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Posted: Jan 27th 2009 2:40PM Xav de Matos said

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Many of you have mentioned the RSS is having issues. Our development ninja is on the case. I'll update you when I get an update.

Posted: Jan 27th 2009 3:21PM SirUrza said

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Hopefully it'll be fixed before the new episode goes up!
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Posted: Jan 27th 2009 6:26PM Koopaconn said

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NOOO! Not change anything but that. Hmmm actually this does look pretty nice.

Posted: Jan 27th 2009 2:57PM mikeisgo said

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I sad because I haven't seen a news post from Xav, Richard or Dustin all day :(, just stuff from outside Joystiq guys.. I mean i guess I can count Alexander, but only kinda... I much prefer Richard/Xav/Dustin banter to the McElroy quips which are completely unfunny.

Posted: Jan 27th 2009 3:22PM SirUrza said

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We're in a recession dude. Joystiq guys posting means they don't have to pay the affiliate guys because the news is already posted.
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Posted: Jan 27th 2009 3:17PM (Unverified) said

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I'm welcoming the change as best as possible, trying to get used to the site not being called xbox360fanboy =0|

Congrats on the new look gents.

Posted: Jan 27th 2009 3:18PM (Unverified) said

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Ok Xav you said other writers would be poking from time time to post, thats fine. I havent seen anything from Richard or Dustin today and your one post what gives. Plus Will see fancast 101 today ?

Posted: Jan 27th 2009 3:33PM (Unverified) said

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I do like the new look though....

Posted: Jan 27th 2009 5:00PM Mystictrust said

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If you have an X3F sticker hold on to it, it's just become much more valuable.

Here's to a new JQX sticker... or whatever it'll be :-/

Posted: Jan 27th 2009 3:54PM (Unverified) said

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As of today you guys are not my favorite fansite anymore.

Bye. Bye.

Posted: Jan 31st 2009 5:45PM (Unverified) said

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What about the X3F stickers? It was a beastin' logo methinks.

Posted: Jan 27th 2009 4:18PM (Unverified) said

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nice change


the fanboy shit was a bad look

Posted: Jan 27th 2009 4:45PM (Unverified) said

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I don't like it. The other design was better. This was the only gaming news related site I visited because it was simple. Well anyway, that's it for me.

Posted: Jan 27th 2009 5:35PM Karmastocracy said

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Well okay, first of all I let me start off with the perks! It's definitely more modern, and new look, with lots more information & "connectivity" with Joystiq. I like how integrated the blog is with joystiq as well, and being able to seemlessly browse the other "fanboy" sites is quite a bit easier than the *old* scrolling down to the bottom of the page for the link. I also like the recent news-as-pictures box at the top of the page. However...

Sleeker? No, I can't really say it is. It's also really... "blocky" (for lack of a better word) because all I see is a bunch of eye-sore boxes & bricks. The Joystiq title (One at the top of the page which say's Joystiq- Xbox) is definitely nice, but the Xbox part of it is dissapointing. Gone is the old logo, and even color! At least bring a little "fun" to the title! (lol) I definitely think the color scheme is wacky, since the green looks a little sick instead of the brighter, playful, sexy green used on the old site. I think it was a mistake to take off the X3F "spotlight" on the right, with all of the awesome images & links to your best newstories. Sure I saw the highlights thing which is supposed to take it's place, but there's a time to clutter up the side bar with just words, and a time to add a few pictures to spice things up. The podcast should be moved up a little bit (I didn't even see the link until about 15 minutes into browsing everything), the catagories should be brought back, you guys should change the comment font back to the old one, I think the fun "Xbox" rating system you guys had before was great (instead of the regular hearts), and someone should slap upside the head whoever thought it was a good idea to keep us from being able to really customize our user profiles!
(Yes I do realize that was an absurd run-on)

In all honesty I think this new layout lack the MOST (I'm not throwing around words here) of what made me personally love the old site; other than of course the main draw of you guys. A lot of the little touches you guys added to the old site to make it special are completely gone, and I think it was a little silly of you guys to take away appearance when your actually trying to upgrade the site. I'm really sorry for being critical, I'm sure if you guys have read my other post I'm usually the real Fanboy of you guys but I think these things just have to be said! Xav, I've noticed you've read through + commented on a surprising amount of these comments so if you read this one I do have a specific question to ask you. Did one of the X3F team actually help in creating the new layout, or was it (I suspect) just a few of the Joystiq guys?

