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New Features Coming to Xbox One Preview and Xbox Beta App this Month
- Thread starter Bits N Pieces
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It's a good push
But how will stuff get popular if it only shows popular stuff in the first place?
Sure why not? Folders for everything. Pins, My Games & Apps, Ready to install. There's no reason not to really.
I think MS allows for PINS, there is no ROOM for Folders.
You want to go to -> My Games & Apps and then Folders for Games ?
Sorry I am not making fun on anyone, I just think its too tedious.
mavericktopgun
Member
How about mp3 playback in background like in the Xbox and Xbox 360 days?
Huh? The folders would just need to act like another pin, of course there'd be room. Look at the 3ds' implementation of folders and it works amazing with no issues on the home screen.
Sure why not? When you have a ton of games installed it gets really difficult to navigate the MG&A section.
muzzymate
Member
They've mentioned it's in the pipeline. But I'm very surprised they rolled out backwards compatibility without it.
I am actually not a friend of folders.
On a modern system, the system itself should organize it´s stuff.
For instance if there are too much games, automatically make seperate categories for Xbox One and Xbox 360 Games
Or add a third row once the game amount exceeds a certain limit.
BluenoseGames
Member
Awesome list.
And this is kinda off-topic but does anyone know how to access the free EA Access games since its still asking for a subscription fee.
And this is kinda off-topic but does anyone know how to access the free EA Access games since its still asking for a subscription fee.
Cereal Enthusiast
Banned
Reminds me that it feels like ages since we got a new PS4 firmware update (3.0 didn't bring a lot of new things besides Community). I know Yoshida said they were working hard to make PS4's OS work with PS VR, but I'm tired of waiting...
I agree with that, that should happen but it's not like you'd have to use folders so nothing would change if you're not a fan of them.
I don't want half the games I have installed to show up because they're in my backlog and they're just taking up space around games I do want to play, I could uninstall it but then that takes hours to redownload them again. Same thing for Ready to install, I don't want to hide them but I don't want them to show up at that point in time either.
I forgot "folders" for friends..I suppose it's more categories than folders but essentially the same thing.
Great that this is coming back, but it should show up directly on the main "Community" tab. That tab is totally useless as it is now.
Head.spawn
Junior Member
A folder as a Pin could make sense. I wouldn't even use it myself, I use Kinect to launch titles, but it think it could work.
Going to my games and apps first would be tedious, I agree, a bit pointless as well. But Pinning an actual folder, with organised Pins inside could be useful to some.
For instance, you could have a Folder-Pin dedicated to media apps.. click on it and maybe scroll up and down a pop out list and see Netflix, Pandora and Crackle. Click on another list for your goto games, another list with action games etc etc. People want to be able to do their cobwebbed organizing... just put a cap on the amount of titles per folder for stability sake and let them have what they want. Basically they could make it function the way it does on Android OS for shortcuts and that'd be perfect for a gaming console.
SEGAvangelist
Member
Agreed. No one will even go to look at it in the achievements section that is hidden away. We need an achievements tab on the front page, IMO.
TheHellsLord
Member
While I'm sure Microsoft also monitors certain forums when it comes to feature requests, it's always good to also add your votes to features you'd like to see implemented at http://feedback.xbox.com (and also stuff you'd like to see brought back or changed).
Sounds good.
Hopefully it makes other parts more stable or consistent. Profiles and parts behave weird : scroll down and you have no cursor, then press left or right and it jumps down. The rt on the store page etc only works once, won't go down more. There is still jank to be ironed out.
Game notifications were turned off? Was playing Killer Instinct and if I tasked away, the game wouldn't notify me the next match was found and starting.
And I don't care about background music.
Hopefully it makes other parts more stable or consistent. Profiles and parts behave weird : scroll down and you have no cursor, then press left or right and it jumps down. The rt on the store page etc only works once, won't go down more. There is still jank to be ironed out.
Game notifications were turned off? Was playing Killer Instinct and if I tasked away, the game wouldn't notify me the next match was found and starting.
And I don't care about background music.
#sorrynotsorry
Member
Yeah I better be able to remove the garbage on my achievements tab. I don't care, but I have a few friends who dropped Xbox literally only due to that change.
Live.xbox.com is already suggesting friends based on who follows you and who they follow. I don't think it requires social network hoops.
I'm glad we can remove stuff from our ready to install list, well...soon. Being able to re-arrange pins more easily is something I wanted too. I even made a suggestion for this in the Preview app.
