The most annoying thing is you cannot check recent gamers you have met in game. It feels so retarded that you have to remember the person gamer tag to friend them.
Out of all the steps back the Xbox One UI takes, this is perhaps the biggest offense. Absolutely mind boggling how standard features that Xbox Live has had for almost a decade have been scrapped or messed with. I've been with Xbox Live since the original Xbox and every update has made the experience better and better for the most part... Until now. Just off the top of my head here is a list of what they've somehow dropped the ball on...
- No checking battery status of a controller
- No view recent players
- No inviting friends to game from friend list or joining their game (Utterly ridiculous)
- Having to turn party chat on separately
- No auto sign in to profile
- Just plain clunkier and harder to access things that matter like friends, messages, achievements while in game
- No more streaming music from PC while playing games, or streaming any media for that matter
- No notifications when friends come online
- No option to send voice messages to friends
I'm sure there's more I'm missing but the fact that is the a supposed next gen console and there's this many problems and missing features that were standard on an 8 year old console is completely insane. Recording game play is done well and using Kinect as a microphone works well but those are literally the only 2 good things I can say about the new UI. I Don't care for anything else Kinect, media or snap related. The really important things to me are missing and it's a damn shame to see how far the Xbox has fallen, and this isn't even taking into account the technical inferiority of the hardware compared to the PS4.