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• #XBOX FRIENDS LIST LIMIT 1080P#

I also have a Zune, and have Zune friends.

I talked to Devin Kofsky, and he says “I have more than 100 friends. Most of all, I am tired of the empty promises from both the Xbox and Zune teams on this issue. I’m tired of paying $50 per year, and constantly feeling the limits on my Xbox Live account, rather than the freedom. I’m tired of having to pick and choose who I want to play with, and who I want to establish a recurring gaming relationship with. I mean, how “social” can the Zune be if you buy into it after amassing 100 Xbox Live friends? Also, I’m getting tired of going into my friends list every few weeks, and checking to see who hasn’t logged in over the past 30 days so that I can find people to delete, just so that I can add others. Fantastic - but really, how about addressing this one need that people have been begging you guys for ever since the launch of the Xbox 360?Īs my friend Doug from DizzyDoug.TV says, “In these times where social media networks are growing like never before, and with Xbox Live as a very popular and thriving social network, why are members limited to 100 friends? Forcing them to “clean up” regularly just to add new friends? Can you imagine the outrage if Twitter or Facebook limited to to 100 friends or followers? Time to be more “social” Microsoft.”

#XBOX FRIENDS LIST LIMIT 1080P#

Even later this Fall, we get Twitter, Last.fm, Facebook, and instant-on 1080p streaming with the Zune Marketplace. After all, we are getting Games on Demand, a heap of new Netflix functionality, Avatar Marketplace, and more come August 11th. I can applaud Microsoft for all the good they are doing with the Xbox 360 as a platform.

Really - who thought this was a good idea? Just because me and some other dude both like Halo, doesn’t mean I want to share in his Justin Timberlake listening habits. Seriously, Microsoft, do you really think that the 100 people who I enjoy gaming with are the same 100 people who will purchase a Zune or a Zune Pass subscription, and will just happen to have similar enough tastes in music to me that I would want to friend them automatically? If the people that run the Zune department are as big into music as you guys say they are, then they’d realize that nothing is further from the truth. We have it set to start right before they talk about the friend limit: If you don’t believe us, here’s a video we shot with the Zune team over a year ago. Yet, here we are, over a year later, and still…nothing. They also said that the Zune Social didn’t have to rely on (read: is not at the mercy of) decisions made by the Xbox team. At the time, they said they were going to be increasing it “as soon as possible” and that the Zune friends and Xbox friends lists could be independent. We were speaking with the Zune team in particular, going over the new Zune 3.0 features, and we asked about the friend limit. I mean, the last time specifically addressed this with us was over a year ago. Sure, Microsoft has promised, time and time again, that a friend list increase is on the horizon, but at this point, it sounds like nothing more than empty words.

I personally have at least 15 people that I would like to add as friends on the Zune Social, but I can’t, because my Xbox Live list is maxed out. I get wanting to share the Zune and Xbox ecosystem, but to shoot yourself in the foot like this is just puzzling. This is, in two words, absolutely ridiculous. You’ll have to remove someone from your Xbox Live friend list to add someone else. Did you know that the Zune Social and Xbox Live share one common friends list? In other words, if you currently have 100 Xbox Live friends, and you go out and buy a Zune, and want to connect with people who also have Zune’s (but don’t necessarily play games,) you are out of luck. Now, all that said, there is still one more very annoying piece to this puzzle. The thing is, in the age of social networks like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, and all the others, we are now used to connecting with many people in our social graph across many different services. As many Xbox Live gamers know, the current limit on friends you can have is set to 100. I think this has gone on long enough, and I’m really not seeing a good reason for it. Okay, I’ve had enough of the Xbox Live friend limit that Microsoft has imposed on us for far too long.