I'm not sure if there is a topic on this, but i need to get this off my chest.

 

Facebook, Twitter, Last.FM, Zune and Sky Player. When you hear it, it all sounds so good and appealing.

 

Sky Player - Well, being a sky customer myself, i thought that this was great, i didnt have sky in my room and thought that this would be a great thing for me because i didnt have freeview or anything in my room, and streaming through my 360 would be easy because i already have a sky+ subscription at home. Well, the time comes around for it to be released, i'm very excited, i go to sign up on the official site..."are you a sky multiroom customer?...". No...if i had that i wouldn't need to stream sky through my 360. "To access the sky player, you must pay *around £10 or dollars i forget* a month". WHAT! So all the videos explaining how it would work before, and all written descriptions clearly stated i only need just a sky subscription, but apparently i have to have one of their most expensive packages to access this, when our package is expensive enough as it is? AND IM HAVING TO PAY £40 FOR GOLD LIVE. This pissed me off big time, but none the less, i ranted with my friends for a while, and after that blew over i looked forward to using the other features coming out, especially facebook and Last.FM.

 

Now, i am one of the people on xbox live who doesnt lie about their age, mine was put as my age when i got it, i am now 16, all parental controls are turned off because i'm well above the age where im at risk of being stupid enough to give personal information away to strangers, or at least i have the common sense to know not to do this.

 

Release day of the other features

Zune - Oh great...basically a video marketplace but streaming instead, well it's a good idea, and i will use it if i get points soon. (i never have microsoft points for some reason)

 

Facebook - ....where is it? After searching everywhere for 10 mins, i stumble across the message in the help tips place. "Facebook is unavailable to people under the age of 18". For goodness sake! I'm 16! People can sign up legally for facebook at the age of 13! Why should everyone my age be sectioned out because i havent lied about my age or generally because people are too dumb to realise they shouldnt give out personal info on it! "we're bringing out a parental switch so that people under the age of 18 can use it". Great...why not either bring that out with the main release or just make it available to EVERYONE! Everyone will just get their parents to turn it off!

 

Last.FM - Exactly the same! Im under 18, therefor i cannot use it...rediculous, i don't see why people under 18 shouldnt be able to use that!

 

Twitter - I'm not too bothered about this because i think it's pointless really, but it's still the same concept really...

 

I'm so annoyed at these updates recently that i'm thinking of trading my 360 and games for a PS3

I've always thought they were better, but had to buy a 360 because i couldnt afford a PS3 at the time.

 

With a PS3 i get free online gameplay, internet browsers, BLU-ray DVD and basically the same games.

 

Rant Over >.<

 

How is everyone else finding this recent update on the 360?

If you're going to respond with "oh my god how stupid are you" i'm only going to respond if you have a decent reason for saying it.

It's possible to change the Windows Live account associated with your GT, so maybe you could change it to one where you say you're 18. I wasn't excited for any of these updates, as they're either charged or easier to do on a PC.

I have to wonder why you need a Gold adult account for Last.FM but can get Netflix on a Silver child account.

I knew I should have lied about my age when I got my Xbox a few months ago. Now it will be a pain in the [wagon] to change to an adult account when I turn 18 in April. I already have a debit card registered and it's my only card, so somehow I have to get another card in order to prove I'm an adult. <.<

 

 

I was excited for this update, but now I have to wait. Last.fm would have been useful.

I probably won't really use any of the new features, although they seem cool.

I haven't got the update myself as I no longer have my 360 connected to the internet but I was able to check it out on my brothers xbox and I didn't like it very much especially that last.fm doesn't play in the background so you can't listen to it while playing a game or something, you have to be in the last.fm application. The whole setup of Facebook on the 360 was weird, I didn't like it. Also the whole xbox dashboard is overfilled with junk and advertisements its one of the reasons why I switched primary to using my PS3 for gaming the whole interface is much cleaner and friendly to use.

