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).

More deep games for download, even if they need an exemption for size.

Nothing wrong with antique Atari titles per se, but gaming got worlds better in the "16 bit" era IMHO. Sonic the Hedgehog is a natural, but don't stop there. Ecco the Dolphin, Phantasy Star II and III, and other titles from the Genesis library should return. I want access to all my favorites from the catridge era (and beyond, actually — what about Sega CD and Dreamcast?) Arcade-only titles would be great also. Presumably, Nintendo won't help you, but work closely with Sega and 3rd parties as much as you can. Push to bring back those games. Improve them if possible like the arcade games are often "updated," if the publisher wishes.

In short, Xbox Live Arcade is doing well with antique retro, but what about more recent retro? There's a rich history/backcatalogue there, and like many people I'm really tired of disc-based retro collection ripoffs with filler. Xbox Live (maintaining high standards for adaptation, with fair pricing per game) is the way to do it right.

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!

Here's my list of "would like to have".

- Ability to save downloaded content to a USB external drive connected to the 360.

- Allow streaming of many other types of video files other than wmv.

- Ability for game saves to be stored on Microsoft servers so that if the 360 hard drive crashes no data is lost. Can be a feature for Gold members only if you want.

- Reorganize the marketplace (again). Still have to visit 4 different sections (and drilling down a few levels) just to see what is new in the past few days.

- Make game saves tied to gamertag so that nobody can use someone else's and get all the achievements without doing anything.

- Support audio chat for up to 4 people at the same time.

- Make it an option to enter a passcode to buy items in marketplace so that when my daughter is using my controller under my account she does not end up buying a 1200 points arcade game by mistake.

- Solve the issue with purchased content when console has to be replaced and the content is no longer tied to the new console.

- Provide ability to put any small image as your private gamer picture, not just pictures taken using the camera.

- Remove 50MB limit on arcade games. You are only causing developers to cut things out (and thus make it available as a separate download) or cut on image quality. How about a 200MB limit? Maybe come up with a new "category" of arcade games? Would open up the door to more recent classics that would sell much more than Frogger. Ex: X-Wing vs Tie-Fighter.

- Make sure arcade titles don't show up in your game list history on xbox.com unless you've actually played the full version. Why in hell are games I've simply tried for 2 minutes listed in my games list? I've played 100x more with demos and they are not listed (thank God).

- Support for clans.

- Better multiplayer matchmaking so that you can still play ranked matches with friends.

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 invites coming from every which way, but I still want auto sign-in.

- a bigger hard drive on the 360. I don't understand how so much media content is promoted, yet we hardly have any space to store it all.

- a game lobby on the 360 dashboard itself. this way Live friends can meet up, coordinate, then jump off onto an actual game. the chat channels aren't clear, and appear cumbersome.

- more than one XBLA release per week!!! the current line up is quite sad. and I don't want to wait in one week increments to get something worthy.

- BETTER XBLA titles. We need well done classics, or new, original titles. Geo Wars is a good example. But we need like, 20 more of those.

Personally the thing i'd want the most is basically a Live-wide version of Halo 2's party system. When i'm playing multiplayer on Live, I pretty much always want to A)Play with my friends, and B) Be on the same team as them.

Games don't need to have Halo's matchmaking feature, it just needs to work so that say 5 of us can join a party on the Dashboard, with voice chat ability, then the party leader would search like a game as normal, and the other members of the party would join the game automatically(or be prompted to insert the correct game disk) and if possible, placed on the same team.

This feature would, in my opinion, make the Live experience so much better; Currently to play a game of Rainbow Six Vegas, I or someone else has to find a game, then send invites to the 4 or 5 friends I want to play with, by the time i've done that and they've all joined, we're all on different teams, the last guy might not get in due to the game filling up(meaning the rest of us have to leave and start over) etc, etc.

I would like to have a list of the marketplace content that I've bought in the past (integrated into marketplace). This would help me quickly download my content again if my 360 dies or I upgrade the hard drive.

I'd like an open source community in that I can develop a game or application and share it with my friends.  In turn, we can all enjoy this program together.  The strength of XBL is it's open community now.  And, by making it more of a playground where everyone can participate together with no restrictions, the potential is limitless.  

1. clan support

2. Online space for game saves so they are accessible from any connected 360. 5-10mb free with Gold, charge extra for more.

3. Sign in with multiple live accounts on the same box

I would like a streaming game channel on live that would allow me to watch the best players.. the top ranked players and also clan matches and tournaments. That would be extremely cool.. regardless if I had the game or not.. A way to broadcast your own games might be pretty cool too.. like if you can't come to a lan party, at least you can still watch it from your pc, phone, music player.. whatever has an internet connection.

I'd also like to see the gamer tag evolve into more of a "gamer presence.." where you can customize your gaming identity more. Like if someone looks at your gamer tag info, they would see a whole custom page with even streaming audio and the option to play some of your more covetted gaming moments that you could have possibly recorded via the console.. yes standard in-game video recording would be awesome.

Lets call it "file sharing over live"..

Just that idea alone.. free advertising from the players themselves showing the best moments from their favorite gaming moments. Like, hey man, check me out playing Legendary in halo 9. heh heh.. and all you'd have to do is click a link in either their gamer presence area or in the text message they sent you.. they could then save it or whatever.

In game confrencing is also another idea. Imagine playing a game and somebody wants to talk to you.. either voice only or a little cross com type box could pop up.. that'd be cool.

I'd persoonally also like some sort of internet browsing over live. Plenty of times the xbox is more convienient than getting to my computer.

1)Better muting and blocking. Within a couple of button presses, and from within any game, I should be able to permanently mute and block a user, so I don't have to listen to them in this game, and won't be matched with them again.

Perhaps this could be extended so that I can avoid people that my friends and friends-of-friends have blocked.

2) Integration of Xbox Live Friends and Windows Messenger. I should be able to video chat with Windows users, see what my friends are playing from my Windows Mobile phone, etc.

3) Get rid of the 50Mb limit, then port some Xbox titles to Live Arcade (Halo/Halo2). May have to wait for a bigger HD

4) Make full games downloadable as an alternative to the disk (bigger HD again). Stores could sell discounted redemption codes, as an insentive to use the store. Changing and scratching those noisy disks and worrying about pre-ordering physical media is a hassle.

5) Would it kill you to add a web browser?

I would like to be able to see the status of all my friends at once. I hate having to go through each friend, one at a time, to see which ones are joinable. Otherwise, I'd love to have some sort of visual cue to see who I can join or send an invite to.

I would also like to have an option to change the alert setting to only show friends that are playing the same game. When I'm playing 'Gears of War' it doesn't really help me to know that one of my friends comes online to play 'Halo 2' or some other game.

My other suggestion would be to group friends by categories. Some friends I like playing online in certain games only so I'd like to group them in one category.

Finally, each game should come with gamertag pics on the disc so the only way to get them is to get the disc in your system. Also this means that they should be FREE!

I'm not sure if this is Live related, but let's get rid of points or else make them the correct ratio. 500 pts = $5. That's all for now folks. See ya.

Multi-User (FOUR) Private Voice Chat...

The ability to group Friends.. into folders, sections or whatever... think MSN Messenger.

Default Online Status (away, busy etc)

Video Marketplace content in Canada :) Please.

Get MSN Messenger Alerts system back up and running along with MSN support, so I can chat and message people on Messenger that have their passport account linked to their Xbox Live account.

a Clan/Group section like mentioned above in the dashboard. When you go to that blade, it lists all of the games you are currently in a group or clan for, then by selecting a specific game, you can see who is online from that clan.. this would possibly eliminate the need for a larger friends list. you wouldn't have to add everybody.

i'd like everything to come to me.. a subscription type method for alerting me to the latest content.. just a simple pop up post it note when there's new content in a certain category.. like, hey.. there's a new demo.. rather than me having to check either online for new info or having to navigate to the new releases area within live. Theres a  bit too much navigation the way its setup now, I know theres a more intuitive way to do this.

Hi, I only have two suggestions that I feel would make the Xbox live service significantly better.

First and most important imo is the inclusion of a dedicated server option in ALL XBL Multiplayer titles and importantly the ability for ISP's to set up consoles that take advantage of this. Having a wide range of locally hosted, lag free servers would be beneficial to players worldwide. As an Australian player nothing annoys me more than to only find American matches (which in most cases are unplayable due to lag) or having to maintain a friends list of people you're only communicating with in the briefest hope you can use their fast connection for a server for ten minutes of the day. The bonus of dedicated ISP  hosted servers is also that it will take Xbox Live from being a nice touch for console owners and turn it into a service that actually competes with what every PC multiplayer game does for free.

Secondly, More information on whats going on. All these blogs are great, but a "constantly" (daily) updating page on my Xbox 360 dashboard would be even better. You could fill it with info about when new content is coming, what patches are being worked on, new game announcements, developer/staff interviews. As long as it's constantly and reliably updated it would be a very nice addition to the service.

Otherwise I'm completely happy :) Thanks for reading.

Two words: web browser

Please have worldwide features, instead of NA only features, like the video service!

I also think a web browser would be a good touch. And please make mouse support.

I'd like to see something like this:

An IM Live! that is compatible with MSN. So 360 users & MSN users could share files (pictures for exemple), have voice chat, text chat, videoconferences.

On the status of the player we could have the desc of what he is actually playing (as the show music option in MSN).

This IM sould of course be free, and available on Win, Mac, Linux and my brand new Blackberry Pearl. On mobile device, the IM client shall be able to do VOIP to communicatate in voice chat with gamers on their 360, and to send pictures if it has a camera.

A clic on the gamertag shall show us, within the IM client the achievments & other stuff like this.

Also, it would be really nice to have chatrooms to chat up to 8/16 players, and videochatrooms to have videoconferences up to 4/8 users.

The ability to be in a private chat with up to 4 friends at the same time.

I would love to see some style of stat ticker that would scroll in xbox live to see what your friends are playing and give  more detailed stats then you can get from just viewing them on your friends list. Like if you were playing GOW for instance the stat ticker could read what game you were playing and maybe how many kills you have and the rounds left.

1) Private chat supporting more than two people

2) Increase the 100 friend limit on the friends list

3) Navigating from game-->guide button-->friends list involves delays as each new menu is pulled-up.  Faster would be better.  The friends list in Halo 2, for example, would appear instantly after hitting "Y"

4) Increasing the number of options for your online status flag to things like "Waiting for Invite" or "Room Full"

I really want my xbox360 to be able to play h.264, divx/xvid and other video formats. I want to be able to burn a data cd or dvd with my favorite episode of dl.tv and watch it on my big screen tv.  

i would like to be able to choose in notifications to turn friend notifications off, but leave achievement nofitications on.

thanks

How about either a bigger freakin hard drive or the ability to use out own freak usb freakin hard drive to store demos and freakin tv shows.

AHHHH!

One thing I have not found here on these list is a feature that allows you to be online but not show up on others list as ONLINE. I hate playing games and having a bunch of messages sent over and over to play. So it would be nice to have that privacy once in a while.

Crowd-Sourcing Hosts.

Pay regular people that have good connections into the internet with Market Place points.

In effect, Creating Hosts that other Live people can connect too for better performance in games.

Have small executables that do not contain textures or models, just the netcode to run a server for whatever particular game.

Hope that's clear enough.

I've been a Live user since 2002 (GT = Aleman).  Some of these have probably already been posted, but here goes:

- Bring back group chatrooms like the original Xbox had.

- MS-hosted dedicated servers for major games.

- Allow Achievement points to be converted to MS Points -- there are many complications with this but could be worked out. Maybe, for example, the Achievement points you earn for a specific game could only be used towards purchasing content for that game.

- Speed everything up! Make the Live blades appear instantaneously. Messaging should be faster too--it feels a bit sluggish even on my 10 down/1 up (Mbps) connection.

- Provide standard OS feature to record gameplay (online and off) and then be able to stream to Friends in a chatroom.

- Reduce subscription fees by subsidizing with additional (tasteful) advertising. OR eliminate annual subscription entirely and reduce monthly subscription price appropriately (more convenient for us).

- Provide better tools to ensure all games have Halo 2-like matchmaking capabilities. Also figure out why all new, big games seem to have matchmaking and voice problems at launch.

- Allow TV shows on Video Marketplace to be purchased whole seasons at a time w/ an appropriate discount.

- Allow streaming of local video content to Friends on Live (in a chat room or something).

- Replace current on-screen keyboard with a radial design to improve typing speed when using a controller.

- Automatically leave Private Chat channel when other person exits.

- Somehow be able to switch between Private and Game channel without going through the menu (maybe by holding the "back" button down for a second or something).

- Have a "Friends Leaderboard" on the Dashboard for regular games similar to what is there for XBLA games.

- Show first few words of text messages in the alert indicator (since most text messages I get are very short).

- Make the overlay blades semi-transparent.

- Allow XBLA purchases to be transferred to a different Gamertag (so you can get some value from them if selling the console).

- Add user rating system to Marketplace content.

It would also be amazing to be able to download movies and tv shows to Canada. A web browser would also be nice.

I would like to see auto sign in associated with multiple controllers on one box.  For instance, one live id auto signed in associated for player 1, another for player 2, etc whenever a controller is turned on.

How about an actual lobby room, like DOA4 and PSU tend to have having your own custom avatars walking around and whatnot or just another way of communing with more than 1 person. I mean a private chat is nice but sometimes you want to talk to more than 1 friend when you don't really have time to play. It's happened to me and my buddies. It might lag a bit I would guess, but it would be more of an interactive experience if it were between the PC and Xbox users.

Two things:

1) Web browser

2) An Xbox Live e-mail address -- so I can get messages from the outside world when absorbed in a game.

How about Xbox Live tournament TV so we can see the best of the best play to win cash & prizes. Like in Gamespot Tournament TV.

I'd like to see how many hours I've put into a game (session and total) on the menu that comes up with the guide button.

I'd like to see a web browser.

http://www.xboxyde.com/forum_8_17116_1_en.html

We covered this topic a couple weeks ago over on xboxyde.com  great community site by the way.

I posed this question?  Why do Xbox 360 LIVE lobbies suck?  I mean we have had Halo2 as a template on what can be done on Xbox Live in the form of lobbies and functionality. Here we are over 2 years out from Halo2 on a new improved Nextgen platform and not a single game yet on Xbox LIVE stacks up to Halo2 (I'm talking about LIVE features)

I'm sure people can pitch in on Halo2 Lobby features.

Here are some that have yet to find there way onto Xbox 360 Live titles.

Host can save presets to use in future matches on Xbox Live.

In Depth stats on internet site.

Clan Support.

Player with Optimum speed hosts game.

If Host drops, room doesn't drop but pauses and goes to next fastest connection.

Party System

Those are just a few.

Now for things promised by MS years ago on the promise of LIVE, and selling it to the fan faithful.

User created content (available on marketplace... gear maps, etc.)

User created maps

Being able to spectate a match.

Ok some of the above are in some LIVE titles on 360...

FEAR... user created maps.

PGR3... Spectator mode

Saints Row... Team/Clan ability

Name me one Xbox 360 title that has come out that offers the LIVE/Lobby functionality of Halo2...

Sorry you can't this Xbox 360 platform has been out for over a year... Developers have been developing for it for much longer than a year.  Many first party developers have been developing for the 360 and still yet everything pales in comparison to Halo2.

Again I'm only talking about LIVE functionality not gameplay or anything else.

If MS is serious about multiplayer on LIVE and wants to totally leave PS3 in the dust, lets get an SDK out there for developers that give the the tools to make a LIVE lobby experience at least on par with (2 y.o. halo 2 on last gen Xbox)

There should be no excuse.  This is Xbox 360 damnit.  Git'rDone.

There should be a standardized set of features in any Xbox LIVE title for 360, that at least meets or exceeds the genius of Halo2's Lobby/multiplayer experience.  Don't leave it up to the developers... give them the know how and toolset, that you already have used, over 2 years ago on halo2.

thats it from me.. on this subject.

OS Perry

- Make the blades appear instantaneously.

- More Microsoft created themes.  I want something simple and slick, like the original interface.  Everything on Live as far as themes is terribly ugly.

- Flyout menus to access information quicker and provide it in a more organized fashion with more relevant information.

- FREE Gold for everyone.  Pro-rate discount current subscriptions.  Add advertisements if necessary but keep them confined to the main blade's hotbox area.

XBOX Live in particular:

We need group voice chat...i.e. voice chat with more than one person. It can be done in-game, so why is it not possible in the dashboard?

I'd really like to see MS take the social networking features and personlization of Live to the next level.  Xbox.com should take the lead from sites like Facebook and add new ways to share and interact with my friends.  It should also make it easy for me to find and invite people I know offline, as well as meet new people with similair interests online.  Things like game screen caps and videos, user created content, and meaningful profiles are the future of the Live platform.  I should be able to sign in and quickly see which friends have new achievements, are playing a new game, or have updated their profile.  There should be groups I can join to find other like minded gamers, and more tournaments and contests I can enter both on and off the Xbox.

If MS truly wants to build Live into a marketplace they should make sure everyone on Live has the chance to invest in it.  The easier MS makes it for people to put their own content and personality into the 360 ecosystem, the more likely they'll be to develop a personal investment in the quality of the service and become loyal Live members.

Nintendo and Sony are already working hard to build communities of their own, MS needs to take the lead it's already got and use it's existing users to it's advantage or risk fracturing the market and losing population to other emerging services.

Wow. This is awesome. In any case, what would I want added to Xbox Live?...

1) Video sharing - Bungie and other developers are probably going to add some sort of action replay features in their coming games. It would be cool if Microsof could add a feature that would allow you to send your replays to your fiends...

2) Video messages - Speaking of sending videos, there doesn't seem to be an option (currently) that allows the Vision Camera to send messages. You have text, voice and image, but nothing for video. That would be a neat addition.

3) Theme Creation - It would be neat if gamers could create their own themes. I realize that this would take away from the money that is made from themes on the Marketplace. But Microsoft always talks about giving consumers "freedom" and "choice". That is an excellent philosophy, which you guys could push even further. I should be able to take pictures from (ie digital camera, iPod, Vision Camer, PC, ect.) and use those images to create backgrounds for each individual blade. Awesome huh?

