Monsieur Webbins' 360 Revival Thread - The Bear and Badger

Funkstain

Gremill wrote:

I've sent you a FR.

Oh no! Who was deleted, sent into oblivion from Gremill's list for ever more

Mod74

I used to worry about deleting people but periodically I delete anyone that's not been on line for more than 2 months. Harsh but fair.

Elmlea

Yeah, I do that, or when I forget who they are from here. Â I'm down to 94 now.

Which means adored doesn't like me.

Dark Soldier

Mod lies, he deleted me the utter whore.

I've a full 100, but quite a few from rllm for trials.

Mod74

Dark Soldier wrote:

Mod lies, he deleted me the utter whore. I've a full 100, but quite a few from rllm for trials.

I thought you deleted me?

If I deleted you it can only be because you'd not been online for ages.

Dark Soldier

I probably deleted you when pissed to be honest, but cannae remember.

Doesn't really matter as we barely play the same games anyhoo.

Funkstain

Dark Soldier wrote:

I probably deleted you when pissed to be honest, but cannae remember. Doesn't really matter as we barely play the same games anyhoo.

I've still got you on my list and remember fondly the thrashings you handed out on Virtua Tennis 3 (4? World Tour?) ah those were innocent days

Dark Soldier

VT3 that was, good days!

Still to be beat by anyone on my friends list at VT.

BOSS!

Mod74

http://majornelson.com/2012/05/02/changes-for-inside-xbox-u-s/

No more Dan and Andy. Cheer/Cry as appropriate.

pantyfire

Thats a bit disappointing, I quite liked those shows they did.
At least they seemed to be genuinely interested in games and often displayed a knowledge of games that went beyond this gen (though I concede those references could've just been written in by a genuine enthusiast). I also liked the low-fi approach and the way they knew that and played upon it and they quite often did drop some info on upcoming titles that I hadn't heard anywhere else.
I suppose we will get more of that nasally voiced Chobot woman in her tight t-shirts instead.

Tempy

It's a shame that they've got rid of them as at least they used to bring bit of an identity to the whole shiny affair.

Can't quantify Chobot either. I think she is supposed to be really attractive but I just don't get it.

pantyfire

I agree on the identity thing, it sort of harked back to the bedroom nature of the game industry that I grew up with (a bit like that show that those Scottish guys used to do).Â
I compared it once on the old-rum to the PS3 version of the same show, it had a green screened studio with flashy CGI intros and stings between the news pieces, it was also fronted by some obviously targeted at young males asian girl with no presenting talent and, I suspect, no interest in the industry at all.
It all felt so stale and cynical compared to the fumbling and shiteness of Inside Xbox.

Mod74

I'm quite narked really. Partly because I did actually enjoy watching their shows and partly because it was one of the reasons I didn't mind paying for Live subs.

Surely it didn't cost that much to produce each week? Then again I suppose it wasn't especially fair on the users in other countries that paid the same as us but got no extra content. Hopefully MS will put the money to good use on other content.

They never did answer my "Have either of you ever considered growing a beard?" question.

humantarget

Need a little help on the 360 front. Last night people could barely hear me speak as the sound was dropping in and out constantly. I originally thought it was a headset problem but just tested that this happens with both my headsets, whereas if I record a voice message neither of the headsets suffer from drop outs. I'm guessing it's some sort of network problem then?

Tempy

Sounds like it. Have you checked your NAT settings? Do a network test, if you get a message it'll be self explanatory. If you don't, you will have open and NAT which means I can't help you son.

humantarget

Tempy wrote:

Sounds like it. Have you checked your NAT settings? Do a network test, if you get a message it'll be self explanatory. If you don't, you will have open and NAT which means I can't help you son.

Yeah, I checked NAT first after you mentioned it the other night. I've forwarded all the ports the 360 uses in a vague hope that will work.

Webbins

Are you sure you're not Norman Collier?

humantarget

Webbins wrote:

Are you sure you're not Norman Collier?

Northern with a dodgy mic? Quite possible

Webbins

DotW is a load of shitey Tom Clancy stuff for HAWX, Ghost Recon: AW2 and EndWar. Splinter Cell Chaos Theory is 800 points down from 1200. These weekly 'deals' have been rather lame of late.

