so i opened halo 3 ODST and download the Halo Reach Beta and it finished downloading and all and i opened the Beta ASAP!! and i was able to play 1 match of it and it said 173,903 people playing or smthing like that!

After that game i could not play again as the servers crashed/ got overloaded :p.

more info from an official site not a fan :P http://www.examiner.com/x-13078-Xbox-360-Examiner~y2010m5d3-Halo-Reach-Beta-servers-overloaded

There's already close to 500,000 users currently online and playing the beta. It has steadily increased all day.

It's the beta, what do you expect?

Takes a while for me to get into each game...

Hopefully they have it sorted by tomorrow.

Well duh, it's an ungodly amount of people all trying to play the beta at once. It'll calm down in a couple days.

I just got the download today, I'll not be playing till tomorrow as I knew the servers would be hopelessly overloaded. By tomorrow you will not have the entire globe attempting to play all at once so the servers will be able to handle the load better.

Well, I am happy to hear that it wasn't my connection causing it. I hope they are able to fix the problem soon, which I think they will ;).

hmm, glad I'm working till Wednesday then :P

I was fine right when I started playing then got into a game and blam got kicked when picking the game types. Then from there on nothing can't join at all.

wow, i really did not see this coming. Seriously. Hopefully they will get around it, and fix the beta so everyone could have an awesome 2 weeks =p