Ozymandias

Interesting question.  Here's what I can think up offhand.

- Access to current Live features through all manner of Online Devices (Zune/Windows Mobile Phones) through Wifi, cellular techs etc.

- Drilldown in the Friends list to see what Friends of Friends are playing.  Allowing us to possibly broaden our own circle of friends in the meantime.   Also make a change to our personal profile prohibiting friends of friends from seeing us and/or our activities.

- Ability to shadow or peek at a game that a friend may be playing without actually owning a copy of the game itself. (Kind of like a remote desktop but only to watch)  Could be used as a great promotional tool for 3rd parties without having to actually put a demo out there.

- Ability to selectively mute people in ranked games so that you don't need to hear/deal with their BS.  Muting would also make them unable to hear you.

- Make more options for gamertag game listing so what instead of showing/listing the most recent game played, you can list your gamertag with the 5 most played game or your games with the highest achievement scores.

- Integration of your Live Profile into MSN so that you can see your Live Friends when you log into MSN with your Live Credentials.

Microsoft has talked about adding Live to devices such as cell phones; I think it would be a logical step to use this advantage.  Let's say you're using Live on your cell phone and you see a friend online; you want to talk to them.  Why not use Skype-like functionality to allow the cell phone user to "call" them (through a Live server setup) and voice chat with the XBL/Windows Live user?  That way gamers really can be in communication anywhere, and more easily organize themselves.

I'd want a unified webpage for myself.  Whenever I add a service or product, new gadgets are added to the website.

For example, when I register a 360 on my account, I can access gadgets that deal with my achievement.  When I register a zune, a library gadget or recently played music gadget appears.  The site would always have my presense, etc.

Perhaps my Live-enabled phone has GPS in it, so my presense doesn't just say what I'm doing, but where I am.  A designated area becomes work or home; outside my designated areas it becomes Nashville, TN, etc.  The next version of the Xbox (720?) NEEDS to have a GPS in it.  That's the next step in community development.

Unifed purchases will be extremely important for me.  Give me the option to buy Geo Wars for $5 on the 360 or $5 on the PC or $5 on the mobile... or, I can spend $10 and get it for all three.

Keep my game saves on a central server, so my gamertag can pick up a play my game on any device, anywhere.

And then, bring all this together and let me see the trends.  If the system notices that every monday night, 50 gamertags communte to one location, access their saved games and start playing Gears of War together... let me know so I can find out what the party is all about.

Finally, let certain aspects of the live ID be exclusive.  If I'm in the XNA Creator's Club, let my gamertag say that.  If I'm a Zune Ambassador, let the world know somehow.  If I'm a certified Microsoft database engineer, put that on there somehow.

I love that you guys are open to suggestions; keep up the great work!

I want live to become my personal media server. When I drop my MP3's onto my "My Music" folder, I want Live to register them.

From there, I want to be able to log into Live from anywhere. My Car radio, My cellphone, My Xbox 4000, My shower... and immediately have access to my entire collection of music, or any other media that is appropriate for the device/location I'm accessing Live from.

I want Live to keep track of how I listen to my music, and let me know over time what tracks I tend to skip and which tracks I listen to. Perhaps I could give a tivo-like "Thumbs up" or "Thumbs Down" to a track I'm listening to from any Live-enabled device.

That is the kind of thing that would keep my loyal to the Live brand.

Rask, you can already mute individual players through the dashboard. I do this all the time. Just bring up their gamer card screen and hit mute near the bottom. I don't know if they can still hear you or not, though, once you do that.

I want to be able to continue an arcade game on my mobile device, that is, If am at the E2C3 on Doom, I want to be able to resume the game at my mobile device.

My response is more in tuned as being feedback, but can we get a translucent blade as a option instead of a 480i guide blade. Playing multi- player games and watching movies make it a hard to choose if I should accept a request of any kind because I can’t see what going on behind the blade.

Better integration between my friends list on live messenger and my friends list on Xbox Live.

I want to be able to video-chat with my friend on messenger live from my Xbox.

I didn't know that.  Thanks Measure.

How about XBox Live Radio so that if you don't like the music that's in a game, you can tune in to Live Radio online and listen to music streamed from this instead over the sound effects of the game or your PC.

