original xbox they had a 4 person private chat and I have really missed those days. This is the biggest perk for me in the new update, well, that and HD installs.

The group chat will motivate me to play more Battlefield Bad Company. The 4 player squad thing just kills it for me because I always have between 5 and 9 good friends online at once. It sucks to have to split into squads of 4 and not be able to communicate with my other friends. This will be awesome.

Avatars? Well I don't care as much about those, but again, the other parts of the xbox experience are what I care about the most. Any time I can limit the amount of stupid little kids screaming over me when I am trying to talk strategy with my friends is a welcome feature.

As far as Home goes, I am interested to see how well its gonna work. I have been looking forward to it for a while, but there are some issues that need to be worked out on the PSN for it to truly be successful. Mainly, the 800 blah blah blah error code many of my friends get that signs them in and out all the time from PSN. Yes, they have their networks set up right, with all the right ports open and static ips assigned, but it still happens, and it happens a lot.

I think both of them will offer nice new things for both systems. Its a win/win for gamers!!
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zonetrooper5 - 456 days 20 hours ago
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29th Spetember is a Monday which I'm sure most of the people who play XBL will either be at school/college/uni or at work or just being a lazy bum lol.
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KingTrash - 456 days 14 hours ago
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10 - The update is probably on Monday
When I read about the service being down for 24 hours on monday for the new xbox experience, I assumed that this is the big update. I still assume that. They flat out say that. Why else would they be down for that long and why is nobody else thinking this?
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