Alegria para os usuários do Xbox Live Arcade

Nessas últimas semanas, os usuários da Xbox Live Arcade devem ter percebido diversos problemas ao utilizarem o serviço da Microsoft, como lags, lentidões para acesso e desconexões aleatórias.

Pensando nisso, a MS divulgou hoje um anúncio de que todos os membros da Live Arcade (provavelmente ambos Gold e Silver) irão receber gratuitamente um jogo da Live Arcade, para compensar o tempo perdido e problemático do serviço. Abaixo o anúncio, na íntegra:

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

Apesar da boa notícia, nenhum detalhe sobre o jogo que vai ser dado de presente aos usuários, nem detalhes de como aproveitar essa “mordomia” foram divulgados. Resta aguardar algum outro anúncio oficial da Microsoft, que provavelmente chegará nos próximos dias.