4) Increased message time - Would it be possible (despite bandwith limitations) to increase the length of text and voice messages? Could you make text messages 500 characters and not 250, and make voice messages 30 seconds instead 15?

If I think of more, I will be sure to add them...Thank a bunch!!!

Just to echo some of the other comments in this blog... I also agree that MS needs to build more of a common foundation for matchmaking and team play into their games.  TrueSkill and Quickmatch are great, but ALL games should have lobby support provided by Live as well as the ability to form parties and enter matchmaking.  Party matchmaking doesn't have to be ranked, or can be ranked seperately but all games with multiplayer components should let me form up with a group of friends and play together.  If Live is about playing with your friends anywhere anytime, then MS should step back and look for creative ways to make that come true.

find some way of having a group chat channel to talk to more than 1 friend at once

I agree with the robust matchmaking system comments .  Gears of War is a perfect example: I've notised that the number of players on Gears has gone down ever since they crippled the ranked capability .

Chat Rooms...

for every game. Where someone can make their own room asking a specific question (kinda like a forum). Then people can enter the room and have an active voice conversation. All of this being done on the guide so you can still play single player and such. Since the Xbox message boards have such an important role in the community this would make a nice approach of making the 360 the center of the entertainment realm.

Just think playing Oblivion while discussing the endless secrets that await you. Or for that manor just discussing the secret achievements any game.    

XBL has already exceeded my expectations in many ways.  However, here are some ideas (perhaps they are too "small", but many smalls make a big!

Chat and video conferencing for many.

An Internet browser.

Folders for organizing FRIENDS (and then options for having folders show offline). (Friends who play Halo, Friends who don't speak English, Underground Friends.)  We don't even necessarily need more than 100, but until we can organize them (because not all friends play well together), it is difficult to go beyond 30 or 40.

A radial interface (why not stick with the 360 even in the interface?) so that we can go right to a specific submenu from the top directory.

Another suggestion I just thought of, but have been wanting for a very long time:

The ability to choose on a friend-by-friend basis whose notifications I see and whose I don't.

If you have lots of folks on your Friend's List, it can be very distracting to see the "so-and-so is online/offline", etc. messages popping up every two seconds..

1. Achievements should be restricted to XBOX 360.  Or you should have a separate achievement score for other devices.  So if you gain achievements for Shadowrun on the PC, that would be added to your PC achievement score.

2. Streaming Radio on XBL.

3. Voicechat for multiple people.

4. Clan integration outside of the individual games.

5. Preview of gamerpics/themes before you download.

6. Better organized menu system for Live Marketplace.

7. More detailed data about your achievements (check out mygamercard.net for what I am talking about)

Thank you for the opportunity Ozymandias!

First of all Xbox Live needs (NEEDS!) built in clan support. It is mandatory!

Second: share more infos through xml web-services.

As an example, sharing played games data will let the community build automated online tournament tools.

Your community is dedicated, use it!

Third: we want movies and IPTV in Europe too! :P

Regards, Obelix360

1) Please have group chats. Please.

2) Plus make quality control on some achievements for future games. For example: Apparently it is easier to get 10,000 kills in GOW than it is to win one game of online multiplayer gmae for F.E.A.R..

3) The ability to listen to voice messages on xbox.com.

4) Playlists that are more than 100 or 250 or whatever it is. Some people have a lot of music.

5) Clans built into the dashboard. You the a friends tab, a messages tab, and a recent player tab? Well there should be a tab that has clan members so I can put all the people that I know in real life in one group.

6) Larger friends list.

I think Live should just be me. Regardless of where/what.when I use my Live account, it should have everything I want, all tied together, accessible at my fingertips. Sure, it would have to scale depending upon the device which I use to access my Live account, but it should happen.

As it stands now, I have a google/yahoo/flickr/youtube/Live/various messageboards/email address/phone # etc. That sucks. I want ONE thing that inntegrates it all together. I want it all on a Live account and I want all my devices (phone/mp3 player/computer/game console) to be Live aware.

When I'm on my computer I want to be able to tag a video I like as a favorite. That needs to be tied to my Live account, so when I'm out at a bar for a drink with some friends, I can pull out my phone, and show it to them through my Live account. Or on my 360, or wherever.

I see a cool jacket or something and take a picture with my cell. That should immediately be linked to my Live account and viewable on all my Live devices.

When someone calls me and leaves a voicemail, I want that voicemail to try and find me wherever I'm logged in. If I'm playing Halo 3 or whatever, flash me a message that I have a voicemail. If I was at my computer, it should send it to me as well. Or if I get sent an email, that email should try and find me wherever I am logged in. If everything was Live aware, it should be able to send it to my phone/console/mp3 player/whatever and keep it all in sync as well.

I should also be able to set threshold limits for when/where I want to be bothered. 1 voicemail? Don't bother me until I check it. Voicemail after voicemail piling up? Alert me.

Alot of this type of stuff already existed in the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Cordless_Phone_System , which was YEARS ahead of its time. You'd do well to get in touch with the guys who put that out, they were visionaries.

I had one and it was FANTASTIC. I would still use it today if it didn't require Win 98 and I still had a landline. It tied my home phone and email together and would contact me via email, text message, or phone call depending on how it was setup. It would read me my emails if I wanted it to, etc. All my calls were logged and I could go over every single type of communication that was ever made on my home network (data and phone). It was great.

Also, go ahead and make the Metaverse happen. Take up a few gigs on the 360 hardrive and dump 3d models/textures/etc on it and construct a basic framework world that people can sign into when they get on Live. It would be a glorified chatroom really but people would love it. Make it a 3D graphical frontend by which one could browse Live Marketplace. Sure hit a couple buttons to watch a movie clip in the plain old 2D way. But what if you could take your avatar and go into a virtual theater and watch the movie clip with other people. Or watch games that way, a la DOA 4 and Gotham TV. Instead extend that to the entire Live network. Essentially, build a free WoW that people use to hang out in, get new content (pics, movies, demos, etc.), and also as a luanchinng pad for other games. Sort of like a giant virtual Disneyworld. Each game/area would have it's own pavillion, etc. Not to mention the INSANE amounts of money you could make selling people stuff to trick out their charaters. (On a side note, you might want to read "Tea from an Empty Cup" by Pat Cadigan or the Otherland series by Tad Williams. Both are fictional worlds that touch on these ideas)

In 5 years, the bandwith/storage space/processing power will be there to make this happen. It's something that needs to be started working on right now though. It would be THE killer app of the next gen of console.

1. More "free" things that come with the subscription. The subscription should include pics, themes, new maps, etc. The ammount of pay for content should be equal to what we get for being subscribers.

2. Dont allow PC players to play with xbox live users. Yeah, it will be great to boast about more numbers, but it will be pc vs xbox every game on every topic. Its not going to be good for the community.

3. Police the community. Warn people for being a jackass to other people. Promote an environment where everyone can play and have fun. Give random awards for people being caught being a good community member. I know it sounds 3rd grade, but if the shoe fits.

4. Chat room for multiple people on the dashboard would be nice.

5. Expand on the achievements. Do a better job keeping out achievement import, save and boosting hackers. Make achievement worth something. Even if its only a special gamerpic, like gears when you beat it on hard.

6. User created content. Give players the tools to make new maps for halo, new quests and dungeons for oblivion, etc.

7. More online games with character development. Chromehounds, R6 and saints row do a great job at this, but it could be improved and expanded even more.

8. Dedicated Microsoft servers to host

9. Clan support. Clan rankings, clan achievements, etc.

Has anyone said web browser yet? ;) It's kind of conspicuous that the 360 is the only console out there without one available - including handhelds.

Regarding 'Gold' subscriptions - surely these are being dropped soon? I'm imagining what the reaction might be if the PC- sorry, "Games for Windows"- editions of Halo 2, Shadowrun, Gears etc. require you to pay to play online.

Related to that, has there been any thought about franchising Live servers to shore up the network's infrastructure? I have no idea whether that would technically be possible, or if lag is a serious enough problem (I assume that if the service is being extended to PC users, the amount of traffic might increase very quickly).

Just make all games have the same matchmaking as Halo 2. That's all I ask. Bungie perfected it, but all these next gen games can't even duplicate it.  Ranking, parties, matchmaking. It's beautiful!  

I would like to see the ability to delete games from my profile that I know longer own or live arcade demos.  I have games my brother owns that I have only booted up and don't have a single achievement because of that.  My game library seems much larger than it actually is.

I agree 100% with OS Perry: Xbox live should first and foremost concentrate on its core business: multiplayer gaming. The lobbies, the matchmaking, and the online ranking of all 360 games so far are all deeply flawed, and none come close to Halo2 in this area. Also, much more ongoing attention should be focused on the matchmaking and the offered multiplayer modes of games, so that even when the number of players go down, it's still possible to find an online game.

Improved voice quality of headsets would be awesome. Seriously, I can barely hear what some people are saying

Seeing what your friend is playing, even without owning a copy of the game would be awesome

Finally, the last three requests I have are for the 360 itself, not for just "LIVE!".

Could there be a way to transfer music to your 360 from your mp3 player? Not streaming, but actual "drag and drop" type of action. I have a huge music collection bought from itunes, and burning all the CDs and ripping them to my 360 would take forever.

Could you guys (xbox 360 team) give us tha ability to use our pictures for gamerpictures and dashboards? Really, I can't buy a Megadeth theme off of XBL, but I've love to be able to use my own pictures.

Last, would you give people a subscription for stuff off of live? Like, fifteen bucks a month for unlimited XBLA games and dashboard themes/ gamerpics.  That would rule. At least offer gamerpics for free, as we would only turn around and use them, therefore advertising your product.

1. to chat with more than one person

2. to do a video chat in dashboard with more than one person

3. video chat PIP (picture in picture) like when your daed and waiting for game to finish you can video chat with friend.

4. clan support throught whole community not just per game situation

5. update the recent players list fore accurately (lots of times it says they are offline, but when i click their name they are online)

6. more moderators, employed people who play games and keep cheaters boosters in line.  

I really like what tacklebox (a few people a head of me) said i copied most of his ideas and im too lazy, dido everything he said i didnt list.

1) I DON'T wont to play with people on other platforms! People buy different platforms for difference reasons.  When i'm playing my xbox, i don't wanna play with the kind of people you get on PC and when i'm playing my PC i dont wanna play the kind of people you get on xbox.

2) I DO want clan support built into Live itself.  This would be a real killer feature. Obviously everyone has fallen in love with the clan system since H2. So just put it in the blade. Trying to get all your friends into Gears is a real head-ache sometimes.  Also hierarchical friends list would be nice - not to futuristic i hope.

3) Keep it a GAMER thing!  Focus Mircosoft.  Don't go all social-networking bollaks on us.  Don't try to force a wider gamer demographic onto the Live service.  I don't care if i can buy music off it or if your going to put MSN Encarta 2010 on it.

4) EVERYONE wants the marketplace on the xbox to be richer.  The endless lists of text without pictures or video is ridiculous.  I can't believe its gone unresolved for so long.  Themes without a preview? Hello? WTF?  The complete market place should also be accessible via the Internet, picture, previews, videos 'n all - and hence would be accessible on all platforms/devices

5) Put national & worldwide tournaments on there.  Again, all the stats and info related to this should be completely mirrored on the internet. We love stats and info.  Hold all that juciey stuff in a centralized place so that we can browse ranking tables and stuff in ONE place.  The internet!

6) And a little *** wouldn't go a miss either.

Re: "Has anyone said web browser yet? ;) It's kind of conspicuous that the 360 is the only console out there without one available - including handhelds."

So I'm curious. What exactly would you/do you do with a web browser on a console? Remember that not everyone has an HDTV, so you can't assume PC Monitor-like resolutions. Also remember the challenges of navigation, UI, and use.

So if you had a web browser on a console (or have one on Wii or PS3), what do you do with it? Why is this compelling to you?

You should make all live free.

Mabey you could add adverts after logon to fund downloadable games like that Gizmondo Gadget was going to do before those crooks at the top mucked things up,i was looking forward to Halo portable on it ;)how about a portable xbox with wifi and free live funded by adds now.

I'd like to see the ability of a user to upload saved games to the Live server. This is great in case of a HD crash or a way to retrieve a saved game to another friends 360. It could be similar to the .mac concept of web based storage.

How about the ability to use a bluetooth dongle in one of the USB ports so I can use my wireless keyboard, mouse and headset etc. with live?  

Personally I would like to see two things addressed.  First the spotty problems with voice chat fixed once and for all like they were on the original XBOX.  Second I would like to see the addition of user created content as was promised at E3 a few years back.  Finally, before you make more content available like movies and television shows it might be nice to have a bigger Hard Drive than 20 GB.  But this hard drive needs to be affordable considering if we were able to use external drives we could get one very reasonably priced.  Like 320 GB for $160.  I know these aren't exactly future centric ideas but before we start wandering off into new territory what you have going should be maximized and perfected.

I would definatly like to see private chat with more than one person, I know the Xbox Community has been asking for this for a long time now, can we please see if this is possible. Also, Why don't we have Halo 2 style Matchmaking on Popular Live Titles, like Rainbow 6, GRAW, and Gears of War. I know Microsoft has stated that it encourages cheating, but the truth is and most would agree, cheating is never fully stoppable, and I am sure everybody who plays shooting games on Live would like to have this in spite of the cheating that occurs! One last request, Since we can send pictures to our friends, how about Video through the camera! In one instance where this could have been helpful for me is a friend could send me a video to show where that 30th COG Tag is, instead of trying to describe it, it would be much easier!

Tnanks Xbox Live Team, Live is truly the best!!!!

There are many things that should be in the furture of xbox live. Some that i would like to see get "added on" are a internet browser, music downloads, and A BIGGER HARD DRIVE.

INTERNET BROWSER. This is something that should be on live. If the over sized george foreman grill(ps3) has one, and the tiny winy wii has one, then why not make the best console out of the three have one.

There should be a music download section where you cand download songs.

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My biggest concern relates to the addition of PC gamers to the Live world.  PC games are historically and notoriously hacked by PC gamers to cheat/enhance.  I'd like to see this issue be addressed in Live's future.  If we're going to be comparing Gamerscores and Achievements, we need to be assured that we'll all be on an equal playing field.

If PC games will be Live enabled, they should not have any Achievments and count to your gamerscore. PC games are way to easy to hack and inflate your score. This would be unfair to those of us that take pride and work hard at getting a nice gamerscore.

An adult only age verified Live.

A couple of comments that I realize aren't specfically live issues because they're developers problems, but I wish all live games had to use the "party concept" like Halo 2 has where the host duties shifted if the host drops out.

Also any and all efforts to stop cheating and boosting are welcome. I've been a Live subscriber for almost 4 years and I'm starting to sour on the hyper competitive nature of some gamers attitudes. Consequently, Online-COOP has become my most favorite of my live usage lately. Gears has set the standard for COOP play. If Epic used H2's party concept coupled with their stellar COOP, GOW would be the PERFECT GAME.

Thanks for listening.

Wouldn't adding a browser just open it up to security vulnerabilities? There has already been one found on the Wii. Besides what do you really need a browser on a game console for?

If the 360 had a web browser, doesn't that open the 360 up to the vulnerabilities that using a browser entails?

That's the main reason I see no need for a 360 browser.

1) A web browser. Seriously. Yeah, maybe it'd make the 360 cut into media center PC stuff. But I have an internet connection and an HDTV, so why not?

2) The ability to just mute all chatter. Sometimes I just don't care. I ignored it when I played PC games online and it was OMFG N00B text. The solution of 'turn your headset volume down and take it off' is not good enough.

3) PC games as unranked only. That's fine with me. If people are gonna cheat, at least give them no concrete reason to do so.

4) The ability to sign up on the internet and just put in user/pass on the console. If you can do this now, I'm clueless, but the one reason my partner's brothers don't have Live is that their dad claims he doesn't understand how to set it up on their Xbox (not 360).

5) Own pictures for gamer profiles. I understand that allowing gamers to put whatever they want opens up the flood of 'deez nuts' and cockandballs pictures, but not everyone is an idiot.

I would like the ability to modify the look and feel of my xbox 360's dashboard. Also, make the guide much quicker... please!

I want Halo 2's party system a requirement for 360 multiplayer games (or some other system where when the host quits the game finds the person with the next best connection, instead of booting everyone) Some games feel pretty archaic next to Halo's system. In some cases you're better off calling the person you're trying to play with to coordinate how you will get into a match together than the half-assed browsers in the game.

<<So if you had a web browser on a console (or have one on Wii or PS3), what do you do with it? Why is this compelling to you?>>

What would I do with it?  For one, it would allow me to leave my laptop out of the living room.  It's quite nice having the ability to check email or favorite sites from the couch.  From a gaming perspective, it would be nice to be able to look up game hints/tips/walkthroughs without having to go to the office, then come back, then go back to the office, etc.

Plus, Microsoft seems to be trying to evolve (or at least, market) the 360 as the centerpiece of an entertainment center (HD Movies with the HD-DVD drive, the Video Marketplace, streaming content from PC's,) so why not add the web browsing component of that?  It seems that it would fit nicely into the niche that is being carved out for the 360.

-Multiple private chat with more than 2 people

-to way to know how amny kills you have with each weapon in every game.

Live needs to support more games like the old Crimson Skies and Top Spin 1, where two local players could sign in at the same time with their own gamertags and be able to play against other people on Live. Few if any 360 games support this now, and I miss it dearly.

Additionally, most achievements that can be gained over Live multiplayer should also gained in local versus or co-op.

I agree with Colin above that many games have their local multiplayer options stripped out in favor of Live only (like Namco's XBLA titles). This is horrible and should not be allowed!

Finally, MULTIPLE CONSOLE households need to be better supported. If I have two consoles in my house, I want all people in the house to be able to play all games I purchased, regardless of what console they play on.

Redesign the system of 'purchase rights' on Arcade and Marketplace purchases. If tied to the console, after a console is replaced under warranty or other, the purchase will no longer function without an Internet connection to verify ownership.

