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Xbox Live dashboard updating now News
Xbox 360 News by Robert Purchese
Microsoft has begun rolling out the Xbox Live summer dashboard update, and the service will not go down while the new features are applied. You will be prompted to install the changes over the next few hours.
Xbox Live bigwig Larry "Major Nelson" Hryb asks us to remember that the ability to use the Avatar Marketplace and the Xbox Live games-on-demand service through Xbox.com will be added this Thursday.
The Xbox Live supper update brings an expansive platter of additions. Among them: full Xbox 360 games on demand, an Avatar Marketplace, community game ratings, better party controls and a renamed Indie Games channel. A full list of the improvements can be found on the Xbox website.
There are some hidden bonuses too, as the Digital Foundry blog points out.
Remember that Twitter, Facebook and Last.fm features will not be available until later this year. It's a similar story for the Zune Video Marketplace, too.
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@ Whizzo
'twould be nice, but Microsoft really can't make the prices any lower. Multiple markets with a single price point, anti-competition laws, single-retail channel monopoly - wouldn't be allowed, I'm afraid :-( Edit: Oh yeah - the comment I was going to make! Picked a most excellent time to visit my sister's tomorrow then! Was going to go today and play games tomorrow, but wanted to play Arkham Asylum tonight so rescheduled. Obviously my inner geek keeps a much better track of the Xbox Live downtime calendar than I do!
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Vice.Destroyer
10/08/09 @ 15:57
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I remember years and years ago, Bioreit educated me on something fundamental. And he hasn't stopped since. I am going to C+P your first passage and present it to anyone that complains about the prices of GOD. Blame the bureaucrats. Not Microsoft. It ain't their fault, this time.
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ParanoidZombie
10/08/09 @ 17:00
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hmmm a bit surprised, microsoft never told us the service was going to be down for maintenance because of the update, they usually send a message when they do so. I just received a message in my windows live mailbox telling me about the update, but they never mentioned about the downtime. We'll see, I guess...
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Graftonator
10/08/09 @ 18:13
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"great so i have to wait a hour to download and install the update...oops, no sorry that's my other console... "
To be fair to the PSN, at least it doesn't go offline when an update is made available like on live. Which is a good thing, as it happens fairly often! Also, if it's taking an hour to download, something is very wrong with your internet connection. Back on topic, the new "installed games" sizes sound great as do the reduced delays in using the guide! |
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metallicorphan
10/08/09 @ 18:28
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so why is it down?,i am in the preview and it took 2 minutes at the most to update...does the whole service really need to go down just to apply it?
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thegamesthething
10/08/09 @ 20:55
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Given the way new content is sometimes there, but isn't, or error messages, or appears ahead of time, or (if from Bethsheda) is broken, they probably take a VERY belt and braces approach to updates, in case they break every online 360 on the planet.
Still, bugger. |
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Could it be that LIVE is being switched off to transfer data from the closed network that the previewers have been using onto all the servers for everyone to use then switched back on? If that's the case then it's going to be interesting to see if these dashboard speed improvements reported in website previews such as the one Digital Foundry did are indeed true of the new NXE when millions of users are connected in each territory.
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God, I hope this speeds NXE up. Last night, I accidentally hit the guide button during the MvC2 character selection (and I even have a MadCatz TE stick where you can lock the guide button - d'oh!), and the other guy had started the match and killed both Psylocke and Wolvie before I could get the damn thing to go away again.
Oh, and Trials HD... you're MINE tomorrow! :)
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Teamallstar
11/08/09 @ 08:28
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What do we do for the next 24 hours!! I may actually have to leave the house!
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@ Vice.Destroyer
Ashamed to say, your post has made me feel warm and fuzzy! Although it does actually appear as though I'm wrong on at least one count, as Whizzo and Moribundman are both saying Oz have to pay 100 AUS$! Which is rather steep! Although, I seriously doubt Microsoft are going to implement different pricing for each and every territory - I'd expect at least all Euro-using countries to get the same prices, if not the UK too, just for the sake of convenience. On-topic: Xbox Live was up at 07:30 today before I left for work and as others have pointed out, there was no pre-warning message from Xbox Live in my Inbox, so maybe Eurogamer have got their wires crossed? The Xbox team have always been good at ramming the point past your eyeballs that there's going to be downtime. |
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thegamesthething
11/08/09 @ 08:52
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"Xbox Live was up at 07:30 today"
Did your 360 change language, or fix itself to 320x240, or melt? If not, I'll risk it too. |
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@BBIAJ - I know that now but EG have sneakily replaced the original article that claimed LIVE was being shut down with this updated story without mentioning that this new article is a revised update. As such the first dozen comments no longer make any sense. Well done, EG.
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thegamesthething
11/08/09 @ 10:39
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Something certainly isn't right. Maybe Ellie has gone down as well.
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GOD is a complete waste of time. MS were obviously going for a bulletpoint, because anyone who buys anythings via that service needs a slap. The other additions are OK, and I'm all for faster dashboards, but I can't shake the feeling that this is just a small, incremental update made to look like a huge feature-ridden monster. Rating games without acutally playing them?...I think that could turn into a bit of a disaster considering all the knobheads on Live.
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So long as the irritating dashboard/marketplace "lag" is gone with this update, I really couldn't less whether the update had any other features. It's a free update anyway so I look upon them as the chance to fix issues/annoyances rather than add new features. The "Clear System Cache" and being able to open the disc tray with a game in the tray via the X button are such improvements and very welcome.
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@LiamK
"I get that you're taking the piss, but does who on Earth thinks that Autumn starts over a month before it actually does? " Funny thing is, I wasn't! Autumn = August-September-October. Blame the Celts for their logic in placing MIDsummer in, eh, THE MIDDLE OF SUMMER, and not the start of it like most people rather bizarrely do... |
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Some good points.
Ability to rate games without having a single achievement in them is a major flaw. How many 12 year olds will mark stuff up or down because the latest school fad tells tem too :) Also I think there should be some sort of name and shame for anyone who spends money on their Avatar. I mean ffs just give the money to charity. Completely bizarre - really can't get my head around the concept. Doesn't contract law state that a deal is only legally binding if there is some value each way in the transaction. How the feck is a new t-shirt for a digital avatar adding value? Honestly makes me want to shit on Larry's head. |
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Sunyavadin
11/08/09 @ 17:10
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#1 annoyance - those bloody beeps on the party chat windows!
It was fine having them on the dashboard. I actually use them when navigating, because the sounds let me know which page I'm on before the animations catch up. But now the chat has deafening pbeeps in my headset every time someone joins, leaves, or any other event happens! I need a way to disable THOSE sounds, but KEEP the useful ones. |
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Sunyavadin
11/08/09 @ 18:58
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Yeah, I noticed immediately on booting up - I went to my list of games AND EVERYTHING WAS LISTED ALREADY - no waiting half a minute for them to load.
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@ebony69:
"Also I think there should be some sort of name and shame for anyone who spends money on their Avatar." Gamertag busboy33. I bought a spire jacket for my Avatar. My girlfriend liked it. There's your "name". "Shame"? Let me have it. I tremble in fear . . . well, assuming you have something more cogent than "I think it's teh suxx0rs, so u b a looz0r." I appreciate you don't like them. Groovy. Glad to know. Don't buy them. |
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