I had exactly 45 minutes of sweet, uninterrupted game time from 6:30 to 7:15. The why is really unimportant, needless to say, with a kid an a wife, I’ll take whatever I can get nowadays. My first choice was Call of Duty 4…. naturally. That usually means playing online multiplayer, which means using Xbox Live. That I pay for. That usually works. Except for the last two weeks.
Read on for general frustration and liberal use of four letter expletives.
Ok, so I got comfy and popped CoD 4 into the machine, clicked Xbox Live and waited, and waited….
“Downloading Settings…”
WTF?
“Downloading Settings…”
“Downloading what f**king settings?” I said to no one in particular.
Then I thought, “I’ll restart the system, that usually fixes that.” So I reset the system, foolishly thinking that it was anything but Xbox Live’s fault for my f**king issues.
Then with a blip I was in. Ok… time to make a party. It appeared that my a couple of my usual Call of Duty 4 friends were on… couple of SG peeps like Animathias, VinDali, as well as a couple of GCN peeps.. DNelson and Breego. I proceeded to send out invites and….
Magically…I couldn’t. Well, that’s f**king great.
Just f**king great. What the hell is wrong now?
Who the f**k knows. Who do I look like? Major Nelson? I just want to play f**king Call of Duty 4 for crissakes.
Finally, DNelson sent me an invite and I finally made it into a party. It was myself, DNelson and VinDali. Except, that once I entered the party, I kept getting a f**king message saying that I needed a valid f**king network connection to play online… WTF? I was already online. MOTHERF**K!!!!!
At that point, I started getting a little pissed.
Then I heard VinDali say, “I keep getting a message saying that I can’t connect to the party.” The only problem with that statement was that he was already in the party.
For some reason that message magically disappeared without warning and the Xbox Gremlins finally left our party alone for five minutes. Five silent minutes, because at that point, DNelson’s microphone was off and he couldn’t communicate with us. Oh, and we also couldn’t connect to any matches… F**king Grrrreat.
We waited and waited, and waited aaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnndddddddd f**king waited.
Throughout this whole time, Animathias couldn’t even connect to the f**king party. Sorry bud.
After 30 minutes of that bulls**t, I was forced to say “f**k it” and quit out of Call of Duty 4.
Great, I thought to myself, fifteen f**king minutes left of free time and all I did was f**king wait in a lobby. F**king Microsoft.
Then, I threw Bladestorm into the system. It’s a single player game. No problem, right?
It f**king froze up on me.
Great. Just f**king great. Forty-five minutes of waiting and restarting and waiting.
Thanks Xbox Live. Thanks a F**king lot. It’s been two weeks of intermittent, “cross your fingers, god I hope this works” bulls**t. I’m tired of it.
We’re all tired of it. FIX THIS SHIT.
I swear to god, that “free game” better not be Astro Pop.
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Wow.
Does this mean I SHOULDN’T get a 360?
This is why I’m glad I got Mass Effect and Bioshock for Christmas. I could care less about Live right now….but I still want my free game…for the agony I may have otherwise experienced.
What you just described about COD4 is exactly what I’ve been going through night in and night out.
I hate to sound like im rubbing it in but I have yet to have problem with live. I wounder if my crappy connection is laging the error messages.
all this makes me a little bit glad, that my 360 red ringed on me. seems like i’m not missing out on anything. as far as, the crap with xbox live.
I don’t know Lono….COD4 had some problems BEFORE the holiday’s live issues… as for Bladestorm though – I think it freezing up is an included feature, to save you from having to play it.
Holy crap! You guys are unbelievable…
@DarthVicious82: “I’m glad I got games that don’t use the service I pay for… ignoring the problem makes it go away!”
@Artemas: You’re one of those “My 360’s never red ringed… Awww, _CRAP_!!!! I can’t believe it happened to me, I always took good care of my 360 (insinuating everyone experincing RRoDs are a bunch of 360-abusing jerks)
@MgckSpiral1: You win the “Most Misguided Fool” award! To say you’re “a little bit glad” that your $350+ piece of equipment FAILED so you couldn’t play games at all and avoid their SERVICE FAILURE… wow. Turn in your controller as you leave and don’t let the door hit you in the ass!
To everyone else, I’d like to point you to Rothbart’s Rant #69 from earlier this week and ask, what are we paying for again?
http://sarcasticgamer.com/wp/index.php/2008/01/rothbarts-rant-69-why-are-we-paying-again.html
I second rothbart’s comments…
This is the exact sentiment that millions upon millions have been feeling for 20 years of Windows BS.. Microsoft is just that kind of company.
Consumers are cattle to them to be milked and milked then sent to the guillotine.
Please explain to me what made any of you expect different from a console bearing their brand.
As much as I don’t have the money to invest in another system… How is the PS3 doing with its free online network? Any COD4 issues? I’m in Lono’s boat, wife/kid, and TIRED of wasting my half hour of gaming time with error after error, be it trying to download game content, or getting my ass shot off by some elven year old on COD
My new GamerTag Motto:
FIX F***ING LIVE!!!!
just wait ’till late at night when all the kiddies who got XBOX live and COD4 for christmas to go to bed (8:00 haha) then about half of the Live population are in bed sleeping. Leaving you with the whole night to play without too much of a problem. But then again Lono needs his beauty sleep.
Geez dude I’m having problems too but at least I’m not cursing up a storm. They’ll get it fixed!
Why bother with call of duty 4 when you can play it on PC for free online? Online works all the time on PC I am playing it now. You do not have a crappy gamepad either and it looks better.
I have just stayed off my Xbox 360 this entire time and played PC wii,gamecube ps2 ps3 the entire time and do not miss it that much since I play all xbox/ps3 shooters but 3 on PC and they work and do it better all the time 24-7 for free.
I feel your pain Lono. I’m on Ps3…and all of a sudden I get “connection interuppted” WTF is THAT. cmon I’m paying nothing for this, then it has the NERVE to reconnect and let me play fine for an hour with no problems. LIKE NOTHING HAPPENED. This is just ridiculous,
I’m thinkin of getting a 360, because at least for 50.00 can get that cool Diamond card. Man, I tell you, I got up today and I said “I feel like some discount eye surgery”, but guess what. I couldn’t, man I would kill for that card.
you my friend are one very unintelligent person. It probable is your network and there might be a settings somewhere preventing certain parts of xbox live. Now live does throw tantraums every so often but not all the time. You suck at life if you tell anyone that xbox or xboxlive sucks cause YOU had a problem for a few minutes