1)Private chats between more than just 2 people. This would be alot more convinient that having to switch back and forth between chats. This is one big thing that my friends and I have been looking for for a while! This would make Xbox Live go from a 9.5 to a 10 in my book.

       Thanks,

          xlBmanlx

I would love to see support for different IM clients.  Also, add the ability to playback MP4 format videos would be nice too.

Not sure if anyone has suggested this (they probably have). How about a Clan blade on the dashboard. Were everyone in your clan is listed. The option to choose/design a logo for your clan and you can then challenge other clans etc, etc to games. One problem i am finding with games these days is the lack of clan support. Come on pick up the slack, live is suppose to be about playing together, playing with friends, yet how come its so difficult have clan support in games or a unified system for live.

A1. bility to send messages between xbox 360 and live messenger.

2. Video chat between xbox and PC

4. Able to list videos by their categories, series etc on the video part of the blade when streaming using media player 11 instead of just listing them in one huge list. which is annoying if you have a lot of videos.

5. Multichat in the dashboard over live / pc instead of just with 1 person. If it can be done in a game lobby, it can be done in the dashboard.

6. Built in clan features to the dashboard that developers can use. Making it more community orientated. And easier to find / challenge other clans. Also ability to create leagues or ladders with live.

group video chat

video messaging

have a video chat on ur computer thru xbox.com with someone on xbox live

I just want a 100+ friends list,

Say 200 then I'd be content

1. Voice chat for multiple people

2. Xbox Live matchmaking system, not just within the games.  For instance, instead of having a matchmaking system for Gears of War and Halo 3, have one unified system that's the same for all games.  With a party system.

3. Faster animations on the Xbox Guide.  It takes forever for the friends list and stuff to come up, and it takes even longer if you're trying to access multipla menus.

How about a Anti-cheating system first, something think “Punk Buster” and running games through a server not through the end-users Xbox. This would stop modding and any type of stand-bying. Have a Anti-Cheating system to check for mods  and  also connecting to a server to prevent the end-user from having all the power with their internet connection. For 50$ dollars a year THAT should already have been implemented. Should not cost money if you as the end-user is hosting a game. If it is 50$ a year for what it is now, how much more is it going to be if your Xbox is more of a media center

Video/ audio podcast on 360

bigger hdd

UK DL tv shows/videos

integration of Xbox Live Friends and Windows Messenger

If you want to make Live! the killer online app, take a page from the best... Blizzard Entertainment.  Battlenet has a great online ranking and matching system (Warcraft III) that Live just begs to use.  If Live tracked stats and matched players based on stat-based algorithms for games and had automated tournaments everyone and their mother would jump on.  At least anyone even a little interested in competition.  And their mother.

1. Clan Support. Tag prefixes and ranked matchmaking with clan members.

2. No more arbitrary 50 meg limit on XBLA games.

3. Standardized Host Migration across all Live games.

4. Better previews for Marketplace content. Be it pictures of small thumbnail videos.

Heres a really far off one that another user suggested: 3D lobbies where your custom avatar can walk around and interact with others. Think any MMORPG, Dead or Alive 4, or even Ninteno's Mii.

-age limit for xbox live.

-the ability to change the tones of other people vocies during online games.

-a program on the dashboard which allows you to create your own gamerpics and themes.

-ms points should be sold indiviually, and not by the bulk.

-faster load times around the dashboard

-internet browser

-aim/msn messanger would be nice

-faceplates that would change color during temperture changes. (i.e it turns red when the room gets hot, or blue when the room gets cold)

One of my biggest gripes comes on a game by game basis, but could easily be fixed if integrated into live as a whole.

Currently, only a handful of games allow you to see who is speaking, and when they do, they mostly only do so in the lobby. If I am using live to meet new players(potential friends) I'd love to see the names of people as they are speaking. Perhaps an overlay that can be toggled via personal settings.

In games like Lost Planet, it is difficult to know who the annoying screamer is in order to mute them. A quick look at the (left for example) side of the screen to see who's name has appeared as they are speaking would allow me to make these decisions.

Linking my PC to the 360 for storage i have a XP Media Center PC but with the marketplace i cant download a movie and then store it on my PC I have over a terabyte of HD space on my PC but only 20G on the 360 Sucks to not be able to move stuff from the 360 to my PC.

The remote access to a game a friend is playing would also be great to see how far they are or just to see if the game is worth it to me to buy

I think the private chat should have a group chat function.So that you and four or five buddies can chat without having to listen to the other immature kids in the game!

I would like to see mini games inside the Guide dash that I can play while I wait for the room to fill up and the host to launch. Sometimes it takes ages to find a game, but with mini games you can jump into an empty room and have something to do while you wait.

Friends of friends list- List that shows what friends of your friends are playing.

Dedicated Game Servers- I preffer games that have dedicated servers over live hosted servers.

Downloadable Music- Download music to your Xbox360 or Zune or any other "plays on windows" device straight from the 360.

Share files- be able to share files through Live and 360.

Wireless Zune- be able to stream music from your Zune to your 360 WIRELESSLY!

Email-  Be able to access your msn or Hotmail accounts from 360.

Video Game Recorder-  Be able to record footage of yourself gaming and send it to your Zune or Computer.

Tournaments-  Website dedicated to all 360 tournaments and ladders accessed directly from the 360.

and last but not least....

A WEB BROWSER!!!!  Your competitors have it for God's sake!

I would like to back up the requests for a web browser through the 360. The third party one through media center is very hard to use. Browsing the net from your 360 should be a fundamental part of the xbox live service.

Another suggestion is a one button acceptance for xbox live requests (such as invites to private chat/game etc). Say back button or something like that.

The need for being able to use private chat with 4 people has been stated numerous times and I second that. Even if it can't be implemented in some of the more intensive games it should be fine for the dashboard or arcade games...

There should also be a party system forced for all games that accept at least 8 people over live. You should be able to group together and go in as a team. It is playing with mates that makes xbox live such a success, it should encourage this at every step.

In regard to the achievments, it shouldn't lock so many points away in ranked multiplayer where those that aren't interested in playing on our own with people taking things way to seriously won't be able to get them. Gamerscore points should be evenly distributed accross ranked and unranked multiplayer achievements. Just because we want to use xbox live to relax and have fun with friends doensn't mean we don't want to be able to unlock achievements, especially when we are reaching the same goals just not in ranked...

Obviously on the hardware side the other overwhelming request from the xbox forums is for a hdmi cable so that we can enjoy true 1080p hd on those capable tv's that don't have vga.

Good luck with any of the above, it is great to see that you are asking for our suggestions.

Use of your Xbox 360 guide, while your playing an original Xbox game.

Clans,clans,clans let me play ranked matches with my friends like in halo2 what the point of a friends list.    I know some people will be just play player matches but when i want a challenge against guys who i dont play with everday and know there strategy.

Xbox 360

- Group video/chat in dashboard

- Customization of every dashboard blade

- Bigger freakin' hard drive

Xbox.com

- Send pictures to your XBox via Xbox.com

- View pics via XBox.com

- MSN alerts for friends (what happened to this?)

Xbox Live

- How about some Live Arcade games that aren't shallow games from the early 80's? Specifically more of the games we've recommended on the XBox.com forums, such as Streets of Rage, Final Fight, Daytona USA (it could probably work), Re-Volt (you know, the game on the XBL beta kit?), VF2, Bomberman, etc. Maybe more releases per week, too. We've been let down a lot on the arcade side, and this would be a good way to make it up to us.

- Xbox news area, for events like Game with Fame, contests, and such

- Although it's not a problem for myself, a lot of people are complaining about friend lists being too small.

- picture pack / theme previews

- ability to check off any new releases on the marketplace so they don't show up again

I'll probably think of some more suggestions when I have free time...

I love what is the Xbox and Xbox 360, but it:

a) Needs a bigger Hard Drive, or the ability to save files encrypted (so I can save T.V. shows/games, then stream them) to a PC in my network.

b) Live Messenger compatibility so anyone can speak to me (screw a browser, thats what computers are for).

c) VOIP compatability (if cell phones can call to thats great).

I'll list mine:

- Multi-person chat. I want to be able to have a mass conversation with my friends. And I don't just mean 4-way chat, I mean... as much as a connection can handle. It kinda sucks for me and my buddies having to organize our games via messaging or playing a game of Uno whilst chatting on that.

- Bigger HDD. Marketplace keeps getting bigger, plus with the IPTV functionality I want a bigger hard drive. I also want MS to offer a way of quite literally moving my HDD data to my new HDD without any DRM issues or whatnot, so I don't have to re-download my stuff and (in some cases of the video marketplace) pay for the same stuff twice.

- Access to my XBL friends list via MSN. Plus the ability to see the gamercards of my contacts who have XBL but aren't on my friends list. Also, I'd like my Xbox Live friends to be able to see that I'm on messenger and be able to send me IMs from the console. In regards to this, I'd also like the option to make my email address public or not so my friends may add me to MSN Messenger if I'm alright with that.

- Friends organization. I'd like to be able to categorize my friends into different groups. I have buddies from all sorts of different sites, forums and groups at college on my list so I'd like to be able to work out who some of them are without getting 'em muddled up.

- Customized Personal Gamer pic. This is wishing a lot, but I'd like to be able to put my own image (not just from the vision cam) onto my personal pic. I'd be able to upload this picture on Xbox.com.

- Social Networking for Gamers. You should create a more networked community with Xbox, letting us perhaps upload our photos to Xbox.com and generally add more casual internet user features to our Gamertag. These functions could be accessed either from Xbox.com or the console itself.

- YouTube of games. Right now, this YouTube of games costs us about $100 a year. What I'd like is for the ability to download free homebrew games to my console.

- Web Browser. We NEED this function. Wii and PS3 have it.

- More file formats supported on Windows Media Connect. I don't know if this is possible, but it should be compatible with any codec we have for Windows Media Player that's installed on our PC and not just WMV.

A web browser and live messenger Pleaseeeeeeeeee

Funny that you're asking for suggestions, because I've thought of a couple of them recently. They're not exactly 5-year-plan "big" ideas like you're searching for, but I think they're good ideas.

- Ability to view all Xbox Live leaderboards from xbox.com

- Detailed Game Invite information, i.e. so-and-so invites you to play Gears of War: Co-op, Act 2, Insane. Right now it just says so-and-so invites you to play Gears of War, so you dont know if you're joining a Warzone, Execution, or co-op game before joining.

- To have different categories for your friends list, namely sublists per game. For example I have a lot of friends I met playing Gears of War, but when I'm playing a different game, I don't want to see a notice every 60 seconds when one of these guys comes online.

- When you select an achievement you can view all people who have the achievement (It would be cool watching new names pop up as they earn em.

- Maybe the ability to prioritize your achievements by which ones you're proudest of (or however you'd like), so when someone views your profile they'll quickly see , for example, "Wow, this person survived 1 Million in Geometry Wars, Perfected all events in Burnout Revenge, and is ranked SS in DOA4." Make them badges, like Boy Scout Badges or Medals of Honor.

- You have the ability to specify why you're giving someone bad feedback (i.e. cursing, trash-talking, team-killing, etc).  Why not have choices for giving them good feedback? Tell them what they're doing right.

- Ability to leave a voice message that is longer than 15 seconds so I don't have to talk really fast. I mean, seriously.

- Easier Typing

- It would also be nice if the system did not freeze sometimes when pressing the Xbox Guide Button. This doesn't happen as often to me as it used to, but it still exists.

Why do you need a browser on a game console?

Why do you need to rent movies or buy TV shows on it either? Why make it play music from other places?

It's just a game console, it doesn't need to play music that's not in the game.

Just you know, saying :)

Okay, here's the thing:

I have 2 parts of my life in technology right now. on one side, I have my tried and true launch day Xbox 360, and on the other, I have My New Zune. But that's the problem-they are two, eventhough they come from the same company(Microsoft, duh)What I would like would take 2 stages. One would be able to convert the movies and TV shows from the new marketplace (I love the new video marketplace) and the second would be able to take In game movies and put them on your Zune. Oh yeah, and a bigger hard drive. another cool feature would enable you to share the movies to your zune if you have a wireless networkig adapter. These things would make the Zune-Xbox 360 combo a 1-2 punch.

Oh yeah, and a bigger hard Drive.

Thanks

eatbacon22

I think more people added to private chat, even if its only available on the dashboard.

Also a clan tab or list like the friends list but carries over to all games.

How about group chat? The best thing about live is getting a few friends together for a match of something, but trying to organise it switching between different 1 to 1 voice chats is not very easy and seamless. Multiple voice chat cant be hard to do at all!

Lots of good ideas so far...

I'd like the ability to defrag my hard drive.

Ever since I "rented" a movie via marketplace every action that accesses the HD has slowed.

VIDEO download for the Canadians.

A dedicated Server for Asian region. Australia in particular to reduce the lag between countries. Its a killer at the moment.

Increase Friends List, 100 to small not all 100 people are online at any one time.

Friend List to have more info eg. What country there from.

Clan support

Provide warning before Gold account expires.

Internet Browser

Ability to make the Gamertags of friends bigger, so their personal pictures don't look so small.

Schedule of Release dates of Arcade games

Price drop on older Arcade games

Weekly or biweekly xbox live content guide, showcasing the best new/old media on xbl.

Ability to better integrate the dashboard with Halo 2.

Make older movie downloads ones that you can keep. Increase the rental time to 2 or even 3 days. I'd rent lots more movies if I got more than 1 stinking day.

-More detailed profiles. Seeing a motto when looking at a persons profile is cool and all, but doesnt exactly give me much information on the person. kind of defeats the purpose of a profile, no? I suggest allowing atleast the basic A/S/L options for profiles.

-Weekend tournaments hosted by the XBL team would be cool. Possibly giving away 400 gamerpoints to the winner of a Gears of War tournament to spend on whatever he/she chooses? Would give some of us great incentive to not only purchase XBL, but also to keep the current members addicted and hooked.

I'd like to see a bigger friends list for Gold members and a better online system. The interface for most games are clunky and hard to use. It's hard to get into a game with friends and do what you want. I know it's up to the developers but..

There needs to be a way to authorize / deauthorize Marketplace purchases, similar to the system Apple has with iTunes.  Content not working properly when you have to get your XBox 360 replaced (or if you upgrade it if a newer version ever comes out) is simply not cool.  Deauthorize from the old one, authorize on the new one - it should be that simple for end users.  This process of calling up customer service and waiting for refunds is ludicrous - not to mention that there is no current way to restore freebies (like when Texas Hold' Em was free).

Xbox 360

-Fix ALL headset issues (Both the wired and the wireless headset need to be much, much louder.  They're not even as loud as the original Xbox mic.  All the problems with the wireless headset in general need to be fixed.  The 360 controller is perfect, why can't the headset be?)

-Group Chat

-More dashboard customization

-Faster loading of menus (Should be instant)

Xbox.com

-MSN alerts to return

-Themes/Gamerpic previews available as soon as they are available for download on the marketplace.

Xbox Live

-MANDATORY Halo 2 style matchmaking in all multiplayer games

-Themes/Gamerpic previews on the Marketplace

-New Content every week

How about lowering the cost, and/or making a subscription a 2 year thing.

It's not like MS need the money, and they're sorta taking the piss.

Quite a few comments for poor Ozymandias to read through.

My wish is better integration with the rest of Microsoft. The worst for me is that users basically have to sign up for both a Gamertag (must be unique) and a Live ID (must be unique). The Gamertag isn't even a login IMO as there's no authentication/password.

Some of these aren't under Xbox Live but are related:

Windows Media Player vs Zune Player

PlaysForSure vs. Zune

Live ID vs. Gamertag

Live Contacts vs. Xbox buddy list

Messenger and Hotmail vs. Xbox-based messaging and chatting

I'd dearly love to be able to remove games from the played list, yes even if a few points were lost from the gamerscore in doing so.

Just because I played something for an hour before giving it to a friend/colleage I don't want it hanging around my profile with 15 points on it.

I'd like to see marketplace items such as video's and demo's downloadable on Xbox.com. After that you can just put it on a usb stick or cd and copy it to your Xbox's hard drive. This would be great for people that don't always have their Xbox connected to the internet or that can get a better internet connection elsewhere.

- More devices able to copy XBox Live content. Example: ability to copy Gamer Profile to Zune, take Zune to a friends and then load my profile from the Zune.

- Ability to view Gamer info on third-party devices. For example if I copy my profile onto my Zune I'd also like to see all the games I've played, my current score/pic.

- Compare gamer profiles "offline" on devices and later sync profiles to friends list. Meaning I can beam my gamer profile to another Zune and when they plug in their Zune my gamertag will be added to their friend's list. Also done via Windows Mobile, some other device, etc.

- More "status" information. When I log into XBox Live I want to see if my friends are gaming, or if they're watching TV what they're watching or if they are streaming from MCE what are they streaming? If I'm on the computer then I'd like to set a status message like "Working on code" and you'd see: "Computer: Working on code" via XBox 360. If they're playing music via their Zune software or WMP I'd like to see the actual song.

- Collect status information and make it available to use for download/consumption by US, not third-parties, unless we allow it. I want to see how much TV I watched or track how much my friends have watched/played. That would make a cool Vista Sidebar gadget, how much computer vs. 360 vs. on mobile vs. watching TV time. For parents they could have their kids sign-in via their profile to watch TV but after 3 hours a day an SMS or instant message is sent to their Live enabled device of choice.

- Cross-device notifications. If a buddy logs onto XBox 360 it would be nice if Messenger or Mobile or a Vista Sidebar or SMS was sent.

- Ability to mark friends at different levels. Some people are my close mates, some random people, others are family members.

- Notification of achievements unlocked by friends. If I get a txt that a friend just beat Chapter 1 of Gears on Insane I may decide to jump on either to join or realize I need to play more to catch up.

- PC viewing of "Live" content, as in trailers and video marketplace content.

- Consistent Live UI!!!! Unify everything in more than just name.

- Ability to see friends list, gamer score, compare games, etc. from Windows Mobile.

