How Xbox Live could be AWESOME

For Xbox Live, to give users more reasons to subscribe to the service, instead of timed exclusivity of dlc and stupid offers no one really cares about, this is what Microsoft should offer.

Free online for MMO's.
Even if it's only Final Fantasy XI which was originally released on PS2! There's no reason people should have to pay extra for that. Microsoft should get a game like that or even that and make the online gaming completely free.
Also Monster Hunter Frontier NEEDS a western release.

Dedicated Servers
Apparently there are dedicated servers on quite a few xbox games but why not all of them?

Advertising + promoting older games
Some perfectly decent titles such as Dark Messiah of Might n Magic, Timeshift and Shadowrun have a dying or perhaps even dead online community. IF those games are one of your favourite ones to play online but there's no one playing, then there's no reason to pay for xbox live. So what I think M$ should do is sell downloadable versions of these games but for a reasonable price. Like the price they are going in retail outlets.

Microsoft Xbox Home
Admit it, you were disappointed too when that Game Room didn't turn out quite what you expected. What xbox live needs is an avatar online virtual world thing. At the moment we're relying on Indie developers to create these kinds of games but so far they've mostly been...rather underwhelming. Microsoft needs to give us something similar to playstation home but much more fun. :)

EXCLUSIVES
I know this has nothing to do with xbox live as such but microsoft need to get their heads out of their asses and give us more exclusives.
Fools.

Your views?

Servers are usually provided by the publisher, no? Although it would be nice to see the Party Chat system being hosted on a dedicated server. As it stand, Party Chat is horrible due to the horrible connectivity.

TRF wrote:

Servers are usually provided by the publisher, no? Although it would be nice to see the Party Chat system being hosted on a dedicated server. As it stand, Party Chat is horrible due to the horrible connectivity.

ehhhh, but what is Microsoft doing with the £6 a month they get from us? Surely they could use it to provide dedicated servers for the games.

An Xbox Home would be horrific. PS Home is already boring. Plus MS would get backlash for copying Sony.

Dedicated servers has to be provided by the publisher. Microsoft provides dedicated serves to their latest games, but not the older titles. I know that Forza 3 and Gears 3 uses dedicated servers. I was under the impression that Reach didn't use dedicated servers, but apparently it does though it still needs a host to keep stats updated.

MMOs on consoles suck anyways, but it would be nice to not have to pay for them if I'm already paying a subscription.

Get more games. I dont give a shit about everything else. I just want some games to keep me happy!

They should improve how fast it is to stream videos from the dashboard.

They're really slow unlike Netflix.

Also they should let us play indie games without having to have your 360 connected.

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yeah and they should lower the xbl price ffs lol

Lower XBL prices. Better party chat. More free games...?

And having to be connected to live to play indie games is retarded.

More features, more free games, steam, and they need to seriously lower the price. They need to make xbox live worth the price compared to steam and psn free services.

They should give a massive discount on all arcade games before 2010 to Gold members.

Trash it and integrate a console version of Steam so the Xbox can return to the master race.

RIP OG Xbox

BlackStigma wrote:

They should give a massive discount on all arcade games before 2010 to Gold members.

I wonder what would happen in 2010. Im sure everyone plays MW2 in 2010. And what is Alan Wake? Its gonna be a shitty game, I KNOW IT WILL!

ArcanaOfB3ast wrote:

BlackStigma wrote:

They should give a massive discount on all arcade games before 2010 to Gold members.

I wonder what would happen in 2010. Im sure everyone plays MW2 in 2010. And what is Alan Wake? Its gonna be a shitty game, I KNOW IT WILL!

I don't understand. :scratch:

ArcanaOfB3ast wrote:

BlackStigma wrote:

They should give a massive discount on all arcade games before 2010 to Gold members.

I wonder what would happen in 2010. Im sure everyone plays MW2 in 2010. And what is Alan Wake? Its gonna be a shitty game, I KNOW IT WILL!

??

He meant games that came out before 2010 should be on offer.