Xbox Live Radio could also be used with a Wifi-Enabled Zune/MP3 player or Windows Mobile Phones through the Cell Networks, all available with your XBox Live sub unified under your Login.

I agree with the music comment by Measure. That would be incredibly huge, and nearly impossible to implement I'm sure!. The total communication would be a god send as well. Being able to speak with anyone when they are signed into any of the live devices through almost any means (headset, cell phone, car phone, webcam). Of course as MMOs get bigger and bigger the ability to influence different aspects of your virtual character or world through different devices is always mouth watering.

As a side note regarding music control function, specifically the playlist, of the 360, with over 10K MP3s, there needs to be some sort of multi-layer filtering available! Eg: filter by genre, than by artist, than by album... (like iTunes)

Although I am not (yet) a Live player, I guess that it could be good for the system to finally remove the 50mb Arcade cap rather than making exceptions such as with Castlevania Symphony of the Night. I think it could unleash new possibilities for electronic distribution and allow higher technologically advanced titles be possible for the system.

PD: Also, fancy making sure the xbox gamecards are able to be visible again for gecko-core browser users? I've noticed the "official" gamecards can only be seen properly now under IE and while I do not find it a bad product at all I, and many other people, have other preferences

Re: "Better integration between my friends list on live messenger and my friends list on Xbox Live.

I want to be able to video-chat with my friend on messenger live from my Xbox."

Is that all "better integration" means to you? Video chat? Or are there other things you want to see?

Re: "- Ability to shadow or peek at a game that a friend may be playing without actually owning a copy of the game itself. (Kind of like a remote desktop but only to watch)  Could be used as a great promotional tool for 3rd parties without having to actually put a demo out there."

Interesting idea. Wickedly hard to do well, though, assuming both people don't have the game. Talking about some sort of real-time video capture, encode, and streaming. And some of that work would have to happen on the local client box, potentially affecting the game you were playing... just so someone could watch you play.

" Give me the option to buy Geo Wars for $5 on the 360 or $5 on the PC or $5 on the mobile... or, I can spend $10 and get it for all three."

I think it makes sense that developers move toward a more unified release system.

If I buy a game, and I have multiple consoles I'd like to be able to play it on each of them. Without a fee, or having to rebuy it.

If I buy Phantasy Star World for the PS2, and 2 months later I buy an Xbox 360, I'd like to also be able to play it on that. That would be a huge reason for me to upgrade to another console. Being able to play all cross console games I have.

Re: "Although I am not (yet) a Live player, I guess that it could be good for the system to finally remove the 50mb Arcade cap rather than making exceptions such as with Castlevania Symphony of the Night. I think it could unleash new possibilities for electronic distribution and allow higher technologically advanced titles be possible for the system."

I doubt this will be an issue long-term. The 50 MB cap is to help protect the experience for all users - ever tried the downloads on the PS3? It's painful, and will remain so until bandwidth speeds go up significantly for a large percentage of users. As long as there's an exception policy in place for those games where it makes sense to allow >50 MB downloads, I think it's a fair balance IMO.

Re: "I want live to become my personal media server. When I drop my MP3's onto my "My Music" folder, I want Live to register them.

From there, I want to be able to log into Live from anywhere. My Car radio, My cellphone, My Xbox 4000, My shower... and immediately have access to my entire collection of music, or any other media that is appropriate for the device/location I'm accessing Live from."

Great idea! Definitely some interesting legal implications to work through with licensing and such, but very cool.

If you're interested in this now, you can get a similar capability from a web script called Andromeda, from Turnstyle Software. I've used this in the past (and am setting up again at home) to stream my personal music library across the net. Check it out if you haven't seen it.

http://www.turnstyle.com/andromeda/

Re - Interesting idea. Wickedly hard to do well, though, assuming both people don't have the game. Talking about some sort of real-time video capture, encode, and streaming. And some of that work would have to happen on the local client box, potentially affecting the game you were playing... just so someone could watch you play.

