August 11th 2009 360 Dashboard Update

[Kaslo]

Lightsaber is cool, but the fucking RV Halo Warthog fucking owns, I want it bad but don't wanna pay... plus the Tower Guard top from Fable looks really sweet on my avatar since he already had slacks to match.

[Spliffy]

The new update also allows Netflix memebers to watch movies together! There is also that new thing where if you get disconnected from a party, it automatically reconnects you which is amazing in shooting games!

[Insanecyclone]

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[BRP]

Japanese xbox360 players have better taste, no surprise

[Insanecyclone]

Japanese xbox360 players have better taste, no surprise

Region locked too

[Brill Weave]

It was hard because the Xbox kept on destroying itself.

The only real competition they had was themselves. Wait.....what?

[Shojin]

Hell yeah lets have the consumers pay more

FUCK YEAH, I WANT TO GIVE YOU SO MUCH MONEY MICROSOFT I LOVE YOU SO MUCH I FUCKING LOVE YOU

Well Tekki, what you say is false because people will continue to tell publishers to supply their own servers because that's how it works on PC. In the end it will work this way no matter what.

Why how dare you sir. I love paying an extra subscription fee to play the $60 games I just bought, online with my friends. On top of my internet subscription fee.

And then to top it off, I love seeing ads on my dashboard for this premium service I am paying for.

But seriously, have they taken those ridiculous ads off yet? Some of them even have sound.

[Insanecyclone]

I never notice the ADs on the dashboard we have ads on it?

[Ragnell]

Idunno I go striaght to the games or go check download to see anything new, I dont notice the ads like people claim

[Insanecyclone]

What is with these 1,2,3,4, and 5's that I'm seeing on gamertags? I was looking at the DMC4 leaderboard's last night and saw random JP accounts with that on it then I went to change my tag's picture and it popped up with a 1 on it. What is this? I've never noticed it before lol

[Diamicles]

im not buying any of that bullshit

/thread

[Zosi]

What is with these 1,2,3,4, and 5's that I'm seeing on gamertags? I was looking at the DMC4 leaderboard's last night and saw random JP accounts with that on it then I went to change my tag's picture and it popped up with a 1 on it. What is this? I've never noticed it before lol

That's your "tenure", a truncated integer count of how many years you've been a Gold member.

Edit: Yeah, it's new with this update, forgot to mention that.

[Octavious]

I'd love their games-on-demand if I could swap my 360 HDD like my PS3. I'm not paying out the ass for a mere 120 GB (At $160) when I can get a HDD off Newegg and put it in my PS3 for a fraction of the cost. Don't get me wrong it's a great idea and I use my PS3 to download titles off the PSN, but I also have a 250 GB HDD in my PS3 (WD Scorpio $80).

If Microsoft let me put any HDD I wanted in my 360 I would love it. At the moment I use a 60 GB and I just install 1-2 games that I play frequently (MW,WAW) with the rest being taken up for various map packs and game saves. It's a good idea, but I don't think I'll use it since I already find myself stretched for space on my xbox. Oh, yes I know I can delete and redownload purchased games but thats a hassle I'd rather not deal with if I can just have the damn disc, lol.

IMHO, XBL is back to the speed it was before the new Dashboard, which I love. It felt slow and sluggish for a long time after they "upgraded" to the new XBL experience. It felt like a step forward in aesthetics but a step backwards in performance. At least it feels as fast as the original dashboard. Overall, I am glad they made it back to how fast it used to be as well as the tweaks for inviting people into party chat etc. Sending out party invites is easier than it was as well as general messaging. All things being said, I'm content with XBL, still hoping for larger storage options. :(

edit: the numbers on your gamertag show the years subscribed as a gold XBL member

[Kaisha]

Well Tekki, what you say is false because people will continue to tell publishers to supply their own servers because that's how it works on PC. In the end it will work this way no matter what.

Out of curiosity, how many 360 games even have servers to do stuff other than matchmaking? The online games my brother owns (basically all the FPS ;/ ) all rely on the actual players' network to do the game hosting, not a dedicated server.

[Insanecyclone]

Out of curiosity, how many 360 games even have servers to do stuff other than matchmaking? The online games my brother owns (basically all the FPS ;/ ) all rely on the actual players' network to do the game hosting, not a dedicated server.

I know all versions of rainbow six vegas 1 and 2 rely on player created servers, no matchmaking thank god. Gears of war did the same now 2 has shitty matchmaking that never works out well

[Zosi]

I'm not sure where BRP gets this idea that PC game publishers run servers, but Xbox and PS3 game publishers don't.

[Selamis]

Not sure if it is because of this update or when I had my 360 fixed for errors, but I no longer sign in automatically with my gamer tag like before. I used to turn on Xbox and it'd sign me on but now I manually have to sign in under my tag. Any way of fixing this or is this common now?

[BRP]

I'm not sure where BRP gets this idea that PC game publishers run servers, but Xbox and PS3 game publishers don't.

Actually it is Tekki's idea.

EDIT: I don't know if my example sounded confusing, but I was talking about a potential future. Tekki implies publishers will not be satisfied with doing all the work themselves, yet on PC they must. (As it could never be as centralized as a console)

[Shojin]

I never notice the ADs on the dashboard we have ads on it?

Apparently. This is what caught my attention.

[Fallyn]

Never seen that before.