If you came to the LAN at the weekend, you'll remember the sheer HORROR of my face when on Saturday morning I found my XBL subscription had ended and desperately ransacked every green case to find a 48hour code.
After 30-40 seconds of putting the code in, I was allowed to play online.
Phew!
Tonight, after an invite off Sid (cheers mate, and sorry for messing about), I remembered I needed it renewing.
Bought a code, entered it in.
Waited.
Still the silver bar in my profile. Logged out, logged in. Still the same. Waited 10mins.
Went onto Xbox.com, oooooo, it's gone gold! Log in Xbox console, still silver! Hmmm.
Logged out, logged in, logged out, logged in, logged out, logged in, logged out, logged in, logged out, logged in, then finally, 30mins later, it goes gold! Woo hoo!!
Tried to join a game of COD4, tell me my gamertag can't play online! All gold bars, subscription says it's fine, expires 02/2009.
Then tried to recover gamertag, and since 22:30, the 'recovery' bar is on about 20%, it's going up and up about 1 pixel every 2 mins (I've been sad enough to mark it with a bit of tape on the screen to make sure it was actually doing it!).
Anyone else had this lately when renewing their subscription or is my console just been a twonk?
A free 48hour code worked instantly! A full paid 12mth, £38.99 fee is taking over an hour!
Not happy.
After 30-40 seconds of putting the code in, I was allowed to play online.
Phew!
Tonight, after an invite off Sid (cheers mate, and sorry for messing about), I remembered I needed it renewing.
Bought a code, entered it in.
Waited.
Still the silver bar in my profile. Logged out, logged in. Still the same. Waited 10mins.
Went onto Xbox.com, oooooo, it's gone gold! Log in Xbox console, still silver! Hmmm.
Logged out, logged in, logged out, logged in, logged out, logged in, logged out, logged in, logged out, logged in, then finally, 30mins later, it goes gold! Woo hoo!!
Tried to join a game of COD4, tell me my gamertag can't play online! All gold bars, subscription says it's fine, expires 02/2009.
Then tried to recover gamertag, and since 22:30, the 'recovery' bar is on about 20%, it's going up and up about 1 pixel every 2 mins (I've been sad enough to mark it with a bit of tape on the screen to make sure it was actually doing it!).
Anyone else had this lately when renewing their subscription or is my console just been a twonk?
A free 48hour code worked instantly! A full paid 12mth, £38.99 fee is taking over an hour!
Not happy.
