What do you want to see in the Spring Update?


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I was going to be evil and just put 'Spring Update' in the title to get your hopes up, but decided against it.

Anyone have anything they're dying to see in the update that MS seems to have kept so tightly under wraps that I'm not sure it exists?

I have nothing in particular, personally, but if past updates are anything to go by, I'd like to think we'll get quite a few decent things out of it.

-Spenser

Here's what I want to see:

  • Voice chat and webcam chat on WLM
  • Raise the limit of queued downloads to at least 10
  • Introduce an alerts service where you get sent a message everytime something you're watching comes out
  • Badges to go on your gamercard (e.g. completed 10 retail games, completed 5 XBLA games, etc.)
  • Proper chat rooms on the dashboard, like back on the Xbox!
  • Picture-In-Picture webcam chat when playing games or watching DVDs!

Here's what I want to see:

  • Voice chat and webcam chat on WLM
  • Raise the limit of queued downloads to at least 10
  • Introduce an alerts service where you get sent a message everytime something you're watching comes out
  • Badges to go on your gamercard (e.g. completed 10 retail games, completed 5 XBLA games, etc.)
  • Proper chat rooms on the dashboard, like back on the Xbox!
  • Picture-In-Picture webcam chat when playing games or watching DVDs!

Thats a good list MJ, i would also like prehaps a overhaul of the layout of the dash. There is nothing wrong with the current look, just it could be redesigned slightly.

More intergration with WLM like you said with voice and webcam chat is something that should of been included last year really.

More support for reslutions which they haven't included yet such as 1440x900 and 1680x1050 (i have a 24" 1920x1200 personally but people have asked and asked for this)

I doubt alot of what you liste willl actually make it in the Spring update though

lol.. this is something i dont want to see.... its bad enough i know how much time i have put into CoD4...

haha why not, and how much time ??? i have put 800 hours into Counter Strike Source, and i know a lot of people in the 1k, 1.5k hours, its not something to be proud of but its kind of nice to see you are squeezing your moneys worth in this games.

- Complete dashboard overhaul which is not as slow - not slides from each side when you press the guide button, but popops instead.

- Dashboard with better 1080p support - my image looks very jagged compared to XMB :s

- Magic noise reduction

- If magic noise reduction possible; .mkv support

- Private chat between more than 2 people

- Preview screenshots/videos in marketplace

Much more I probably forgot

  • XBL Gold for the CONSOLE
  • Improved Menu Speeds
  • Improve How Feedback is Submited, and More Options
  • Full Codec Support
  • Adjustable Fonts/Sizes
  • Easier Way to Check Friends Online

-I'm sure everyone will agree with me on this one, XBL Gold should be for the accounts on the console, not just one account, my brother wants to play rockband and that on live, but i dont want him playing on my account to do it, it would mess up my own feedback and my achievements.

-Right now clicking the guide button, and checking friends/messages, seems very slow.

-I think the feedback options need to be changed as well...i play halo 3 with my brother all the time, and he all of a sudden decides to start betraying people. now my feedback is messed up, because they cant submit back feedback for "guest" accounts.

-This ones obvious, i want to be able to play any video format i want.

-Some of the menus on the dashboard look horrible to me, and i would like to be able to change the font, and make it smaller, so it looks sharp/clean.

-I want a way to check friends online without going through the "guide" so i dont have to die 3 or 4 times to see whos online.

Whatever we tell here, does it even matter to MS. I never seen them putting anything we talk about here in there updates.

It's always disappointing; I know I shouldn?t think that way. I just don't want to get my hopes up and then disappoint later. So in this update (if it's coming) I am no hoping anything major, just some minor updates.

And god knows I am hoping I will be wrong.

Well, they put DivX in the last update, and WLM in the update before that... they're not exactly small things.

I'd hope for better media support like x264 and mkv, although thats not likely since they're not owned by a corporation to get a license off like DivX is, and won't have the same level of support as DivX.

I wouldn't mind a complete UI overhaul. Keep the same principles of the UI, but at 1080p you can notice a few little problems, and the menus are still laggy sometimes.

Also, the media player needs work. The PS3 one is so much easier to use, and you can copy your own movies to the HDD. I can't see them allowing that though since they don't allow access to the HDD at all for anything else.

XBL Gold for the CONSOLE

-I'm sure everyone will agree with me on this one, XBL Gold should be for the accounts on the console, not just one account, my brother wants to play rockband and that on live, but i dont want him playing on my account to do it, it would mess up my own feedback and my achievements.

Definitely agree with you on this one ... I hate that me and my son both have to pay up to play online.

I was going to be evil and just put 'Spring Update' in the title to get your hopes up, but decided against it.

Anyone have anything they're dying to see in the update that MS seems to have kept so tightly under wraps that I'm not sure it exists?

I have nothing in particular, personally, but if past updates are anything to go by, I'd like to think we'll get quite a few decent things out of it.

-Spenser

Sorry wrong thread.

Edited by 1941

I would like them to sort the My Games area out, it takes quite a while for it to list all the arcade game and demo?s on the hard drive.

It would also be nice if you could sort arcade games in to games you own and games you don?t ... another thing that?s been annoying me since the last update is defaults to showing every game and demo on the console... although not exactly a major problem it would be nice if this area of the dashboard was improved.

The reason I am not upbeat about the media thing it that I have connected my PC, 360 & PS3 to same monitor. There's no reason for me to use media extender to move stuff around.

The only thing I would like it to get 16:10 support but it's almost three years and we still haven?t seen anything close.

I want an option to not publish session scores online. For example, if I am having a "bad day" on Halo 3 or something similar, I can choose not to show my match scores online.

He he he, good luck with that one!

I forgot to add, I actually have something to suggest.

Deleting XBLA game demos off my achievements list. Game demos don't go down on there, why should XBLA ones?

I want something done about the DVD drive noise! I really don't want to consistently hear that blow dryer and I supposedly have the "quieter" BenQ drive; quiet relative to what I wonder. Also, the disc doesn't have to spin when just idling on the dashboard.

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