Unfortunately since the last update my Xbox downloaded, my Xbox One has been dead. It was the wireless capability at first, so after waiting a week and a half I connected it with a cable to see if another update was released to fix my issue.
There wasn't, so I did a factory reset and the wireless worked again (yay...) but my external couldn't be seen. So I'd do a hard reboot to see if that'd rejigger it but then my controller wouldn't connect and wouldn't work (even wired up!). So I tried doing the offline diagnostic tool to re-reset to factory and it'd just be the same loop.
The update was dated Jan5 and I had just been playing Gears Ultimate with my Dad on Jan3. Sorry for ranting, it's just... it feels like I'm going to have to get another Xbox One (and I really wanted to play Nuts and Bolts after seeing a thread about it...)
Unfortunately since the last update my Xbox downloaded, my Xbox One has been dead. It was the wireless capability at first, so after waiting a week and a half I connected it with a cable to see if another update was released to fix my issue.
There wasn't, so I did a factory reset and the wireless worked again (yay...) but my external couldn't be seen. So I'd do a hard reboot to see if that'd rejigger it but then my controller wouldn't connect and wouldn't work (even wired up!). So I tried doing the offline diagnostic tool to re-reset to factory and it'd just be the same loop.
The update was dated Jan5 and I had just been playing Gears Ultimate with my Dad on Jan3. Sorry for ranting, it's just... it feels like I'm going to have to get another Xbox One (and I really wanted to play Nuts and Bolts after seeing a thread about it...)
Phoenix Fang
Banned
How about removing games with 0 achievements? There are games showing up on my list that I haven't even played like Fallout 4 and some other game can't remember at the moment.
A.D. Skinner
Member
Glad to be able to hide games again, seeing who's in a party too. The rest all sounds nice too, especially the additional options.
Hope this fixes the issue of my games never being in recent order too.
That, and BETAs. In fact, just let me delete what I want! But let's start with 0 and BETAs (which incidentally, are all 0 anyway)
Hope this fixes the issue of my games never being in recent order too.
That, and BETAs. In fact, just let me delete what I want! But let's start with 0 and BETAs (which incidentally, are all 0 anyway)
So, this month Microsoft is basically re introducing the stuff that was already there, but they took out for the NXOE, right?
Stuff like View who's in party, leaderboards, hide games and joinable Twitch broadcasts are all things that were in the dashboard before, got removed and now are being taunted as highlights for a new update.
It's a very weak month, in my opinion.
Stuff like View who's in party, leaderboards, hide games and joinable Twitch broadcasts are all things that were in the dashboard before, got removed and now are being taunted as highlights for a new update.
It's a very weak month, in my opinion.
The Xbox One UI has a been a catastrophic disaster since it was rushed to launch. The amount of resources and capabilities spent on the constant review and work on the thing must be tiring and demoralising.
It has achieved little result and now seems to be used as a PR marketing opportunity. It is obvious the regular changing of what the Xbox One is supposed to be has caused confusion and lack of focus on the UI.
The next Xbox needs to perform much better in many areas. Focusing on gaming would be an ideal start.
It has achieved little result and now seems to be used as a PR marketing opportunity. It is obvious the regular changing of what the Xbox One is supposed to be has caused confusion and lack of focus on the UI.
The next Xbox needs to perform much better in many areas. Focusing on gaming would be an ideal start.
Bits N Pieces
Member
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walltowall
Member
SMOK3Y
Generous Member
Actually surprised xbox didn't have that feature
Zvonimir Boban
Banned
It used to be there but it disappeared with the new dash. I hated not knowing who was in a party, I'm anti-social enough to hate the thought of joining a party and seeing 10 gamertags I've never seen before.
VincentMatts
Member
I want them to put your "years on Live" badge more in the forefront. I find its hidden away and it would be cool to be able to attach it to your profile or gamercard or something.
Also, adding games to my library without having to download them would be nice.
Also, adding games to my library without having to download them would be nice.
AgentOtaku
Member
YEEEEESSS!!!!!!
When they implement folders, I will:
- Create a new folder
- Name the folder "GWG"
- Place all the GWG games in it
Hero_of_the_Day
Member
Did the same thing. Come on, MS!
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
I would like them to bring back that delete a game from your achievements list as long as you haven't unlocked anything.
Steverulez
Member
Offline pins! Finally... not much else there I'm that bothered about but that is a nice one. Gamerscore leaderboards and hide on install list are nice returns too