some inside news:
1. Some Xbox Live! users are asked to change their gamertag because 'it's
very similar to other gamertags - only different in space'. Turned out the
real reason is EA - their system doesn't recognize space in an id (ea sucks!)
Too bad Microsoft has to take the blame because players didn't know that how
come Xbox Live! that had worked great in last 2 years suddenly had this 'bug'.
2. EA only uses Xbox Live! to authenticate players and then switched to run
the game on EA's netwro