Free Xbox Live Arcade Game for Live's Downtime

[Bond]

Press release:

Dear Xbox LIVE Members:

During this past holiday season you helped us break a number of Xbox LIVE records. This included our largest sign-up of new members to Xbox LIVE in our 5 year history and just yesterday you broke the record for the single biggest day of concurrent members ever on the service.

As a result of this massive increase in usage we know that some of you experienced intermittent Xbox LIVE issues over the holiday break. While the service was not completely offline at any given time, we are disappointed in our performance. I would like to take this moment to thank you each and every one of you for your patience and understanding as our team has worked around the clock to return the service to a stable state.

At the same time we would like to offer a token of our appreciation to all of you in celebration of record success for the service. And as a thank you for your loyalty during this holiday period, we will be offering all of our Xbox LIVE members around the world access to a full Xbox LIVE Arcade game that will be available to download free of charge. In the coming weeks we will be sharing the specific details of this offer with you.

Thank you again for helping make Xbox LIVE everything that it is today!

Sincerely,

Marc Whitten
General Manager, Xbox LIVE
Gamertag: Notwen

I don't think it was necessary to hand out a free arcade game, but I won't complain.

[Angrist]

For them it's better to hand out a free crappy game than free points with which gamers can buy a good game.

[Professor S]

I DEMAND BUBBLE BOBBLE!!!

[gekko]

This blanket gift to all paying and non-paying members does not make up for me losing the time I paid for during the only 3 weeks I've had free in months.

[Dyne]

Sure but.. I wasn't even on Xbox Live at all during the past few weeks.

Fine I'll take it.

[Bube]

This applies to people who recently bought an XBox and are on the free 1 month gold subscription as well right?

I hope it is

Cause I've got 2 more trial accounts

Nah, I don't think they'd be that stupid.

[Angrist]

Why would you need 3 copies of the same game? At least, I expect them to hand out 1 specific game.

[Bube]

Originally Posted by Angrist

Why would you need 3 copies of the same game? At least, I expect them to hand out 1 specific game.

lol I'm so desperate that I thought they were going to give us any game we wanted

Oh well

[Bond]

It hasn't officially been announced yet what they'll do.

[GameMaster]

And thus, the plot thickens...

[Bond]

That suit will go nowhere fast.

[Angrist]

Well, they make a good point (MS should have known), but I don't think they have much ground to stand on.

[BreakABone]

The free game is Undertow.
http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/default.aspx

[Professor S]

BULL

FUCKING

SHIT

NO BUBBLE BOBBLE, NO PEACE!!!!
NO BUBBLE BOBBLE, NO PEACE!!!!






and fuck Picachu too, you little piece of shit!



and a big fat dump for good measure





Actually thats a pretty sweet game, from what I hear.

[manasecret]

Originally Posted by Professor S

BULL

FUCKING

SHIT

Or rather...

BILL FUCKING SHIT ?