Problems showing Online Status

TreeTopFlyer · 10-01-2007, 12:57 AM

If you want to game with me and I'm not online....I might be online and you can't see me! I spent an hour on the phone with Microsoft pimpleface tech support yesterday.

We deleted my profile and re-downloaded all the friggin' updates. I even unplugged my Box for 2 hours and tried it again 2x. Last night after I was done I unplugged it again hoping somehow it will lose the problem without electricity. Microsoft said it was probably on their end and will probably clear up in a few days.Until then, I'm trying to not get killed and stopping and inviting you guys as I see you login. I wonder if I can get a refund for all the days I'll miss playing?

Oh well, send me a message if you wanna play- even if I'm offline! I'm usually on sometime between 3:30pm & 10:30 pm ESTweekdays.

The Green Guy · 10-01-2007, 01:04 AM

That sucks! Hopefully it will clear up.

Wobbly Goblin · 10-01-2007, 08:11 AM

Well that explains why you were showing offline the day you invites us to join your co-op. I wondered what that was all about.

LOOON · 10-01-2007, 12:54 PM

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Wobbly Goblin - 10/1/2007 3:11 PM

Well that explains why you were showing offline the day you invites us to join your co-op. I wondered what that was all about.

Same here.

TreeTopFlyer · 10-04-2007, 07:30 AM

The problem has been resolved! After spending a little more than an hour with the highly trained Microsoft Technician (in a secure location), I was no better off than if I'd of asked my dog for tech support. The boy wonder told me that his location was classified for security purposes when I was trying to make small talk waiting for updates to d/l. I asked him if he thought I was gonna track him down. BTW- I think he was in India because he sounded just like Hadji from Jonny Quest (a cartoon I used to watch when I was a pre-teen. It originally aired 1964-65). Anyway, I was frustratedly looking through my dashboard trying to find a solution myself. Turns out there are 2 ways to set your online status. One way sets it by pressing the guide button/scroll to personal settings and there you can select your online status. We tried that, I tried that way before even considering wasting anytime with Bill's boys. The way I found (w/o Hadji) is press the guide button/select your gamerpic box/ press a/ scroll to profile, hit the a button. In there you can limit who see your status to block everyone, friend's only, or everyone. That was set to block everyone. I assume this happened during a power outage. The power flickered and it glitched. Anyway the 3 people on my friends list now can see when they want to set their online status to "appear offline" because they can see me online now!

Wobbly Goblin · 10-04-2007, 08:10 AM

I had wondered if it was something simple like that Tree. Now I guess I'll have to find the time to join you guys.

HaHaHa...I've had them tell me they were in a secured location before too.