Plus there's the bandwidth issue to think about.   To do this well, you would need to have a copy of the game assets on a server somewhere, have that server take care of re-creating those assets in an image and then passing it down to the person requesting the data.   The nice thing about this is that the image wouldn't need to really be realtime to make it a worthwhile idea.  The client passes action information to the server, server rebuilds the sequence and passes it to the requestor of the data.

Amount of processing power to do this properly might not be worth the expense though.

Then again, you did give us a huge timeframe to think about =P.

How about taking a page from the DS handbook and letting devs make games with a client attached to the game itself.   Once someone starts a game with the disk they own, the host could invite people to his game and then the game would send a client to the other players that don't have the game and they could play Multiplayer without both of them having the game.

Distribution could be done on the spot or through XBox Live marketplace as a download.

I would like to see the experience become seamless reguardless of what device i'm using Xbox, Zune, Phone, PC. Friends should be available on all, my Zune music library should be available to all, saved games should be stored on the network and be available from any device, marketplace videos and other content should be available to all. And then add the ability to seamlessly switch my current activity to any device. If I start a conversation on my Xbox I should be able to connect to that from my phone and continue right where i was. If I have songs queued on my Zune I should be able to pull that to my xbox or media center and continue playing right where I was. If I start a game on the xbox I should be able to continue from the last save on the pc or phone. My devices could present a list of current live activities that this device supports, which I could then connect to. For example, on the list i may have a playlist, a chat, and the saved state of a game. Then I would select one and resume it on that device from where I left off.

@ Rask,

You mean something like TVersity (http://www.tversity.com/) or XB stream (http://www.xbstream.com/xbs/)?..

A larger Friend List and a method of organizing them.  

I have work friends, RL friends, relatives, online friends and want them available to me at all times, on any device.

Increased video chat ability.  More people allowed.   Wider range, messaging capability too. IE Send photo from video phone to 360 Live account.  

Calendar

Since the Live ID will be available on multiple devices how will you be able to tell which is active.  Also how about security.  If you lose your phone/pda or your 360 get's stolen how will you be able to track or shut down that ID?

Be able to back up your dl'd videos, ID and game files to your PC so you can upgrade to a larger HD.

How about a AirPod type of device so you can transmit video to another TV/LCD?

A wireless keyboard

Use the MP3 ID# info better.  Allow the 360 to explore play music through the band name, album, year, genre. Dynamic play lists.

Dynamic reporting, don't just report someone as being bad to game with but how about a kudos reporting for those rare nice people you find online.

@WarriorSan - those get information to your 360 from outside sources (the net and your PC).  What I'm talking about is you being able to see what your friend, who is playing a game that you may or may not own, on your tv through Xbox Live.

I would like to see the markerplace unified (buying content for whatever on your 360, pc or mobile device), better live integration with Vista, the abilety to change your country (provided you actualy live there :D) and bringing applications to the marketplace the way games are(I am looking at the pc here), I would buy expensive software with a system in place like there is on the xbox 360.

And last but not least, bringing MORE content to the marketplace and updating more frequently (GAMES, tv show, music and music video's) games that should be easily available without to much licensing issues are games under the heading "abandonware".

While I really think Live is solid as-is, the one major thing I could see that would make me very happy would be the inclusion of more Dedicated Servers for certain games.   I know servers have, in the past, been hosted on Live, but it would really be great to see more of them.

Other than that, I really would like to see support for more sim-games on Live, and games more in the vein of Steel Battalion: Line of Contact and  ChromeHounds.   Live makes persistent campaign based games like that possible, and honestly that is a huge draw for me and a lot of people that I know.  

Put a Web browser in the dashboard please.

I know I'm not thinking big here but....

I would really like ShoutCast style streaming music stations.

Age filters would be good also.  Playing with a bunch of little kids gets annoying.  I want to play other adults!  Why we don't have this now is beyond me.

Unles MS is worried about sexual preditors targeting kids...but they can do that NOW!  So let me filter out the little kids.

I would also like to be able to tune cars, paint cars, Create Charators and so on for 360 games on my PC.  Games should ship with a PC editor built in.

Pop the disk in my PC, paint my car, save it...and then pull the information from my PC and save it to my 360.

Some things are better to do with a keyboard and mouse.  ;)

More of an Xbox Live suggestion:

Party system built at the dashboard.

