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Xbox 360 mandatory update comes Monday

article published on 1 November, 2010

According to an e-mail sent to subscribers of the Xbox Live service, a mandatory Dashboard update for the Xbox 360 console is due to be pushed out on Monday. Failing to install the update will make using the Xbox Live service impossible until the update is applied. "On November 1, 2010, there will be a mandatory service update to Xbox LIVE," the message reads. "This update will both add ... [ read the full article ]

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1. November 2010 @ 03:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
An update that does something other than remove features? They need to teach Sony a few things about customer relations.
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1. November 2010 @ 07:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
forced updates are not welcome.
biglo30
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1. November 2010 @ 11:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Well the update is out now, anyone know if this update will interfere with modded consoles?


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1. November 2010 @ 12:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by biglo30:
Well the update is out now, anyone know if this update will interfere with modded consoles?
It is always good to assume it will until you know different....


Just my $0.02,

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1. November 2010 @ 15:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i updated at lunch no problem. im running lt and have played a couple of pre released backups. i wasnt banned. i even played a couple of matches of mw2 just to see if it was going to take a few minutes, but im ok so far. ill let u know how things are looking after i get off work.

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biglo30
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1. November 2010 @ 16:09 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
So if I don't update, will this mean that I won't be able to play future games? because I don't really use xbox live anyway. I will go and do some research on this...


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beef815
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1. November 2010 @ 17:23 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
from my understanding, you should be able to play new games, just not online
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2. November 2010 @ 00:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by biglo30:
So if I don't update, will this mean that I won't be able to play future games? because I don't really use xbox live anyway. I will go and do some research on this...
I don't know. I know Nintendo has done it before so that you have to update your console to play certain things, but I dunno how Microsoft rolls.
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2. November 2010 @ 01:20 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by KillerBug:
An update that does something other than remove features? They need to teach Sony a few things about customer relations.
I thought xbox was from microsoft not from sony... wasn't it like microsoft response to play station?
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2. November 2010 @ 02:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by hglez86:
Originally posted by KillerBug:
An update that does something other than remove features? They need to teach Sony a few things about customer relations.
I thought xbox was from microsoft not from sony... wasn't it like microsoft response to play station?
OOh god... we are really full of dumb people aren't we? He says: THEY (as in MS Xbox 360) need to teach sony a few things.... He never said xbox was a SONY console.
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2. November 2010 @ 11:22 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by Azlyrix:
Originally posted by hglez86:
Originally posted by KillerBug:
An update that does something other than remove features? They need to teach Sony a few things about customer relations.
I thought xbox was from microsoft not from sony... wasn't it like microsoft response to play station?
OOh god... we are really full of dumb people aren't we? He says: THEY (as in MS Xbox 360) need to teach sony a few things.... He never said xbox was a SONY console.

lol don't we just love the people who read...
hglez86
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3. November 2010 @ 17:58 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
and it wasn't good enough to just explain what i didn't understand right? you had to go all the way out of your way and say all the dumb stuff you could... kudos to you X_x

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6. November 2010 @ 16:08 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
The dashboard is snappier now, it just looks like crud with all those square edges. Shame they didn't have square-o-vision before and switch to the older interface now. Ah well at least it's snappy i guess.



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