I commiserate with you all-my son got his xbox at Christmas and began begging for this game for his birthday on January 15th. I went to the store and purchased it and we tried to play it. Being new to the world of xbox it took me a while to realize that I had to activate his Gold Membership. I assured him that night it would be ready to him to play before school on the16th. I received the same alert to update the game and could not activate any update. He went to school with my promise that I would figure it out. I spent an hour on the forums trying the step by step fixes posted for the problem. Then I found the service alert. Short of fixing the problem, I was hoping by this time (Saturday, January 17 7:30am EST) there would at least be an estimate on when it might be up and running? Thank you.
