[343 Response] Reach Servers Down!

Thank you for replying and not locking the thread. My point about the server issue is that whatever hardware was used for the servers, employees that have been in the field for at least 8 years, which I’m assuming is a large percentage, should be familiar with them. Again, I don’t work with servers so I don’t know what goes into fixing an issue like the random search aborts that have been going on for months now. I of course realize that new employees wouldn’t be trained on older systems especially with so many newer projects that have to be worked on.

I’m not trying to be belligerent here, but quite frankly I do not like the direction the halo franchise went after this game. I played 4 for 7 months...even bought the limited edition console bundle...tried my best to enjoy it but this game won out. I have no desire to play any further iteration of the franchise I have loved since 2001, and I’m sure there are thousands of other people that feel the same way(to be fair, I also am not a fan of the way bungie went with destiny). Microsoft owns 343 studios and we pay Microsoft for xbl gold every year - we should be able to play whatever game we wish without these issues greatly affecting gameplay. I’m not alone here and I implore other players with my same thoughts to speak up. Again, thank you for not locking the post!

Doncut97 wrote:

Earlier today around 6pm EST my ODST nameplate was gone and matchmaking was unavailable for me, around 8pm EST both of those have come back and Reach seems to be playing normal for me, idk if others are experiencing the same thing or not.

please keep the feedback and comments about issues coming. @Doncut97 we know what caused the issue you saw earlier today. It was part of the ongoing work to stabilize the infrastructure and sometimes there are blips along the way.

Ugh, reach servers were down again earlier for me today...

Pete2DSM2 wrote:

n0mnom321 wrote:

Ugh, reach servers were down again earlier for me today...

Same here. Really unstable, went on mcc.

were you seeing the "The Halo: Reach server is unavailable at this time. Please try again later." error message in match making?

dankun343 wrote:

Pete2DSM2 wrote:

n0mnom321 wrote:

Ugh, reach servers were down again earlier for me today...

Same here. Really unstable, went on mcc.

were you seeing the "The Halo: Reach server is unavailable at this time. Please try again later." error message in match making?

Yep. It’s still down for me.

dankun343 wrote:

n0mnom321 wrote:

dankun343 wrote:

Pete2DSM2 wrote:

n0mnom321 wrote:

Ugh, reach servers were down again earlier for me today...

Same here. Really unstable, went on mcc.

were you seeing the "The Halo: Reach server is unavailable at this time. Please try again later." error message in match making?

Yep. It’s still down for me.

ok good to know. we are seeing a lot of successful match matching now but we are still looking into a small subset of failures we can see in the logs.

Update: it seems to work now, although the player counts for all playlists read as zero on my side.

I need to wait about 20 minutes between games, I start to search a game, the game find all the players and then it stays for about 30 seconds with all the player found match found and then it kick me off and says either Restarting search or network difficulties - searching for players I need to do it again for 2 or 3 times to finally get a match sometimes you are able to find a match but the game remove 1 or 2 players and sometimes you play alone against 4 people you gotta be kidding guys. There is something wrong in your end guys all the other games I have are just fine no problems at all my Nat is open, Do not let halo reach die please or at least put it on the MCC.

I know it's an old game but it's getting ridiculous; halo 3 never has these problems. I know it isn't deliberate by 343 but they must be doing something wrong people have been experiencing these problems for months and nothing has changed - it's completely unacceptable.

Wow, it’s down again. When will the repairs be finished?

n0mnom321 wrote:

Wow, it’s down again. When will the repairs be finished?

Thats what I would like to know