Xbox Live 3.0


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from the offical forums

Thanks to Shadowman UK for passing on this information:

These features require release 3.0 of the Xbox Live service. The Xbox Live 3.0 release is sometimes referred to as "Tsunami". The Xbox group is releasing Xbox Live 3.0 around the beginning of April 2004. Titles that take advantage of these new features should schedule their releases to occur after the release of Xbox Live 3.0. Titles that intend to release before the release of Xbox Live 3.0 should not use any these features.

Voice Mail in UIX Friends

The Voice Mail feature allows users to include voice mail when they send or accept game invitations and friend requests. Users can include up to 15 seconds of voice data with each invitation or request to provide more context for the recipient.

Title Managed Storage

Title Managed Storage allows a game to store information on the Xbox Live storage servers. The feature is divided into two parts: global storage and per-user, per-title storage. Global storage is read-only to the title and stores matchmaking queries, rosters, weather data, and so on. Per-user, per-title storage provides 32 KB of storage for each player of the title, to store playbooks, settings, and so on.

Family Title ID

Family Title IDs allow title-managed storage, teams, and messages to be shared across a family of titles. A given title can belong to as many as four title families. The way in which storage, teams, and messages are shared across the title family is up to the publisher and title developers. For example, a publisher with multiple sports titles could have a developer use a Family Title ID that allows a user to create a team that spans all of the publisher's sports titles.

Teams

The Teams feature allows players to form teams within a title that persist between game sessions. Titles expose this functionality using the XOnlineTeamXXXX and XOnlinePeerXXXX functions. The infrastructure, permissions, display, and role of teams depend on the design of the title.

Competitions

Titles can use the Competitions feature to run automated in-game single-elimination tournaments. The participants in a tournament can be either teams or individuals. Tournaments are created either by the title publisher or by the players themselves.

Messaging

With Messaging, titles can send and receive any kind of game-specific message (including voice and text attachments) using the XOnlineMessageXXXX functions. Messages can be sent between teammates, friends, or players.

New Xbox Live Statistics Features

The updated Stats APIs enable titles to group users into dynamic teams, called "units". Each unit can contain up to four players. Users can compare how their units rank against each other on the new Unit Leaderboards. Also, titles are now able to resolve contested stats using the Xbox Live Arbitration servers. Additionally, titles can now post all of the stats for a game session with a single write call."

This is official as it has been taken from the Xbox Development Kit Readme File.

Rumors are that halo 2 was delays so thay it can take full advantage of the new bits of the upgrade.

All sounds good to me :)

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Can't wait! :woot:

Not only would I like to see GC but how about PS2....oh wait a minute if Sony did it it would be another $99 to use it...or maybe it would come bundled with their hard drive that you have to buy...( :devil: MUUUUUUHAHAHAHAHA :devil: )(that's supposed to be an evil laugh)

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ps2 online is still better :)

... NO! :woot:

ps2 doesn't compare to the xbox anymore. the xbox has it beat in graphics, games, and online play. the games keep getting better, and i have a feeling online games are just starting to see their full potential on xbox live :happy:

btw, the only reason i still have a ps2 is for my final fantasy games, which, IMO, it's not worth getting the new final fantasies... i might even trade in ffx and just use my playstation :ninja:

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I agree with the comment that Xbox Live kills the Playstation 2 on the online gaming. I had a PS2 but I sold it and got a Xbox... Never looked back. :D

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Sigh,everyone stop comparing the ps2 online to xbl, this is an Xbox thread about Live 3.0, not a ps2 online versus xbl, ps2 fanboys stay out and stop flaming and messing up the thread.

This news sounds great :D, would love to send a voice mail to someone else on Live

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Sigh,everyone stop comparing the ps2 online to xbl, this is an Xbox thread about Live 3.0, not a ps2 online versus xbl, ps2 fanboys stay out and stop flaming and messing up the thread.

This news sounds great :D, would love to send a voice mail to someone else on Live

the voicemail looks good and its nice to see that there starting to intergrate clans more, sounds ace ?!

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Sigh,everyone stop comparing the ps2 online to xbl, this is an Xbox thread about Live 3.0, not a ps2 online versus xbl, ps2 fanboys stay out and stop flaming and messing up the thread.

This news sounds great :D, would love to send a voice mail to someone else on Live

Man you always seem to say the exact same thing im thinking in my head :blink:

Why do all threads about xbox and ps2 or GC always get messed up by fan boys its really annoying, as for xbox live 3.0 sounds good to me, although im still not convinced to buy xbl, I think ill stick with pc online games for a while longer :shifty:

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