- Media mobility. Give me the "R" in DRM. Let me copy downloaded TV from XBox 360 to Zune to my Computer to Device X.

- Ability to stream music/video bought from marketplace on any Live enabled device.

- Cross-device themes. Buy the Gears of War theme pack for my 360 but now get access to a windows wallpaper and IM buddy icon from windows.

- Live WiFi spots that are free/cheaper for Gold members. Or partner with Starbucks so if I'm an XBox Live Gold member I can get a better deal than their horribly expensive WiFi rates. Or at least limited Wifi, so maybe I can't browse the web but my Live Wifi devices, like Zune, can be sync'd. Any music I've rated on my Zune syncs to my home PC or give me a blade interface on my UMPC/Zune so I can trigger remote downloads and next I wander by a LiveFi/open WiFi spot it sends my requests.

- A dedicated Microsoft DVR that's $200 and runs MCE with ability to backup content to WHS or another machine. So I'm recording TV it can make room by moving prior recorded content off device. The MCE/HTPC concept is still too weird for a lot people. Give them a dedicated box, lock it down, sell it cheap. Or make it like the HD-DVD, a seperate hardware attachment that contains tuners and CableCARD support.

- Live + GPS + Maps. Ability to see where all your friends are on a Friday night via GPS on a map on your mobile device or even 360. Different privacy levels, show by exact GPS or city or state, cool for gathering stats on where everyone lives during a match online or finding exactly which bar your mates are at since they're a

I already posted, but i just remembered one other thing.....

-Better enforcement over what goes on marketplace, and what price they can be. Microsoft should definitely have a bigger hand in how this works. Publishers like EA have absolutely abused the marketplace by charging ridiculous prices for the most menial of things. New maps? Thats a marketplace item. Rims and decals for your car? Should be abolished! I a feel a lot of the content should be free after a certain time period as well. Kind of like the way things were done on the original Xbox in regards to maps and whatnot (halo 2, pandora tomorrow). It just isn't fair that i can't play certain games like GRAW with my friend anymore, just because he bought something that i did'nt.

-I also believe some of the stuff thats been on marketplace for awhile should go on discount at some point. I've been waiting forever for games like Zuma and Feeding Frenzy to go down in price. Neither of which had any business charging 10 bucks for in the first place.

-What I've always dreamed of is cross platform gaming but with different aspects to the game. For example; someone on the PC is the commander of a game. He can see the entire map and can issue orders and waypoints for the team members. The guys on the 360 are the shooters, pilots, drivers etc. They are in contact with the commander and can see and hear the orders that the commander gives them.

-The content seems very hard to find. I have to do a lot of digging just to find things that should be very easy to find.

Hey Ozzy-

I'd like to be able to send FUTURE game invites to friends.  If they accept it, it shows up on their Dashboard *calendar* - or when that day comes, everyone involved gets an in-game reminder.

That would make it so much easier to schedule gaming sessions via Live.

Cayne said:

"An adult only age verified Live."

Second that. Or at least a filter so you can choose if you want to play with younger people or players your age.

And one more thing: more effective actions against D***heads. People constantly insulting other players for no reason should experience some serious penalties. I don`t see the point of filing complaints when nothing seems to happen to those racial idiots. Kick em, ban their IPs, I don`t care. I only know that nobody will be missing people calling you "F***ing Ni**er" just because you missed a headshot in GoW. Selecting "Underground" in your Gamecard should not be an invitation to scream and insult any other player.

BEING ABLE TO CHANGE THE COUNTRY LINKED TO YOUR ACCOUNT!!

I moved from USA to Canada and this is a huge pain in the butt. I cannot redeem any Xbox Live products that I bought in Canada because they do not match my old address (which is in USA). I contacted Xbox support 5 times and have been told the same thing "It is not possible to change the country that your account is linked to". What is your reasoning behind this? The only reason that I can think of is country exclusive content, but you already have a solution for it (country exclusive content cannot be accessed if the person's account info does not match his IP address).

By doing this you are just hurting your sales and pissing off your customers. I have $150+ worth of XBL content (codes for MS points, XBL subscription, etc.) that I cannot redeem and there is no way in hell that you can get me to make a new account (I would lose my gamertag, achievements, save files, and some premium content which is tied to my account).

Please take away this pointless country lock or do some kind of address confirmation thing (you send snail mail to the person's address and if they send it back you update their country and address).

I'd like to also throw my vote in for age filtering.  I don't want to play Gears of war with eight year olds and I would like it to be easier for my son to find other kids his age who play age appropriate games (such as Burnout).  And what is the future of Live without A LARGER HARD DRIVE!!  Seroiusly, give us external drives and make the manufacturer pay $10 per drive to be "Xbox 360 compatable."  I'd already be downloading Movies and TV shows if I wasn't already space cramped on my 1 month old 360.  Heck, if it would work as an external hard drive for the 360 too, I might even get a Zune.  Hello? That might drive sales a bit for the iPod Killer.

MSN messenger live buddy intigration with cam support (hey it's live in name but not on live!?)

internet browser.. as we are all in the high def age the resolution isn't a issue now. and if you release a mini keyboard thing to bolt on to the joypad it would be useful and not a gimick.

IPTV.. but thats coming. ya! to the UK I hope!

email? but keyboard would be a must

attach pictures to messages on your friends list if you have a cam.

itunes type store with access to podcast, music and youtube or the new MS one they are doing.

online weather (like the wii! :), latest news headlines, access to multimap or the MS one with Sat images. (a bit of a gimic that but always quite cool to show off to people :)

news tickers... (well tickers in general, would be cool if you could play a game and your favourite soccer or football team scores!!! and that popped up )

access to local information for your area, maybe book tickets or something via ticketmaster. shop area on live?

access to streaming video in more formats over the network or via cd. darn.. all my movies i take are mpg's! not WMV grrrrrr

Imdb/gracenotes type thing when your watching a DVD/HD-DVD. so you can get information on tap in a side bar.

reminder, e.g. so you can set up a reminder if you are going to play gears at a certain time and date with your friends.

clan support in general on games.

I could think of lots more but MS should give me a job and pay me to!!! :)

Sort out the differnt district distribution, we know its awrkward but its not just america that wants tv and movies.

A Web Browser.

Multiple methods of text entry. Enable us to select a method of on-screen text entry (qwerty, numeric/phone, etc). Possibly enable T9-style dictionary entry on the numeric/phone option (although I understand that its compelx due to localization of dictionaries).

Also, I wouldn't mind the ability in voice chat to mute everything except the voice chat itself.

Increase the limit of players aloud in a private chat room from 2 to 8+..

It seems ridiculous that on X-Box you could have a private chat with more the two people, but with the release of the 360 that number was cut back to two...

That's all I can think about right now.

clan support, ability to play ranked games with friends, microsoft run dedicated servers(I know it's never gonna happen), more community events(online tournys and such)

I Want a text/voice/video chat room feature. It must be all inclusive as well and allow me to communicate via audio and video with someone who is only communicating via text chat. It is retarded to have to go create a uno game solely to voice chat with (a limited number) of friends. Keep the private chat feature the way it is, I value being able to talk to someone playing a different game than me. But I also want a seperate and distinct chat room function as well. It would be nice, but not vital to be able to scroll down a list of public/private chat rooms and have options to join and block people from joining. PC's have been doing this forever, why can't XBL?

1. Some Extended Achievement System is what i want (i hope you understand me, since im german):

A real time tracker on top of the achievement list or within your gamercard which tracks your total xbox usage.

Maybe this could be divided onto what you spent your time with (showing times for individiual games, the dashboard, movies etc.).

Another Button on top of your achievement list or within your gamertag page for listing your position on each leaderboard of every game you have played.

The raw data is already at microsofts hands and the list could be updated every 24 hours in order to reduce traffic for the ms servers.

Both should be an option which you can disable if you dont want your stats to go public

2. Way more arcade games to choose from. One in a week is nice, but Pacman, Ms Pacman and New Rally X should have been released on one day. They attract a special brand of customer and not the large audience out there awaiting games like Heavy Weapon and such. Maybe some extra cheap games for like 150 pts.

Higher size cap of arcade games.

3. Free Stuff is always welcomed by the whole community.

4. Option of adding a 3 letter Tag within brackets (?) (i mean those -> [ <- ;) sry again for my bad english) in front of your gamertag. maybe a separated Info page within your gamertag displaying custom clan messages.

5. Multiple Users in one voice chat. You could notify them that using this service with more than 2 users could affect the connection speed.

6. Although i have yet to inform myself if that is true i heard that the wii has some kind of news blade. Thats what i would like on my xbox. Maybe affiliated with some major news broadcasters (cnn in the usa right?).

7. Major Nelsons Blogcast for download !!!

8. Especially for Germany:

We want a Video Marketplace with full movies too.

9. Ok i read this somewhere in the first replies but I already thought of how cool it was if we could use our achievements as gamerpics.

10. Ability of Hiding Arcade Demos while browsing through other profiles.

i dont want people to delete their history of played games, but it would be nice for me to hide the demos while looking on their list of games.

Cant think of anything else right now.

Best regards

LordofCarthago

A TV web browser could end up being pretty useful.

It can't really compete with a browser running on a computer, but imagine you are playing a game and want to check a walkthrough guide. You just save, exit to dashboard and check it out. Suppose you are watching a movie and want to find out more info on one of the actors. You don't have to get up, you just fire up the "Explorer 360" or whatever and find out.

I understand MS is a little scared of the 360 cannibalising the PC market but I thing 360 browsing would act as supplementary to the PC browsing experience.

Plus, all of the other consoles have it.

I would personally like to see the ablity to stream some video format other than .wmv from my computer. I don't see why they coulnt do that, i heard from someone that it's because they don't have certain legal rights to use other formats but if they can do it for WM Player why not xbox 360?

Another thing i would like is the ability to save multiple images you take with the vision camera to the HD. And the ability to turn pictures you pull up on your console from your computer into gamer-pictures.

Also a fully functional web browser would be nice not so much because i want it, but more so i don't have to listen to n00bs tell me ps3 is better because it has one.

These are just what im thinking of at the moment and as soon as i post this i will probably think of a some that are way better, but, oh well.

MSN Messenger Integration is probably my #1 wanted thing.

A web browser comes close, because the 360s competition has it, and MS's console doesn't. MS's console should've been the first one considering its Microsoft! Microsoft said they'd only implement it if the community wanted it. Make it an optional download, for those who don't want to take the 'risk.' I don't see a risk, but for those who do, then that's fine. Also, it shouldn't cost MS points! That would send lots of people away. I would LOVE a browser, and so would thousands of others. Keep on doing your job MS.

-arvinater

Not sure if these ideas have already been said, but I second them if they are

- Retail/episodic games available from marketplace

- The ability to have more than 1 person in a private chat, even if it is only in the dashboard

- The ability to apply user created content (for free) over Xbox Live, even if it was created on pc

- The ability to have the “new release” tag for marketplace items disappear when the user views the items

- The ability to see “new release” on the larger categories like “movies and entertainment”

- Generally faster speed of the guide opening and message sending

- Integrated support for team rankings and non-game-specific clans

- While this would require a keyboard to work well, an integrated IM client that would work with live messenger would be nice

1. Bigger Hard Drive

2. Bigger Friend's list

3. Web Browser

4. Rent games from the marketplace

5. More movie studio support for video marketplace

6. Able to group friend's.(ex. clan,family,real life friends)

7. When you view gamerpictures it loads so slow, please make it faster like you did to the arcade.

8. Did I mention bigger hard drive and friends list? :)

-A ANTI-CHEATING SYSTEM (PUNK BUSTER).... That is not to much to ask for. Modders can die and go to hell. Learn to play the game and have some pride if you are just not as good as the other person.

i think that Ms should allow the users to upgrade their hadr drive themseleves by providing an upgrade kit. this kti would contain all the necessities such as screws, screwdriver, and a manual to allow the user to put in his/her brand new SATA 2.5" notebook HDD. Ms shouldnt release a bigger HDD and then sell it after the rip off price that they have been selling the 20 gig (well 14 gig) for. if they release a new HDD and its over a hundred bucks i would just let it go, and if its a hundred buck then when they sold us the 20 gig for that price and people bought it then it would have been admiting how unfairly price the 20 gig was.

What would I like...

Something on Live similar to the gaming zones, but for age, i.e. if I am 23, try not to pair me with a bunch of 9 year olds in Gears.

USB mouse and keyboard support in games. Touchy issue, I know...

More wacky peripherals. Guitars are on the way, but give me light guns, wireless retro joysticks, adapters to use Xbox 1 controllers, more creative new stuff.

We've got these great mic's but no Karaokee game. Maybe offer the game free, sell song packs by Genre on Marketplace?

And I'm still waiting to import my own image to be a gamerpic...

I would like to see a federated/common interface for setting up leagues and organizing competitive play.

Following that common theme would be a common way to publish arbitrary stats from a game. (The game designers would decide which stats to publish.) Then provide an interface through live and also through the web to view/export/report off of those stats. If you expose these via web services you would get some really cool external tools for each game.

Merge the two above ideas together so that stats for a specific league could be exported and/or reported on. This would be great for keeping track of league leaders. And again, the community could drive the tools that generate the reports/leader board.

Think of this as a publish/subscribe model. Each game would publish its stats and league participation. Then tools can suck out those stats and do something meaningful with them.

snowtoad2@yahoo.com

SnowToad

Well I guess I would like to be able to transfer my UK Xbox Live account to Canada, and other country of I ever decide to move back home to Norway. Currently my account is handicapped by not being able to download content to games I buy here in North America.

I could probably come up with other ideas but this is most important for me :(

Expanded Video Features / Zune Interoperability

I'm a huge fan of Xbox360 as media center.  The current marketplace media options are on the cusp of replacing my runs to blockbuster (although, nowhere near replacing netflix)

This would be my dream configuration:

I can cancel my netflix account and begin giving microsoft $25 a month for 30 hours or so of media which would expire at the end of the billing period or 48 hours, whichever came later.

A catalog comparable to your average blockbuster would be acceptable.

During the rental period, the license would allow for transfer of the media to a Zune device that was registered with the Xbox.  That way I could take my monthly allocation of Venture Brothers on business trips.

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IPTV - great idea can't wait for it

LiveArcade - Great so far, but more classic console releases would be nice.  Also, would it kill anyone to release more than one game a week?  I know there are more games that would be worthwhile releases.  

Forgot my most important want...

I've got a mix of people on my friends list. Friends from real life, and people I played a good game with in some Live match.

I want these lists separated. Multiple friends lists.

- The web browser is hard to implement alongside parental control. I for one don't think Xbox should have the browser. the Xbox is a gaming device not a media center.

- Make the Blades customizable!! have an advanced section where I can customize what blades I want to use. Perhaps two switchable sets, one simple one for just gaming, and another custom one with tons of blades for all sorts of crap like video chatting, downloads, arcade, web browser(eek). I would be able to switch between which blade set I see by holding the top two shoulder buttons or something.

- wow, give an inch we take a mile:)

I'd LOVE to see BLOGGING integrated into the XBL service:  

It would be so cool to be able to have a blog (even if it has to be a WindowsLive blog) tightly attached to your gamertag and viewable by friends on their 360s -- That way my friends on XBL could read my blog and check out photos, videos, etc that I put from my pc onto my blog, right from their xbox on their tv.  

Also it would be great to be able to go the other direction:  take pictures (or even video) with the Xbox camera and upload them to the associated blog.

Thus the xbox could be a tool for PODCASTING, or even VLOGGING.

Even better, be able to record clips of gameplay on the 360 hardrive and put a link to the gameplay video on the 360-blog.

Also, why not go all the way and have an RSS blade  on the dashboard?  This would enable us to choose some RSS feeds to be downloaded automatically and be viewable from the 360!

Also, why not have a Digg -style blade:  have a dynamically sorted list based on user-input, of [blogs, videos, gameplay clips, podcasts] -- so we could browse the social-type content available in the windows/xbox live universe?

Audio/Video chat from xbox <-> computer.

I see two long term (positive) advances in the Xbox universe relating to Microsoft's Live initiatives over the next few years - Migration toward the mobile space, and digital content distribution.

1) Mobile Space - Following the advent of the 360, it is apparent that Xbox Live and Windows Live services are on something of a collision course. Baby steps leading to a sprint, I'd envision the rollout of services like IM, email, video chat, media (such as music and video) and the like which integrate with Windows Live services on PCs and mobile phones seamlessly as a starting point. From there I'd imagine Microsoft could launch a mobile gaming device which can then take all these services and intelligently blend them in a form factor for the road, with the added benefit of gaming and full connectivity to all these services and your 360 content – Video Marketplace included. Follow that up with additional fun feature upgrades like IP voice calls from the device (not unlike Uniden’s new toy for Live Messenger - http://www.uniden.com/messenger/win_eng.cfm), or even satellite radio via XMRadio or Sirius. Why not! That’d be an upgrade over the FM tuner in the Zune, for sure. The groundwork for all this seems to be in place or in motion already.

2) Digital Distribution – It really seems inevitable to me that all content is eventually going to go the download route.  I know, I know – Publishers FREAK when you say digital distribution as it immediately conjures up thoughts of rampant piracy. In the end, though, this can dramatically cut costs and provide a path for lesser studios to get their material out.  What is a 50mb Live Arcade title today will be on the order of Gears of War in the future. The path to this future involves much more than Microsoft, though – Getting infrastructure in place for Joe User and getting content providers onboard with the idea of digital content (i.e., a file) going from 360 to device like an MP3 player will take more time, but the Live service will assist in this evolution as more content providers see the potential.

i would love to see a group chat function.

This option scares me.  XBL has been a cheat free environment.  Adding the realm of PC hack/cheats/bots makes me wonder if the purity of the subscription will be maintained.

So my biggest 'want' is a secure environment.  I'm doomed.

I think if for not on the 360 but when on pc to have aol instant messenger like service would be awesome!!!

Andre, I will be hosting another All Things 360 - Round Table Discussion this Sunday, and could bring the topic up then... It'd be great if you could make it. It is on Skype @ 17:30 ET Sun. I'll be posting details about it later tonight on AT-360.

