LIVE Alive

So Xbox LIVE is back up and if Major Nelson's chatroom was any indication, not a moment too soon. So what's new with Xbox LIVE? Well, not a whole lot. The work done was in preparation for the Xbox LIVE features coming on down the road. But we were able to sneak a few upgrades to Xbox.com into the maintenance.

My Xbox has received a total makeover, incorporating a lot of community feedback to better-feature your avatar and your friends. You’ll also notice that we’ve moved our editorial content to the right side, hopefully making it easier to see our big news and community events.

Let us know what you think in the comments section below, we’re always looking for feedback!

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 18, 2009
  Im sorry that this will be out of topic but when will the backwards compatability team make its new series of game because i really really need them to make the game rash Tag Team Racing Compatable with my Xbox 360 so please?

• Anonymous
  June 18, 2009
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• Anonymous
  June 18, 2009
  yeah the new my xbox is really cool the onlything is that when this happened my xbox got the rrod and the support site is still down or not working as normaly it would

• Anonymous
  June 18, 2009
  Why don't you guys address the negative changes since the "upgrade" or whatever you did. Lagging, dropped connections. This experience has been ruined and you guys have no clue - read the forums!

• Anonymous
  June 18, 2009
  And another thing - what happened to support? Why is it down?  Please wake up and offer some service to your loyal customers - who are becoming less loyal by the minute.

• Anonymous
  June 18, 2009
  Sorry, Carlos.  I am pretty sure that I saw an article saying that Xbox Originals and back-compat are done and done.  It was one of the non-flashy news items that came out of E3 on 6/2.

• Anonymous
  June 18, 2009
  I persoanally love the new Xbox.com, it's more convenient, and I lover seing my most recent friends in full view. I also love tht it shows their game like it is in the console.  I love the new way you can message people too directly. I can't wait till Novemeber for the new stuff. I just wish it came sooner.

• Anonymous
  June 18, 2009
  The new design is, sadly, not really an improvement. It uses up too much room at the top of the page and there's no way you can get to a friend's games page to COMPARE achievements, which surely is a bug. On a friend's page the game links just display your OWN achievements. Also, the pop-up menus on the friends list page are stumbled upon accidentally. There are SO many Web 2.0+ pages out there, why's xbox.com so Web 1.0-ish? :-(

• Anonymous
  June 19, 2009
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• Anonymous
  June 19, 2009
  In response to mnemo, I'm not sure what you're talking about on some of the issues. If you go to a friend's page, that page shows their achievements in the game, not your own. (Just mousing over the friend on your own My Xbox page gives you more information on that friend, you actually have to click on the avatar to get the friends' page.) Clicking on the game icons on the friend's page will compare their achievements with yours, or you can also click the "Compare Games" link.

• Anonymous
  June 19, 2009
  I rather wish there was a way to go back to the old style. A list of my most [i]recent[/i] friends is useless, a realtime list of who's online is much mor useful for a quick glance. Also, the whole [i]thing[/i] takes up too much space. Scrolling down to see who [i]was[/i] online is silly. And the pop-ups when you mouse over a person is annoying. We have pop-up blockers for a reason. I don't like them incorporated with the page itself. Just tossing around personal preferences. The old style was better. At least from a gamer's perspective, more info, less fluff. Keep to the basics and everything is much simpler.