You remember how the friends list used to be up to the developers, and that is now integrated into the dashboard? That is a great improvement. So...

I wish they would do the same with the "party" feature as seen in Halo 2 (and also in Burnout Revenge for Xbox, but not the 360?!??). Developers would have to accept parties/matchmaking into their game.

For example, I've got 3 friends playing Gears of War. I "build" a party of 4 at the dash level. The party leader can then use the games matchmaking to bring the entire party into a games.

Adding a tab for clan support would be nice too (a clan name would work just like your gamertag, only one unique name) and would add a prefix or suffix by your tag in games that would support this feature.

In the future, I see Live absorbing MSN and Hotmail.  Live will streamline communications and social networking across all Microsoft platforms.  I even see Live incorperating a VOIP service down the line (maybe MS buys Skype).  

Free online play would be nice.

-  I’d like to see being able to make the achievement pic turn into a possible gamer pic.  That way you could use your gamer pic to show off your proudest achievement.

-  I also would like to see points have a scale of difficulty.  Viva Pinata and Dead Rising have good achievements but each achievement is worth the same amount of points.  More difficult achievements should be worth more points than the one you get for just playing the first 5 minutes and stumbling over an achievement.

Ok,

Stop charging for gamercard avs and themes!

And have someway to make your own Theme.. im talkin FULL theme... not just the background picture.

I'd love to skin each blade...not to mention make my OWN av..I have not and WILL NOT pay for these...waste of money

I would like to have the ability to select one of my earned achievements and have it listed on my Profile and Gamercard as my favorite (akin to City of Heroes badge system letting you select one as a title under the character's name).

Guy said "Free online play would be nice."

NO it would not be!  Look at Sony's system...you get what you pay for.

$50 a year...that's only $4.17 a month!  And for all that Xbox Live offers it's Well worth it.  

Although, I WOULD like the option to pay monthly. It doen't hurt the pocket book as much. ;)

inajeep:

Good point about security. Perhaps there could be something like Top Rope Suplex's idea for a web page we could register our devices. Then if it was stolen we could block the device, with the option to wipe it, from the web page.

I think the main thing that I would love to see, and this was hinted a couple times before the 360 even came out, is some sort of cross-platform P2P service for user-created content with minimal restrictions. Think eBay or Morpheus/LimeWire only for game content. These could be public downloads or private ones, free or a fee [which like eBay MS could take a small % of]. Bring the entire PC mod community to Live. EA doesn't want to update my Madden roster with who's hurt or who's cut? Fine, I'll do it and post it myself. I could create a dashboard with pictures of all my friends and family and send it to them, etc.

Put an XBOX Live "node" closer to Central Wisconsin so that I can play without continuous lag. I get no lag in my PS3 or PC, just in Live.

I want to be able to buy full games over live.  I'd need a bigger hd, but I have absolutely no problem with waiting 24 hours for a game to download.  It would be nice to be able to encrypt it on my local machine so I could reload it if needed, but I'm flexible on that.  I just want the convience of not needing to go to a store to get a game.

One of my biggest concerns is the tracking of downloaded content from XBLM. I know that I am only one of many that has had their launch system replaced. Because of connection issues with my ISP, I am no always connected to the internet. What this means it that I am not always able to play my Arcade titles because this is a different system - XBL content is tied not only to the Live account but to the HDD as well as the system. The process in which to get this content loaded to my replacement has been very tedious and stressful. I've also been a Xbox Live member since Xbox v.1 beta, so I've also lost content there as well.

I've said all that to say. There has to be some way to store XBLM content on a server (cloud perhaps) so that in the event one exchanges their system they can also replace all of their content hassle free - with various security measures of course (Credit Card info, Live ID, registration of new system). This server should also carry over the information to the next Xbox system, so that customers won't have to pay twice for a game that they've already paid for (e.g. Ms. Pacman for Xbox v.1 now available for Xbox 360).

how about adding back in the ability to have XBL send email/IM messages when sending notifications online?  So, if I send a game invite on XBL, I get a notification on my passport account (i.e., Windows Live messenger if I'm online, or email if I'm not) as was supported on the original Xbox, but died when the 360 came out.  Maybe this is part of the Live Anywhere, but it is sorely missed...  :-)