As far as any ideas I have for "Live", I would like to second the motion for communities. Having the ability to make this big world smaller should be what "Live" is all about. After all, the best things in life were created as small ideas, and have grown into great things.

Thanks,

StreetChariot

http://xbox360.budware.com/ - All Things 360.

I forgot to mention calendaring.  Currently i use google calendar along with my wife and my sister and parents.  We are able to coordinate with it because its online and shareable -- there's no reason MS couldn't do a similar thing thats also viewable (even if not editable) from the 360.  Or you could add game scheduling from the 360 to this windows calendar.  This could also allow for automatic reminders if a game is scheduled among friends.  

Spectator mode featuring an invisible flying camara so to speak...used to watch your friends in a game.

Movie "renting" service...

*Xbox 360 Hard Drive Enclosure

Sell a relatively cheap enclusure exactly like the one that encloses the current Xbox 360 hard drive. This would allow users to use any 2.5" hard drive as they would the current HDD. Presumably, the Xbox 360 would format all drives upon connection, preventing hacking.

*Ability to transfer media files to the Xbox 360 HDD through USB our netowrk

Ripping 50+ CD's ONE AT A TIME is far from practical, and I like my files stored locally, no matter how efficient streaming may be.

~*~*~*~*~*~*~XBOX 360 NEUROSKY CONTROLLER~*~*~*~*~*~*~

Who needs motion sensing, when you can control the console with your thoughts?

NeuroSky has developed a cost effective bio sensor and signal processing system for the consumer market. Our wearable technology unlocks worlds of new applications such as wireless mobile phone interface, VIDEO GAME CONTROL, educational games and toys, etc.

The neurons that comprise the brain work on electrical impulses. The last century of neurological research has shown us that brainwaves of different wavelengths indicate different emotional states, like a focused awareness, a meditative state, or drowsiness. Brainwaves have been used in medical research and therapy for years. We're bringing it to the consumer world.

Microsoft should aquire the rights to produce an Xbox 360 NeuroSky Controller. If it isn't feasible now, it should definitely be done for the Xbox 360's successor, which I believe should be named

XBOX SYNERGY

Ummm...Group Chat And Group Video Chat...And Integration Of Zune Marketplace Into The XBOX Live Service So When You Buy Songs On The Zune Marketplace You Can Download Them Onto Your 360 Too, Without Having To Burn Them To A CD...

AND A BIGGER HDD!!! THIS 20GB HDD IS REDICULOUS!!!

There are only 2 things I feel are lacking in this iteration of Live and they have been bothering me since I got my 360

1) I want the ability to go to a friends Xbox, and just retreive my gamertag.  I don't want to recover my profile so it gets deleated from my own 360.  I want to be able to access my account on more than one Xbox.  It would be fantastic for when my friends and I get together and have Halo or Gears parties.  All the information is kept on Live servers anyway why can't it be accessed by more than one Xbox?

2) What happened to the "and guest" privliges i had on Xbox 1?  If i wanted to play Crimsion Skies i only needed 1 Live account but two of us could play under one name.  I was sad to see that gone.  I was trying to show my friend how awesome Gears Of War online is and we had to pass the controller back and forth.  Functionality that was on old live should have been ported to New Live.

300 limited friends list. And a way to see whose online/ offline on 2 septerate parts

One more thing:  

Make content from video marketplace, XBL, downloadable onto Zune.  if i could put the music videos, trailers, movies on my XBOX Hd onto a Zune, i would buy one in a second.

You guys seriously need to make the friends list hold more than 100...sux that you need to delete folks in order to add others. I am not sure who thought up the 'cap' idea for this, but it was a bad one.

I would really like to see the ability to use secure NAS systems for storage of movies and tv shows, and other content for the 360.  I say secure because that way you could add hard drives to it but not be able to use them on a computer.

So far, so good ... but there's a lot of untapped potential here. I really like the retro 80's coin-op games we've seen so far, but I understand if not everyone else does. I don't play online as much as I'd like, but I would if there were more games for me. I'd like to see these titles on Live Arcade:

- A fun, multiplayer, episodic trivia game show. "You Don't Know Jack" was terrific when it was new, and it would be a natural for Live. Track user scores so they only get points for the *first* time they answer questions, so people don't memorize the shows and replay them for points.

- A fun, multiplayer space combat game in the vein of X-Wing/TIE Fighter/Battlesphere/Freespace, etc. The company that did Space Station Kaloki X had an underexposed game like this called Void War, which would be very welcome.

- A fun, multiplayer casual MMORPG like Yohoho Puzzle Pirates. In fact, Puzzle Pirates would be ideal for XBLA. I always wanted to play games like this from the couch.

- Popcap's Bookworm Adventures. Bundle classic Bookworm with it -- those (both) of us who bought the original XBOX version would like to play it in high resolution.

- The episodic Sam & Max games. The old SCUMM game would be nice too, of course ...

General things I'd like to see: an affordable HDD upgrade for us early adopters, Divx streaming from any SMB share (not just Windows), some innovative new Star Wars games, silly freebies like Line Rider, and Space Giraffe!

I would like to have the option to have all my friends on my friends list who are playing the game I am to show at the top of my friends list, much like just about every Xbox title did.  I still cant understand why this was left off of the 360.  Keep up the great work though, the 360 rocks!!

Please bring a WWW browser to the 360, and enable it to catch RSS feeds.  I also want a more robust media player on the 360 (ala Windows Media Player) that will play more audio and video formats.

I love how Live is coming to new devices. Here’s a long list of what I personally would like to see in the future of Live. A lot of these features I want to see are for the mobile side of Live but there are other ideas as well.

1) Video Chat over Live between 360 and Vista. I know UNO is coming to Vista and will be playable between the two platforms. What hasn’t been announced is if Video Chat will be available for Windows Vista players. Simply plug in the Xbox Live Vision camera to your Vista PC and share the exact same experience as the 360. Also, Video messages would be super cool.

2) A lot more integration with other Live services such as Live Spaces and Live Messenger. Blogging from your Xbox would be interesting!

3) Video and voice chat in the 360 dashboard with multiple people (at least 8 for voice, 4 for video).

4) Receive voice and video messages from your mobile phone in addition to text messages. Sending voice and video from the phone would be nice too!

5) One feature talked about for Live Anywhere is being able to play games such as Zuma on your phone. Since it’s the user’s same account over all platforms, let’s say that if one were to purchase Zuma on Xbox 360, how about giving the user access to the game on ALL their supported devices for no extra cost? Also, how about the achievements be linked together? For example, unlocking an achievement on the cell phone version will also unlock it for the Vista and 360 versions?

6) Change account settings such as gamer picture, motto, zone, and all that cool info from your mobile phone.

7) Show online status if a user is on their mobile phone. From what I’ve seen, friends will appear as on 360 or Vista PC. How about a mobile icon?

8) Send friend requests via mobile phone blue tooth or similar technology. Maybe if there’s no reception around, people can still send ‘nearby’ people friend requests. Similar to the functions the Zune has with detecting nearby users.

9) Purchase Microsoft Points on your mobile phone. Buy some points wirelessly and come home to use them on your 360. Pointless? Maybe, but it would sure be a cool feature! A smaller version of the marketplace on the phone would be sweet to for Arcade games, themes, gamer pictures, and even videos! Anything purchased on the mobile would be available on the other platforms too.

10) Game related ring tones downloaded via Live to mobile phone.

11) A way to download audio files from the marketplace which would be great for files such as podcasts!

12) Increase friend list from 100 maximum friends. Even 125 would be nice!

13) Just a few hardware things for 360. Bigger hard drives are a must, especially since digital distribution is the wave of the future. Also, a small QWERTY keyboard that plugs into the bottom of the controller for quick messaging, be it an MMOG, text messages, blogging, etc. I’ve seen rumors of such an accessory but nothing official.

Thanks for taking the time and listening to the community!

LARGER HDD

How about:

* web browser / RSS reader

* real-time messenger integration

* Search for friends by location/interest/etc

* Ability to view Live spaces via the 360 (linked to friends via dash)

* As I said on the official forums: Tetris would rule

* Stronger group/clan feeling in dashboard - affiliation

* Give space on XBOX subdomain website for officially sanctioned clans (implement forum/space there)

* Greater online identity - a version of the weemee - an online avatar with customisation?

* NEWS page - keep us up to date dude, we're all desperate to know what goes on in MS towers, and just throwing out the occasional game isn't enough - we want updates, or blogging, let us know you're all there.

Furthermore, you guys surely own Wes Cherry's solitaire code, not to mention minesweeper, etc? You know, the Microsoft Windows 95 games - why not add them as fully-featured freebies to the dash - get a bit of retro microsoft in there....

Thanks for the work so far though guys, just look to the other available MS products, and see why they're so useable.

A clan blade would be wonderful with support for various ranks in the clan from member, staff and clan leader / overlord. (should be able to be defined).

Clan chat thats basically a lobby that can have a number of members talking at once.. like cod 2 lobby or halo 2.

Also message options for sending to the clan members only.

Would be nice if support for clan matches from friendly match to tournament so that staff and overlords could inform members of.

Something special would be a match opt-in / Opt-out system.

Say you see details on a upcoming match and you press A button and it will show you as signed up for that game, press A again and you would be removed.

Thanks for reading, clan support is very small on the 360

Well, this is certainly exciting. I would like to suggest a few things I have really been wanting on xbox live for awhile now.

- A bigger friends list, its gets annoying having to constantly kick and add new people

- A chat confrence of sorts, kind of like private chat or video chat but with multiple people at the same time. Similar to the one included in the dash board on the original xbox.

- Some kind of clan support. I know for a fact that several original xbox games had this (Halo 2, Rainbow Six, ect.), but for some reason there have been no games with clan support so far on the xbox 360 (well except chrome hounds, but that doesn't count). I don't mean some stupid website, I mean actually having and option in the game to form a group of players under a single clan name (something similar to Halo 2's system).

@ eight:

You can use Guest sign on for GoW...

Go all the way to the screen where you have:

Join a Quick Match

Find a Custom Match

Host a Match

Etc.

at the bottom you should see (Y) Guest Sign In.

Have the person on the second controller press Y, scroll all the way to the bottom of the user list and select "Guest".

*The only downside to guest mode is no headset ability.... Which is kind of a downer...

But GoW does have Guest ability. Once you have the second player sign in as a guest, you can quit games, and they will stay signed in as YourGamerTag(1) if you play another game.

Thanks,

StreetChariot

-Wireless keyboard for the XBL dashboard only. it's annoying having to text with a controller.

-More VGA resolution support. 1280x728 on 1440x900 and 1650x1080 just isn't cutting it on LCD's.

-Better Zune integration, navigating folders and etc. is horrid.

-A better wireless headset. It needs a revision with less voice quality issues and better battery life.

-More than 100 friends?

-Group friends in the friends list alphabetically by game. Though when playing a game, make others playing the same game as you on top. I was so used to this in Halo 2.

-Custom grouping of friends, ex. certain people on one list, certain people on another. One person being on multiple lists possible.

-Quicker response time of the Dashboard, it's so slow. On Halo 2 on my original xbox it was quick to send a person an invite, less than 5 seconds. Now it takes about 10.

-Bigger storage device of some sort. With IPTV coming out later this year, more space is in need due to the DVR situation. Unless you host the recorded material on servers which would be even more costly...

-More people in a private chat. Come on, I think the limit of people should be at least 4, not 2.

-More GUI customization of the dashboard.

-Increasing the number of options for your online status flag to things like "Waiting for Invite" or "Room Full".

-Faster dashboard response, I can't stress that one enough, it's been slow since version 2.0.1888. (Yes, the very first public release of it.)

-Show what disc is in the xbox in the dashboard, sometimes i forget if i was playing Gears last night or Halo before playing Hexic and going to bed.

-More options for gamer pictures, seriously. Like you pay 100 MS points for a custom one or something so picture packs aren't redundant and people end up getting the image on their comp for free; then transfer it via a flash drive so XBL doesn't lose money since it's pointless to pay more for the single picture.

If you want to improve you need to think of something that's not happening right now that consumers would want to do with more ease.

I think a good addition would be to be able to send/share songs and files from 360 to 360 across LIVE.  Let us talk to 4 people max in private chats and let them all communicate to each other.  Friends lists NEED to be bigger.

Lastly when you have an artist of a month make one for each genre.  Not just some b.s music Microsoft developers thinks is good.  There should be probably a top 5 artists and one that Microsoft recommends highly of the others.

In order of importance to me.

1. Let me play mp3’s from an external hard drive connected through the USB.

2. Add support for Fast Forward and Rewind when listing to a CD or other media.  This seems so basic am I just missing this.  Someone let me know if I am wrong although I am sure you will.

3. Give it the ability to stream DivX, MPEG, Xvid and WMV formats, in real-time.  I know I can buy Blaze’s Xploder Media Center but I shouldn’t need to.

4. Add clan support. Seems like you could add an icon next to the friends list or something.  Then you should be able to manage this list from xbox.com but maybe that’s asking to much.

Thanks keep up the good work.

First Let me just say I love Xbox 360 and Xbox Live and all the work you guys have done.

Xbox 360:

1. A bigger hard drive would be nice 60 or 100gb. Also there needs to be a way to let you transfer all you stuff from you hard to the new hard drive whether that be thru stores or online locker.

2. The battery life for your wireless controllers and mics should be a percent not bar. you know like 100%- 20%.

3.A new dashboard blade I like to call "360 degrees of Xbox" What happens is the xbox 360 or xbox live reads you friends and lets say you put in Major Nelson into this search bar and it connects you to Major Nelson by way of your Friends or your Friends, Friends and it shows you like a movie or some type of game to show you how many people it took to connect you to Major Nelson.

Xbox Live

4. A Unified Party and Clan System.

5. A Unified Tournament System. (Tournaments each month for online games.) I.E. 2ksports online leagues or XSN Sports if you will. Yes I was apart of that. LOL

5.I for one thinks that Xbox Live needs to move into a new tier. There should be 3 Tiers but all can play Multiplayer.

a. Tier One: Free Peer 2 Peer Gaming.

b. Tier Two: 29.99 Dedicated Servers but you have to watch commericals before you multiplayer game starts.

C. Tier Three: 49.99 Dedicated Servers no ads and can it gamer points according to you gamer score or a free Xbox Arcade Game.Use of the Tournament System. You get First Ballat Access to Beta's 49.99 or even 59.99 a year should be enough to get me in.

Xbox.com

1. I just think that with all the shows and community partys there should be some east coast love some of the time and I don't just mean New York City there is Philadelphia, NJ, SC, GA etc.

I have one simple suggestion; please fix the clock settings on the 360 dashboard so that us Western Australians can choose Daylight Savings.

Thank you. :)

I would like to see a quicker dashboard. Like when you hit the guide button, it instantly brings up the side panel unlike currently, where when you press it, you have to wait several seconds for it to fully load. It gets really annoying because sometimes you hit it by accident and you get delayed from your online game and that gives your enemy a chance to frag you.

- I'm loving the idea of age groups on Live.  I'm well aware that there are some mature 13 year olds but I could really live without the immature ones.  Especially once Halo 3 comes out.

- Group chat as mentoined a million times before me.

- More free gamer pics.

- Better video support!  No more .WMV exclusivity would make my day.  Although I realize the sticky legal ramifications, I'm sick of encoding everything multiple times over just to watch it on my Xbox.  If you guys want this to be an entertaiment hub you have to break out of your shell a bit.

- More intuitive music playback.  When I'm done with a playlist, I don't want to go all the way back to the menu to select more.  Maybe some more visualizations too :)

But all in all, I love my 360.  Keep it up!

I'd like an option to temporarily disabled floater messages. I've been close to dying a couple of times because "Buddy came online" was hovering over bullets or similar.

I'd like the 360 to be able to access samba shares, to play any video format I throw at it (the avcodec library is a decent candidate for getting support for a whole lot essentially for free and it's LGPL so you can use it).

I'd like a tabbed browser with enough standards support to allow me to use something like meebo.com - which makes an IM client tie-in unnecessary. At the same time some usb mouse support to supplement the already present keyboard support would be nice. Only for web and such though - not for games.

I'd like an option to purchase Xbox Live 3/12 months subscription using Microsoft points and whenever they time out my subscription should revert to silver instead of charging my credit card (as with the subscription cards from retailers).

I'd like the option to disable all the animation in the interface - especially the sliding that doesn't look smooth anyway - particularly when a game is playing and the actual sliding can take ages (for instance the menu you get when pressing the Xbox-button).

General optimizations in the interface. This is a 3+ GHz box there should be *no* waiting anywhere.

Easier access to "active downloads". Preferably on the first level of the little Xbox-button menu. Also it should not time out just because the controller shuts off unless someone grabs a different controller and starts inputting stuff.

Make it possible to quit a Live subscription right from the dashboard instead of having to call Microsoft.

Clean up menus and make it possible to view all recent added items to Xbox Live Marketplace across categories so you don't have to check every single one. Alternatively make an RSS screensaver with the latest news from Xbox Live marketplace and general 360 news instead of the silly little box with hints and releases.

Allow the 360 to idle in the dashboard at the same fan speed as during DVD playback. Realistically it must be possible.

Allow us to remove games we no longer want listed if we don't own them (games with 0 gamer points).

Allow for longer queues when downloading from Xbox Live Marketplace.

Add proper 1920*1200 resolution and let the 360 add borders if the hardware is capable of it (not a big jump from 1080p).

Generally: Make sure that every single game that is released looks as it should on a 4:3 screen. It's a ridiculously high amount that don't.

That's all I can think of right now.

Sorry for any repeats, I didn't read through em all.

- Pop-Up notifications options:

   -- Placement

   -- Info

   -- Time

   -- Turn off during DVD playback

- More Friends List Options:

   -- Groups, Send invites to Groups of friends

   -- Set hotkeys for message, invite, join match

- Marketplace

   -- Quicker, Easier Navigation

   -- "New Today" or "New this Week" on main menu

   -- Featured items is kind of random

   -- Less repeats and multiple paths to same content

   -- [as always] Pic and Theme previews

   --  More file details

- Various Dashboard

   -- Font color/size choices

   -- Blade color choices for no theme

I also want a good matchmaking service and clan support. Halo 2 has this immersive online component, and it's last gen. I know that it can be done. Also 3 way/4 way private chat would be nice. Also I believe that cheaper rental prices on the movies will be a great thing. I currently don't buy any because they're too expensive for a 1 viewing rental...