I haven't got the update myself as I no longer have my 360 connected to the internet but I was able to check it out on my brothers xbox and I didn't like it very much especially that last.fm doesn't play in the background so you can't listen to it while playing a game or something, you have to be in the last.fm application. The whole setup of Facebook on the 360 was weird, I didn't like it. Also the whole xbox dashboard is overfilled with junk and advertisements its one of the reasons why I switched primary to using my PS3 for gaming the whole interface is much cleaner and friendly to use.

 

Exactly my reason why i'm thinking of getting rid of my 360 and getting a PS3.

Yes people argue that the community is better on the 360 because of party chat ect, but when i'm playing a game, i cant concentrate if other people are blabbing on about something totally irrelivent to what i'm doing.

I think half the features won't often be used, especially last.fm - how does it work on a 360? D:

I think half the features won't often be used, especially last.fm - how does it work on a 360? D:

 

It works pretty well actually. It launches as its own application like netflix if you have ever used that on the 360. Like I said in my last post, it would work 10x better if it ran in the background so you could listen to last.fm while playing MW2 online or something.

 

I know I would never use the facebook feature or twitter because I'd much rather take the time to walk over to my laptop and go visit facebook to make a status change or use Tweetie to update my twitter. Until this update for the 360, I've never even considered opening up facebook or twitter on the ps3 browser.

 

Also here are some screens of what last.fm looks like:

 

http://www.joystiq.com/photos/last-fm-xbox-360/2067255/

I think half the features won't often be used, especially last.fm - how does it work on a 360? D:

 

It works pretty well actually. It launches as its own application like netflix if you have ever used that on the 360. Like I said in my last post, it would work 10x better if it ran in the background so you could listen to last.fm while playing MW2 online or something.

 

I know I would never use the facebook feature or twitter because I'd much rather take the time to walk over to my laptop and go visit facebook to make a status change or use Tweetie to update my twitter. Until this update for the 360, I've never even considered opening up facebook or twitter on the ps3 browser.

 

Also here are some screens of what last.fm looks like:

 

http://www.joystiq.com/photos/last-fm-xbox-360/2067255/

 

What was the reasoning to why Last.FM was made to be for over 18s only?

Last.fm is for users 18 and over because there is not a way for parents to customize family settings currently with the new xbox applications. They are apparently working on a update to fix this.

Last.fm is for users 18 and over because there is not a way for parents to customize family settings currently with the new xbox applications. They are apparently working on a update to fix this.

 

I still dont see what is on Last.FM that means it has to be used by over 18s only...

 

Is there anyone on here who would like to express a positive opinion about it? lol

Last.fm is for users 18 and over because there is not a way for parents to customize family settings currently with the new xbox applications. They are apparently working on a update to fix this.

 

I still dont see what is on Last.FM that means it has to be used by over 18s only...

 

Is there anyone on here who would like to express a positive opinion about it? lol

Well I mean when you think about it, it makes sense. Some parents don't want their kids listening to certain music like those with parental advisories stickers on them. So in a way to protect Microsoft it is easier to eliminate the problem form the start until they get a fix then angering parents who, in most cases, are paying for the service.

I knew I should have lied about my age when I got my Xbox a few months ago. Now it will be a pain in the [wagon] to change to an adult account when I turn 18 in April. I already have a debit card registered and it's my only card, so somehow I have to get another card in order to prove I'm an adult. <.<

 

 

I was excited for this update, but now I have to wait. Last.fm would have been useful.

 

You can use the same card when you upgrade to an adult account, I did the same thing after I upgraded to an adult account.

For anyone who doesn't know, a patch will be released this week (Tuesday I think) that will allow anyone under 18 to use the new features with parental permission. :thumbup:

For anyone who doesn't know, a patch will be released this week (Tuesday I think) that will allow anyone under 18 to use the new features with parental permission. :thumbup:

 

I was so happy to hear this :D