you do not need that many friends. it would be so annoying thinking you are getting achievements every minute when people log in...
did m$ change that sound yet? having the friends log in sound and the achievement sound the same is stupid.
100 friends is way more than enough. This isn't Facebook, people. There's just no way that you can actively be gaming with 100 people frequently enough that they should all be in your list, let alone have a need for MORE than 100.
Drop some dead weight if you capped your list, because if you did cap your list you DO have some dead weight, trust me.
To me the 100 user limit on friends is sort of like high school, in that you meet them in a common place, with xbox live it's a popular game. Then you spend a lot of time together gaming and doing other things. After while you graduate to a new game but you say that you will still keep in contact with each other as you head off into different paths. And if you should decide to delete some friends from your list and lost contact with them, you might get some questions on why you haven't contacted them and don't recognize them at the every 10 year class of whatever reunion you happen to go to. Although I think people on the Xbox Live have reunions every two years, each times a
Halo, Call of Duty, Gears of War, and etc comes out. Oh, the joys of these awkward moments that everyone who has 100 friends must go through.
Meh, not really a big deal for me as I sat at around 15 friends for the longest time until recently when I started playing L4D online with people I didn't know. Hopefully I don't ever meet more than 85 people through L4D, though...
Why not bank swap? Have your 100 people that Live1 can see, and use Live 2 to swap in / out of that list any other number of other friends.
Alternatively, remake Halo 2 as a full 360 title. They would make bank, and satisfy the players who feel that Halo 2 is somehow superior to Halo 3 from a multiplayer perspective.
I have 100 friends.... but I'll admit that half of them I just hang on to for sentimentality's sake.
It seems like every time I get into a new multiplayer game I pick up a new group of friends that I play THAT game with regularly. Then when I quit playing that game... I have a hard time deleting those people because I really enjoyed that time with them and I MIGHT play something else with them in the future.
My Perfect Dark Zero and GRAW 2 crews are long gone. My Gears of War crew comes next. Sorry guys.... nothing personal.... I promise!
@IvanDashSmith: I guess a few get through the cracks, eh?
Listen to the new poster below. You can't just change the old xbox live architecture in any cost-effective way.
@Jimbodawg: I didn't read the article before, but all they say is that it isn't as simple as a patch. But this isn't hardware architecture, it is the software's interaction with it.
Programmers always say there is no way to do something, until they sit down and find a way to do it. I'm sure someone could find a way if given the resources.
@IvanDashSmith:
But then you have to realize they're spending all of their time to go back to older games, when they could be preparing us for future titles with way more functionality.
Although, I do wish they keep support for Halo 2 forever and ever. I love that game! =)
So, I read that as "Crecente and his mom. She always lets me win."
And I thought, wow, that seemed like a rather harsh burn. LOL.
Are the people still playing this game playing it on their original Xbox consoles or their 360s? Can you even connect to live in its current state on the original Xbox? How does that work?
How else are you going to find true love? We gibbed each other from across a crowded room, she joined my friends list, and then joined my life.
Okay, not really, but a 13 year old once called me an, "Ass goblin," which made me laugh.
@n00b_pwner: They would have to re-do the complete online architecture of Xbox Live. People still play Halo 2 on the Xbox 1...
MS doesn't care enough nor do they need to.
08/11/09
did m$ change that sound yet? having the friends log in sound and the achievement sound the same is stupid.
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That would be incredibly annoying.
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Drop some dead weight if you capped your list, because if you did cap your list you DO have some dead weight, trust me.
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@Numerous: thats pretty interesting lol
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Halo, Call of Duty, Gears of War, and etc comes out. Oh, the joys of these awkward moments that everyone who has 100 friends must go through.
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Alternatively, remake Halo 2 as a full 360 title. They would make bank, and satisfy the players who feel that Halo 2 is somehow superior to Halo 3 from a multiplayer perspective.
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It seems like every time I get into a new multiplayer game I pick up a new group of friends that I play THAT game with regularly. Then when I quit playing that game... I have a hard time deleting those people because I really enjoyed that time with them and I MIGHT play something else with them in the future.
My Perfect Dark Zero and GRAW 2 crews are long gone. My Gears of War crew comes next. Sorry guys.... nothing personal.... I promise!
08/10/09
Create an update which raises the cap on the number of friends in Halo 2.
You're welcome,
-Me
08/10/09
If you read the article on G4, you'd know that your suggestion isn't possible.
08/10/09
Listen to the new poster below. You can't just change the old xbox live architecture in any cost-effective way.
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Programmers always say there is no way to do something, until they sit down and find a way to do it. I'm sure someone could find a way if given the resources.
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But then you have to realize they're spending all of their time to go back to older games, when they could be preparing us for future titles with way more functionality.
Although, I do wish they keep support for Halo 2 forever and ever. I love that game! =)
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And I thought, wow, that seemed like a rather harsh burn. LOL.
Are the people still playing this game playing it on their original Xbox consoles or their 360s? Can you even connect to live in its current state on the original Xbox? How does that work?
08/10/09
Yeah, the original xbox still works fine. You just recover your gamertag on the old system and you can use xbox live.
Oh and it looks the old school way...you don't have all the fancy features of the 360.
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Okay, not really, but a 13 year old once called me an, "Ass goblin," which made me laugh.
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MS doesn't care enough nor do they need to.