Xbox DEAD
Got back from the East last night after a harrowing drive through wintery conditions to settle into my couch for some much-needed Xboxing with my homeys. Prod and I managed to play a couple games of Virtua Fighter 5 before getting unceremoniously dropped from Xbox Live. At first I figured it was local network problems and rebooted my router and cable modem. We struggled to regain our connections to play some Halo but were thwarted at every turn. Wtf, thought I and proceeded to do some sleuthing.
It immediately occurred to me that the ‘Soft might have sold a few more Xbox 360s this holiday season and had saturated their network. This is still probably the case, though my overly-connected mind is already envisioning nightmare scenarios that are much much worse than that, and may well signal the end of technology itself, propelling us backwards through time to the dawn of humanity, leaving us struggling with two rocks trying to light a twig to get warm.
Engadget has a funny picture up describing the state of the service. This has apparently been the case for a couple of days now and Major Nelson has given us precious little by way of explanation. Of course, his site’s a little slow right now too, and full of comments (>570 last time I could get in). In classic Microsoft fashion, the Xbox LIVE status reads merely: Status: Up and running. I guess these problems I’m having signing in are a figment of my imagination.
So, since I can’t play Halo, I’m left to think of doomsday scenarios. My current fear is that the current iteration of the Storm worm has somehow infiltrated M$FT’s server farm and is currently wreaking havoc on their machinery and data. Of course, if that were true, they’d never actually admit it because they don’t actually tell people what goes on behind their closed doors. Everything’s peachy. Look elsewhere.
Ain’t the monoculture grand?
Jigsaw Falling Into Place from the album “In Rainbows” by Radiohead
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