The Xbox LIVE Community Team talks Games...and stuff

Thank you so much for all of the hard work XboxLive and Microsoft has put into the platform.  It continues to improve each year and I totally look forward to see where it goes.  I think one of the best part is the staff you have, with people like Major Nelso, KP, Trixie360, etc who help make the community more enjoyable, it makes it that much more fun to interact with other people and try things out.

Aweaome cant wait for all this stuff to come, xbox 360 is truly the greatest console and online gaming console. Congrats to Microsoft for some awesome new ideas and the best E3 press confrence today beats all the others out there *cough*SONY*cough* lol

Your xbox teams have setup quite the obstacle before Sony and Nintendo! I'm curious to see not only how Nintendo responds to the leap in technology that is Project Natal, but also the overall dominance that Sky and Netflix are affording XBL over Sony's PSN.  I can only hope the upcoming innovations (especially the tech in Natal) bring about change instead of the typical notion of "Wow that's a neat gimmick! Where's the next Madden?"

Whatever happened to XBox being used as a front for BT Vision?

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/jan08/01-06MSBTXboxPR.mspx

Has this now been replaced with the SKY announcement?

-Jamie

WOW! Xbox has completely blown me away this year.  It's fantastic to see the UK getting Sky Player via Xbox Live! Thank you so much for all your hard work! You're making life a bit brighter in the current economic climate.

And what about a date? I just want to know when I can get last.fm on my Xbox.

Also,

Why can I not watch a presentation about 360 enhancements on my 360? Why do I have to watch it on a website.

C'mon...that's just noddy stuff isn't it? Making your own content available on your own network?

-Jamie

Just to to extend my thanks and gratitude for all the hard work you guys have done and how much you listen to the community. I know my requests such as new avatar material and Sky integration have been answered. Was thoroughly impressed with the E3 briefing and exceeded my expectations. Thanks again.

Thank you so much for taking the time to address the guide issues so we can invite friends without getting stuck in blue screen sub menu hell.  Also please take a look at parties falling apart on their own.

All those things you are announcing sound exciting as heck but it's the gaming experience that is most important.

First great work, apart from the odd "momentary hang" with the new NXE (where it stops responding for a few seconds whilst updating the guide, etc) you folks have been doing great work.

I hope the fact you'll now have purchasable gear for the avatars doesn't mean you'll stop adding free gear periodically as you have been.

I have to echo how ridiculous it is I have to come to your website to read this rather than being able to read RSS feeds, watch trailers (like from gametrailers.com), etc on the 360.

Finally I applaud all these wonderful announcements about watching 1080p video with 5.1 audio direct from the 360 but it is REALLY LAME you aren't supporting Blu-Ray, even if just for regions outside the US where Netflix, or anything like it, is not available and the 1080p video with 5.1 audio is nearly non existent.

I am saddened to see my choice as an Australian user in the Video Marketplace is limited to over priced comic episodes and the like.  AU$4 an episode for Ctrl+Alt+Del is a bit much when I can go to their website and get a Season pass for Season 2 plus access to all 12 episodes of Season 1 for US$30.

I do hope we don't miss out on Facebook, etc just for being in a different region.

another year, another lack of Blu-Ray external drive for the 360. Nobody's buying the HD-DVD drive, guys. Time to bury the hatchet and work this out with Sony.

"There's always room to improve, and your input really matters to us"

With that said a feature request.

Add an optional Remote Desktop client addon to the Xbox 360 so that I can access a selected PC on my local network from my couch and view it on my HD TV.

Adding Remote Desktop would enable people to easily access the content beyond the Xbox 360 - for example it would allow users wanting a web browser to access that in a safe manner since you would actually be using your PC's which in most cases is run along side an antivirus program.

I just want to program my XNA games on my big screen without having to move around my PC, which simply can't be done at the moment due to space reasons & the fact it wouldn't look good next to the TV.

Think about it, thats all I ask.

Oh and of course great work guys, the Sky addon looks impressive - much nicer than the actual channel guide on the default Sky box!

I would really hope someone at MS notices my request anyway & passes it onto the right people, it would not help just me but so many others, developers and users alike. Lets face it, whats not to love about accessing your PC and its content off a HD TV without even requiring your PC in the same room. Its just another great reason to own an Xbox 360.

I recently purchased this "lovely community" product on March 30th, 2009, 20...made a profile and now on June 1st, 2009 the Xbox360 decides not only to freeze, but also to erase my profile and I could not restore my information because it said I didn't even have a storage device?!!!! I thought that's what my Hard-drive is for!!! So, being a new gamer, I am not satisfied and a bit angry at how this has discouraged me to continue to purchase these products. I expect to get a full refund from purchasing my year subscription and 4,000 game points!

"First and foremost, the entire Xbox LIVE service is being upgraded for improved performance..."

Besides the guide/FL freezes, I'd like to hear more about this upgrade.  Are things being done to reduce the high latency on the XBL network?  MP gaming has suffered over the last year.  The new stuff coming to live sounds great but I still want to be able to play a decent lag free MP game!

Twitter And Facebook On Xbox LiveIn an announcement made at E3 Expo 2009 edition, Microsoft informs that Xbox Live will integrate Twitter and Facebook social networking services starting from this...

Wow.  I can't even begin to say what an impressive job Microsoft and Xbox have done reinventing "the video game console."  People thought Xbox Live was big, then the Xbox Live Marketplace... but did anybody really expect it to take on a life of it's own in such a short time?

You have done a fantastic job not only making the product great, but keeping up with it's exponential growth.

500GB HDD please.  :)

NuAngel

great show, best in show for 09".

twitter and facebook, very good move but i would like to see a kind of app store / blade for all kind of widgets.

personally i don't think that facebook and twitter should be a big announcement they should be just 2 of many apt avail on xbox 360.

All that research, upgrading, etc. What about upgrading support? Nothing against India, but good luck getting results from them. Microsoft please upgrade your customer service/support. No one should have to contact them 3/4 times for results to be obtained.  

wow xbox has changed my life for ever it has been the greatest thing thats ever happend to me i just had i thought that in thoughs new updates, have a way to send microsoft points to players of who you choose . i mean that from your own balance you can select an amount you want and give it to who ever you want. but no mater what xbox is still the best with out it i cant wait untile wat you guys think of next

Project Natal can't launch soon enough.

Thank you to all the team's and people trying to make xboxlive the first Biggist place to download all xbox360 games. An get what every person wants on there 360.

Iv read all the post's that people have said an do belive that your work is going to change the way people look at the 360 from now on. And think this is guna be a good year for people that own a xbox360 hopefully you will make sum way of bein abl to acces full internet use from conecting truw your pc or an app that can pe updated on the 360consol. This would be so grate as people would be able to sufe the web e.g bye from off ebay.co.uk.  who know people at your team might all ready be on it for all we know but keep up the grate work.

Thanks again  

P.S Hopefully Project Natal is going to change gameing as wee no it an give all the nitendo wii fan's chance to join xbox360 in makeing the best consol they ever made.

Thanks

Just think hundreds of games at one place sounds cool...

 how do I get my facebook and twitter preveiw

Does anyone know who is a contact for the project natal product as i'm looking at getting it demonstrated in a college in the UK

The Facebook, Twitter, Zune, and Last.FM all awesome just wish that you could send and receive messages live on Facebook

they need to put blu-ray on xbox360

Hey that's great! One addition that I think make xbox live better now is allowing people to listen to last. fm while they play games like you can do with the rest of your music on your hardrive. I think that would be amazing. Please message me back about this.

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