Servers Crashed?

I’m getting a weird error trying to set up a private lobby, saying it can’t connect to the servers. Anyone else having this issue?

I really like having the advanced options that you don’t get in Free Play. Want to set up a spec-race with bots? Have to do it online. Why doesn’t the free play mode get the same detailed options?

Same here had to postpone race series because of this.

There was an xbox live service alert. It should now be fixed.

It’s not. Still getting that ghastly frame-rate drop.

I’m getting loads of rivals alerts for events I’ve never entered

You don’t need to enter them; some came/come recommended due to the release of DLC. I got a Rivals Alert for Nurburgring even before I finished downloading the 2.8GB update from last time.

Is there any chance a server crash has caused this:

I can no longer share a new paint job with the community, it keeps saying try again later. Nobody can download the paints I already have up. Also last two nights racing in public lobbies paints for one car were appearing on a totally different car. I’ve never come across anything like this before.

Correct me if I´m wrong but isn´t Microsoft running 300,000 servers for XBL nowadays? And if so, how would they all crash at the same time?

Maybe their servers run as well as their drivatars drive?