New Avatar fashions planned every two weeks for six months

by Alexander Sliwinski on Nov 19th 2008 2:00PM

An Avatar ad on the NXE states that new fashions will be added every two weeks and will be noted by a gold star. Xbox Live Product Unit Manager Jerry Johnson confirms that new accessories will be added for at least the next half a year.

According to Johnson, the new fashions will be implemented in packs. We've already noticed that some clothing options have been taken away, like the "wife-beater" (no, it wasn't called that on the NXE). No word yet if these packs will cost anything, but we do know that Microsoft is considering it. What, you don't think the virtual Louis Vuitton bag or Marc Jacobs outfit (not the game designer) will be free, do you?

Source - Avatar theme packs confirmed for next six months [VG247]
Source - Avatar fashion selection to double in next six months [X3F]

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Tags: avatar, avatars, fashion, microsoft, nxe, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (52)

More than new outfits I'd rather have the option to change the colour pallet of the existing clothing pieces. That and a goatee + sideburns option (hey, if my avatar is supposed to be me, he better have sideburns with the chin scruff).

HELL YES to being able to change clothing colours. Also, can we gets some Catholic schoolgirl outfits, Wicked Weasel bikinis, cheerleader outfits, and Victoria Secret lingerie please Microsoft?

here here on color changing!

Why can't I modify the color of clothes? I wouldn't want the "TSHIRT PACK! that includes your favorites: Red, Green, Blue, Orange, Perri winkle, & Plum (Purple)"

I know, the dress shirt with the tie would be better if it were black.

Oh delicious anne hathaway.

Obligatory,

I'd hit it!

She has some "tired eyes" most of the time but when she doesn't she is flawlessly beautiful.

I'd hit em both!

Alex, you get the camera, and xFenixKnightX can handle the audio.

Eiffel tower!!!

I'd hit playwhutyalike hitting them two!

You are all so abusive... :(

If they just add the option to change colours and patterns, it would exponentially increase the variety. Add in even one of those colour mixer tools and patterns like plaid, polka dot, stripes etc.

Also, some shirt sleeves that fit plz!!!

whhy anyone would want to spend money on a avatar is beyond me i try to only by the tangible things in life.

I'd consider spending a little more on your next avatar. ;)

tangible things like... oh, I don't know... drugs and alcohol?

Ridiculous. I already don't like the NXE (because the in-game UI is now as slow as PS3 among other things) and this only makes me less excited about it.

It's faster than the blades, so I'm not sure what the hell you're talking about.

I would be very interested in new clothing options as long as they are free. I've already changed my avatar 3 times since i got NXE on monday. Its fun to do, but now that everyone is going to have avatars, mine wont be as original. New clothes would help that alot, even custom colors. Just as long as they are free.

color options, and more eye (better) and nose options. I hate how the white area of the eye is skin colored. It's obvious that the avatar system is geared toward making white people. I think the placement system for Miis is way better at making people more closely matching themselves. The NXE has the extreme benefit of being able to update constantly unlike the Mii's this is all you get system, but at least with Mii's given the restraints you can be a lot more creative with it. I know I wouldn't be able to make admiral Akbar with the NXE, the piece options leave a LOT to be desired. I'm not talking a bethesda ugly person creator, but they've simplified this too much.

Hey Blizz, i guess you'll be getting your "black baseball cap" after all. OR, every other color and style besides black. ;)

Big yellow Sombrero's, Olive green Army helmet's, Grey Fedora's, Purple Pimp hat's.

Glee!

Ugh...plurals *do not* have apostrophes.

I tried my damndest to keep from typing this but the fact that you did it 4 times in one sentence forced my hand.

Yeah, lol My job reqckuires more art, than smart.

Mathematic's, to! I never Lyiked Math. Nd iv'e ben ouT of skool qwite sum time. Butt i appologyse 4 my mistackes. I kno their annoiying.

;)

Most likely MS is going to charge for the new gear, but i dont think that would be a wise choice. IMO its acceptable if its 1$ worth of MS points, IF they must charge. Otherwise, games over avatar tinkering any day.

