Jan 5
Suit Filed Against Microsoft Over Xbox Live Outage
It seems that the massive outages and problems that we’ve been facing as a gaming community on Xbox Live have finally landed the massive corporation into a bit of legal trouble.
According to an article from CNET News, three Texas residents have filed a lawsuit on their behalf and others who have had issues with Xbox Live in the excess of 5 million dollars.
From the arcticle:
In the suit, the plaintiffs allege that Microsoft should have known strong holiday sales would tax its servers. “Microsoft knew the increase in subscriptions would increase game-play on its servers, yet failed to provide adequate access and service to Xbox Live and its subscribers.”
It sounds like they might actually have a case against Microsoft. What makes me wonder is why there hasn’t been a class-action lawsuit brought up for everyone who’s upset about this inconvenience.
In an attempt to appease the Xbox Live members and to save face from their latest fiasco Microsoft has told the community that it would allow Xbox subscribers a free game to download. Though what that game is and when we can download it remains a mystery.
View the full complaint here.
[Via CNET News]
Categories: Failure, Gaming Industry, Legal, Xbox Live4 Comments so far
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People make me sick.
absolutely retarded
I am tracking each day(every 10 minutes) the status of xbox live, and creating
statisical images, this shows the biig picture on how “live” xbox-live actually is
http://www.acddv.com/
Also these statistics are available for the public as-well
Cem Aykan
I think microsoft deserves it. They’ve had it coming in my opinion.