# XBOX Live down? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 3, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-live-down/443744 "2008-04-03T00:06:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-live-down/443744/1 "2008-04-03T00:06:54Z")
Me and my mate just got booted from a Halo game and have been unable to get another game. [Bungie.net](http://Bungie.net) doesn’t seem to dealing with accounts correctly either. Anybody else seeing this or is it just a local(ish) problem? ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-live-down/443744/2 "2008-04-03T00:09:22Z")
Crap. This should be for Games. Somebody want to report this. Grrrrr. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-live-down/443744/3 "2008-04-03T00:40:57Z")
[QUOTE=yojimbo] Crap. This should be for Games. Somebody want to report this. Grrrrr. [/QUOTE] Done. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-live-down/443744/4 "2008-04-03T00:42:16Z")
Cheers. Seems to be working again bit was down alright as people are talking about it on [bungie.net](http://bungie.net) ---
**Author:** ![Sleel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Sleel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleel)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-live-down/443744/5 "2008-04-03T07:07:30Z")
If you check your messages on your Live account, you’ll probably find that they notified you about it being down for maintenance for a few hours. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-live-down/443744/6 "2008-04-03T15:25:57Z")
Good thing Xbox Live wasn’t free. Then it would never work. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-live-down/443744/7 "2008-04-03T16:53:30Z")
How much is Xbox Live anyway? I’ve just been looking all over Microsoft’s Live site and they don’t seem to want to let me in on the secret. ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-live-down/443744/8 "2008-04-03T17:03:32Z")
[QUOTE=neutron star] How much is Xbox Live anyway? I’ve just been looking all over Microsoft’s Live site and they don’t seem to want to let me in on the secret. [/QUOTE] It depends on how many gaming trivia questions you can answer on the purchase screen. There are 10 and if you get all 10 right you get 50% off. If you get 5 or more wrong you will be charged an extra 5%. Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-live-down/443744/9 "2008-04-03T17:05:54Z")
And that would be 50% of what? 🙂 ETA: or is that a joke? They really charge you extra if you can’t answer trivia? ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-live-down/443744/10 "2008-04-03T17:18:27Z")
Heh. It’s $60 a year. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2008, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xbox-live-down/443744/11 "2008-04-03T18:21:06Z")
[QUOTE=Least Original User Name Ever] Heh. It’s $60 a year. [/QUOTE] Nope, it’s $50 a year. Unless you buy an Xbox Live 13 Month Subscription Card from a store that has a sale. Then it can be dirt cheap. I got one for $35 at Amazon a while back.