Is there any truth to this?  Can anyone confirm or deny it?  Have you played online with randoms/friends yet?

I bought it but haven't checked out the online yet, because I was waiting to play with my brother.  I'll go test with some randoms to see how it works and report back.

Early testing doesn't look good.  I tried quickmatching, and it kept giving me "game is no longer available" errors.  I tried custom match, and the same thing--except once I did get through to a list of games, but as I was browsing the list it switched to a loading screen and locked up.  I had to reset my 360.

So yes, seems that online is borked.

Thanks for checking for me.  Looks like I'll be holding onto my spacebucks and seeing how this pans out.

I'm hoping that playing with friends will still work okay, since I really just want to play with my brother.  If he buys it and I get a chance to test it with him later today, I'll report how that goes as well.

WHY MICROSOFT WHY?

It could be the devs....remember Mr. Driller Offline?

Had the quick match, Game not available thing. Was starting a 4 player game online all ready when we went to select stage 2 people dropped straight away which was odd but we played some 2 player and was really fun so if they sort out these minor things it will be a good online experience

"It could be the devs....remember Mr. Driller Offline?"

I've been able to connect to games just fine, though I can't the same for others. I've been in lobbies with four people, only to have two drop out as soon as the game starts.

I've been having problems, too. The same "game no longer available" error like everyone else. I hope this gets fixed soon.

eh what, the online is broking, NOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo
Quick someone fix it >.>

Had it lock up on me this morning while playing online.

I'm sure it'll get patched. Online functionality is a huge problem for game developers, since you can never fully test it until the game is released. Fortunately an online component means an internet connection which means it can be patched. Hopefully it won't be long before that happens for Castle Crashers.

Does the game at least have sound? ;)

I played about an hour online with 4 others (two of them had a good connection)  about 45 mins in one droped out not sure if it was a connection thing or he just left.  About 30 mins later I got a "game is no longer available" error  I didn't think much of it cause i needed to go to sleep.

Today i tried to play with a fellow GB'er but everyone that joined save one had a really bad connection and it didn't last 10 sec.   Hope this all gets patched up.  overall though still happy with the game.  invite some friends over and play Local.

When playing with my friend it seems to constantly lag out and throw us out of the game :(

"Had it lock up on me this morning while playing online.

It might also have some sort of problem when you move your hard drive between machines. I seem to have lost my save between my home 360 and my work 360.

"

I had the loading screen lockup while searching for online games issue as well.  I tried a couple more times and got into a game and played fine.  Seems to be hit or miss right now.

Yeah, I've had trouble getting on. I want to play online, but I'm content with playing by myself for now. I'm upgrading my character like crazy!

"Yeah, I've had trouble getting on. I want to play online, but I'm content with playing by myself for now. I'm upgrading my character like crazy!"

"I played about an hour online with 4 others (two of them had a good connection)  about 45 mins in one droped out not sure if it was a connection thing or he just left.  About 30 mins later I got a "game is no longer available" error  I didn't think much of it cause i needed to go to sleep.

Today i tried to play with a fellow GB'er but everyone that joined save one had a really bad connection and it didn't last 10 sec.   Hope this all gets patched up.  overall though still happy with the game.  invite some friends over and play Local."

"Had it lock up on me this morning while playing online.

It might also have some sort of problem when you move your hard drive between machines. I seem to have lost my save between my home 360 and my work 360.

"

What happened to Microsoft's "Certification Process" they like to reference so often?

"What happened to Microsoft's "Certification Process" they like to reference so often?"

"MB said:

"What happened to Microsoft's "Certification Process" they like to reference so often?"

I'll have you know Microsoft has the best quality assurance in the industry!"

Threads like this are completely inappropriate for posting spoilers without warnings.  You guys just ruined the ending of Castle Crashers for many people...they come in here expecting to read information about the current state of online play, and instead read about how the game ends.  You should be ashamed of yourselves.

Hooray, MB saved Hulk from spoilers.

It has some problems right now...I only had 1 specific time where it logged us out of playing and said "game is no longer available' back to the start menu. Besides that needing to be fixed, a few frame hitches where it appears as if the entire game or console is freezing for a minute, then starts up again fine. Its not  a huge problem for me, sinc eit only happened once..but I hope it gets fixed, the game is just too cool and I don't wanna see these problems bring it down.

It seems to be working pretty well for us now.  Just played 3 player for a few hours with nary a hitch or lag in sight.  Huzzah!

"Threads like this are completely inappropriate for posting spoilers without warnings.  You guys just ruined the ending of Castle Crashers for many people...they come in here expecting to read information about the current state of online play, and instead read about how the game ends.  You should be ashamed of yourselves."

Game seems to be running much better online now. I played for hours with one other player online and one other player locally and we got disconnected a few times but most of the time it ran fine.

ive played/hosted 10-15 perfect matches with no problems

It seems connection issues are the rule rather than the exception though. I've played with a bunch of friends and we've all had our share of problems. Even when playing with friends, the connection dies pretty often, and forget about using quick match or anything like that. Horribly broken, and just terrible that the game would be released in its current state. Let's hope for a fix REAL soon.

My friend and I were able to get 1 game going with a random person, and it took forever. We ended up just settling on playing local games.

seems to be just due to the fact there are a shit ton of people playing it.

Yea its pretty broken.  Its definetely still playable but it tends to drop every 3-4 levels for me :(  Its gutting cos Castle Crashers Rules

I managed to connect earlier today several times with no problems at all. Although it was probably just because it wasn't a peak time. During peak times it'll probably still be hard to connect.

""I talked to Tom Fulp(lead programmer) and many of the beta testers just recently and they all say the game worked flawlessly before launch. The Live issue is a similar situation to what happened at Halo 3's launch, too many people are attempting to connect online for the amount of bandwidth Microsoft has partitioned for this specific game. Tom is currently working on expanding the amount of bandwidth avaliable for the game so that more users can be online at once. A "patch" might not even be nessicary because it is a server side issue. Either way they are entirely aware of the issue and it should be fixed soon. Also don't blame them, blame yourself, I mean afterall the issue is simply that too many of you are trying to play online at once."

I'll admit it, I smirked when I read that."

Google search shows a Gametrailers forum.

http://forums.gametrailers.com/showthread.php?p=14378832

You mean the certification process they use as a reason why they take such a large cut of XBLA revenues?

What makes it worse is that it seems that most of the XBLA game bugs revolve around Microsoft specific APIs, like the way profile saved games work, online play, matchmaking, etc.

Step 1: Market your game as a 4-player online co-op adventure.
Step 2: Release absolutely amazing game with completely broken online capabilities.
Step 3: Take your blog offline.
Step 4: Fly to Seattle.

Good times.

"Step 1: Market your game as a 4-player online co-op adventure.
Step 2: Release absolutely amazing game with completely broken online capabilities.
Step 3: Take your blog offline.
Step 4: Fly to Seattle.

Good times.
"

Honestly I can't seem to get into anybody's game...I tried for at least a half hour and nothin.

"Honestly I can't seem to get into anybody's game...I tried for at least a half hour and nothin."