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Microsoft to offer free Xbox LIVE Arcade game for XBL outages

by JW

Well it appears that all of you who bitched and moaned about Xbox LIVE being up and down for a week are getting compensation from Microsoft. But, like I said earlier this week, you’re not getting a refund – rather, you’ll be getting a free Xbox LIVE Arcade game.

The game that will be given for free has yet to be announced, but you can be sure that it will be a throw-away title that nobody cares about. Probably Hexic 2… have fun with your Hexic.

So what was the cause of the outage to begin with? Xbox LIVE General Manager Marc Whitten wrote in a letter that Xbox LIVE experienced the largest sign-up of new members in its five-plus year history during this past holiday season, and this sudden surge may have been what KOed XBL.

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Posted in News, Xbox 360, Xbox LIVE Arcade on January 4th, 2008

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  1. 1P Start » Blog Archive » Microsoft Reveal ‘Undertow’ As Free Xbox Live Arcade Game To Compensate For Recent Outages Says:
    January 18th, 2008 at 5:03 pm

    [...] Xbox Live users were pissed off in droves over the holiday season by the random, and inexplicable outages which hit the service for over a week. [...]

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