Just thought of it I've always wanted a game to be where PC gamers control console gamers.  I know it was mentioned earlier and it seems like a great idea.  Why make Console and PC gamers go against each other a way better idea would be to have PC gamers give us way points on where to go.

All you have to do is take your Flagship Franchise (Halo, Gears of War or 3rd party i.e GRAW) and combine it with an RTS system (Halo Wars or C&C).  It would rake in tons...

I'd like to see a touch pad peripheral that can be used for games that have maps to direct cpu, co-op or multi-player teammates where to go or where an attack is coming from. It would supplement the game-pad. It would also be helpful in planning a mission, for setting way points or things like cross-com views. I would also like to see the voice chat enabled for more than one person.

I would say a bigger Friends List because people who have played and have had live for a while have a lot of friends.

Ah, there's so many, so I'll just list a few:

-Group chat...of course.

-Unified clan system.

-Internet Explorer Web browser accessible from the dash.

-Ability to stream more video file types (other than WMV) from Windows XP PCs.

-Dashboard optimization (lessen load times, etc.)

-Fix dashboard ads (See this thread: http://forums.xbox.com/1875409/ShowPost.aspx_

-Better Zune integration

There's one old pc-game I would to see on Live Arcade: Jones in the Fast Lane. Here's some info http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jones_in_the_Fast_Lane.

I'm sure that would be a huge hit. At least an improved version of it. Hopefully Sierra would become excited about this idea now that they have some experience on making Live games.

A lot more Zune integration.  I want to be able to log onto any Wi-Fi hotspot and check my friends list/read messages from my Zune.

Eventually be able to seamlessly play any game single player or multiplayer - especially co-operative play seamlessly.  Here is an example:  You start hosting a game, and make the session public to other gamers, and will start out the game as if single player - maybe with bots, maybe not - think Gears of War currently.  Then someone joins in and suddenly either a second character jumps into the action, or one of hte ai bots becomes a human player.  You play.  When other player(s) are done and drop out, seamlessly make that character gracefully leave without interrupting play, or make that character a ai bot again.

Make our gamertags have a bit more beef to it.  I woudl want to store my save games online so that i can hop in anywhere in xbox live and be able to play my games, without having to fuss with profiles, memory cards.. basically make my gamertag really free roaming.

I want to access marketplace from my phone, zune, pc and 360.  I want to be able to buy music on my 360 and sync it up to my zune wirelessly.  I want to be able to download demos and trails to my pc then transfer them over to my 360.  I want to be able to transfer movies and tv shows to my pc/zune/phone from my 360 and vice versa.  I also want to pay to not see adds.  If I'm paying for a gold membership I shouldn't have to see adds at all.  

another idea that I saw mentioned on another post was the ability to stream media formats to the 360.

mpeg formats would be really nice. h.264.

How about the ability to fast-forward through songs on my 360? Would be kinda nice for those 1 1/2 hour long podcasts....

I'm sure it is in development, but Live for the PC will really need to be an always online thing, not just when online in a game.

How about a frickin party system in gears?

Thanks for asking our thoughts!  I appreciate your thoughtfulness to poll your community.

1.  Digital Game Distribution - As mentioned earlier, there are many hurdles here but 5 years down the road, I don't want to go to my Gamestop to buy a game.

2.  On-line Game rental - This goes hand in hand with #1.  The right solution could but the game rental companies out of business and provide a nice function for the gamers.

3.  Adding Categories to the friends list for better organization.

4.  MSN Messenger tie-in for game invites and other Live notifications (we had this before - please give it back!)

5.  Age based Gamer Zone(s) - Most (not all) adult gamers are tired of playing with kids and I think vice versa.

6.  Ability to send and receive text messages and view friend information across cell phone, zune, computer, or 360.  

7.  Access to all game related score boards from xbox.com

8.  Extend email services somehow the current xbox profile.  For example, there are many times where I have to ask a friend what is your email so I can send you more information.

9.  While I have mixed feelings about this, I will say that some type of browser support makes sense.  As a gamer, you do sometimes have a need to view a FAQ or look-up something while in game (or in your living room).

10.  Unified Clan support across games.  I have a "clan" or a loose group of friends who routinuely play together and if this grouping (i.e. game matchmaking, stats tracking, etc) could be built into the service it would be nice.

11.  Expanding your dashboard to become "My Dashboard".  From here you can define rss feeds and other sites of interest where you will get the latest info when you logon.

12.  Spectator mode.  I think this is GREAT feature.  If you could quickly view or watch what a friend is doing (or a leader is doing) that is very cool.

13.  Expanding Group chat capabilities

Hopefully this helps.  Keep up the good work!

Track time/usage statistics!  I would love to see xbox live track how long you've played each game, and post it alongside the achievements.  I'm very curious how long people have taken to get some achievements, or how much time they've put into multiplayer.

This would be so easy to do, only store one number per game, and can be independent of the code on the game disc!  Also, be sure the timer stops when the xbox is idle.

Man I would LOVE this feature =)

Here's a couple off the top...

Easier way to sign on while appearing offline - as opposed to the being on for a second, then disappearing.

Easier way to mute obnoxious people.  Sometimes it takes too long to click thru to their card and find the mute option.  Heck, sometimes it's not even the right person!  

A catch all "New release" area on Marketplace.  Yeah, I know it'll never happen, but please?

You know on MSN you can see what your listning to? Why not add the option to see what your PLAYING, either on Xbox or Windows Live, with your associated gamertag.

Drop in a fully functional "XBOX 360" enhanced version of Internet Explorer.

Also, it would be great if there was subscription based model to the video marketplace (ie. flat rate for X number of movies per mth, or even monthly free downloads for gold members)...works for Netflix.

Group voice chat:  Two are a couple, three or more are a crowd.  It's nice to chat one-on-one with a loved one, but what about times when you want to chat with your friends?  Having to switch back and forth between channels gets old and what if you want to say something to two or more friends at once?  Group voice chat solves that problem by allowing more than 2 people to chat at once.  

Party system:  Be able to get a group of friends and find games online that everyone can get into.  True-ranking kills any idea of being able to play with friends online (with obvious reasons being cheating and boosting), but what if you really understand your friends and can anticipate their moves?  Makes you question whether you can really trust your teammate to have your back.  

Universal clan system:  If we can't get a party system like Halo or Saints Row, could we at least have some sort of universal clan option?  

Video chat outside of video chat:  Video chat is cool, but it would be even better if we could video chat outside of video chat.  Currently, you can only video chat with someone and play around with some effects.  It would be much cooler if you could possibly point the Vision Cam at your TV and your friends could see what you're playing as you're playing?  It would also allow people to help other people out by guiding them as they play.  Then again, sometimes it would just be cool to videochat while you're playing Chess or Checkers or even Contra.

Simple. I want high definition tv with dvr capability, but I don't want to buy a bundle.  I want to pay for channels a la carte, so that I don't have to trudge through 150 channels for the 5 I watch.

I would also like to download movies on demand.

Just another thought.

Having the Dash become something more akin to the Live.com page.

Where you can have feeds/information based off items such as your email, your weather, your feeds, news, friends online (instead of notifications).

I know it's probably a bit much to put on one screen... but a list with a window pane beside with the information and auto-scrolling around the list (until the user takes control) would be the idea.

Just an idea.  I'll keep trying to come up with some more, but sharing that data between my pc, xbox, and windows mobile.

Also I'd love to see Live Maps come to Xbox, since you can do it on your PC/Mobile device.

It wouldn't be such a use case though I guess, more something handy.

A Yellow pages/White pages would be awesome though - abundant on the PC and accessible through the phone, but it'd be something different for the console.

Additions to previous post.

I'd like to see a deal on points when you buy in bulk. I'd like the host of a live game to be able to stream music during the game. And I'd like to see the music from all the games that are released on Xbox and 360 available for sale on Marketplace.

There are a few features which would really make Live stand out from the competition.

1.) I would love to have a private voice chat with 2-3 friends. I find this to be the most troublesome part of Xbox Live. Since there isn't a clan management tab, voice chats are the only way friends can organize games.

2.) Some sort of clan tab would really add to the overall Live experience. It would allow people to better keep track of their friends and arrange games without trouble.

3.) Users should be able to add comments about each individual friend in their list. It is sometimes difficult to remember people by their name, this would allow us to keep stronger ties with our friends.

The only thing i can think about right now is a Friends list expansion, including a seperate list for Clan members. This has been a hot topic for a very long time and it is known that there are more then plenty ppl asking for this.

"Dave said:"

"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."

Yes! Or free XBL weekends. Comeon, You have over millions of customers. I think you can affourd the weekends free. It would be great for when you have people over as mostly thats on weekends. I hate buying cards too!,and using 48 hr cards. Maybe for the weekends you can afford it to be free. Im Sure on that!

"wdwpsu said:  

I'd like an open source community in that I can develop a game or application and share it with my friends.  In turn, we can all enjoy this program together.  The strength of XBL is it's open community now.  And, by making it more of a playground where everyone can participate together with no restrictions, the potential is limitless. "

Dude! Do a search for XNA.

There is only one feature that I ever really thought about, and some may consider it stupid but personally I'd love to be able to see and communicate with people on things like AIM, MSN, and ICQ through my 360, send invites, and all that kind of stuff.

I play with a tight group of friends over Live so anything you can do to help us get into games together   would be greatly appreciated.

1. Allow more than one friend to participate in a private voice chat. This is really useful when you're gaming with friends but don't want to listen to the random people you get paired up with.

2. Bring more of the matchmaking functionality to the Live platform. Instead of relying on each developer to create a matchmaking/party system, copy Bungie's version on Halo 2/3 and integrate it into Live.

3. A sent messages folder would be nice. Sometimes I send a message and wish I could send the same one to another friend or see it again for myself at a later date (vision cam pictures especially).

4. Sending vision cam pictures to email addresses would be fun.

5. Picture-in-picture video chat while playing a game would be pretty slick, but challenging I'm sure.

Overall, I'm very pleased with the service. Thanks for making it so easy to play with my friends in other parts of the world. And thanks for asking for feedback.

Perf improvements. When I am watching a movie or playing a game the dashboard takes too long to come out and then a while longer to populate all the controls.

Faster switching between accounts. A couple of my friends have roommates that all use the same Xbox. Because of the amount of "click" and perf lags, see above, it can take ~45 seconds to switch to another profile.

Group private chat. I want to do this a lot, especially when I am organizing xbl events with my friends.

Messaging integration with Live Messenger. I want text and voice. I also don't want to use the Live Messenger tabs to switch between buddy lists. Tabs make it clunky and they take up more of my precious screen real estate.

Require unique icons for achievements. I worked hard for them and hate to see the same lame icon. Enchanted Arms is an example of a game that does this.

Access to game specific leaderboards, such as Halo or GoW.

My ideas for Xbox 360 live:

1. Add a fast foward/rewind option to music. Movies and videos have this option, so why not music?

2. More detailed Marketplace content. Show pictures of items instead of having people go to xbox.com to find them. Pictures of the Weapons, Themes, Gamerpics, Maps, etc. before purchasing them would make more people eager to purchase them.

3. A party chat. It would be nice if I could talk with up to 6 people at once, like I did on Xbox 1 in the dashboard. The option would be even strong if you could have everyone doing different things, just like a private chat.

4. Speed increase for the Guide blade. The Guide blade is too slow. Sometimes invites are not followed correctly.

5. Xbox 360 Live on original Xbox games. Allow the guide blade to be accessed during the old games from the original Xbox. When your playing something non-live, like Halo, it will say that your online in "Xbox game." This will allow people to truly feel they have their friends list everywhere. The other thing it would allow is music on old games at anytime they want. For games, like Halo 2, that are online enabled, make it where you log out of Xbox 360 live while loggin into Original Xbox Live. Once logged into original Xbox live, make it not possible to log into Xbox 360 Live, but allow custom tracks to be accessable.

I think that a Halo 2 style party system should be a requirement for all multiplayer games. GoW is a great game, but how much better would it be with a sweet party system?

I have no thoughts on the Live service - I'm basically a game idea guy. I have some ideas on THAT front:

1. Cribbage and Bridge. Especially disheartening is the removal of Cribbage on Zone. I think Cribbage and Bridge would get more traffic than UNO.

2. I know you don't like extended amounts of time in an XBLA game, but I think you ought to start implementing ranked and unranked card tournaments.

3. You're not hyping Settlers of Catan enough. A lot of people I've found online thinking Catan is a system seller.

4. You should really work out a way to purchase the rights to Ticket to Ride, which would also be another system seller.

First, I'd like to say thank you for listening to people. I work on the X360 for a living as a game tester, and also own one at home, and the idea that people like me can affect the Xbox Live is beyond what I'd expected.

Anyway, my suggestion is this: Xbox Live forums on the actual system, for each game. This would allow for more multiplayer coordination, clan recruitment, and other Xbox Live functions that require a PC to use, that are sometimes less than legit. What better way to bring more people together (and allow for more trash talking...) than forums? They exist everywhere already, but putting them on the 360 itself would make it into a more effective tool for players to socialize on. Because of already built in functions, such as voice/video chat and friends lists, there would almost be no need to ever return to the ol'PC for communication.

Thank you again for your consideration. I'm happy to be a part of the Xbox Live community.

Some of the things I would like would include the ability to check on active downloads, memory card or hard drive space, and how many MS points you have online, and to have demos for upcoming XBLA games and trailers of both upcoming and available XBLA or at least have montages more often.

Hmm since my huge comment didnt go through...

For those saying Streaming Radio - it already works.

http://www.madprops.org/cs/blogs/crucible/archive/2006/10/17/Streaming-Radio-to-your-Xbox-360.aspx

You can't do it with Windows Media Player, but you can with Twonky or TVersity or similar.

1. MSN on xbox 360

I totally agree that a universal clan system would be amazing..hell if the entire service would be built to emulate halo 2's wonderful matchmaking, that would be tops.

Ok this 360 NEEDS to be 100% fully integrated with Microsoft Home Media Server shown at CES and be able to offload demos, saves, etc. to it.  This is more important than and eliminates the need for a larger hard drive.  That way, we can have access to media, stream media, store media in a way that's integrated with sharing with PCs etc.  It needs to be seemless and doesn't require some laborous login each time.  It should be synced once and that's it.  This is the only true solution to making the 360 an entertainment hub that breaks free from storage constraints.  The current method of using media player and XP MCE is just plain bad.  

I think it would be great to be able to share files with other gamers - an example of what I'm thinking about is being able to share updated rosters for games or profiles for the player models you may have built with in a game (e.g. Tiger Woods or Rainbow 6: Vegas.)

I'd also love to see Xbox Live add internet functionality, the ability to download podcasts and as a pie in the sky sort of ask - it would great to be able to access satellite radio via my 360.  Now I know it's not going to have the full satellite capability but both XM and Sirius now stream online - it would great to be able to stream this stuff via my 360 - especially if I could do it while playing a game.

man i think with all the crazy ideas people are putting out there, i think save up all the ideas and put them into a bank and make the 3rd xbox a computer

Two items are needed to make Xbox Live the best it can be:  Clan System, and Universal Party System

The Clan system should have features that allow significant management features, like user definable ranks and awards (clan achievements).

The party system should allow players to group together.  When the party leader enters a game, it should simply send an automatic invite to everyone associated with that party.  This way, the party system can operate independently of game code.

Of course, the clan system should have ways to interact with parties.  It should be easy to create a party from the online members of a clan.

*I want to listen to voice messages on the xbox live website.

*All multiplayer games must have the Halo 2 party system mandatory.

*Co-op should be high encouraged with a Gears of War type drop in whenever. Lost Planet would've been so much better with co-op.

*The Dashboard needs to be optimized. The blades are so sluggish. It's a closed system for gods sake! This thing should be finely tuned to near perfection.

1. More Retro arcade titles. i love them. keep them coming.

2. XBLA Wednesdays makes me anticipate every wednesday. (a schedule would be nice but i understand.i also like a surprise every week. i'm neutral)

3. Lunar. from the Sega CD. i loved this game. forgo the  dinky 50MB XBLA size limit and bring me a game so i don't have to break out the SegaCD

4. Tetris & Super Bust a move. My Girl loves this game and keeps asking me why it's not on the marketplace.

5. More HD Movies. i love HD movies. 720p. 480p doesn't interest me.

6.  Online leaderboards. i would absolutely *LOVE* to be able to see my friends leaderboards online, instead of having to boot the 360 up. and i'm talking about the score of the game, not the achievements.

7. i like getting some gamerpics with my games. themes would be cool too.

8. allow local co-op achievements. my Girl and i love playing games together. and she likes getting achievements, but most games require "Live" games.

9. keep the demos coming. they've sold me on a few games i wouldn't normally have considered buying.

10. Achievements keep me playing. i don't think MS would abandon achievements, but i'm just saying.

11. Have a Friend "tagging/priority" system. Example: i have 67 friends. 4 of them from outside Live. i like to keep up on what they've been doing and their score, and it's kind of tedious to search for them in a large group.

in closing, i love my 360. i love live. i love XBLA games. my wii is gathering dust. i don't own a PS3. nothing holds my interest like my 360 does. keep up the good work.

There are some absolutely AWESOME ideas in this thread. I am definitely in support of a lot of the issues of integrating Live into Windows Live Messenger, and the transparent/translucent blade, I also like some of the ideas of a more wide-spread usage of the Vision camera.

I think a few of the biggest issues addressed in this that I say need "fixing", or more like "implementation", are the party and clan systems. A singular unified clan really encompasses the whole theme of Xbox Live. Playing together. If I keep getting stuck with a team full of quitters, or I keep getting paired up with "modders" or "Standby-ers" or those who continually abuse the system on Xbox live.

