1.5M Xbox Live Users Online, Bogging Us Down

Xbox 360 Top Live Titles

1. Halo 3
2. Call of Duty 4
3. GTA IV
4. Gears of War 2
5. Gears of War
6. CoD: World at War
7. Guitar Hero III
8. Battlefield: Bad Company Demo
9. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Demo
10. Rock Band
11. Fable II
12. Mirror's Edge Demo
13. Madden NFL 09
14. BF: Bad Company
15. Rainbow Six Vegas 2
16. UNO
17. Castle Crashers
18. COD: World at War Multiplayer Beta
19. Forza Motorsport 2
20. Too Human - Demo

Xbox Live Arcade Top Titles

1. Castle Crashers
2. Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2
3. Braid
4. A Kingdom for Keflings
5. UNO
6. Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
7. Fable II Pub Games
8. Duke Nukem 3D
9. Bionic Commando: Rearmed
10. Worms
11. SOULCALIBUR
12. Portal: Still Alive
13. DOOM
14. 1942: Joint Strike
15. Bomberman Live
16. MEGA MAN 9
17. N+
18. Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3
19. Marble Blast Ultra
20. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3

Xbox 360 Top Live Titles

1. Halo 3
2. Call of Duty 4
3. GTA IV
4. Gears of War 2
5. Gears of War
6. CoD: World at War
7. Guitar Hero III
8. Battlefield: Bad Company Demo
9. Star Wars: The Force Unleashed Demo
10. Rock Band
11. Fable II
12. Mirror's Edge Demo
13. Madden NFL 09
14. BF: Bad Company
15. Rainbow Six Vegas 2
16. UNO
17. Castle Crashers
18. COD: World at War Multiplayer Beta
19. Forza Motorsport 2
20. Too Human - Demo

Xbox Live Arcade Top Titles

1. Castle Crashers
2. Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2
3. Braid
4. A Kingdom for Keflings
5. UNO
6. Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix
7. Fable II Pub Games
8. Duke Nukem 3D
9. Bionic Commando: Rearmed
10. Worms
11. SOULCALIBUR
12. Portal: Still Alive
13. DOOM
14. 1942: Joint Strike
15. Bomberman Live
16. MEGA MAN 9
17. N+
18. Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3
19. Marble Blast Ultra
20. Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3

Xbox live can't handle 1.5M concurrent users? Microsoft? Come on.

Hey, at least it sounds like XBL stayed up the entire time... what's worse, slow XBL or none at all?

COD4 >>>> COD:WAW

:)

@Geno, 

My XBL has been fine, your internet might be fucked

I've been having the same Guide issues. It'll hang for a bit while sending a message, or doing what ever. It's rather annoying. Good to see that it's not just me (as it seemed to have started when I got my new 120GB hard drive. )

I've noticed the dash board working slow a lot lately..  So this is why.. hah..  I have been scoffing at how this dashboard was supposed to be faster than the previous dash board.. and it has been so much slower for me... it even locks up sometimes.

Yeah I noticed the slow downs as well.  Its rather stupid that it should hit the network just to bring up the guide, tho.

It's definitely taking an extra 10-20 seconds for my NXE dashboard to show since Christmas, and I sometimes have difficulty pulling up the list of XBLA games when I want to play one of them.  While I have had a few hiccups streaming 30 Rock in HD via Netflix, it hasn't been noticeably worse than any other time, and it's still much better than when the service first launched.

I'm really surprised to see Castle Crashers at #17 on the XBL list and #1 on XBLA list.  I stayed far, far, away from multiplayer until the patch was released, which was only a week ago.

it is wierd that Forza Motorsport 2 is number 19  .

Well apart from the E74 error message, my Xbox has been fine for the most part recently, it's frozen about 4 times in the guide though.

Live was alright for me over christmas, a massive improvement on what happend last year

I have noticed sometimes accessing your friends list can be really slow.  It's funny though not suprising to see COD4 topping COD5

@Paradox, WoW has close to 12 million subscribers, a large part of which play several hours a day. It's not unreasonable to assume 10% of the player pop is on at any given time (and remember, this is under the condition that the servers are mostly lag free too). Games like Runescape are way smaller than WoW yet they have about 150k-200k concurrent users on average.

im suprised GTAIV is above Gears 2. I didn't think many people actually playedd online anymore.

My Xbox has been a bit laggy I must say, and the guide has taken a while to just pop up similar to Brad. I also notice it takes awhile to sign in occasionally. 

i believe i speak for everyone when i say xbox live ftw

"I have noticed sometimes accessing your friends list can be really slow."

