New Xbox Live features and subscription options

Voice messaging, if it properly employed, will be a HUGE plus. There have been many occasions where a quick message (aside from "you goddamn team killer!") would have avoided a lot of hassle. I'll have to check this out tonight...

i don't think you can just voice message someone at any time. you can do it with friend requests, and maybe with game invites. when i downloaded the update, it said to look at xbox.com to see what the new features are, but nothing's listed.

Come on guys, try it out. You can see other TNLers' tags right in their posts. I'm at work over here.

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Originally Posted by Wolffen

The $60 kit that is being sold now is just the subscription card. No software or headset. They're selling the headset for $25 *cough*ripoff*cough, and a month of Live is $7. So if you bought it piecemeal, you'd have $25+$21, plus say, $4 for the demo disc. So $50 vs $40. Not great, but not quite a rip-off.

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What kit have you been seeing in stores? The current one we have in stores still gives Mech Assault with the 12 month sub-card and a headset.

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Originally Posted by epmode

i don't think you can just voice message someone at any time. you can do it with friend requests, and maybe with game invites. when i downloaded the update, it said to look at xbox.com to see what the new features are, but nothing's listed.

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A shame if it's that limited. Still, a little explanatory message with an invite (or better yet, with a reply to an invite) could be useful.

I don't get the point of specifically tying a voice message to a friend request. What the hell are you supposed to say? "Hey...Deathknell32...I...I kind of liked your voice and...you know...wondered if you'd be my friend."

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Originally Posted by Prince Planet

"Hey...Deathknell32...I...I kind of liked your voice and...you know...wondered if you'd be my friend."

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LOL!!

That reminds me of an idea that Sl1p and I had after playing Ultramix... all these sorry people send you friend requests, so we were going to start a chat and invite them to join one by one, and grill them with questions. Or just tell them that we hate them, or that we're not accepting friend requests at this time.

i just tested rainbow six. didn't notice anything different. maybe the game has to be updated before the voice invites will work. or maybe the game has to have been programmed with the live 3.0 sdk..

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Originally Posted by Prince Planet

"Hey...Deathknell32...I...I kind of liked your voice and...you know...wondered if you'd be my friend."

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seriously. i still don't understand how i have 79 friends when i only know who 20 of them are. i think i need to start with those interviews.

I broke my second headset the other day. the plastic clip thingy that attaches to the headband is fucking weak as shit. Stupid replacement headsets are usually $30. Can't they package one that doesn't snap like a baby's neck?

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Originally Posted by epmode

i still don't understand how i have 79 friends when i only know who 20 of them are. i think i need to start with those interviews.

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Do you hate NIS countries?

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Originally Posted by soundwave

I broke my second headset the other day. the plastic clip thingy that attaches to the headband is fucking weak as shit. Stupid replacement headsets are usually $30. Can't they package one that doesn't snap like a baby's neck?



Do you hate NIS countries?

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Yeah, MS should redesign the headset so that part especially won't break off. It's somewhat fragile.

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Originally Posted by soundwave

I broke my second headset the other day. the plastic clip thingy that attaches to the headband is fucking weak as shit. Stupid replacement headsets are usually $30. Can't they package one that doesn't snap like a baby's neck?



Do you hate NIS countries?

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Headset replacements are free. Send your broken one to MS and they send you a new one for free. Call them and see. They are free.