Battlefield 1943, EA, DICE and Microsoft – Service Unavailable
Well, yesterday morning I was very excited because of the release of the Brand New Battlefield 1943 for our Xbox 360. What is there not to like about this idea, a cheap 1200 MS Points Battlefield game for the Xbox 360. But my excitement turned to disapointment. because EA/DICE and Microsoft managed to completly mess up the release of this game. First the game wouldn’t appear in the Xbox Marketplace, then when it did, it would not download, I kept getting ’server unavailable’ messages, I read everything I could on http://majornelson.com/ and there are lots of people who had either got it, and got stupid amounts of lag or couldn’t get it.
I finally got it this morning, and I couldn’t even connect to a game. Considering that the Microsoft Marketplace is a paid for subscription service, why it is so crap sometimes, I have used free services that are better than this, what exactly are we paying our xbox live gold subscription for?
This morning I tried log onto the xbox site to change my profile, and once again, ’service unavailable’.
Bad work Microsoft. You should hold companies like EA to a higher standard than this, they make you look bad.