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Timing Of Title Update To Blame For MW2 Stimulus Pack Issues
Many gamers were disappointed yesterday when they downloaded the long-awaited Stimulus Package for Modern Warfare 2, only to find out it didn't exactly work. A day later, Xbox Live operations manager Eric Neustadter has explained what caused the issue:
"Through a process failure on our part, the Modern Warfare 2 Stimulus Package was released this morning before the Title Update (TU) for MW2 was available. Unfortunately, the Stimulus Package doesn’t function correctly without the TU. Once they had been released out of order, it wasn’t a simple thing for us to resolve. For a couple of hours the result was unpredictable but most people couldn’t get into a game through matchmaking. In technical terms, it was a big hairball that we had to unwind."
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