There's a major XBox 360 sale

[A Black Falcon]

So yeah, I ended up spending a bunch on 360 stuff, a lot of it on DLC, the final day.  I almost escaped with my money intact but cracked on the last day... heh.  Sadly there are a few more I should have gotten but missed, such as the DLC for Rare's Kinect Sports Season 2.  Bah.  You can still add free DLCs to your account, but not pay for ones that cost money, so I can't get them now.  And they haven't made anything free that wasn't, of course.

The problem with hacking a 360 is, it requires a modchip soldered to the motherboard, right?  I'd love to have it but that would be challenging...

Anyway, this was certainly a very large shutdown, but there's no way it was as large as the Wii U + 3DS combined, and those were shut down at the same time.  It's awful and incredibly disappointing that MS shut down the system and have basically left 360's nearly useless now, how about letting people mod it more easily or something?  Heh. 

As for why some of the services are still online, I'd imagine that some are for the X360 games that are still playable on newer Xboxes.  Why shut down the online servers when those same servers are likely also hosting the BC games?