Well I was just about to play some Maption Sack (DE) when I saw that there were 1.3 Million people playing Halo 3 (which is a unbelievable amount of people for Halo) 

But when I went to Bungie.net It said players online right now n/a http://www.bungie.net/Projects/Halo3/default.aspx

And now it seems like the Halo 3 servers have crashed since i can't start a game.

What the hell is going on? and why are so many people playing Halo right now?!?

EDIT:  The servers just got back online and there are 750k people online (must have booted a ton of people cause it couldn't handle the stress)

I think this is the most amount of people ever on Halo 3 at one time.

Everyone is bored of cod?

Double XP weekend?

Yeah but 1.3 million 0_o ?!?  ever since MW2 has come out I don't think there have been more then 200k people online at once in halo 3 and usually its around 100k 

That's strange. Most of the times there's like 200k-300k.

I'm in with a group of people waiting for a game to start but its taking soo long...looks like Bungies servers are very stressed right now.

Reach fever, people are getting back in practice!!

Haha I hope so!  This may be a sign of good things to come....maybe Halo Reach is gonna be more popular then most believe.

If any you tried Bungie Day when Bungie was giving out Recon to whoever beat them it was so packed. I saw over 200,000 people in one playlist alone.

The servers went down because they were switching from the Halo 3 servers to the more powerful Reach servers, like they did with Halo 2 before Halo 3's release.

Source: http://www.bungie.net/News/Blog.aspx?mode=news#cid27250

As for how many people were playing, maybe you were playing on Bungie's day [7/7] where everyone had flaming armor for one day.

Those numbers don't seem correct.  Maybe that was for the past 24 hours.