Spring Dashboard Update Ideas

Well, it is spring now and you know what that means...

Dashboard Update!

So what are some ideas/things you want in the update?

What I want is for them to make it when you scroll over a persons name on your friend's list, it show with what they are doing in the game.

So it's like this.

(Pic)Macedonia Mafia__________________Joinable**Halo 3______________________________

Motto___________________________________________Custom Game - Infection on Last Resort

I wish they would let you delete gamerscore points that you don't want. For example, I only have 10 points for Dead or Alive 4, and I don't want that on there.

But that most likely will never happen. Ummm, 3 way chat possibly?imakillaholic

yeah group chat would be awesome

• Improved guide performance, even thought it was "tweaked" last time around.
  
  • Ever try sending an invite and Private Chat in Gears?
• "Games Library" to load up fast, and only once.
  
  • Why, everytime I check my Games Library, does it have to take upto 10 seconds for my mere 22 games (and the console hasn't even been turned off!)? Do it once, cache it, and that's it.
• More codec support, more specifically, .mkv support
  
  • In an era of High Definition, that should already be integrated.
• Multiple Person Private Chat
  • For upto 4 people
• Ability to fast forward/rewind music (whether streamed/from HDD)
  • My old iPod Mini can do it, why not the Xbox 360?
• Internet Speed Test to XBL servers
  • Can finally get an accurate reading of connction speed and other information. Data collected can be used in games to decide best hosts and such.
• Disable Dashboard ads/shortcuts
  • Although the Dashboard is very intuitive and well-designed, the ads/shortcuts clutter the display
    
    • panel1.dashboard._visible = false; (copy and paste it MS, you bums)
• Web Browser
  • Full HTML support, and preferrably Flash as well

I just hope they fix the caching issues when choosing a new profile icon. It shouldn't take 2 minutes for all the possible icons to load. And also, have an option to put the same picture as both public and private without having to do the process twice.spazzx625

you do understand what private means yes?

[my message from an old thread]Aaron89

[QUOTE="spazzx625"]I just hope they fix the caching issues when choosing a new profile icon. It shouldn't take 2 minutes for all the possible icons to load. And also, have an option to put the same picture as both public and private without having to do the process twice.JoetheMoe

you do understand what private means yes?

What is that supposed to mean?

when is the update?ltfan15

Last year it came out May 7th.

I'd like the music player to be a bit more user friendly. I can never tell whether it's on random play, or sequential play, for instance. If you choose a song from an album it will only play that song, not the album, which I find annoying.

Also, theme and gamer pic previews!

Well, all I ever wanted was DivX support. And we got it with the last update. But here is my new wish list:

Group Chat
I know a lot of people would like this, and why not? This would be an excellent feature, especially for clans.

Ability to Preview Themes and Gamerpics
I'd like to know if a certain theme or gamerpic is worth downloading or not, especially when we have to pay.

User-Rating System
I'd like to see what people would rate an arcade game or movie I'm interested in.

Better Integrated Music Player
What they have on there now is pretty bad and annoying to use.

I just hope they fix the caching issues when choosing a new profile icon. It shouldn't take 2 minutes for all the possible icons to load. And also, have an option to put the same picture as both public and private without having to do the process twice.spazzx625

the ability to rip music from a portable music player (psp, ipod) to the hdd. group chat would be nice as well, the more detailed invites would be great too.

I wish they would let you delete gamerscore points that you don't want. For example, I only have 10 points for Dead or Alive 4, and I don't want that on there.

But that most likely will never happen. Ummm, 3 way chat possibly?imakillaholic

You hit the nail on the head. I completely agree.

i would like to have a private chat with more then one person, like a confrence chat i guess youd say

multiperson privite chat

bc update?

quicker dashboard

1)Make custom themes for each blade not just one pic for all (custom design for the quick guide blade also) and the ablility to upload sound bite for custom sound effects(such as when a friend logs on instead of playing the default sound I can put a sound bite that would say from Unreal Championship "HEAD SHOT"lol)

2)also like everyone else has said chat lobbies for multiple ppl 4-6 is good enough but the more the merrier

3) a better way to stream videos that allow multiple video formats.

4) easier to access windows live chat and private chat on the fly.

5) not to stray to far from gaming but maybe implament some kind of custom bio page kinda like myspaceish custom background and music plays and ppl can sign a guest book all accessable from dashboard and xbox.com

I want 2 things that I REALLY REALLY WANT

1) A group chat

2) A way to organize your friends list (like the capability of putting them in groups)

Extra things that don't bug me as much, but would still be cool
1) faster gamerpic loading
2) web browser
3) better iPod capabilities
4) gamer pic/theme previews
5) user game rating system

[QUOTE="JoetheMoe"]

[QUOTE="spazzx625"]I just hope they fix the caching issues when choosing a new profile icon. It shouldn't take 2 minutes for all the possible icons to load. And also, have an option to put the same picture as both public and private without having to do the process twice.spazzx625

you do understand what private means yes?

