Microsoft: NXE Avatar clothing updates will be free ... for now

Hmm that's good I suppose. I got my bravehart facepaint and that's all I need really :D

Make the reward for new clothing based on gamerscore..

Man, I just want to be able to wear Jnco's and my silk Dungeons and Dragons shirt. If only the virtual world were as cool as me in reality.

This is a good idea. If you can't find SOMETHING to "wear" in 12 updates, you're probably too trendy to be making online avatars.

And if you're that trendy, you can be among the fools paying for the popped-collar and 80's logo shirts.

/sarcasm

Im sorry but i just don't think my stance is fem' enough. I mean, maybe if i can get my toon to arch his back out more, then i will enjoy the NXE, clothes??? who cares.
More gey less play.

The only thing on this Earth I want is a top hat. I wear a top hat in reality, and I am startled by the fact there's a monocle yet no top hat. It breaks my heart.

I want a Lancer for my avatar.

I wonder if they will give us more Face options? Right now, I see several Avatars who look very much alike, where on the Wii, this wasn't as big a problem (due to positioning of the features).

One of the new premium themes, the Ninja Blade one, apparantly comes with some new clothing options, but it's only available in Japan.

But it's nice to see some of the clothing will be free. I have no problem with having to pay for new clothes (I probably won't bother buying much, if anything anyway) but the options we have right now are just a little too limited.

Am I the only one who doesn't give a rats ass about avatars and won't waste a second trying to customize it?

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Although partially irrelevant, I'm really mourning the loss of my old Dashboard. Never before had I felt as technologically inept as when I had to fumble around for ten minutes in order to get to My Xbox. Uck. Makes me feel like I cheated my way to my GamerScore.

And by god, why is it that the male avatars have two and a half pages worth of shoes to pick from, while the female ones get six pairs of shoes in total? Do the people working on this new Xbox crap realize how paradoxical that is? And none of the flats match my avatar’s incredibly sexy vest and camo pants combo, so it has to wear those crappy cork wedges which I’d never way in reality and don’t look good on an already tall girl, especially a lanky and ridiculously pale one (being that cork wedges tend to look better with more tropical things)! *pouts* I second the notion of sandals and/or bare feet being available, because most people I know game in their pajamas, anyway. And if you fellas want bigger boobs, then I require that male avatars have an assortment of codpieces to choose from.

That is all.

Of course they will be monetizing this, I beleive that was the point. Probably gamer pics were not making enough money, so they were thinking... How else can we monetize the dashboard? I can see it now that they will have game characters as avatars etc...

Is there a nekkid skin set I can use?

hmmmmm.. since its free, im all for it.

Nickle and dime...

Still think MS missed an opportunity with Avatars. There should have been game related Avatars which automatically update your Avatar as you're playing a game. So, when you look at your friends line up and one of them is playing Gears for example, the Avatar is dressed like Marcus, rather than just having them dressed in the regular clothes and a boring game box image at their feet. A much more interactive and visually interesting friends line up.

Of course they could easily add a check box if you wanted to opt out of your Avatar changing based on the game you're playing.

just to let you know you can have your hair dyed on your avater if you go to the custamize avater screen and start spinning you avatar around and around and then after about a min the hair box will spin so click on it as it does and you can have lods of different colours from green to pink! i know its stupid ms dont give it to you straight up but thats ms. go to youtube for more help.