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Xbox Live For The Players

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the adoption-is-a-hard-sell dept.

jasoncart writes "Ferrago has an article up suggestion how Xbox Live could be improved with a unified multiplayer matching system, clans, and player-funded dedicated servers." From the article: "Meeting friends via Xbox Live can happen only in the heat of battle, you can send friend requests to people you've enjoyed playing with, and keep an eye on who you have met during your gaming adventures. But as yet there is nowhere in Xbox Live (although plenty of places if you use a PC) to meet up with other likeminded Xbox 360 gamers, chat, arrange a game, and get playing. This is why the Xbox 360 needs a unified multiplayer matching system."

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  1. Mod Me Offtopic, But Take It To Heart: by RobotRunAmok · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This practice of stories opening with a "X has an article up about such-and-such" without explaining, in the story summary, who the hell "X" is, is really becoming trite and cheesy. Who or what is "Ferrago?" Am I supposed to know? It sounds like an expensive foreign sports car, but I'm pretty sure they don't have any opinions regarding XBox Live... I think.

    If it's a guy's blog, fine, say so: "'Ferrago,' the blog of hardcore gamer-pundit Joe Smith, has just posted an interesting article..." OK, got it, great. If "Ferrago" is a company, or some "online community," whatever, say so. It just -- really, truly -- makes no sense otherwise.

    Maybe I'm still recovering from that whole "travelling carnival" -thing, or it's just part of some blogger-credibility-don't-ask-don't-tell-wink-wink culture that I'm not privy to, I don't know, but it's damn screwy.