Fall 2007 Dashboard Update

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 2:21 pm

Summarized.

Dashboard redesign: Cleaned up, organized, sortable marketplace, games lists, etc.
Xbox Live Arcade Hits: Basically a reduced price XBLA list, like standard Platinum Hits.
XBLA Demos: Demos will no longer show up in the Played Games list, which will increase your percentage of achievements completed, etc.
Inside Xbox: Quick news list with news content. Updated daily by Microsoft/Xbox.
Profile Information: Biography, location, full name fields added to profile.
Friends of Friends: View friends of people who have the friends list viewing enabled.
Videos: Media thumbnails for videos played from a USB drive (Make a JPG with the same name as the video). Divx support (Videos made with Divx 5 or higher). Streaming video from marketplace (Previews for movies and news content, mostly).
Child/Adult accounts: Previously, if an account was created under 18 years old, but aged past that, the account did not update. Now, the account settings menu can promote a child account to an adult account, if over 18. That will enable features such as the Messenger.
Xbox Originals: Previously posted. Games will be 1200 points each ($15 USD).
Family Timer: Enables parents to limit console use on child accounts.

Demonstration videos here and here.
News here, here, and here.

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 4:01 pm

Sounds like a good update to me!

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 4:06 pm

I'm still waiting for multi-person private chat.

Dissolution241 · Post by **Dissolution241** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 4:15 pm

Tural wrote:I'm still waiting for multi-person private chat.

Same, I was hoping to get that soon.

G.I.R. · Post by **G.I.R.** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 4:42 pm

I still want clan support. :\

Pyroman · Post by **Pyroman** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 4:58 pm

All sound good for me. 'Cept for the lack of multi-person private chat as Tural said.

CabooseJr · Post by **CabooseJr** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:29 pm

I'm still waiting for custom gamerpics.

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 7:35 pm

I'm still waiting for clans and multi-person chat.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:22 pm

Custom gamerpics would not be a good idea. It would be abused beyond belief.

Clan support will likely come in the next update. In one of the videos, they mentioned a possible plan to expand the friends list past 100 people in the next update, I would suspect that they would add clans while changing the friends list.

-DeToX- · Post by **-DeToX-** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:23 pm

Pyroman wrote:All sound good for me. 'Cept for the lack of multi-person private chat as Tural said.

UR MAST3R · Post by **UR MAST3R** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 6:43 am

-DeToX- wrote:
Pyroman wrote:All sound good for me. 'Cept for the lack of multi-person private chat as Tural said.

I feel the same way

MrBalll · Post by **MrBalll** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 11:27 pm

Tural wrote:I'm still waiting for multi-person private chat.

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 12:50 am

I guess I'd want that feature if I had more than one e-friend

Ar5eNiC · Post by **Ar5eNiC** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 11:33 am

The update sounds great but I'm still trying to decide if I should "upgrade" my account from the child account (since I created my account when I was under 18 ). I'm not sure if the few added benefits of an adult account will be worth the ads that get displayed on the dashboard.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 9:11 pm

The only difference is that the family restrictions aren't applied, which I figure you probably have disabled anyways. The messenger will be enabled for child accounts now, so the only difference would be the ads.

INSANEdrive · Post by **INSANEdrive** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 7:11 am

# Xbox LIVE Arcade fans: we heard you. Trial games no longer show up on your profile. No more zero-gamerscore trial games on your played games list! (This applies to games loaded after the update; unfortunately, previously-played trial games will still be listed.)

ITS ABOUT FREAKING TIME!

Hawaiian Modder · Post by **Hawaiian Modder** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 8:10 am

Child/Adult accounts: Previously, if an account was created under 18 years old, but aged past that, the account did not update. Now, the account settings menu can promote a child account to an adult account, if over 18. That will enable features such as the Messenger.

Finally. My live account says I'm 21 but my 360 somehow marked me as a child. WTF

Also I wonder what the new design is going to look like.

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Mon Dec 03, 2007 4:38 pm

I suspect it will look how the two, and probably dozen other, videos showcase..

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:56 pm

The xboxlive blade didn't update for me. Still has messages, friends, chat&IM listed. No xboxlive news section. Glitch or is it because I'm Australian I don't deserve news?

One issue I always disliked was the blade speed when it came up (like pressing the guide button). Now it don't lag and its faster =D

edit: signed into my American profile...Confirmed, it seems like Australia got the shun for news....Why?

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 3:59 pm

No idea why...meh. I like the new update, the dashboard and guide features seem much more smooth and fluid.