What did you mean??

a teared subscription system like this

Silver: everything with current silver with online play, XGC, and party chat Price: free

Gold: all of the other bells and whistles with current gold: $30 a year

Platinum: larger discounts in the store, exclusive/timed exclusive content, games, DLC, free XBLA games as long as you pay for platinum, free avatar gear, a free month of Zune pass with first purchase . Price: $60 a year

chobo500 wrote:

a teared subscription system like this

Silver: everything with current silver with online play, XGC, and party chat Price: free

Gold: all of the other bells and whistles with current gold: $30 a year

Platinum: larger discounts in the store, exclusive/timed exclusive content, games, DLC, free XBLA games as long as you pay for platinum, free avatar gear, a free month of Zune pass with first purchase . Price: $60 a year

I agree. A tiered subscription is what people wanted for ages!
It's not as if XBL gives us much more than psn really... it's enough to justify paying for the service but not to justify paying that much if you don't use more than half of the features.

Lykos wrote:

chobo500 wrote:

a teared subscription system like this

Silver: everything with current silver with online play, XGC, and party chat Price: free

Gold: all of the other bells and whistles with current gold: $30 a year

Platinum: larger discounts in the store, exclusive/timed exclusive content, games, DLC, free XBLA games as long as you pay for platinum, free avatar gear, a free month of Zune pass with first purchase . Price: $60 a year

I agree. A tiered subscription is what people wanted for ages!
It's not as if XBL gives us much more than psn really... it's enough to justify paying for the service but not to justify paying that much if you don't use more than half of the features.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N2Jy7K5iIY&lc=aKx1iJEXTiMSnBkDfrRof_OO98P7r8xyQCVbLTEbvNc&feature=inbox

This video pretty much shows how you can get your money's worth off of XBL. For example, if you get 4 of your friends to split the cost of the family pack plan, you only have to pay 25 bucks for Live. If you use Bing and get awards points you can get a shit ton of MS points. If you take advantage of some of the discounts, you also save more money. So to the smart consumer, the benefits of paying for XBL Gold heavily outweigh it's price tag. And that's when you aren't considering the fact that XBL is marginally better than PSN price tag or no price tag.

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Cba. Different friends started their yearly subscriptions at different times. One friend won't have their subscription as silver while they wait for another's xbox live to run out.

Lykos wrote:

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Cba. Different friends started their yearly subscriptions at different times. One friend won't have their subscription as silver while they wait for another's xbox live to run out.

Well that's just one way to save money. Just saying to the smarter consumer XBL will save you money.

Lykos wrote:

chobo500 wrote:

a teared subscription system like this

Silver: everything with current silver with online play, XGC, and party chat Price: free

Gold: all of the other bells and whistles with current gold: $30 a year

Platinum: larger discounts in the store, exclusive/timed exclusive content, games, DLC, free XBLA games as long as you pay for platinum, free avatar gear, a free month of Zune pass with first purchase . Price: $60 a year

I agree. A tiered subscription is what people wanted for ages!
It's not as if XBL gives us much more than psn really... it's enough to justify paying for the service but not to justify paying that much if you don't use more than half of the features.

$60 for cross game voice chat is justification? lolwut

A tiered system would be good, though, yes. At the bare minimum Xbox Live should:

a) let you play your games online
b) cross game voice chat with your friends/party system in general
c) download demos

Everything past that could be paid for with a monthly fee.

Shin_Akuma wrote:

They didn't update to force a commercial on their users. They updated to make the Dashboard more Kinect-friendly so that it works better with motion controls.

Ihsahn wrote:

Lykos wrote:

chobo500 wrote:

a teared subscription system like this

Silver: everything with current silver with online play, XGC, and party chat Price: free

Gold: all of the other bells and whistles with current gold: $30 a year

Platinum: larger discounts in the store, exclusive/timed exclusive content, games, DLC, free XBLA games as long as you pay for platinum, free avatar gear, a free month of Zune pass with first purchase . Price: $60 a year

I agree. A tiered subscription is what people wanted for ages!
It's not as if XBL gives us much more than psn really... it's enough to justify paying for the service but not to justify paying that much if you don't use more than half of the features.

$60 for cross game voice chat is justification? lolwut

A tiered system would be good, though, yes. At the bare minimum Xbox Live should:

a) let you play your games online
b) cross game voice chat with your friends/party system in general
c) download demos

Everything past that could be paid for with a monthly fee.

Reread.

[quote] it's enough to justify paying for the service but not to justify paying that much[/quote]