So, as most of you are probably aware Xbox Live! is down for maintenance (14hours and counting)...

So I thought that tonight would be the perfect for some single player time. Theres a couple of games I keep meaning to finish and also, things like Poker, where the single player isnt all that much fun but it is a learning tool.

So first up I try Tiger Woods 07. Seems ok, I am 10 holes into a round when the game spits me back to the menu telling me that "the active profile has been signed out."....erm, excuse me ?! So then I try to sign back in and have to wait 3-5mins for the sign in process to timeout, only for TW07 to bitch at me.

At this point I ditched it and decided to play some single player poker. but OH NO...apparently not. As Xbox Live! is down I cannot run the full version of a game that I have paid for, downloaded and activated previously !! Surely this amounts to theft !??!! It has certainly pished me off

You think that after 3+ years of running the Live! service, MS wouldve thought about the impact on the user of the service not being avaliable. Apparently though, its just another example of get the $$$ and forget the user service

Hehe, similar situation to when the WoW servers go down for extended maintenance, millions of people aimlessly surfing the net.  :mrgreen:

Worst wow outtage was like 36 hours or maybe more, i went crazy at 12 hours!

edit: it might have been 2 days!

Quote from: White GiantHehe, similar situation to when the WoW servers go down for extended maintenance, millions of people aimlessly surfing the net.  :mrgreen:

To be fair, WoW is massively multiplayer, you cant expect it to work when the server is down.

single player games which are on your own hard drive are something a little different IMO, I can totally sympathise.