Xbox Live Access
 

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"Users may experience difficulties with account recovery, account management, Marketplace functions and/or making purchases. We are aware of the problem and working to resolve the technical issues. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and thank you for your patience.

Users will be unable to log in to Xbox.com or access the Marketplace on Xbox.com. Users will also be unable to post to Xbox.com forums. We are aware of the problem and are working to resolve the technical issues. We thank you for your patience."

Hopefully this explains why I was unable to add points earlier this afternoon.

that would explain it

My first thought was , "oh shit, someone hacked me!".

lol yea they release good stuff to download and then you can't add points to buy it

Just keep hitting the add points thingy. I kept getting that error and after clicking it several times it finally took.

I WANT MY MAP PACK BIOTCH!

and now you have 25k points :mockery-022:

25K

send some DGs way, hes broke as a joke

can you gift points on live?

I do not think so, you can recover someone's gamertag and then buy points for them but I do not think you can buy for someone else.