What is that supposed to mean?

I'm not sure what he means, rofl

No 4 player PRIVATE chat please, that will lead to cheaters and such. A dashboard chat room would be awesome though, just like on the original xbox. Why would the 360 not have it in the first place? Ability to view somebodys games from date played, alphabetical order, or gamerscore total. Also, Internet Explorer on 360 would pwn. Ability to fast forward and rewind music on 360. Ability to delete all friends that haven't been on in over 1 month all at once. That's it really._KenKittyragi_

- See i found this way to work with multi-chat. When outside of game (either dashboard to single-player or even multiplayer lobby) you can have up to 4 people chat. That way you can get them to the game quickly or easier. But once the game starts up then it puts it down to 1 person chat (the person you started the chat with). I mean they can stop downloads before playing online why cant they stop multi chat? Plus they could give you options to either cancel chat all together once a game starts (puts you into games chat instead of 1 person chat) or to regroup the chat after game is done (so you don't have to send people invites to chat again).

Some people may say that would be frustrating but it would not allow cheating or abuse for in game and it would give people a way have a multi chat. Hell mabye they could allow multi-chat in private servers (so it won't stop when game starts.... it would just keep the chat open the whole time).

- Being able to fast forward or rewind in music should have been added from the start. We can do it to videos but not music? Some times i don't want to listen to that minute and a half opening.

- Ability to have Clan, Squads, Groups, Etc. Being able to either group your friends into sections like people i know and random people or family, friends, clan mates. Or having an overall Clan system. It could group together any clan your in and have a list of them. That way being in multiple clans for different games could work easier. This way you could see who is on and in which game and it could help you decide which clan you want to play with at that time. Plus this would allow you to see your clans and chat with them without cluttering up your friends list. Plus you wouldn't have to go in game to find out who is on in your clan (if the game allows clan support in that form... ex. Like Halo 2's clan system).

I mean these may be some harder ones to do (besides the music player), but hey i would rather have them than having a new looking U.I.

- Oh and mabye a search ability for Marketplace. That way you game type in a games name (and save for later use) and check out all the stuff that has been put out for the game. Instead of going into Games, All Games, and then look for your game out of the 300 something games.

- Group Private Chat, people do play with more than one friend at once Microsoft...

- Fix that annoying Dashboard loading screen that pops up when you sign into Live that started after the Fall update.

- Remove the Dashboard ads, we already pay for your damn service why must my sweet background pic be blocked by an ad for Viva Pinata. The PS3's XMB only has advertisements when your in the store, just keep the ads in the marketplace where they belong.

- Increase the character count for Mottos, sometimes the sweetest catch phrases are always just 2 or 3 letters over the limit...

- I know this has been done to death but an internet browser, 360 is the only console which cannot surf the web, hell the PSP can even do it. I know in my current situation at least untill I move in two months I don't have Wi-Fi and I only have one ethernet port in which I can either plug in my laptop or plug in my 360. It would be nice to not have to always sign off of Live to check the internet. Wishfull thinking but if the browser could be accessed in game to say check a guide or generally look something up that would be light years ahead of Wii or PS3.

- Remove the Dashboard ads, we already pay for your damn service why must my sweet background pic be blocked by an ad for Viva Pinata. The PS3's XMB only has advertisements when your in the store, just keep the ads in the marketplace where they belong.Ket87

I hate the whole blade backround add on the marketplace.

[QUOTE="Ket87"]

- Remove the Dashboard ads, we already pay for your damn service why must my sweet background pic be blocked by an ad for Viva Pinata. The PS3's XMB only has advertisements when your in the store, just keep the ads in the marketplace where they belong.II-FBIsniper-II

I hate the whole blade backround add on the marketplace.

The Marketplace is where they should be advertising though, thats Microsoft's space, the rest of the Dashboard is my space. It wouldn't be that bad if maybe it was just a tiny ad in the corner or something but there is already so much information already on the blades then throw in those ads that take up a quarter of the screen in themselves its pointless to even have a background theme you can hardly see it except for the splitsecond between blades. I know this probably is not much of a problem for people with 60" sets but on smaller HD-TVs and any SD-TV those ads take up some major real estate. How would you like it if on your computer Microsoft put ads on your desktop like that? You'd be pissed, its the same thing.

a internet browser so i can watch that video on you tube with that crazy xbox 360 lady going" bah bah bah"

they really need to support 16:10 vga resolutions- the resolutions currently availiable are completely outdated

they also need to provide scaling options, since there are so many sub HD games on the 360 nowadays

games like Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4 would look so much better if the 360 wasn't forced to scale them to 720p

Also, I don't understand why the 360 has had 1080p support for what.. years now? yet the dashboard still is 720p. It just looks like utter sh*t compared to the ps3 dash, which has been at 1080p since launch. Come on MS catch up

