Comments on: Free Community Picture Pack

By: DeaconBlade

DeaconBlade — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:14:11 +0000

i’m on it shoe

By: shoedog

shoedog — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 13:53:08 +0000

In an effort to support the greater community, I downloaded the Free Community Picture Pack. I hope that the collective act of doing so opens the door for more FCPPs. Deacon, get to work on Illustrator and create that U360 icon!

By: Avid X

Avid X — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:07:32 +0000

I agree on both ends.

It took a lot of ass kissing from the lowest level in the community to the highest level in the marketing departments to get this picture pack on the marketplace.

Congrats to the Gamerscore Blog and Gamercast Network for unlocking this achievement. Lets hope this opens the flood gates for more community content and not just quarterly.

If they expect to release one picture pack per quarter, how will this ever cover all the great communities out there. There are lots of worthy lil’ guys and big sites that deserve that tiny lil image.

Either way, I downloaded the pack, im sporting the GSB pic, which I will rotated on occasion.

– avid

By: Soufizzy

Soufizzy — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:26:47 +0000

@JVB, What’s goin’ on, big fella!?!? “The buck-buck champion of Track-and-Field!”…J-V-B! And the voice of reason. Thanks for droppin’ some knowledge, man.

By: DeaconBlade

DeaconBlade — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:15:32 +0000

well said JVB. *thumbs up* business practices sucks guys..let’s keep it about what we are as JVB said…the best community out there!

By: JVB

JVB — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:24:32 +0000

First off, whats up Deacon?

Whats up Soufizzy?

Hello all,

I am the co-host of one of those shows that happens to be on the pic pack. I can understand the anger here, but the lack of understanding the overall picture (no pun intended) really has me baffled. The whole idea is to show MS that these community pic-packs are important to the Xbox community. By downloading them, it justifies the need of adding more. It’s that simple.

Now, as someone who was approached by this, I want to explain some of what went down. We were told of two weeks before PAX about an idea for community content. They specified that we were to keep this a secret because the chances of this happening were slim. Two days before PAX we are told that the chance of our logos going on the Marketplace were a lot better. I found out that the announcement would happen Friday afternoon. I had to see one of my friends sporting the Podtacular logo to realize that they were up on the Marketplace.

I feel for Deacon because he is one of the senior members of the Xbox Live community. This put everyone involved in an odd situation. I don’t like to hide secrets, but that comes with the territory once you become an Xbox MVP. We, the community have to remember that this is still a business for MS. We cannot let these decisions divide what we have all worked hard on building: The best gaming community to ever exist.

-JVB

By: DeaconBlade

DeaconBlade — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:18:35 +0000

lol @ Fizzy…i like that “Make Me Famous Minute” for sure

By: Soufizzy

Soufizzy — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:10:42 +0000

@Carbon, it really isn’t. I’d like to see every Xbox community blog/site and podcast get their “Make Me Famous Minute” on the Marketplace (You like that, DB? ). However, unfortunately, I know that it doesn’t always work that way. And, again, I don’t know all the innards of how this pack came about. But just you wait-and-see, U360′s time to “really” shine is a-comin’. Oh yes, BIG sunny-yellow and all that!

By: Carbon Filter

Carbon Filter — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:51:04 +0000

sorry Soufizzy but it just seems like a push for this network and nothing else. how else do you explain nobody knowing about it.

i use mygamercard.net and even the guys over there didn’t know. it’s so funny how out of all the community sites to choose from EVERY single site from that network got picked. and some of those sites are just boring.

By: Soufizzy

Soufizzy — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:40:39 +0000

@Twy, could you at least DL the pack and [then] delete it…please? lol

By: Twylyght Myst

Twylyght Myst — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:30:11 +0000

Sorry, No U360, not downloading the pack.

Trust me you don’t want me designing anything!

By: DeaconBlade

DeaconBlade — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:24:51 +0000

so let’s see some U360 entries everyone. i know i could design ‘em in a heartbeat but if we’re ever presented with the opportunity here, i’d open it up to you guys so you could have a U360 pic/theme that’s your own.

so let’s see some entries. don’t worry about the logo…make your own U360 gamerpic and let me take a look at it