Myself, now that there's this integration with my cell phone and computer, I would like to be able to schedule a game with someone later on in the day. Like, I call my buddy up only to find out that he's at work (though, if that GPS feature was integrated...) so I set up a timed game invite and let him know via another message. Both of us get a game invite message on our Live enabled phones and converge on the Dashboard's party system then we pop in our games and roll on for hours into the night.

Also, I currently stray from MSN spaces because, personally, there's nothing on there that the other social networking sites don't do better. However, if that Individual device manager was integrated into that site, that alone would give me more reason to join, if there was some sort way for all my Live friends to be instantly added, and enable me to search existing friends (maybe even ones on other social networking sites?) for Live tags, would be amazing.

Here are a few features I would love to see added.

1) Ability to store or b/u content to an external hard drive. A few episodes of HD TV content and the hard drive is stuffed. I realize it can be downloaded again, but why wait to download again when you can simply store it and access it at a moments notice.

2) Since you can stream music from a connected PC, why not be able to create and save a playlist on the 360 that referencees external music? If the plalist is being played and an external song is missing, simply skip it and play the next song on the list.

3) Would be nice to organize or group friends into folders or sub-categories.

4) Better grouping/organization of gamer pics. As it is now, they are all lumped into a single, massive list. After some time it's difficult, if not impossible to tell where the pics came from, or what game/show they pertain to.

Xbox Live is a pretty good feature. But it has its flaws.

It cost 88 SGD <- this is a cost of a full import game, yes u can justify this as a Year's worth of online play. BUT since the matches are on the host's machine, what does M$ have to support?

Either

1) Reduce the cost for goodness sake (make it free, u will trash the PS3 and Wii if it's free).

2) Or if u have DEDICATED servers then the pain of paying for the service wont be so great.

88 SGD for a years worth of lag is NOT FUN!

Plus could u please send more 12 month subscription cards to Singapore please? Alot of us DO NOT want to pay via credit card.

And M$ is evil it will keep dedicating the amount till U CALL M$ support to cancel it.

"Thrillhouse6 said:

I'd also love to see Xbox Live add internet functionality, the ability to download podcasts and as a pie in the sky sort of ask - it would great to be able to access satellite radio via my 360."

Dude, I've posted a couple of times now about streaming radio (does anyone read anyone elses comments? Show of hands! :P)

But yeah you can do it, search for my name.

Secondly, as far as podcasts goes, you can always download the mp3 and play it as audio over Windows Media Player media sharing.

I don't know if it was suggested before(I ain't reading pages upon pages of comments), but I believe you should  have the option of viewing how many times a player has been complained about and what for.

Or, better yet, a better banning system so that people will really FEAR the banhammer.

Fix the music playback (MP3/CD) as when I stream it from my PC or play it off the 360 HDD it only plays through the front 2 speakers.

Not really a "Live" function, but as long as we're talking about additions...

The ability to create a Clan from the Dashboard and persist ala the Gamertag. [No need to create a new clan for each game that supports clans]

I would like to see a full online distribution model for full retail games over xbox live.

With the ability to buy or rent games and every game should have a free playable demo

I would like to see the ability to have private chat with more than one person at a time as well as the ability to send a message (voice or text) to multiple people at once instead of having to send the message each time. Those two things are pretty important in my opinion.

Not as important but would be nice is the ability to save a couple frequently used messages that you could quickly send without having to type them out.

I can download movies and download Arcade game... now I want to buy games online, instead of having to go to the store.

I want the ability to put notes to my friends, so I remember who they are.  Ex.  If a friend had a name 123XBOX, I would like to add a note next to his gamertag as John Doe.

Allow people to put their country flag somewhere in their avatar.

xblive should be a custom portal for gaming sites/newsgroups/ect. around the web.

Internet server that would be realy cool, HDMI, Group Chat, Unlimited friends list members, cheaper items on marketplace for gold members, Larger hardrive, being able to rent and buy games on xbox live via down load(would also require larger hardrive)more USB ports, more gamer score for games over 1000.

Thats about it guys will post as more ideas spring into my head.

Slayer of gods3

I think it would be cool if you could access a game guide while playing a game.  I think this could be done in one of two ways.  First, a purchase for a small fee, like maybe $5 for silver members and free for gold in order to try and get more Live subscribers.  When you purchase this guide, you would be able to access it by hitting the 360 button on the fly and be able to view it as the game is paused.  The second, or better yet, would be a web browser that you could flip to live while in game to access a site like IGN or Gamestop.  I think the first would be easier to implement due to system resources and being a somewhat better business model, but the web browser would be really sweet!

Will anyone even see this way down here?

I'd like an option for an opt-in mailing list for marketplace content. Or even just an opt-in message service via live.

Probably have to have several for categories, like demos, arcade, ad-on content, etc.

Then when something is added to the marketplace in a category you want to know about, it sends you a message.  Maybe even just once a week in digest format.

I know if I was a content creator putting stuff up for the marketplace, I'd want all the help I could get in steering people to find it.

WEB BROWSER - Absolutely necessary to compete with PS3 and Wii.

Ability to organize friends, have a larger number of friends, and ability to send messages/invites to whole friend groups.  In addition to the above, the ability to re-name or "Nickname" a person's gamertag to something easier to remember would be helpful. (IE "MyNameIsHardToRemember" can be nicknamed "SomePerson", and be displayed as this name) You can currently do this in chat programs such as Trillian and it is very helpful.

A news page that contains updates on critical patches and add-ons to games, as well as more information on new or up-coming products and features on XBL.

Ability to share game files such as replays or save files (assuming game supports these features).

That's it.

THESE SHOULD BE THE #1 PRIORITY....

JOIN ZUNE MARKETPLACE AND XBOX MARKETPLACE, if i buy videos let me download them to my zune as well... if i own a tv show let me put it on my zune, if i've purchased a song let me access it on my 360 via the marketplace, that way if i've got a zunepass i can just stream play a crapload of music from my 360!

Come on Microsoft you run 2 Wicked marketplaces why have them seperate????? Join the 360 and the Zune fully people!!!!

I would like Live Messenger to inform me when a friend goes online on his xbox. Voice etc functions on the PC to be able to speak to friends on xbox live. Overall a better integration with the PC.

If you mute someone it should automatically bring up a complaint form after the game is over to remind you to file one.

Since we're talking about big ideas…

So far, Xbox live has done a great job of fostering community based on the idea of individual identity.  The gamercard, the gamerscore, the TrueSkill, the Rep, etc.  all do a great job of establishing your identity.

Now I'd like to see Xbox live promote the idea of an actual society built on lots of little communities interacting with each other.  The first step, would be to have bona-fide group support.  That is, for players to be able to form official groups on Xbox live, and to have those groups recognized no matter what game you play.

The best way to promote society based around a competitive enterprise (gaming), is to allow the groups to compete with each other in an official capacity.  This means any team game must recognize the official groups and allow them to compete against one another as discrete units, rather than collections of individual players.  So that would be the second step.

The third step would be to allow events.  A events can be anything from tournaments, to simple pick up games, to large scale leagues.  Someone would be able to administer said events, and invite groups or individual players (depending on whether the game was team-based or individual), and the system would keep track of the results of the events, including scores, standings, stats, and so on.

Finally, there's no point having large scale events, if no one is around to see them happen.  That means, every single game must support some sort of spectator mode.  This should be part of the specification for Xbox live support, just like voice.

Having said that, I'm happy with Xbox live as it is.  I think it's great that you are soliciting ideas from the community, though.

I would like it if one could scroll down a list by going up instead. For example if you want to reach a demo that is 12th on the list instead of having to scroll down the entire list, you could just go up once then that would leave you at the last item on the list which would be 12th. this could make scrolling a lot quicker and easier.

XBOX LIVE.

1.  Group chat from dashboard.

2.  Group your friends.  There are some people that regardless of their gametag I would like at the top of the list.

3.  Turn off "x player is is online" notifications separately from the other notifications.

4.  If possible can XBL enforce basic rules for lobbies on online games:

   1.  Host should always be able to control who's on which team.

   2.  Host should always be able to kick unruley players.

   3.  All games should have party system,  and maintain the hosts ability to move teams or parties.

   4.  Lobbies should never ever get locked where people on either team cannot switch (UBISOFT I MEAN YOU).

   5.  If you are gonna make games that require teamwork aka Gears of War, RB6, etc.  Either support clans, or joining a friends ranked lobby.

   6.  There should never ever be a game released that has a bug similar to the voice chat bug that gears and rainbow 6 had.  There is no possible way that during testing a bug like that wasn't found. Especially when everyone online found it first day.

Don't know if it's been mentioned before, but how about streaming music from your 360 or NEXT-next-gen system on a phone.

KARAOKE LIVE!

Game Rankings

It would be nice to have some type of rating system for games that we have played.  You could put in a five star system like we have for the rep and just have it under the compare games section.

Better interface. That's it. Take some cues from some of your own products like Vista, and Media Center, as well as others like Sony's XMB or Apple's OSX. Slicker, sleeker, and easier to navigate. The Blades were a nice jumping off point, but you've done little to evolve it. I understand there are memory footprint considerations, but I'd hate to be stuck with this terribly plain jane interface for 4 more years.

1)I think live should broaden the usage of voice chat.  Allow users on xbox 360 to have group chat, users from pc to be able to log onto live and also voice chat with xbox users in and out of games, and allow zune to log onto live and text message friends and even (if possible) to voice chat over wifi with friends on live.

If zune had the ability for voip that would be awesome.    Maybe even video chat from xbox to pc.

2) More integration between zune and xbox360.  Examples/wishes...PVR functions on xbox that can stream to zune or send to zune for on the go.  Wireless music sharing between xbox and zune.  Media streaming from xbox to web like slingbox for zune.  

3)Customizable webpage for xbox live acct...own background, ability to display whatever content you prefer, leaderboard content for specific games, ect all on your own custom page.  

4) Arcade games across all platforms with ability to chat and play together, including games for zune.  Maybe include ability to stream xbox arcade directly to zune for coop play a la NDS (or between 2 zunes)

I'll throw my voice in for getting rid of the point system.  If something costs $9.99, let me be able to spent $9.99, instead of needing to bank points.

Some of this may be duplication, but I hope that makes the powers that be look harder at the idea.  :)

Media support needs to be more than just "home technologies."  I'm an IT professional and MCP, I have my own W2k3 Servers at home (one a DC/file server, another for Exchange) as a test environment.  I keep my music here,  as lossless FLAC audio.  I would actually PAY to be able to listen to that music library on my 360.  Currently, my only option is to (a) convert it all to WMA (lossless or otherwise) and then (b) keep an XP/Vista/MCE machine running with Media Player 11 to properly "share the library."  This is BS, there's no reason the 360 shouldn't be able to authenticate to a wide open read-only share and play open-source audio formats like FLAC.

The entire Gold subscription system needs to be reconsidered for multi-player households.  I have a gold account.  When my fiancee moves in with me, she will want to play my 360, but I don't want her data (RPG saves and achievements, for instance?) mixed in with mine.  Yes, I can make her a separate (silver) account, but then she can't play stuff online except as my guest, which then makes us stuck in unranked games.  I'd be fine with it if her account would be somehow tied to the console or my account, but I should not have to pay for TWO live gold memberships just for the luxury of splitting up our save games and statistics.  Some sort of "Live Family" account maybe, for an extra $15 a year would be acceptable to me - it would "marry" her tag to mine and she would be Gold, but have her own statistics and saves on the 360.  For households with several teenaged players this obviously wouldn't work - they'd each want their own gold account to take over to friends' houses, so MS still can make money there... but for older 20-30-somethings who are married, but like to play together, it makes sense.  Extra income for not much more load/cost on MS's part (there won't be duplicated downloads, since we'd share access to the same gold content...)

Clan/"friend group" support would be great.  Allow it to be added to the end of the gamertag and change with clan membership.  Clans CAN NOT be limited in size, but only allow a player to join one clan.  More info on Live profiles (that can be displayed on the 360, natch) such as "site affiliations" and things like that would be cool as well, to tell other players a bit about you without them having to get on a computer just to look it up.

While I'm thinking 360, you need to have notices stamped in big GREEN letters all over the box that players MUST have a functional UPnP router if they want Live to not suck.  I can't count how many times games have been dropped when they are trying to start because whoever got picked to host doesn't have a truly UPnP device and it craps out in the middle.  http://pfsense.org - supports UPnP and it's FREE.

The ability to selectively delete messages from your Inbox at Xbox.com without having to specifically open the message.

A better inviting system. Allowing the gamer to have more people on their invite list than just the recently played people.

Also allowing RANKED TEAM INVITES.

Other than that the service is pretty good.

1. I guess it was mentions before but is there a way to dedicate some space on MS servers for each Xbox Live user for their saved games. I mean if I go over to my friend's house, I want to be able to log in with my GamerTag and be able to access my saved games.

2. More Hotmail/Xbox intergration. Many people have Hotmail which is owned by MS!!! So why can't I check my mail from the Xbox? I'm talking stripped down version. Just text at least and a way to protect Xbox people from email viruses.

3. Xbox.com video/voice chat. Enough Said

4. Conference video.voice chat.

I would like:

A larger HD like 100GB+

More Dash Board built in themes like carbon and default.

Share purchased content between my two 360's.

Internet Explorer integrated into the dash.

Arcade downloads not restricted to 50MB.

Companies not to lock game content that should have been included with the purchase. I am sick of EA micro transactions. Capcom including an additional map if you purchases the lost planet collectors. A collectors edtion should have the making of, art etc... If this continues I am done with collector edtions and games that use micro transaction to unlock content on the disc. Dont get me wrong I will happily pay for good game expansions.

I would like to see a party system integrated everywhere. At the "dashboard" or main screen or whatever system they are using. I would like to see parties be a big thing with Live. I want to be able to get a hold of all my friends and say "everyone join the party" that way you can join online matches even easier and integrate the whole community experience even more.

LIVE ARCADE OVERHAUL (read)

The name "Xbox Live Arcade" carries two connotations which it currently, in my estimation, fails to meet. "Live" and "arcade". It does not feel "live" except whenever one goes through the trouble, per game, of setting up a multiplayer experience. All other online functions are stagnant and may as well be performed offline.

The "arcade" portion of the phrase is the component which hints at an exciting possibility. What if "Xbox Live Arcade" was, optionally, a first- or third-person rendering of a three-dimensional traditional arcade, wherein one can move about, check out Ms. Pac-Man or Time Pilot cabinets (being played, or in attract mode awaiting one's interaction) or sofa areas hosting games of Uno, or what have you. One could interact with other Live Arcade avatars, challenge them to multiplayer games, watch them play while waiting turns. The background would be a din of arcade noise, replete with the sounds of Xbox Live Arcade offerings. Avatars could be custom-designed, perhaps including Live Vision-captured faces.

This is an opportunity which I think was missed, but which it is still possible, I think, to act upon. It would give Xbox Live Arcade, and perhaps the whole 360 experience, a very positive sense of social interactivity - something which is only possible within the specific confines of a given game, leaving the rest of the experience lifeless and dull.

I'd love to know what part of integration between the different platforms == bigger hard drive! :)

What i want to see from live is:

1: video marketplace (not only u.s.)for europe and the rest of the world.

2: iptv not limeted to the new, xbox 360 version 2. and that the people that already own an expensive console get a update or a cheap add-ons so they also can enjoy iptv (please give use these feayure all around the world..)

3. More options like download a full game to your hard drive, like Playstion3/sony does now, and i don't mean arcade games..

4. A must have is, divx and xvid but everybody wants that!!!! and can it be in 16:9 or maybe 4:3..

5. multivideo chat not 1 on 1 but with 4 people at a time

6. multi chat like a confrence call, meeting up with more that 1 person at a time lets say 4.

7. Longer friendlist, no 99 but 199.

8. More voice message time..

9. A price drop will be nice for the people that can't spend a lot of money but wanna join the community of the xbox 360..(console, 12 months pre-paid card, and the add-ons)

10: special account for a household with more that 2 persons.. that means 2 adults 1 or 2 kids and maybe more childeren..

Hi Major Nelson,

Here are some of things that both my father GamerTag: SNAKE 66 and I came up with to improve both the Xbox360 as well as XBOX LIVE (for the Third Time) Sorry things came into my mind as I read into the Forums of what others was also requesting.

What we'd like to see improved are:

1. Group Xbox360 Dashboard Chat System as well as Group Video. We shouldn’t have to all play UNO in order to see one another. (Suggesting that we higher the Suggested Minimum/Maximum of 2 People on the 360 Dashboard)

2. Less issues with Xbox360's freezing (playing any 360 Game...receiving messages and then sudden freezes with require a hard REBOOT of System)

3. Being able to play other formats then WMV on your Xbox360 such as Divx, mpeg, etc…)

4. Futuristic Goal: Have Internet Browsing as well as Skype like Phone Calls made possibly through your Xbox360. (Fee Required). The Wii already has this Feature (Built-In Wifi as well as Internet Browsing.

5. Expand the GamerTag to include more information like your MySpace profile, At Least 2-3 Instant Messaging Handles, your Cell Phone # if you should ever feel that confortable with yourself and finally an Email Address that people from your Xbox Live Friends can reach you. (Should Not Be A Feature in Which Players outside of your Friends List Should See.)

6. The use of achievement pictures as gamerpics. I earned it, by unlocking the achievement so we should be able to use it. Seems like an easy thing to implement since the pictures are the same size and everything.

7. Save Downloaded Pictures and Themes that were purchased or given free from the Xbox360 Marketplace and be able to transfer them to your PC. As well as save pictures taken with your Xbox360 Vision Camera

8. Save Your Online Status (Online, Away, Busy and Offline) even when you shut-down or Reboot your Xbox360 and being to change it at will. (When you feel its Nessecary)

9. Show us what disc is in the tray, we saw this feature in a beta. (I hope this is not just for LIVE Anywhere)

10. Photo backgrounds: The ability to assign a different picture to each blade's background. Currently assigning a picture to your background from a connected computer only applies one background to all blades.

