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Xbox Live Down on June 16: Maintenance also for Zune

Xbox Live Down on June 16: Maintenance also for Zune

By: Peter Chubb | June 16, 2009 | 21 Comments

Today is June 16, 2009, which means that Microsoft’s Xbox Live will be down for maintenance, this means that there will not be Zune Social, Zune Marketplace or Zune.net forums in that time either. Other sections down include My Xbox on Xbox.com, and the forums will only be read only.

According to Blast Magazine, most of the other features of xbox.com will be available, with little or no interruptions. The maintenance is to start at 12:01AM PST, and could last anything up to 24 hours. Looks like Xbox Live users will have to spend a bit of time away from their Xbox 360 and spend some time with their family instead.

Try not to get too upset with Microsoft, as they are undertaking this maintenance to get ready for a number of new features, these include Facebook, last.fm and Twitter to the paid service. So just for waiting 24 hours, the rewards will certainly be worth it.

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  • http://www.halo3pictures.wordpress.com/ Jay

    It kinda sucks, but it will be nice. Today I was supposed to have tennis lessons, but it’s raining, and my parents are at work for a while so I could have had some good time playing lone wolves, swat, and MLG on Halo 3….

  • kurt schilling

    Thanks dude now the time thaat i will spend with my family will be worth it. HAHA

  • http://www.aqua-painters.com calgary painters

    Ya, I noticed that last night right around 1AM MST. After about 10 minutes of testing the internet connection I just accepted it and went to bed.

  • rako

    wtf xbox are you doing seriously u tw*ats

  • that guy

    This is typical for Microsoft always sticking fingers in other peoples pies. Facebook and twitter are the degradation of modern society. I really applaud Microsoft for creating more of a social network of gamers more so then its competitors but teaming up with facebook…really?

  • Cockatolla

    “Rewards” my butt… like I want facebook, last.fm, or twitter on my xbox. It’s a game console; I want to play games on it.

    I especially like how when I try to log in right now, instead of having a nice system that tells me it is down for maintenance, it instead tells me to test my connection, because something appears wrong with it. Then it tells me that my MTU is set to small, which is not true at all. They should stop focusing on added crappy features and get the damn thing to work right.

  • laxamn

    It almost 9:00 and xbox live is still offline. Also the entire xbox.com is down, no forums, nothing.

  • http://qwerty.com Max

    That Sucks

  • http://qwerty.com xaM

    No it does not

  • kyle

    sick. good to know, I didnt realize why my xbl wasnt working and was doing a number of things to find out what was wrong with my connection.

  • Ryan

    Bummer, yeah well it is 12:24am 17 June 2009 and Live is still down. Why did they lie to me? How rude.

  • Ryan

    FYI- Eastern Standard Time

  • iRaVeR

    microsoft is based in washington which is PST

  • iRaVeR

    which means theyre 3 hours behind you

  • Jimbob

    quite basically 10 major updates 5 we know about. Project natals running software ( now instead of whne it comes out so they dont have to shut it down again ) clean sweep of system ( basically scanning and deleting and viruses / tamper software ) sky ( waste of time. should be virgin media ( already have on demand not much editing for xbox live player =p ) twitter =p ( waste of time ) and facebook ( ftw whats the point just encouraging lazy people to be more lazy) they should just use there computer adding it to xbox live just adds to the lags of 2mb/s server lol

  • Matthew

    yeh i no wat u mean, its like 8 over here in england n my live is still down… they never stick 2 the schedule lol

  • Travis

    i was ioline again at like 2 but then my live still wouldnt work…o well ps3 is better anyway.

  • jonzey07

    it is 7:55 am wed here in michigan U.S.A and still no live!
    i know it is wishful thinking but maybe they have installed some servers lol have a good day everyone

  • Franklyn

    Well now that xbox live is back up, for next time, think of it this way: if they say 24 hours, its 24 hours from the time it went off where you live.

  • Stealth Spartan

    good job with the comment xbox live are tw@ts

  • Stealth Spartan

    did the update make it so if you get one complaint you get booted for a day because that would really suck! i think thats what happened to one of my accounts