Your Thoughts on the Future of Live? Options

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Your Thoughts on the Future of Live? Posted by XanTium | January 16 21:44 EST

From Andre Vrignaud's Blog (Microsoft's Director of Technical Strategy for Xbox Live): [QUOTE] I'm doing some thinking around the future of "Xbox Live". I put Xbox Live in quotes only because Live will be stretching beyond the console this year with the release of Live on Windows, and we're looking at a future where multiple devices will all be able to connect into the same service. My question to you is what big features would you want to see out of Live in the future? Imagine a world in which your account can work with different devices, each with different capabilities. Some might have a keyboard, some might not. Some might connect to your TV, some might be mobile and fit in your pocket. Some might be built from the ground up for gaming, some might have gaming as an ancillary function. The common thread across all of these devices is internet connectivity and Live, with your single login (Gamertag), your single friends list, and the ability communicate and share with those friends and the community. What do you want to see? Think big here - ideally, think about what you want to see over a five-year period, and how your ideas evolve over that time. What's the crawl step for your idea? The walk? The run? [/QUOTE] Full Story: Andre Vrignaud's Blog

[schizzlefuzz]

I want the ability to have more than 100 friends.

[drWaLLs]

I want the ability to have more than 100 friends.

I wish I had 100 friends

[1337 pig]

Make chatrooms instead of just 1 on1 private chat.

[sicknasty413]

I want the ability to have more than 100 friends.

Agreed.

Make chatrooms instead of just 1 on1 private chat.

Agreed.

Besides those, IDK. Perhaps something Zune related? Perhaps something cell phone related? An Xbox Live equivalent to the "Myspace" application (carried by Helio and Cingular) would be pretty sick.

[smileboot]

I see what they want to do. Because M$ passport was a huge flop (no one apart from M$ signed up for it) their gonna try and transfer the success of xbox live and make it a huge LIVE system all interconnected. which means even less security and just plain sucks. Keep the services seprate if you cant remember more than 1 password you shouldnt have it. Tho this may just be M$'s way to keep the *iaa's happy while tryig to allow as much cross platform media transfer when they should just be saying "F U IN THE A *iaa's DRM SUCKS so we dont want or need it"

[sirjonesalot]

i want more hot chicks to use the vision cam

[sephiro499]

I see a bleak and tyranical future for all forms of gaming with microsoft dominating everywhere. Sony will eventually lose since they have no killer 1st party games, MS will just buy off all of their developers and you can see this already happening with ps3 losing exclusives. Unlimited money always wins, and MS can dominate any industry it wants just by leveraging it's illegal OS monopoly.

The future of xbox live is a completely locked down and regulated 'online marketplace' where if you so much as sneeze the wrong way it'll cost you marketplace points. MS isn't missing the boat this time like they missed the boat on the internet explosion. They understand that the future of console games is ALL about the network. It's always better to play against/with a human opponent then with the computer (unless maybe you were practicing). Xbox LIVE will leave all competitiors in the dust since the competition just doesn't seem to GET IT. In the age of highspeed internet connectivity is key.

Hopefully without getting too much off topic I think the xbox 360 is really MS's ideal picture of a trusted computing platform. It's a box that is so locked down you can't do anything with it. You have to work with MS to create applications/games on it. At least on the pc the development is a little more free. Microsoft only developed the xbox 360 to make it a portal vending machine that they keep in your living room.

I loved the first xbox for it's hackability, sadly this doesn't seem to be the case with the second xbox.

[ILLusions0fGrander]

Oh fuck.. i modded my 360 and got banned, which in turn banned me from starting my car, opening my fridge, turning on hot water, and operating my microwave... good thing my pace maker still runs linux :/

[xzenor]

Oh fuck.. i modded my 360 and got banned, which in turn banned me from starting my car, opening my fridge, turning on hot water, and operating my microwave... good thing my pace maker still runs linux :/

LOL!!! Thats so true.

