The 360 thread!

[disciple]

You get adverts even if you're paying money for a live subscription?

[Deckard]

Yep

[Dio]

Not really any different to the old dash in that respect though. The first thing you saw at boot was an advert. It still is.

[Phineasfool]

Not really any different to the old dash in that respect though. The first thing you saw at boot was an advert. It still is.

Yup, but with the new dash it starts out with your game in the tray highlighted, so it's even quicker to start your game even though it has that big advert.

You get adverts even if you're paying money for a live subscription?

Not really any different than something like Hulu+ or some over pay services. You still get adverts with them.

[merman]

The things that get me at the moment are the repeated disconnects from Live (especially when starting up a game) and the empty Apps Marketplace. Why put in a new feature like that and only have two options for UK users?

[RiK]

Still bloody annoying that what I bought was a games console which I'd just like to play games on thanks. Yet, MS in their infinite wisdom decide they can repurpose my console to be a multimedia hub, through a series of mandatory updates which add a bunch of features that I'm not interested in one bit.

I'd quite like my 360 back please. KTHNX.

[Misfit]

Still bloody annoying that what I bought was a games console which I'd just like to play games on thanks. Yet, MS in their infinite wisdom decide they can repurpose my console to be a multimedia hub, through a series of mandatory updates which add a bunch of features that I'm not interested in one bit.

I'd quite like my 360 back please. KTHNX.

I'm with you on this 100%. I just want it to play games.

[chub]

I've just tried the new Xbox Live iOS app on my iPod Touch. It's free and has things like seeing what your friends are doing, checking your achievements and editing your avatar. It's actually quite swish, uncluttered and easy to use. Must have been made by a different team.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/my-xbox- ... 14036?mt=8

[RiK]

I'd quite like my 360 back please. KTHNX.

I'm with you on this 100%. I just want it to play games.

Yup. That's what I bought it for and that's what it did at the time.

It's not like a desktop computer where I can at least choose whether to upgrade or not, with the 360 it's 'there is a system update for your console, if you choose not to install it you will be logged out of XBox live'

Oh great, thanks then. If I don't put up with you adding a load of shite that I didn't ask for and don't actually want then you'll stop me actually using the features that I did want and have paid for. Gee thanks!

[PVB]

You get adverts even if you're paying money for a live subscription?

They're not like full screen TV adverts, just panes on the dash with an image on them, which when selected takes you to that item.

Like this:

[Dio]

I don't do anything but play games on mine and for me the update is no worse than what preceded it.

[Jonesey]

I dunno - it's a piece of piss to navigate so I'm OK with it.

[disciple]

Yeah got my 360 back yesterday (RROD on a 3.5 yo 360 repaired by the retailer) , it's ok though the only pages I'm generally interested in are the current disced game and xbla which now seems a little less accessible.

[Loada]

A nice feature would be if it "learned" the tiles/options you visited most often and placed them on a "home" screen that it booted into. That way, you could side-step a lot of the stuff you weren't interested in (music/video playback for example). Maybe even offer a rudimentary way to place the tiles onto that screen, a bit like bookmarks.

Or maybe it already does (or is going to do) that? I dunno, have hardly touched the xbox since it updated.

[PVB]

A nice feature would be if it "learned" the tiles/options you visited most often and placed them on a "home" screen that it booted into. That way, you could side-step a lot of the stuff you weren't interested in (music/video playback for example). Maybe even offer a rudimentary way to place the tiles onto that screen, a bit like bookmarks.

Or maybe it already does (or is going to do) that? I dunno, have hardly touched the xbox since it updated.

The Quick Play section (see bottom-left of pic I posted above) shows recent stuff you've accessed, so any recent games should be in that.