If you have never heard the term, boosting is a way of getting together with other gamers to get achievements without actually having to do the hard work of earning them. For example, one achievement in Halo 3 is to get a triple kill (kill three opponents within four seconds of one another) in a ranked free for all game. You could do this by playing a game and trying to lure people together and then attacking them, or firing a rocket into a crowd of people, or a variety of other means. It may take a while but eventually you will get there. Alternatively, you could ask three people to stand in front of you and shoot them at point blank range.
On July 29, 2024, Xbox will stop supporting the ability to purchase new games, DLC, and other entertainment content from the Xbox 360 Store on the console and the Xbox 360 Marketplace. This change will not affect your ability to play Xbox 360 games or DLC you have already purchased.
Curious to see if people will put the same energy reacting to this move as they did when Sony tried to close the PS3 / Vita stores.
End of an era...
I still use my 360 as it has several games installed that aren't available to get on the modern systems. Outrun online, afterburner climax, renegade ops, the tmnt games... too many to just unplug it.
Everything else that is bc on newer I already downloaded to my 4tb external.
And with that news sonic 06 just became the most valuable game in my collection
Really sad day for gamers and game preservation. Bozo Jim Ryan tried to pull a fast one on us like this back in 2021 and we kept the PS3 store up. It's a shame that with MS' move that many digital only titles, DLC packs, themes, avatars, etc. will be lost to time. There are a lot of great 360 games that did not make it to the backwards compatibility program and are not playable on Series consoles. Hopefully preservationists will get busy and help store this content for future retention. Time to hop on the 360 store and grab some games before they are gone forever.
Physical 360/PS3 discs are a wise investment in 2023. I imagine certain 360 games will spike on this news.
If you are interested in helping the preservation of games, I recommend checking out https://www.preservegames.o... ( https://discord.gg/NFhbdwEY... or r/OnlinePreservation over on Reddit. There are many other preservation projects out there as well.
Remember when people were up in arms over Sony attempting this?
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Bit-Tech: Perhaps the biggest surprise was that the tide of console gamers is a cultural phenomenon which does not appear to cross every border. According to NPD's research, while the UK has the highest incidence of console usage out of all the markets analysed Germany boasts the biggest number of PC gamers.
France, meanwhile, is clinging on to dedicated hand-held consoles like the Nintendo 3DS and Sony PlayStation Portable at a time when NPD's analysis shows that gamers in most other nations have ditched theirs in favour of getting their portable gaming fixes on smartphones and tablets.
"when NPD's analysis shows that gamers in most other nations have ditched theirs in favour of getting their portable gaming fixes on smartphones and tablets."
you mean like japan, europe or the US where the 3ds is breaking records?
People are ditching the 3DS so fast in the US, 3ds sales have doubled over ds first year sales and the year isnt even over.
No source, no truth
who approved this garbage?
Considering most PC Gamers will own 1 or more consoles , declaring the UK as a "console nation" is complete and utter bollox.
owning a console and playing the occasional game once in a blue moon doesnt make you a console gamer. Just like owning a pc and maybe playing some random flash game doesnt make you a pc gamer. Alot of pc gamers bought ps3s, its a blu-ray player and media hub that plays games.
I'm from the UK and game on nearly every platform I can think of.
But yes in general I'm more thumbs than fingers when It comes to my games.
Remember in December of last year when Paul Christoforo became the pariah of the internet? Ocean Marketing was at the center of a scandal that took the internet by storm after Christoforo exchanged rude, angry emails with a customer of Avenge Controllers, for whom Christoforo was providing customer service. I recently had the chance to speak with Paul about the whole ordeal and what his life has been like since.
Even I am getting sick of halo3 "news"
Thats all you guys have every day.. put up new news stories so I can troll those.
Well my only experience with something related to people wanting help for achievements was on Gears were sometimes you were told by one teammate if you could exchange weapons since they needed that one for the achievement or help someone chainsaw or snipe someone else, since it was somewhat rare and probably all team mates asking were polite I helped
There were actually few situations in R6V were people talking about achievements on the lobby were kicked out O.o
as well as taking Steroids, really what are you accomplishing by taking the way easy route?
All my achievements have been earned the hard way [hardly have much], but then again it's not like I'm going for every one in every game.
I guess the more achievements the more skilled you look.
I notice playing folklore[ok so far] there is none. I wonder is Sony will have something.
im sick of playing halo 3 just to hear b1tches wanting to boost, i get all my achievements legit, whares the fun of playing halo 3 onlie with a bunch of noobs that want to sit in a group in the middle of the play area and cheat to get killing frenzy (i got that legit too) kasperNZ
first of all online achievements in any game is very hard and almost unrealistic in some games with almost no players. Sometimes boosting is the only logical way to get the achievements, but considering achievemtns don't count for crap, who cares if you boost.