The following have all received permanent price reductions:

Arcade Games

Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet - was 1200 MSP now 800 MSP
Toy Soldiers - was 1200 MSP now 800 MSP

Game Add-ons

Hasbro Family Game Night
â€¢ "Battleship - Full Game" - 400 MSP
â€¢ "Boggle - Full Game" - 400 MSP
â€¢ "Connect 4 - Full Game" - 400 MSP
â€¢ "Connect 4x4" - 400 MSP
â€¢ "Jenga" - 400 MSP
â€¢ "Pictureka" - 400 MSP
â€¢ "Scrabble - Full Game" - 400 MSP (North America only)
â€¢ "Sorry! - Full Game" - 400 MSP
â€¢ "Sorry! Sliders - Full Game" - 400 MSP
â€¢ "Yahtzee - Full Game" - 400 MSP

All Hasbro games have received these cuts as EA have now switched the servers off so they are worthless from an MP point of view.

Games on Demand - prices vary per region

Fighters Uncaged
LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean

This weeks WP7 release is Feed Me Oil - Â£0.79

WP7 DotW is Pocket God - was Â£2.29 now Â£1.49

LazyGunn

cuckooextreme plx

[Deleted User]

adored wrote:

All seems a bit of a faff, might just stock up on batteries from Ikea or something. <br />
<br />
Gone with adored74 for my new gamertag, all those precious achievements lost forever, sniff.

Amazon are great for Duracells.

LazyGunn

get rechargables

adored

So, my live rewards thing is workingÂ (Mod, only realised after signing up that you could have referred me for 100 points), does it only register things you sign up for via the webiste, or does it sync everything you buy direct from the 360 as well?

Mod74

It all just syncs up automagically.

There is a survey you can do on the site once a month 20 points.

The rewards aren't massive but as they're essentially zero effort to earn it's a nice bonus now and then. I've had nearly Â£17 quids worth of points out of them so far.

Mod74

Speculation on the Bombcast that this $99+monthly contract Xbox is a trial run to gauge interest and if successful could be the (a) model for the next Xbox.

It would certainly be a way to make a Â£400 machine more affordable up front. Would any of you go for it? Say Â£199 machine with Â£10pm 2 year Live contract.

I_R

I can believe that MS are trying it. Seems incredibly optimistic of them after the balls up they've made launching their last two consoles though. I wouldn't want to be stuck in this model if either situation was repeated.

Mod74

Doesn't seem like a bad idea to me. MS would probably rather the "interest" went to them than Grattan or Brighthouse or Barclaycard.

I dunno, I've always waited for the first price drop before buying the last two gens, I can't see me doing that next time.

JRPC

Mod74 wrote:

Speculation on the Bombcast that this $99+monthly contract Xbox is a trial run to gauge interest and if successful could be the (a) model for the next Xbox. It would certainly be a way to make a Â£400 machine more affordable up front. Would any of you go for it? Say Â£199 machine with Â£10pm 2 year Live contract.

I don't like the sound of it. It's like buying something on credit.

I'm day one regardless, so if that's the only way they're playing it...

If it works out even slightly more expensive then I'd rather buy the thing outright though. And I've gone long stretches without LIVE with my 360 for various reasons and it would irk if I way paying for services I wasn't using.Â

Would prefer the option.

I_R

The other possibility is that mobile phone pricing is to get them into mobile phone shops. They probably aren't going to expand their own shops enough to sell significant numbers. Selling at phone shops might give them the option to break from the specialist game retailers - anti-second hand measures doesn't seem that likely, selling new games as a digital download on launch day at the same or less than retail is beginning to look necessary.

Elmlea

Mod74 wrote:

Speculation on the Bombcast that this $99+monthly contract Xbox is a trial run to gauge interest and if successful could be the (a) model for the next Xbox. It would certainly be a way to make a Â£400 machine more affordable up front. Would any of you go for it? Say Â£199 machine with Â£10pm 2 year Live contract.

What I don't understand is this; everyone, and I mean everyone, who'd happily queue up at midnight to drop Â£400/$500 on a new machine, is the sort of person who'll already be paying Â£10 a month for XBL and will continue to do so.

If you offer these people a subscription where they're tied into Live for 2 years rather than paying monthly, then you're effectively just giving them Â£200 off a machine that they'd pay Â£400 anyway.

It seems to me that this is the perfect way to get a PS2-style massive userbase for your lower-end machine, before pouring it full of Kinect features, media stuff, and shovelware while the rest of us upgrade to the new model.

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