Xbox Live faces outtages

The holidays have come, and so have some problems, at least for the Xbox Live team over at Microsoft. New registrations for the online service has skyrocketed, resulting in record breaking, and history making, as well as outages and frustrated customers.

Since the holidays, Xbox Live has been facing numerous problems with matchmaking, leaderboards, and a list of problems that gamers have encountered. Microsoft has since stepped up and said they understand the problems, and are, as they have always, working on the problems. Marc Whitten, general manager for Xbox Live, has stated the following in a press release on Thursday:

Marc Whitten wrote:
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.