Fall Dashboard Update So Far
The usual free Fall system/dashboard update is coming soon. In fact, it’s coming next week on December 4th and I wanted to go over what we know to be true so far about it. There are a few things that have stirred the pot and I wanted to get the reactions of the crowd.
Xbox Originals – Many of the old classic Xbox games will be made available on this new download service. You can download those classics for 1200 Microsoft Points.
Friends of Friends – The “peeping gamer” feature will allow Xbox Live members to view the friends on each other’s friends list. You can choose to block your list but by default everyone will now be able to view it.
Remove XBLA Demos – Those of you obsessed with gamerscore and percentages will now be able to remove Arcade demos/trials from your played games lists and gamer card. Why this matters to people is just mind bottling to me.
Personal Profile – This allows you to share more information about yourself in a text field of up to 1000 characters. I’m not sure of any options to block or share this new bit of information.
Family Timer - Parents can now control the amount of time the Xbox 360 can be used by anyone in their household by day or by week. Read the fact sheet on the new Family Timer.
These are a few of the things that we know are coming but definitely not all. I personally can’t understand the obsession with Xbox Live Arcade demos showing up on your gamer card but what do you think? What say you about the features so far?
November 29th, 2007 at 2:33 pm
i asked them that before and support had no clue what i meant by resyncing it. i’ll ask for a supervisor tonight.
November 29th, 2007 at 2:39 pm
I hope there will eventually be some sort of fix for the DRM issues as well. It would be nice if I could play my arcade games offline. Why DLC is associated with the console and not the HDD is puzzling.
well said.!
November 29th, 2007 at 3:41 pm
well the movies on demand won’t come to Holland probably.
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November 29th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
So far the update seems lack luster at best just my two cents,maybe if they were not so damn secretive about things
November 29th, 2007 at 8:38 pm
edited to add the family timer
November 30th, 2007 at 2:42 am
nice update deac im loving the family timer because now i can torture my brother into giving me food for time on my xbox
November 30th, 2007 at 4:49 am
forgot about the parental timer, that would of been useful if I had set up my kids accounts as proper kids accounts, but due to all the problems there were with them I used full accounts and monitor their usage.
November 30th, 2007 at 7:46 am
the parental timer is pretty cool option. slap that with the Live Eye jobbie by Squidpunch, and it’s a good one-two punch for monitoring the kids. but i still can’t figure out why the biograph thing is such a needed update.
November 30th, 2007 at 11:06 am
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November 30th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
lol @ “mind bottling”…
lol.