@ Rask,

With these progs you can already stream (listen) e.g. internet radio on your xbox 360..(as alternative to your comment about Xbox Live Radio)

I really like Sean's Idea:

"Microsoft has talked about adding Live to devices such as cell phones; I think it would be a logical step to use this advantage.  Let's say you're using Live on your cell phone and you see a friend online; you want to talk to them.  Why not use Skype-like functionality to allow the cell phone user to "call" them (through a Live server setup) and voice chat with the XBL/Windows Live user?  That way gamers really can be in communication anywhere, and more easily organize themselves."

Live is great, but don't forget single console owners. Many games that are co-op over live(e.g. crackdown) aren't co-op across one console. Guest support was a big feature on the xbox 1 but it seems that less and less games are supporting it.

Both the PS3 and the Wii have web browsers.  As more and more people go HDTV and browsing is more practical on your TV, having a built in browser would be great.

I realized that Microsoft would prefer that everyone build a media center PC that they plug directly into their TVs in addition to their Xbox, but that's just not practical for 95%+ of the populace.  I actually haven't bought an Xbox 360 yet because I'm debating on whether to build a cheap HTPC or buy a 360 because I can't afford both but want the browser functionality on my TV (as well as some other things that HTPCs allow for).

Always, always support co-op and head-to-head multiplayer modes on 1 console, split screen, not just on Live. Nothing against online play, but lots of us prefer to be in the same room with someone we know, if we can. There seem to be fewer and fewer options for that on Xbox (versus Nintendo).

I imagine this is already being considered but:

Build 'party building' into Live, a la Halo2.  

Once we have seen this we have grown to hope/expect all other games (where it is applicable) to have this feature.  Implementing this as part of the core system will enable developers to implement quickly and standardize the feature across games.

The addition of 'Game Reviews' in marketplace.  As new games are released if a review section was available (video reviews only?) with ratings (meta ratings, combed from reliable sites) could help with both the notification of newly released titles, and what the gameplay looks like etc.  Having this be 'third party' created could add value and reliability in the ratings.  Partnering with existing game sites would allow this to be low cost, as well as driving traffic to the review sites.

An out of the blue idea, being able to 'Compete' with people on your friends list that have the same game.  When viewing your friends, the games that you have in common could have a 'compete' button.  When selected it would track the achievements that your friend is getting in a particular game compared to what you have.  This could be integrated with messaging, sending a notification that your friend has unlocked an achievement that you haven't. This could be supplemented with adding a voice tag so one friend could 'taunt/help/ridicule' a friend that does not yet have that achievement. Of course the 'compete request' would have to be accepted to drive these messages.

Microsoft needs to allow more than two people for the private voice chat feature. This may not seem like a lot, but having the ability to invite your friends into a private voice channel across all games is essential.

A must add.

Stream files too and froma pc desktop, thereby eleminating the need for bigger harddrives....

More board and card games on xboxlive...party based games are alot of fun and would really push the experience.

I agree with some of the fellows above! I want to be able to have some friends over and play split screen for poop sakes! Fewer and fewer games are doing this. I am sure this is a developers decision in order to maximize graphic abilities but let’s not forget what made the console so unique in the first place, local multiplayer!

Great comments to read through and thanks for the forum to post Ozy!

3D Marketplace - it be nice to view all the items in the market place and view as such (like in Chrome Hounds, we should be able to see all the new weapons in 3D, and there stats)

Marketplace - come on we should be able to view everything from here, including themes and pictures.

Dreamcast, Sega and other game systems need to be emulated this would be big for anyone.

Clan Support - what else needs to be said?

Office News letter that can be accessed via the Xbox 360.

GIVE CANADA MORE SUPPORT ENOUGH OF MAKING CANADA GAMERS CRAP!

The option of video chat in every game.  A small, low quality feed of video would pop up during communication.  This would especially be very immersive for futuristic titles like Chromehounds or GRAW, when I can always get feeds from NPC's but not my teammates.

I should be able to record short replays or videos of any and everything I play in Xbox Live.  The dashboard should make that video capture possible.  It would be ideal to be able to send quick, video-streaming e-cards to non-Xbox owners, hopefully convincing them to buy.