[belke]

Oh fuck.. i modded my 360 and got banned, which in turn banned me from starting my car, opening my fridge, turning on hot water, and operating my microwave... good thing my pace maker still runs linux :/

I like your 360 and wii. just thought id throw it out there.

[0794]

Oh fuck.. i modded my 360 and got banned, which in turn banned me from starting my car, opening my fridge, turning on hot water, and operating my microwave... good thing my pace maker still runs linux :/

Isn't that the truth...

Anyways, I really can't see myself using XBL (or whatever the cross-platform name would be) outside of the xbox for gaming as I buy most of my media and just call my friends when I need to (not into IM nor chatting). Of course, I probably don't fit the market profile for the new Live anyways...

[a94cobra]

I don't so much mind paying for the Xbox Live service(as long as there is a committment to keeping the service and gameplay topnotch.) But they are nickel and diming people to death with the marketplace. I have signed and added no points, simply for the fact, no one can buy anything and cost me more money.

The way the box is designed with the neat things in the marketplace(aside from the cost), is very well thought out. I like where they are going here. It is a nice portal in the living room to play games on. And when you are board of the games, you can still use the same device to access other content. Which of course only they provide.

While all of this is very likeable, what are they going to turn our internet into? I see everyone trying to make a buck off the internet. And it is understandable. But when we get to a time when, you must buy the computer, you must buy the OS, then you must pay to get connected, then you must pay to access any content. When will it stop.

So if the whole Live experience limits it's self to connectivity rather than selling me something on my PC as well, then I see how it will do very well.

How in the world is the ringtone market in the billions? I guess we have more disposable money than sense. I have never purchased a ringtone, btw.

[epsilon72]

I see a bleak and tyranical future for all forms of gaming with microsoft dominating everywhere. Sony will eventually lose since they have no killer 1st party games, MS will just buy off all of their developers and you can see this already happening with ps3 losing exclusives. Unlimited money always wins, and MS can dominate any industry it wants just by leveraging it's illegal OS monopoly.

The future of xbox live is a completely locked down and regulated 'online marketplace' where if you so much as sneeze the wrong way it'll cost you marketplace points. MS isn't missing the boat this time like they missed the boat on the internet explosion. They understand that the future of console games is ALL about the network. It's always better to play against/with a human opponent then with the computer (unless maybe you were practicing). Xbox LIVE will leave all competitiors in the dust since the competition just doesn't seem to GET IT. In the age of highspeed internet connectivity is key.

Hopefully without getting too much off topic I think the xbox 360 is really MS's ideal picture of a trusted computing platform. It's a box that is so locked down you can't do anything with it. You have to work with MS to create applications/games on it. At least on the pc the development is a little more free. Microsoft only developed the xbox 360 to make it a portal vending machine that they keep in your living room.

I loved the first xbox for it's hackability, sadly this doesn't seem to be the case with the second xbox.

I agree with you completely.

Down with monopolies. Linux ftw!

[infamous_Q]

ok..i gotta say this, regardless of how you feel about MS taking over the world...form a shearly businesses perspective, this is brilliant. they own, and they know it. Sony can't deal and neither can nintendo, if mac brought something viable to market they'd stand a chance since they run a seperate OS and dont need to give into MS on certain illegal demands they may make through pushing their OS (unlike Sony, and Nintendo...well..nintendo's been dead to me since they released teh gamecube anyways..)

as far as the future? total integration..the next xbox will be a VOIP hub, iptv settop box, media center PC, and probably have basic PC functionality built in. if you think about it, they're removing the hardware industry from the picture. if MS can make and sell one solid package that does everything you need it to (ie. standard gaming every generation, like a console should have, MS office, internet, communications, etc) built in to one cheap device....they can't be beat. not to mention that w/ the Live initiative they're gonna connect it to your cellphone, your PC (currently, its probably a better idea to keep PCs seperate, unlike i randomly stated above, due to the fact that they make a killing off of windows), and everything else electronic you own.

lets face it, they're brilliant, you gotta give em a hand for that. hell i wouldn't even be surprised if Bill is leaving MS so he can run for president! (<----- sarcasm)