"im suprised GTAIV is above Gears 2. I didn't think many people actually playedd online anymore."

I would get kicked off of Live for no apparent reason....but that was it. It happened enough to annoy me, but since Christmas it's been fine.

BattleField Bad company demo? is higher in usage then the full game?!

If I remember correctly, Xbox Live was originally designed to accommodate less than 750,000 users (or something like that). To be handling 1,500,000 with that same infrastructure (or similar infrastructure) today is quite an achievement.

I was just experiencing that. AND I've been kicked out of parties for no reason. Or rather, everyone leaves. Am I really that unlikeable?

I noticed that too..Acessesing the Marketplace took a shitload of time, and the in game guide button was real slow too. Good article Brad.

"@Paradox, WoW has close to 12 million subscribers, a large part of which play several hours a day. It's not unreasonable to assume 10% of the player pop is on at any given time (and remember, this is under the condition that the servers are mostly lag free too). Games like Runescape are way smaller than WoW yet they have about 150k-200k concurrent users on average."

PAY TO PLAY FOR PEER2PEER is fucking robbery.   I can't believe people are still paying for PEER2PEER lag fest nonsense when 99% of the same games are in higher res, for free on the PC

My friends and I get kicked out of each other's parties every 10 minutes, it's so fucking annoying..

man, xbl sucks

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My friends and I get kicked out of each other's parties every 10 minutes, it's so fucking annoying..

"

i've been having having slow live, its been really crappy.

COD World at War. A game that's tremendously more fun to play online than Left 4 Dead. The multiplayer is fantastic. The Nazi Zombie mode is fantastic. But yet.. Left 4 Bleh running on the garbage Source Engine gets end of the year awards and COD gets nothing. Looking at this list, I am at least glad to see xbox users are using their time and dollars to show which games have staying power and replay value.  To this day I have no idea why people have an obsession with auto-awarding anything Valve comes out with regardless of whether it deserves it. I don't really care if this is off-topic - it needed to be said. Peace.

Did I mention COD: World at War is far better than Left 4 Bleh.. ok good.

Funny you should mention, I got a lot of menu freezes today, for several seconds. Kind of annoying if you ask me.

Cool, it slowed down but didnt crash like years past.  But Guitar Hero III?  Really?  Thats one of the top online games?  Still it is funny the demos do better than the full game.

I have noticed a slow down when I play Shadowrun.

Forza 2 heck yes! that games got some legs!

"Forza 2 heck yes! that games got some legs!"

I don't really know, as I replaced my 360 just a bit ago, but I have noticed it slower to way back to when I owned my last 360. It makes sense, with a lot of the US having snow issues and stuff, and winter break for all the kids, and all the new consoles/games from the holidays. Plus this is a popular time of year for birthdays if I am correct, so yeah.

"PAY TO PLAY FOR PEER2PEER is fucking robbery.   I can't believe people are still paying for PEER2PEER lag fest nonsense when 99% of the same games are in higher res, for free on the PC"

At least the PSN doesn't go down every once in a while (nor does the PS3).

"At least the PSN doesn't go down every once in a while (nor does the PS3)."

You would think that they would've learned after last year

"At least the PSN doesn't go down every once in a while (nor does the PS3)."

"Hexpane said:

"PAY TO PLAY FOR PEER2PEER is fucking robbery.   I can't believe people are still paying for PEER2PEER lag fest nonsense when 99% of the same games are in higher res, for free on the PC"

my sony fanboyometer is off the charts"

My guide button is always slow as molasses, especially, even more bafflingly than yours, when trying to QUIT out of the blades. So weird.

Eh, I can't really tell a difference aside from looking up on my friendslist. Haven't touched my console for a while now.

Also Hexpane, please, don't go around bitching about XBL. Honestly $60 a month isn't expensive, and if you do consider it expensive then you must be one of those who don't have a job, get your parent to pay for your stuff or just in general or have a limited budget. WoW fees is $15 each month and adds up to $180 annually, which is 3 times the cost of XBL. Yet there are 11 million subscribers there. Also XBL is a centralized network; it's nothing like PSN's inability to look up at your friends as far as I know of it, and we've got headsets added in too (not everybody has mics on Computers or PS3). There's more to it than that as well. Either way go back to your computer gaming or PS3 if you don't like it, no need to cry about it.

Daniel_Beck

I'm not really surprised, it's an excellent racing simulator, one of the best ever made.

TomA, I guess it's proportionate to the number of modern, quality games available for the respective platforms.