I should never have to click a message to read it.  Any text message should be read to me in-game if I want automatically or displayed as a ticker at the bottom of the screen.

XBL Canada should share the same content as the american one. We're part of the same region (1) why should I get less content than my neighbors to the south!

Also a multi-user voicechat would be nice as well.

And a stronger PC integration would be good too.

I'd really like to be able to delete from my "games" list Arcade titles which I demo and then decide not to purchase.

I'm tired of seeing games I played for all of five minutes, and which I didn't enjoy...hence deleting...appearing in my games list, when I don't own them.

Please let people delete "zero achievement" titles from their "games" list.  I don't own the games; I'm tired of seeing them there.

Thanks!

Share pictures with other members...

Share your own build themes...

Vista Live always on...

Messenger integration...

Live storage, do save games online instead of local...

"Put a Web browser in the dashboard please."

What he said.

I know it would go against the Arcade probably in ya'lls eyes but allow for Java game play and maybe simple button mapping.

Speaking of.. manditory button mapping options for arcade game. Mortal Kombat 3 can kiss my ass it is useless with an arcade stick.

I'm not sure any of that is considered in the Live realm or not.

Simple blogging or myspace clone crap for Gold subscribers mixed with an Xbox camera might entice a lot of people to spend that part of their time also on Live.

-multiple people voice chat, say up to 4 or so, like the original xbox live on the first xbox.

-active downloads better implemented, a setting on the front dash or maybe a bar up top near the battery meter to show download progress.

-an ability to sort friends list into categories

Well - the biggest change would obviously be remote storage - whereby all of our content is streamed from Microsoft servers - and our save games achievements ect are stored on Microsoft servers (eliminating the need for a HDD), but, this may not come into fruition.

What I really want is a Messenger system not unlike windows live messenger - also to be able to delete "played games" so i havent got countless undesirable OXM icons on my gamercard

obviously full xbox / xbox 360 backwards compatibility would be a plus.

Video chat as a much bigger feature - the victory dance feature from command and conquer 3 is seriously overlooked - and I believe that if a camera were to be bundled with every xbox 720 (or whatever it would be called) - video chat could be intergrated into most games to great avail. (with the option of blocking the feed of those "showcasing" themselves)

Have it so that in-game messages count as emails - so i can message those on computers who are not necessarily using windows live.

Also the whole user-created content that was talked about pre-360 launch needs to be fully intergrated into the xbox live marketplace - so i can literally photoshop an image, tranfer it to my 360 then upload it to the xbox live marketplace and offer it as a theme (or gamerpic).

Host fully fledged live tournaments which can be viewed by anyone in a sort of advanced "gotham tv"

Saved videos in Halo 3 are going to be massive - intergrate this into xbox live!

Also - finally... intergrate clan support into xbox live - so that we dont need to create countless clans in numerous games

I have two main requests, full MS/ Windows Live Messenger Support (I'm on the console with my gamertag linked to my .NET passport, and my Friend is on His PC and MSN and we can voice chat and text chat.)

And a Web Browser.

I would love to see the ability to shadow other players and perhaps in a little window in the corner of the screen watch them play. Of course it should be optional for the player but it would be cool. I also think live should have some kind of TV intergration so that you could watch TV right on your 360 from some kind of TV service that you offer. Maybe a DVR for the big HD to compliment the TV feature. And a web browser.

Video-Chat is just one example.

I would like to see my Xbox Friends gamers tag clearly in my messenger Window.

I would love to instantly see what there are playing(maybe "Windows Vista" is a new kind of game).

If there are playing in a mobile device or a Windows Game I would also like to see that on my messenger.

I would expect to have instant messaging.

If my friend is in front of the computer and I send IM from my xbox, he/she should be able to received.

BTW: I don't mind if my messenger will sign me out if I sing in into Live from the XBox,Mobile device or Windows Game.

Clan blade on dashboard.

Be able to sort your game list into games owned and games played.