[QUOTE="_KenKittyragi_"]No 4 player PRIVATE chat please, that will lead to cheaters and such. A dashboard chat room would be awesome though, just like on the original xbox. Why would the 360 not have it in the first place? Ability to view somebodys games from date played, alphabetical order, or gamerscore total. Also, Internet Explorer on 360 would pwn. Ability to fast forward and rewind music on 360. Ability to delete all friends that haven't been on in over 1 month all at once. That's it really.Agent_Kaliaver

- See i found this way to work with multi-chat. When outside of game (either dashboard to single-player or even multiplayer lobby) you can have up to 4 people chat. That way you can get them to the game quickly or easier. But once the game starts up then it puts it down to 1 person chat (the person you started the chat with). I mean they can stop downloads before playing online why cant they stop multi chat? Plus they could give you options to either cancel chat all together once a game starts (puts you into games chat instead of 1 person chat) or to regroup the chat after game is done (so you don't have to send people invites to chat again).

Some people may say that would be frustrating but it would not allow cheating or abuse for in game and it would give people a way have a multi chat. Hell mabye they could allow multi-chat in private servers (so it won't stop when game starts.... it would just keep the chat open the whole time).

- Being able to fast forward or rewind in music should have been added from the start. We can do it to videos but not music? Some times i don't want to listen to that minute and a half opening.

- Ability to have Clan, Squads, Groups, Etc. Being able to either group your friends into sections like people i know and random people or family, friends, clan mates. Or having an overall Clan system. It could group together any clan your in and have a list of them. That way being in multiple clans for different games could work easier. This way you could see who is on and in which game and it could help you decide which clan you want to play with at that time. Plus this would allow you to see your clans and chat with them without cluttering up your friends list. Plus you wouldn't have to go in game to find out who is on in your clan (if the game allows clan support in that form... ex. Like Halo 2's clan system).

I mean these may be some harder ones to do (besides the music player), but hey i would rather have them than having a new looking U.I.

- Oh and mabye a search ability for Marketplace. That way you game type in a games name (and save for later use) and check out all the stuff that has been put out for the game. Instead of going into Games, All Games, and then look for your game out of the 300 something games.

There is no reason to lower the private chat once the game has started. That would be pointless to even have it. As far as cheating oes, that story doesn't fly cuz technically U can already have a multiple person chat, it's just much more difficult to do than necessary. Besides multiple people chatting can't lead to cheating any more than 2 person chat can.

• Improved guide performance, even thought it was "tweaked" last time around.
  
  • Ever try sending an invite and Private Chat in Gears?
    
    I think they could speed things up a bit here also.
    
• "Games Library" to load up fast, and only once.
  
  • Why, everytime I check my Games Library, does it have to take upto 10 seconds for my mere 22 games (and the console hasn't even been turned off!)? Do it once, cache it, and that's it.
    
    This annoys the crap outta me too!
    
• More codec support, more specifically, .mkv support
  
  • In an era of High Definition, that should already be integrated.
    
    MKV is actually just a container, x264 is what they need to support, but thats open source, so they wont. :(
    
• Multiple Person Private Chat
  • For upto 4 people
    
    I 'could' live without this but it would be nice still.
    
• Ability to fast forward/rewind music (whether streamed/from HDD)
  • My old iPod Mini can do it, why not the Xbox 360?
    
    Ya, why was this never a part of it from the start? Media center lacks still. Kind of like PS3 adding resume to dvd.
    
• Internet Speed Test to XBL servers
  • Can finally get an accurate reading of connction speed and other information. Data collected can be used in games to decide best hosts and such.
    
    They already have these features built in for developers to use (COD4 does this) but not for end users, its not really needed. They want to have everything plug and play basically.
    
• Disable Dashboard ads/shortcuts
  • Although the Dashboard is very intuitive and well-designed, the ads/shortcuts clutter the display
    
    • panel1.dashboard._visible = false; (copy and paste it MS, you bums)
      
      I can't see them doing this seeing as the ads help keep the cost of live down. They should just make it free and add one more ad somewhere.
      
• Web Browser
  • Full HTML support, and preferrably Flash as well
    
    Web browsers are on the wii and on your PC, why have a 360 one also? Using the PS3 and 360 controllers for web browsing is like eating rice with one chop stick. I think they should keep browsing for PCs only.

[my message from an old thread]Aaron89

Well, that's what I think of those, they are pretty good. I'd also like to see a way to merge profiles together, such as if you made a profile, got some achievments, and then added LIVE to your console, and if your name is taken, you have to make a new prifle for LIVe and the achievements are then stuck on the old profile.

Well, all I ever wanted was DivX support. And we got it with the last update. But here is my new wish list:

Group Chat
I know a lot of people would like this, and why not? This would be an excellent feature, especially for clans.

Ability to Preview Themes and Gamerpics
I'd like to know if a certain theme or gamerpic is worth downloading or not, especially when we have to pay.

User-Rating System
I'd like to see what people would rate an arcade game or movie I'm interested in.

Better Integrated Music Player
What they have on there now is pretty bad and annoying to use.

Lanezy

Definately! I have thought the same thing about themes, but they are all great ideas.