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Microsoft has said new clothes will regularly be added for Xbox 360 Avatars, and most importantly they will be free.
That's according to MS Germany's Boris Schneider-Johne, who told Dreisechzig.net this will certainly be the case for the first few weeks.
Kotaku's also found a way to unlock some quite wacky haircuts for Avatars.
Simply go to the Hairstyles menu in the My Features bit of the Dashboard and don't do anything. Then, after the item in the Hairstyles menu rotates, the green, orange, blue and purple cuts will be unlocked. Trendy.
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andywilkie35
24/11/08 @ 09:05
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I don't know why I laughed when I read what the German website was called - literally translates to "three sixty" which makes sense. Is there an english site called "threesixty.net"? does it even matter? why am I still typing?
good news on more clothes tho, my guy's been wearing the same stuff since wednesday, the dirty bastard |
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Vice.Destroyer
24/11/08 @ 09:21
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Wishful thiniking, Dizzy. So wishful in fact, that I can imagine the lads and lasses that spend their working life designing these things groaning, whilst they use lit £50 notes to light their cigars, whilst guzzling caviar. In their private helicopter. On the way to the corner shop.
/exaggerated distortion of how much the guys make from their work. In all seriousness, the NXE itself was free. How much sweeter do you want this deal to become? The gamerpics you have previously bought are not obsolete. If you were prepared to pay for gamerpics, which I always thought was a liberty, so I voted with my wallet, then you should have no problem paying for clothes for your avatar. |
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>Wishful thiniking, Dizzy
Probably yes.. but it would be nice for all those people that bought a lot of those and it would expand the range of possible clothes because gamerpics are not *that* useful any more. How many Live people would kill for a Gears 2 T-shirt or a Halo helmet for their Avatar ;) |
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seasidebaz
24/11/08 @ 09:31
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gamerpics = horse armour.
The only one I've ever bought is the one that costs 1,000,000 Kudos. |
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Mentalist(air)
24/11/08 @ 09:39
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All I want is an option for a moustache and beard that are not connected.
Right now I'm having to do without a moustache, and my avatar looks like some skateboarding American twonk. And I wish he'd fucking stand up straight. |
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Mentalist(air)
24/11/08 @ 09:40
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@Dizzy:
Actually, a Gamerpicture-print T-shirt option would be ideal for that sort of thing. I'm surprised they never though of that, since then they'd have a paid-for clothing market already built in. |
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I can't make mine not look American. Just like I could never make my Mii not look vaguely Japanese. Weirdly though, I'm finding it harder to make my avatar look as much like me as my Mii does... Anyone else finding that there seems to be less room for customisation with avatars than Miis? I'm missing the ability to resize different facial features and move/rotate them about :(
Also I consider my hair to be very standard. Short and simple - and yet I can't find a match for the avatar. Why do Microsoft assume that every Xbox gamer is going to be some Blink 182 loving skate punk, with suitably matching and ridiculous hairstyle? |
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devilsknight
24/11/08 @ 10:46
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How long do you have to wait for the different coloured hair? Been on it for 5 minutes now and nothing is different
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Hurleybird
24/11/08 @ 11:24
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What MS really need to enable is outfits and things from games, possibly linked to achievements. So for example, you could wear a Master Chief helmet from Halo or a football top from FIFA, more things like that.
Just like Xerx3s said. |
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farticusmaximus
24/11/08 @ 12:06
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They really do need to provide a huge upgrade to the customisation of Avatars if they want them to be taken seriously, especially in the facial features department.
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Tetsuo_Shima
24/11/08 @ 12:32
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Forget new clothes, the highest priority should be on giving us a Hitler moustache. What is the point, I ask, of an avatar creation suite that doesn't allow you to make Hitler? A serious disappointment for me. Saddam Hussein will have to suffice.
On a more serious note, they really should be getting their priorities straight. How come i still can't play my Live arcade games offline? I thought Microsoft said they were going to sort that out? Stop mincing around with bollocks clothes and fix some real problems for once. |
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Monkey_Puncher
24/11/08 @ 12:48
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I second the need for a good Hitler moustache!
Failing that some clothes that make my guy not look a stupid skater twat. |
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"How come i still can't play my Live arcade games offline? I thought Microsoft said they were going to sort that out?"
@ Tetsuo_Shima What, you mean this? http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/support/drm/ |
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kangarootoo
24/11/08 @ 13:02
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@Mentalist(air)
"All I want is an option for a moustache and beard that are not connected." Is that in NXE or real life? ;) |
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kangarootoo
24/11/08 @ 13:06
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"Don't bother with these silly avatars at all, they all stand like they are in a gay bar waiting to meet Elton John for a quicky in the toilet, and they all look about 12 years of age for some reason."
Talk about a freudian denial combo. The avatars looked neither gay nor child like to my eyes. Someone doth protest too much. |
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Tetsuo_Shima
24/11/08 @ 13:15
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Ah, good shout, Scooch. I missed that one. I still think I shouldn't have to go through any of this license transfer caper at all, but whatever.
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kangarootoo
24/11/08 @ 13:39
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They just look like skinny charachatures to me. Tbh I had never even considered what their sexuality might be. It seems an odd thing to bring to mind.
Regardless, for someone to suggest avoiding them because they "look gay" says more about their own insecurities than anything else. Its like they are scared their friends will call them gay if they have an avatar (even though everyone else using a 360 online will have one). Maybe I've just forgotten what its like to be a 12 year old... |
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Mentalist(air)
24/11/08 @ 15:51
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I don't know about imnplied sexuality, but I think I might have bought a little too much into the Wii Fit 'correct posture' message, because I find all this leaning to one side business intensely irritating.
Please note, there ought to be a moustache on that. Think Peter Capaldi in the Devil's Whore :) |
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