11. Xbox 360 Guide Support for Original Xbox Games

12. Allow us the Ability to have multiple copies of one’s Xbox Live account on multiple units, but still implementing the fact since its realistic the fact that you just can't sign into more than one Xbox360 at a time (like the original Xbox).

* A Xbox360 Representative, said that the reason why this feature was not implemented into the Xbox360 in its original release is because of the constant update of one’s GamerScore (Achievements received) But since it is possible of getting an update once you get on XBOX LIVE, I see having this feature actually implemented being Realistic

13. Allow Xbox Live Customers to hear their Voice Messages on Xbox.com as well as possibly reply back if they have a USB Headset or Analog headset.

14. As well as being able to view Snapshots of people sharing themself with the Xbox360 Vision Camera on the XBOX.com Website or does that infringe their Privacy?

* I'd say Yes with how Technology is Today but then again they sent me their picture to see on the XBOX360 so why not implement it on to the PC as well. Just lock the Image so that individual can’t make a HardCopy of It.

15. A LARGER Friends List. I have many Xbox Live friends which have become True Friends after having the Privledge to See them off Xbox Live and in person.

16. A Larger HardDrive since Xbox Live is soon to offer IPTV as well the Video Marketplace I find this to be a Vital Necessity while playing on XBOX LIVE.

Beside these 16 Suggestions, I think everyone involved in the Xbox Team has done a VERY GOOD Job! Again, Im sorry I had to re-write what I

This is a very simple request.

I would like a way to delete games installed to the hard drive. Games such as Final Fantasy XI install almost 10GB of information to the hard drive, and without the disk, you're unable to delete the game's files.

It would also be nice to be able to play games installed to the hard drive. On the Playstation 2 and Playstation 3, Final Fantasy XI is playable without the game disk in the machine. Perhaps there could be a launcher added to the marketplace that goes in the Xbox Live Arcade folder. That would be helpful.

Thanks.

personally i'd like to be able to get access to my xbox live contacts and messages from within live messenger, and possibly (though maybe not because the interface is a bit awkward and slow for multiple messages from different users) talk to msn contacts from my 360

If you are removed from someone's friends list, I think you should recieve a message telling you who removed you.

I think 20 GB is not enough. Why not have some over the internet stroage like hotmail, which now has one GB of space, only bigger?

As weird as it seems, I would like my gamer pic to be any achievement icon that I have unlocked.  

What I would like to see is the ability to plug in a USB hard drive to house all of the HD content that I download through live. Face it, the 20GB drive just doesn't cut it with HD content. Instead of forcing me to shell out more money for a bigger 360 drive, why not let me convert one of my existing USB drives?

i want a party system in every game similar to halo 2.

i want group voice and video chat.

i want better xbox live arcade games.

xbox live should be your one stop for all things entertainment.

Give an incentive to Live Gold subscribers, like 100 Microsoft Points per month, it would be better than a gold price cut, because users would "spend the discount"  with Microsoft and it's partners, and the "subscribers renovation rate" would rise, as players need "just 200 more points to get that incredible live arcade game".

A problem with Gold subscription is that you can always PLAY MULTIPLAYER GAMES FOR FREE with your computer AND you already pay for internet provider (since most of multiplayer live games are hosted ON ANOTHER PLAYER'S XBOX, and not on a super expensive datacenter).

How bout a music/music videos database?  Or an expansion of the friends list.  And to make it easier we can make our own sub-categories for friends list (e.g  Friends - Close friends - Gears of wars players - R6V Players etc. )  Personal Chat with 3 or more people.  And of course the one and only ------Bigger HD

Gotham Tv in PGR 3 was awesome. Due stuff like that where everyone, not only people who own the game be able to see my skills. That would be really awesome.

remember which "Computer" each Profile is connected to.

My wife and I have seperate computers with WMP11 setup to share media. We also have our own profiles on the 360, but the 360 doesn't remember which media share the profile used last time.  It's very inconvienient to have to go to System/Computers/Windows-based PC/Disconnect, then go to Media/Music/Computer/Yes(pcsetup)/(wait for searching)/Select Computer before finally browsing music

- The ability to play arcade games while sitting in lobbies of other games. If I join a room and there's 10 minutes left before the round ends I don't want to sit and watch most of the time. It would also be cool to be able to pause the arcade game when the round is over and you are able to play. And the last part of this idea, the voice from the game you are waiting to play should work while playing the arcade game. This would only work while playing single player most likely but it would be awesome.

- I'm sick of getting bad feedback for no reason. I think there should be more incentive to give good feedback to people who actually play nicely instead of just ignoring them unless they do something bad. Maybe a community rep like a second set of stars that would rate the feedback you're giving out.

- Game reviews should be something else that is added. The user should be able to review games with a number of stars or number out of 10. It would also be cool to partner with gamerankings or some other site to give a press review average, this second part would be obsolete with a web browser though.

- More people in the voice chat channel. It's been said many times before but it really needs to be added.

- Better profile setup for users. I think you should be able to tell more about yourself. There should be a Bio section, Photo album (Vision Cam) and things like this. Building a better or more well known community would be cool I think.

I mainly wanted to bring the first two points up.

1. If clans can't be supported, maybe the equivalent to Outlook's distributions lists can be added to help manage the friends list. This can then be used to send messages out in bulk as well as handle group invites for games.

2. Filtering by age groups might be handy - it gets tiring having to listen to trash talking 12 year olds during games.

3. Rankings / feedback for Marketplace content could be used to not only help people decide on purchases but also introduce new methods for organising and listing the content. The forums on xbox.com are good for feedback but not everyone uses those as often as they might connect to live via their 360.

4. Trial versions of XBLA titles that have not been unlocked / paid for should not be listed amongst your achievements.

5. Would be nice to think that any XBLA titles I have paid for I can also download and play under Live for Vista.

6. Regular "community" media programs for download in video / audio formats such as Major Nelson Radio. Not just Xbox related either... perhaps local news updates? Items seperate from Video Marketplace / IPTV stuff.

+1 for video chat with Messenger users. Please, please, please!

Charge less for Adult Swim episodes.  

Adult Swim shows are only 11 minutes long, but Xbox Live charges as much for them as they charge for shows that are several times longer.  I just can't justify paying $2 for an 11 minute long episode.

-Clan support at the Dashboard level. So you don't have to join one for each game.

-More connectivity with the Zune. Like people have stated checking Friends list, and other things.

-Less Retro titles on XBLA, I'm really getting tired of Namco pooping all over the XBLA.

-A Higher quality headset that isn't wireless, like Plantronics(sp) had with the the original one

-Maybe some sort of chat service where users can meet each other.

-Fix the rep system, too many players that drop have five stars.

Some sort of Windows app that you could view your friends list, respond to both text and voice msgs. Without having to open a webpage.

-more support for streaming video files off computers. Stop pushing your own format like Sony does.

Posted on Major's page as well.

Make it mandatory for all online multiplayer games to have a party system so it is easy to play with friends in ranked games.

ALL I Want is 2-6+ people on Voice Chat!!

Clan Support, And Let us Change our Emails that are linked through our Xbox Live Accounts!

Thanks!

1)Universal Party Matchmaking, same for every game, Ranked or Unranked.

2)Voice Chat problems need to be fixed.

3)Ability to use user pictures for each blade.

4)Ability to use any picture for a gamercard pic.

5)A better media player when playing custom soundtrack.

6)Try dedicated servers.

7)Ability to watch any type of video file.

8)Media Center DVR capability.

9)Web browser.

10)Price fixing for marketplace content. Nintendo and Sony are doing it why not Microsoft?

11)More free content. Ala Gears Map Pack. Find some sponcers!

12)Maybe add a new blade "Community" this would be a MySpace type blade that you could keep all of your info and blog. Plan tournaments, post videos, pictures, all that kinda stuff.

It's so obvious:

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5) VIDEO CHAT WHILE GAMING to make all games camera enabled. People will love it or hate it, either way it would be welcomed by most.

4) WEB BROWSER, so we can do all the things we already do on our desktops, in our living rooms.

3) BOARD GAMES like Monopoly, Scrabble, Pictionary, or Jepordy. Add video chat and this would be all I do on my 360.

2) OPTIONAL EXPANDED PERSONAL PROFILES to help people get to know one another, if you choose to post your info. This could be set up much like myspace.com and would create allot of controversy and publicity but would probably be a formidable rival to myspace.

1) CHAT ROOMS / VIDEO CHAT ROOMS with small games or topics for discussion. People could make their own rooms under a preset list of categories like RPG, FIGHTING, FPS, SOCIAL, SCHOOL, SPORTS etc... Even if only 4 people can be visually displayed at once and the rest only named, this would be easy to create and welcomed. A system of who talks first would need to be created. or just use the keyboard. Or maybe only the 4 people in the video could be heard and the rest type. Either way i think this would be used and appreciated.

You guys have a Video Marketplace...why not a full-fledged games marketplace.

You could "rent" games for a nominal fee.  Buying games would be cool too, but there are hard drive concerns (maybe a steam-like game streaming kind of thing can be involved).

Putting "Keen Eddie" on the video marketplace would be my other suggestion.  Sienna Miller anyone?

Fix the age system, I misset my age so now I will never beable to register a Zune account or see the news updates on my xbox dash and I wont be able to do ANYTHING about it till Microsoft fixes it. Even when the mistyped age turns 18 it still wont work!!

- hdmi port

- when you get a notification when a friend comes online  it is really annoying that when you press the blade to see just the default blade and the friends profile comes up. I would like to think that maybe the back button or a choice to turn it off.

- to see who your friends are playing with like Halo2 used to

- there's a lot more but othrs have that covered.

Thanks for asking.

Absolutely just one thing, cuz frankly XBOX LIVE is awesome and everyone above already said everything...

ABILITY TO PLAY MORE VIDEO CODECS AND ALLOW THIRD PARTY/OPEN SOURCE SERVERS THE SAME POWER AS MCE (or at least please provide MCE for Windows users!)

It's so obvious:

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5) VIDEO CHAT WHILE GAMING to make all games camera enabled. People will love it or hate it, either way it would be welcomed by most.

4) WEB BROWSER, so we can do all the things we already do on our desktops, in our living rooms.

3) BOARD GAMES like Monopoly, Scrabble, Pictionary, or Jepordy. Add video chat and this would be all I do on my 360.

2) OPTIONAL EXPANDED PERSONAL PROFILES to help people get to know one another, if you choose to post your info. This could be set up much like myspace.com and would create allot of controversy and publicity but would probably be a formidable rival to myspace.

1) CHAT ROOMS / VIDEO CHAT ROOMS with small games or topics for discussion. People could make their own rooms under a preset list of categories like RPG, FIGHTING, FPS, SOCIAL, SCHOOL, SPORTS etc... Even if only 4 people can be visually displayed at once and the rest only named, this would be easy to create and welcomed. A system of who talks first would need to be created. or just use the keyboard. Or maybe only the 4 people in the video could be heard and the rest type. Either way i think this would be used and appreciated.

I would love the ability to private chat with more than one friend at once.

I'm big on Video Marketplace, so I'd like to see more content there, of course I understand the many hurdles too.  But I think overall the Marketplace still has a lot of work to be done as far as organization of contentgoes.  It might be nice to have targeted content based on your favorite game type (FPS, RPG trailers if you like GoW and Oblivion respectively).  I subscribe to a lot of RSS feeds and I really would like to see some kind of feed for both XBL Marketplace and Video Marketplace.  I keep finding new Video Marketplace content that nobody is posting availability for.  I would also like to see more integration with Messenger, at the least the ability to IM (Xbox to WLM, WLM to Xbox) and see presence again, think it's still broke. Someone also mentioned default online status, yes please do this.  Sometimes I just want to play quietly without interuption.  For those people with a 100+ friends maybe an option to automatically remove a person from your list if you have not played/communicated with them in a certain number of days.  I can't imagine there are a lot of people that regularly play with up to 100 people in a week...hence the limit perhaps.  I think the idea of having an option to rate games you play, but only people on your friends list would see it.  Nothing to harsh, just a thumbs up or thumbs down.  Most people on my friends list share the same interest with me, so having the abilty to see if such and such person liked a game would be cool.  Another interesting idea would be to be able to subscribe to content updates for games, this could be done via email, alerts, XBL messaging.  So a new map for CoD3 is released, but I haven't read my latest Xbox new sites...here is a little alert to remind you.

I think Microsoft is looking for new features, not standards and requirements that games must follow.

I think that MEETING people is a problem with Live. Too often you are forced together with people who you find annoying. I'd rather have a way of meeting people with similar ideals and interests through Live.

What I would like to see implemented is a sort of IRC system of voice/video chat rooms. Where people can just go to chat and find people with similar interests, whether they're game related or not. Games are not the sole purpose of everyone's life, if Microsoft wants to grab some attention of non-gamers this might help as well.

I think the voice chat for IPTV is an interesting start. Why not bring it over to the rest of Live through a series of channels.

Of course to keep things civil there would have to be permissions such as kick/ban permissions given to people in certain channels.

Hope to see it implemented.

Better Game/Invite Intergration into the dashboard. Countless times have I tried to Invite People into rooms only to find out that the game doesn't support that function.

Quite annoying.

How about some type of integrated ladder/tournament software.  You can build a clan or team from the dashboard and communicate via xbl messaging.  A calendar could keep track of upcoming matches and send reminders to team members.

How about dashboard video-editing (putting a movie together then burning it on an integrated DVD burner)? Custom dashboard theme-building or video wallpaper?  An in-game recorder that would record matches you are a part of to the hard drive for future playback or posting on web sites?  Custom avatar's that you can upload (not just pictures taken with the xbox cam).

- A web browser would defiantly be a nice add-on and would defiantly take away sony and nintendos exclusives.

- Bigger Private Chats (being able to have more then one person in a private chat, actually have a conference of about 3 to 4 people so you can chat with a group of your friends)

- Being able to switch your live account from child to adult after you have already registered (I'm 18 and cant see the marketplace ads due to the child account)

- Bigger Video Chats (3 to 4 people just like the private voice chats)

- RSS channel / Podcasts to listen to on your 360 (Would be cool to listen to majors podcast on my 360)

- Able to preview themes, gamer pics, and other paid items before purchasing.

- Bigger HDD (100 GB preferably)

Thats about it, thanks.

I think that will be cool , more space in the friend list and in the area of the DVD drive that say Open Tray/Close Tray/ Playing Game maybe that when one game is insert in the tray and you are in the dashboard put the name of the game there or a movie and in the friend list the option of create groups like Live messenger...

I would love to see Microsoft allow more than 2 people in private chat, at the very least 4 possibly 8 or even 16.

-Provide some sort of age grouping for players on live

I am currently an Xbox Live and Netflix subscriber. As you probably know they are rolling out a new download service. I would like you to work with Netflix to either download their content directly to the 360 or to my PC and play it on my 360 via Media Connect. As it's a subscription service I don't really care if it expires in a week or so, I just want to be able to watch it on my HDTV. I have a PC connection so I can always hook up my laptop or mac mini to it but the 360 is already there and ready to go. Hook a brother up.

In addition to the universal clan and party system, which really..would just be insanely great...but I think that being able to take your live account to a friends house actually took a step backwards.  I used to be able to enter my credit card numbers and it comes right up, but now i get a warning that it may corrupt some files on my original xbox..make this easier and not an excuse to buy a memory card.  I know points work better on a subconscious level, people are more apt to spend points than dollars..but it adds an unnecessary step to the process.  Personally i'd be more apt to impulse buy if i didn't have that extra step to think about.

CLAN AND PARTY SUPPORT is far and away the biggest room for growth.  I'd gladly give up all the videos, XBLA, iptv, themes, gamerpics, and achievements for that.

It would be cool if I could change my Gamertag once in a while or have a couple aliases.

Right now Xbox Live is great if you have no "real life" friends using the service.  But there are a host of inconveniences that crop up if (like most humans) you have people on your friends list who you either know or trust more than the rest...  Therefore, I (and probably just about everyone else) would like clan support in the dash.  I will now elaborate on what that means in order of importance/difficulty:

1) Initially this means being able to invite people from my friends list to be in my clan.  After they agree, their names should appear in a smaller/separate list somewhere in the dash (a new blade perhaps?).  The most magical part of this is when I can click on the "invite clan" button and have all their included names get invites into my current game.  This feature should be able to work with ALL games present and future.

2) Next I want some improved features in the dash for communicating with my clan.  A multi-person-chat would be useful so that we can discuss clan strategies or issues on our own channel.  These tend to be people I really know in real life, so there are bonus points if you make it a multi-person-LIVE-Vision-cam-chat.  This feature should also exist outside of games.  The more people you let me meet with all at once, the better.  A lot of people just want this feature added period, whether or not it’s affiliated with clans.

3) Next I want you to enable me to have a few different clan lists.  That way I can have one for my clan, one list for just my family, one for my friends who ONLY ever want to play winter sports games... I think you get the idea.  The friends list is great in that its infinitely superior to "no friends list", but its also kind of clunky when you have to select the same names to invite every single time...

4) Next I want to see some features added to make all the social stuff easier.  I want a calendar in there to show when we have clan matches scheduled and a sign up sheet for that.  I ALSO want to be able to schedule recurring meetings, so that people can take turns choosing the game that night...  AND I want reminders sent to my email when its my turn to pick the games.  A voting system for approving of these games would be nice too.  And it would be best if all these features could be reached BOTH on the 360 OR on a web enabled PC....

5) I would like to see some effort made by LIVE! to coordinate clans who want compete against other clans in games.  It would be nice if a clans calendar could be aware of how many other clans (which share the same ability rating) are planning to play a particular game in a given time slot and could therefore indicate ideal times for finding a matchup…

Finally, I want to request that an effort be made to have more games take advantage of the new clan system.  Basically keep the clans in mind when designing games so that there are more games to support clan based matchmaking needs.  As a bonus, less effort will have to be spent on clan UI since that will have now migrated to the LIVE! service where it really belongs...  I expect though, that if you just make it easier for people to play in the groups that they naturally form anyways, that there will automatically be more support for clans in games.  Right now, the system is artificially biased AGAINST clans. &