One of the most amazing things about working at Xbox Live is getting to see how fiercely loyal you – our members – are.
The Xbox 360 launched in North America 18 years ago, and is now officially old enough to buy you a drink in Europe.
Great platform, and many of its games (not bc) still hold up well to this day. Like the PS3, I keep a 360 hooked up for those games you can't play any other way.
The last gasp of greatness from XBox, you are missed, except the RROD that was lame, but amazing exclusives until the Kinect dropped.
I really enjoyed my X360, some great exclusives on it. Used to play the shit out ot Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, two masterpieces
It's been 20 years to the day since Xbox Live brought online play to consoles.
I remember when Live turned five and they had special edition controllers made and everything. Kind of wished they would do that again for the 20th.
Happy Birthday. OG XBL (and later 360 XBL) really revolutionized online gaming on console.
Never understood the obsession with live...but I was gaming online on PC so not sure too much of what live did that the PlayStation didn't.
I had a PS2 and it's online experience was fine but it didn't have the same level of polish voice chat never worked for me but I was trying to play from Australia where not many people played PS2 online to the point where many devs simply dropped the online mode from the pal version.
That's not all PS2 games mind you there were plenty that worked perfectly but it was more on the dev and not the platform
During that era I also played a fairly large amount on online PC games and they were undoubtedly better than both systems. PS2 from functionality and Xbox because it was free
Playing my friends original Xbox it was a really polished experience it felt robust yet simple things just worked there was zero config.
Yeah but the time ps3 came the experience was the same on both based on what I played...not too much online though to be honest. But I do think that the xbox did help bring online into the console space a lot. As well as PC games to consoles.
Today would of been the perfect day to drop halo 2 the original bc version free on gwg.... If only
Xbox Live 1.0, the first instance of online servers for the original Xbox, is set to return via Insignia, a free third-party service that's currently compatible with 20 titles, such as Call of Duty: Finest Hour and Counter-Strike.
Lobbies, Matchmaking, Leaderboards, Voice Chat, Content Downloads, Friends Lists, all set to return
Halo 2 set to come later as it requires additional services to run online.
Beta sign ups available now with beta launch of 11/15/22. Certain features of XBL will roll out over the future.
"Our goal is to create a safe and fun place for gamers without BS from trolls and spammers"
They need this on PS4 more than Xbox one! Lol
Xbox one has shown better exclusives so far. Twitch integration much better than ustream. Better record function. " while playing online multiplayer able to say " record that" (with Kinect for epic moments without pausing your game. While ps4 has a back track of 15min recording time which is an average multiplayer match... You'll have to find that great moment after your long online match which can be a hassle. A lot of people complained about Xbox tv functionality but thats just extra stuff. That instant switching is great. Your going to have your tv on sometime during the day and when you get that game invite that overlays a Xbox UI because of the HDMI in you'll be able to switch instantly to the game especially with "smart match" multiplayer games just got much easier and faster. Dedicated servers= less lag/less cheaters.... Also with xbox live "reputation" service it will keep track of your behavior online such as getting booted, muted, etc. Games will match you up with people close to your reputation. Trolls will play with trolls and pros will play with pros. People must be ignorant to think that Microsoft's $700,000,000 investment with Xbox live is for nothing. Xbox one is the gaming system for "TRUE" gamers. How can PS4 keep up???
the key to this kind of program working is the reporting function has to be fast and easy to pull off during and/or after a match. It can't be clunky to the point you say screw it, its too difficult. Current gen systems are horrible to use and try and report someone. I have done it for only the absolute "worst" offenders / gamers I have come across.
The links aren't even working yet.
Take action lol like not want kinect hqve ms listened nope because its the heart of the system, why I aint getting that crap, ps4♥