Bingley Joe: "I'd really like to be able to use ANY of the Achievements I've unlocked as a gamer-pic."

that would be really cool!

plus Clan support, more storage (HD, PC or online storage), marketplace new content notification (emails or live messages), ability to capture pics and video from a game you're playing.

and what's up with the 24 hrs limit on movie watching?! make it 15 days at least, 24hrs is not satisfying.

Thanks for a great post.

Re: I'd really like to be able to delete from my "games" list Arcade titles which I demo and then decide not to purchase.

I must have searched for half an hour trying to figure out a way to delete these annoying references to games I've only demoed and already deleted.  I don't want my list of played games cluttered with games I played for 1 minute.

Also.. please allow save games to be transferred from different profiles.  When I created my Live account I had to restart all my games because the name I originally choose was already taken online.

One last thing.  Why do downloads run in the background when I buy from the marketplace, but when I access them via the main menu of a game (ie: Gears of War map pack or video), I have to wait for each download to finish to do anything else?

*Release more than one XBLA game a week. We should've had Worms by now!

*Don't force achievements to ranked matches as that is where all the asshats hang out.

*Let us use the achievement pictures as gamerpics. A lot of those icons are nice.

*Stop charging for stupid stuff like themes, icons, GamerTag changes.

*MS should just hire the guys behind Xbox Media Center and use that for the 360. I guarantee you that the 360 would be the #1 media center. http://xboxmediacenter.com/

*Allow more than 100 friends. I already have to juggle friends due to this.

*I'm already paying a subscription fee, why am I forced to wait for demo exclusivity to end in my region?

*Any game purchased on XBLA should be available to me on other systems that I own (Zune, Vista, etc). I already payed for Uno once, and I will not pay for it again.

*What happened to only playing with people of my zone? If I am recreation, I want to play with only those in recreation and not those in Pro. I thought live was suppose to be like this from the beginning.

*If I leave negative feedback to avoid a player, I expect it to work and never see him again. As it stands now this does not seem to be the case in Gears of War for me.

I hate how everything is tied to my Hotmail (MS Live) email address.  That address is spammed to hell so I never check it.  I'd like to tie everything to an e-mail address that isn't necessarily one operated by Microsoft.  Or at least migrate it to something else.  

I'd like to be able to have more than 100 friends.  Also, it would be good if I could group friends together  (for clans, friends, etc) and then be able to message a whole group at once.

I would like to be able listen to my voice messages from an box on the computer (xbox.com)

A pseudo-P2P system for marketplace downloads (demos, trailers, etc)to speed up the DL time.  DRM is tied to the console anyway.  I'm sure there's a way to implement this.. optional for the user of course.

If you use passport.com you can create a live id with your normal email address. Just go down to where it says 'Use an e-mail address you already have'.

I'd like it if Achievements would not be obtainable in ranked matches only.

also make sure the achievements in the  games are actually POSSIBLE TO GET (Robotron,Gauntlet, and a few other games have bugged acheivements)

A few things:

The option to remove someone from your buddy list without them knowing about it. I have some people on mine that I only have to shut them up. Course if I take them off, they'll slag me for it.

Ranked and player matches should not be seperate sections. MS should require that the available games lists shows ALL games, and then allows them to be sorted by game type or whether they are ranked or not.

Party support built into the dashboard.

Clan support built into the dash. For all games. Allow people to even make clans that span ALL games.

Give Gold members more bang for their buck. Like how about gold members are given discount on DLC? That would be awesome.

Start selling guest passes for live on the market place. Imagine I'm not a big muliplayer guy, but I would like tp play a game online with my buds today. Allow me to buy a day or a weekends worth of live access instead of having to buy the card.

Keep the 50meg limit for arcade, but reduce prices. 5 bucks for what amounts to an atari game is nuts when i can get get an NES or TG16 game on the wii for about as much.

Build another section calledd Live gamestore or something where we can buy bigger, more complex games.Similar to what sony is doing with their store allowing you to buy old PSX games. Your arcade already pwns theirs, but we should also have an option for full fledged games.

Put an end to companies like EA abusing Microtransactions. You know what I am talking about. It makes you look bad and pisses us off. No one wins. I have no problem bying addons or new maps or even horse armour, but i should never be charged for things that should be in the game to begin with.

Offer game rentals. Similar to your movie rentals. Allow me to rent a game over live.

