Xbox Live SA.... FAIL!

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SubOracle

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So I created an account... the market place is practically empty.

Arcade only has two games and some of the popular DLC is available. All in all not a particularly convincing start.
 
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I'm rephrasing this because my original reply came over as way too harsh.

I'm thankful to Microsoft that they've given South Africa XBOX Live because it's something that we've been asking them for years. However, as it's been pointed out in the article, the cost of Live Gold Membership and the price difference with Live points makes absolutely no sense to me. To add insult to injury, there are a lot of unanswered question from Microsoft about you current content that you may have.

So, higher prices on Gold members and points, uncertainty over the content that I've already downloaded and paid for and there's nothing to motivate me to move across to the South African Live environment. PLUS our version of Live actually supports less than the UK/US versions...

Wow. Really? I'm staying put with my international account thanks.
 
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Is there anything to stop me from creating a second, SA account alongside my UK account? I'd like to take the local service for a test drive.
 
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Much more feasible to use current uk and us accounts.. i mean where's the incentive to migrate.. there's no facebook or zune or any of the other stuff like that.. but hey i guess its a start.. hopefully sooner rather then later it kicks up a gear however i highly doubt it..
 
Grimspoon said:
Give it a chance? Thing just launched
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The least they could have done was populate the arcade with say 20% of the top downloaded games or even just indie games if licensing was a problem. I expected more, they had more then 4 months partially implement a tried and tested system.
 
Grimspoon said:
Give it a chance? Thing just launched
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That's why I'm going to migrate at least one of my accounts. That way I'll still somehow show MS that there IS indeed interest in XBOX Live in South Africa. I'm also afraid of what might happen if interest levels remain low. We'll be stuck in the closet for every new MS service for the rest of our lives. EEEEK :eek:
 
primo said:
Much more feasible to use current uk and us accounts.. i mean where's the incentive to migrate.. there's no facebook or zune or any of the other stuff like that.. but hey i guess its a start.. hopefully sooner rather then later it kicks up a gear however i highly doubt it..
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I'd be interested to hear how many people who do not have PCs or Macs use their XBoxen for Social Networking.
I find typing out messages on my Xbox clunky and prefer to use a full-sized keyboard and mouse.

The way I see it, Microsoft SA have concentrated on the central feature of Xbox Live, and assuming that most or all of the gaming
content is available locally, that may be sufficient for most South African Xbox gamers.

Have you any idea whether the Xbox Live content is being hosted locally and if so, who is doing it?
 
phoenix said:
I'd be interested to hear how many people who do not have PCs or Macs use their XBoxen for Social Networking.
I find typing out messages on my Xbox clunky and prefer to use a full-sized keyboard and mouse.

The way I see it, Microsoft SA have concentrated on the central feature of Xbox Live, and assuming that most or all of the gaming
content is available locally, that may be sufficient for most South African Xbox gamers.

Have you any idea whether the Xbox Live content is being hosted locally and if so, who is doing it?
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Get that little chatpad keyboard for the controller :p
 
@Omega: What? Spend several hundred rand in case I want to send the odd message? You know me better than that! :p

Besides, the keys are tiny, aren't they?
 
I use an old beat up logitech if that helps, where the letters are rearranged incorrectly.. don't ask :D
 
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