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What we're missing....
Topic Started: Thursday Dec 4 2008, 03:28 PM (137 Views)
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I've had a small influx of friends requests the last few days, all complete newbies looking for an Ambassador. What made it really unusual is that they've been coming from the US. Never had that before...

So I logged in as Mazoo (my US account), and went poking around all the extras they have that we don't. It never used to be too much to worry about, but geez, the little things are growing. Sure enough, on Inside Xbox (the short streaming video's we don't get) was a video of Trixie actually explaining the Ambassador program and where to find the details of all of us. Mystery solved.

Inside Xbox has got some cool little shows going on it now. It's like 360 Youtube. Why these can't be shared around, I don't know.

The Video marketplace has been padded out nicely with all sorts of different things now. Shame that's nowhere in our near future. I would never rent a movie from it, but some of the video clips and stuff are pretty cool.

Their Spotlight menu makes ours look pathetic. It just sums the whole of content up right there. But why can't we be told about the Game with Fame nights? Are we not invited?

The only reason I'm really annoyed now though is our lack of Community Games. They're finally putting up the cream of the XNA crop for people to buy for cheap, but once again, not for us. Couldn't be arsed getting it rated? They're unrated on the US dash. If we aren't worth the effort then why should any of us give a crap about developing anything?

Bill Gates once bought a modded Xbox into a staff meeting and asked everyone how they could tap into that same potential with their new console. I think they missed the point. It's not what a console can do that makes it appealing, it's what it doesn't do that allows those who are free thinking to break the rules enough to create something new and exciting. Take the shackles off MS, so we can all join in.
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If I recall correctly I did read somewhere that we would be receiving inside xbox soonish, although it was simply going to be a rebadged version of the UK on hosted by the same 2 twats.

The spotlight shits me, it’s the first screen you get when you log on and you are bombarded with adds to buy crappy themes and map packs. I also hate that half of the spotlight is all the same shit, why the fuck do I need to see 10 gears of war 2 adds for 10 different things? Just fucking consolidate it!

I am getting sick of the USA focus, fuck everyone else, attitude that MS has adopted in regards to live, and the abysmal failure rate of the first 360’s that I don’t believe that I will be purchasing the next gen xbox until they get their shit together (I know sony do this as well, but I can live with the USA / JAPAN / PAL market place localization excuse)
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To be both fair and logical though, Sony don't even offer any of this kind of gear at all. I don't see a point in swearing an allegiance to them because of it.

The US Spotlight isn't just full of ads though, which is my point. They have enough going on that their Spotlight actually shows some pretty cool stuff. They're just trying to pad it out with us so our dash ain't half empty.

Speaking of which, has anyone noticed how useless the new dash is if you aren't online at all? I just updated a mates 360 the other day who doesn't have internet, and My Xbox is the only menu that actually does anything.
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Game with Fame have heard people talking about this online what is it?

At this stage MS has no real plan to bring anything to Australia. Something to do with Copy right. so they say any way. You just have to remember what MS used for an ad slogan when they first released the 360 "By Americans for Americans"

i could be behind the times again have not heard anything about inside xbox,
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Game with Fame is when they get celebrities into certain games for a few hours so any old randoms can possibly get in and have a game with them. They're currently advertising a Rock Band 2 Session with Tenacious D. :(
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Thursday Dec 4 2008, 04:30 PM
Game with Fame is when they get celebrities into certain games for a few hours so any old randoms can possibly get in and have a game with them. They're currently advertising a Rock Band 2 Session with Tenacious D. :(
from what I know game with fame roughly translates into "game with one of Ugly McGee's (Trixie) gamerchix, or fragdolls, or pms member

anyhoos, about the allegiance, what i meant to say in my poorly worded rant is that the shit that sony does on its network is slightly more palettable, due to the fact that everything needs to be localised for the PAL region (languages and whatnot) before it goes up. With MS, because the do each individual territory separate, there just doesnt seem to be a good enough excuse for enabling content & features for regions other than the US.

To illistrate my point i will somewhat quote the simpsons (A Milhouse Divided)

"Kirk, (MICROSOFT) are a (USA COMPANY). Maybe (AUSTRALIANS PLAY XBOX), we don't know. Frankly, we don't want to know. It's a market we can do without."
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Thursday Dec 4 2008, 04:44 PM
from what I know game with fame roughly translates into "game with one of Ugly McGee's (Trixie) gamerchix, or fragdolls, or pms member
Nah, they're different. They exist as well, but the Game with Fame's are actually celebrities. Whether or not any of us would give half a shit about alot of them is another thing. They have a habit of recruiting alot of black rappers...
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