Improve voice quality. It is already good, but is better on the ps3. Fix this.

I think that live anywhere for windows mobile phones should have the option to answer private chat invites from live users on your friends list.

my though?  drop the price of the subscription to gold live.  i don't have a 360 myself, as i'm still waiting for the first price drop, but even after that, i won't bother with any yearly live fee at its current price.

better yet, make it free all together and nudge the price of all 'extra' content online by a TINY amount across the board.

that way you should have as close to a 100% attach rate (with a bigger potential base to sell to) as possible.  About the only ones that won't use live then are those that don't have broadband, or those whose parents don't want their kids online, or those that are too stupid to use live anyway.

its all about the volume, think walmart.

I really think a key component to the Live experience when it spreads out to mobile and Vista is the ability to continue a game on multiple platforms using one game save.  I think th ekey to this has already been announced:

Windows Home Server

What if I could back up the media - videos, music, themes, and game saves - on my 360 to the WHS (is this why you haven't come out with a bigger Xbox HDD?).  I could then pair my phone or my computer with the WHS.  Since Vista has an integrated game manager, it would check for any games saves that have been updated on the WHS and just use them.

Then, when I go over a friend's house, since my GamerTag is associated with the WHS, if I plug in my memory card it automatically logs int to my WHS and offers it as a storage device in the 360.  Game saves should be small enough to carry over quick enough...

So, my memory card works great for carrying around my 360-exclusive gametag.  What happens when I want to carry it around to different devices?  Will I be able to log in to any Vista machine with my Gamertag, or will I need a dongle?  Can I log in to my friend's phone with my Gamertag?  What if my wife and I share a Zune; can we both be set-up on that Zune?

Perhaps a dongle could be used on all of those devices... the size of a key maybe what can plug into all of them, embedded with a GPS device?  The key then becomes important, because the key IS our gamertag.  The gamertag has been lifted from the 360 and becomes a part of our everyday life in any activity.

I keep coming back to the GPS device because it truly is important for transitional gaming.  Nintendogs barks when you ger around another DS with Nintendogs in it; what if you got a ding whenver someone else had a Zune around?  If you've got the GPS key with you, you don't even need to have a specific device to find someone who has the same interests...

Surprised no-one has mentioned this: I want to be able to spy on my friends even MORE from my pc, to the point that when they're on XBL at home, and I'm at work, I can message 'em and maybe set up a game session if I'm conscious when I get back in from work.

So mainly, making the MSN Messenger capabilities reach deep into the bowels of XBL would be a good thing, oh except for the fact that (and I've been an MSN subscriber since version 2.0!).... MSN tech sucks, terribly.  Someone at MS get the DirectX team on this, they're the ones that know what they're doing over there! :)

A feature I would like to see would be the ability for Live to filter out, via quickmatch, custom match, and/or hosting, players via their age.

I'm not that old, but I'm also not that young (27) and sometimes, I would just like to be able to play with adults. I know that Microsoft knows the age of enrollees via the account they (or their parents create), so I'm sort of hoping to have the option to pick players of either

Any age

under the age of 17 (for example)

players 18 years of age and older.

If this were possible, well, wow! It would be freakin' awesome.

Make it so you can have more than 1 on 1 voice chat through the dashboard. You can talk to more than one person in-game, why not a group chat on the dashboard?

Web browser that is better than that on the Wii

Bring the whole clan thing right into the dashboard as a whole section. Like a lot of things on the 360, it could be optional for the hardcore gamers who want that stuff. It could include tournament sign ups for all games.

Player rankings and awards. It would be nice if there were awards added to your profile for participating in clan torunaments and a actual rank system.

Bring all the HD content to other countries! (like Canada)

Make Gold Live free!

Be able to have more than 100 friends.

CLAN SUPPORT just like friends, i want my clans to be in there.

AD Supported Live, the silver members should get alot more ads

Larger Friends List : )

Someone said it earlier, but a dashboard level party system.  I want to play ranked games with 3 of my friends against another group of 4 friends with equal skill.  Cough H2 Cough.  

I'd love to set a default online status.

Sometimes I wanna play by myself without Chat requests and game invi