Obviously they're going to charge for these, but I think it would be a good idea to adopt what LBP is doing, and make sure to release a free outfit or item along with every set of 'premium' clothes. It gets people more into the DLC, and might convince them to spend $$ somewhere down the line. Plus they wouldn't generate as much ill will among those of us who don't pay for digital clothes.

I found the avatar editor a lot better then the Mii editor, I was forced to make my Mii look human instead of a Trow (Dark Elf for those who don't know.

NERRRRRRRRRRRDS!!!!!

The ad itself does say some of these packs will be free. I welcome the idea of new clothing options, and again, it's not really any different from having to buy LBP costumes.

Definately need to keep the new style of clothes free. However, offering NFL licensed clothes or band t-shirts for $$$ would be acceptable and I think would be sell pretty decently.

Thats a fantastic Idea! My avatar would totally be rock'n a Mars Volta T or a Caron Butler jersey. Those are things that would make a statement about myself.

Know what really blows? About a week ago there were a lot more clothing options available. Most notably, there were 6 or 7 suits you could choose from...it is now whittled down to 2. They stripped out a bunch of avatar stuff for the public launch.

Why give the milk for free, when they can force you to buy the cow one-bit-at-a-time?

Actually it makes perfect sense that they stripped out a lot of the clothing options. Instead of having to scroll through pages and pages of clothes that don't fit my personal tastes I can just download the pack that make sense in my "digital closet".

I remember seeing an avatar picture of a guy in a pink bunny outfit. I would never put that shit on my avatar so why have it take up space on the screen and on my hard drive? I know personally I would like more hats to chose from but don't care about the shoes that much. There are plenty of people out there that are the opposite. We shouldn't be forced to scroll through 100 pieces we don't like just to get to the one we love.

I have a poor mans HD setup. I have a hannspree monitor with both VGA and HDMI ports. up till now its worked great with my 360, but after applying this update I have no audio no matter what I do. audio works on my pos TV, but not with my monitors build in speakers or external speakers.

Wtf do I do?

Check your cables. I have the same type of setup, and I'm getting sound just fine.

not my cables and its not just me. Im hearing reports on different places that its a bug that is effecting multiple people with hdmi. theres a work around, but it didnt work for me.

It's ANITA! AN-EE-TA DAAAHLING!

That is from 101 Dalmations, right?

No, its The Devil Wears Prada.

Which, in all honesty, isn't that bad of a chick flick....

Mainly because of hot hot Anne Hathaway.

are you kidding?

M$ has been nickel-&-diming live subscribers since day one. of course they're going to charge us.

the only issue they're discussing is how much they think they can get for each "pack".

If they charge for XBMii accessories then that's a friggin' joke. It's one thing if we could use the XBMii's in games or something but if they just serve as happy "party chat" people then I can't imagine anyone buying crap for that.

Of course, there are a lot of stupid people with money to burn out there. So who knows.

Yesh, the shirt selection sucks. It looks like JC Penney and AE had a one night stand baby. I see JC Penny as the single struggling mom. AE is the no good dad who won't pay child support.

I created a girl just out of curiosity, and I'd like to know who at Microsoft thought one page of shoes - ONE PAGE - would be enough.

My dude is just fine though.

Got a thing for shoes? Wanna talk about it?

Not what I meant... Girls creating avatars are gonna be like WHAT ONLY EIGHT PAIRS OF SHOES? BUT I HAVE 30 IRL!

Meanwhile, I have my Chucks and my non-slip shoes for work.

The whole avatar thing doesnt do much for me... and this doesnt really make it any more appealing.

Oddly enough a lot of the clothing option in the NXE I also had in my real world closet. So getting my avatar dressed was really easy. But it did bring up a question do I have bad taste in cloths or good because NXE had them also?

P.S. I loved that movie.

They updated the store a week ago or so. Suddenly there were loads of stuff with gold stars attached.

vault suit?

I am blown away there is no Hoodie.

Hoodies are a staple of gamers everywhere.

They need to add top hats.

I don't really care about "fashions" for the avatars. What I want to see is game character costumes, either complete or in pieces that we can use.

For some reason I want to see my avatar w/ Isaac's helmet from Dead Space...to go with the tropical shirt...

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