On Friday, UFC’s latest pay-per-view event debuted, a pretty big deal for Microsoft. As the first live event for the new UFC Xbox 360 app, a lot hinged on Friday night’s fight. According to BitMob‘s Dan Hsu, it didn’t go so well.
He complained of constant crashes, weird issues involving video definition and the app bouncing around to different times in the broadcast at its own discretion, plus constant buffering throughout. Microsoft had sent out a whopping 30,000 promotional codes for the event, which ended up bringing down the house of cards. So Hsu contacted Microsoft to get some answers on his disappointment.
“The broadcast of UFC 141 through the UFC for Xbox LIVE application was hampered by technical issues appearing in the hours leading up to the fight,” a spokesperson told BitMob. “Despite restoring service to some users during the course of UFC 141, there is a great deal of room for improvement. All 30,000 users who registered to view UFC 141 for free will be provided access to a future fight at no cost.”
There’s no timeline for the freebie, but “The gamertags of the 30,000 users who registered for UFC 141 are being safely kept on file for free access to a future UFC event, and we will have more updates to share in the near future,” the spokesperson concluded. Let’s just hope that’s enough time for Microsoft to get the app working.
UFC 141 on Xbox Live glitchy, Microsoft promises to make good originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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