OOG from STFUandPLAY writes, "One of the biggest issues I have always had with Xbox Live was the Microsoft Point System. Being from Canada we tend to spend more for things like this even though our dollar has been near equal to the US dollar for a long time. Luckily, I found a site that can give me decent deals on MS point cards and I’m going to pass these deals on to you."
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.
In the latest Gaming News Round-up, Matt and Scott discuss the recent Xbox outage, that lasted for over three days. An outage that prevented everyone who owned a digital Xbox title from being able to play them on the Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S,
So 1000 points is $10 or what? Never understood that points systems
I don't why you guys are mentioning Sony/PS+ in this thread... since this article has nothing to do with PSN.... I post deals for all the systems including the PC.
Don't be a half ass gamer and troll.... if you got time for that go play a game.