Other than that... Good job ;-)
ps- It's going to take some pretty brilliant blogging skills to get me to switch to JX, until then you shall be known as X3F to me!

Posted: Jan 27th 2009 6:54PM bradfordswood said

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Is this an attempt to save money by consolidating? I hope no one got laid off because of this...

Posted: Jan 27th 2009 7:26PM (Unverified) said

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Wow. Two types of things in the gaming world:

1. Corporate dumbness designed to '"entice readers" and please everybody no matter how shallow or bland they have to become.
2. Cool, unconforming loners who speak there mind no matter who it offends and make a snappy comment when people insult them.

I want 2. You apparently want 1(did you read 1?!?).

My daily routine used to be go to Kotaku, then go to xbox360fanboy. xbox360fanboy doesn't exist anymore, so...

Darn you.

Posted: Jan 27th 2009 7:27PM (Unverified) said

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*their
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Posted: Jan 28th 2009 9:08PM (Unverified) said

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Love the new look. Don't necessarily care for the name; seems like Joystiq could easily be misspelled.

Posted: Jan 27th 2009 8:10PM (Unverified) said

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BOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

Posted: Jan 27th 2009 8:10PM bsangel said

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There seems to be a lot of redundancy between the Joystiq Xbox feed and the regular Joystiq feed. Is that due to feed issues or will that be the standard from here on out?

(Love the new look btw!)

Posted: Jan 27th 2009 8:28PM (Unverified) said

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Yuck.

I *loved* the old xbox360fanboy brand. Now this just feels like a cobbled together tiny piece of some big portal site (Ok, maybe it always was, but it didn't *feel* like it).

I'll stick with the podcast (which has always been amazing), but i'm done with the site. Nice work guys. Why bother building a great brand just to destroy it?

Posted: Jan 28th 2009 1:03AM (Unverified) said

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Time for Change!

Posted: Jan 27th 2009 10:05PM (Unverified) said

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Ok, i'm totally not digging the name either, but ehh, its only a name. Yet, didn't you guys like have some kinda thing against joystiq, atleast it sounded like it in your podcast. Anyways, why is there playstation news on joystix xbox? How dare they put links up for playstation!!! Anyways, I would totally love if you guys could give me or sell some of those stickers and other things you have left over that has x3f on it. Here's to a new look, and more content!

Posted: Jan 27th 2009 10:36PM imurray said

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New comment system?

Of course not!

Posted: Jan 27th 2009 11:10PM (Unverified) said

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Pretty cool new look...I will miss X3F though, really liked the name but, as long as it will be the same great community, that is all that matters!

Posted: Jan 28th 2009 1:15AM (Unverified) said

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seriously this new site is bullsh1t!

Posted: Jan 28th 2009 1:16AM (Unverified) said

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why change things that aren't broken? just like microsoft and the nxe you change something that was perfectly fine the way it was and made it crap

anyone got a link to a better 360 blog? this one's a joke now

Posted: Jan 28th 2009 8:47AM mdrewry said

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Being a blog, I come here as much to read the comments as the actual article and has the commenting system changed?

I thought before, all the comments appeared in a long list making it easy to scroll down? Now, it seems I have to hit a link to see the next 20, and said link seems to activate the phishing scan (IE7) meaning I'm seeing a 5-10 sec wait to move on.
Anyone else seeing this, or just me?

I guess I could disable the scan, or use a different browser, but changing my browser habits seems a harder route than clicking through from my RSS feed to a different site running the same article!

Posted: Jan 28th 2009 2:21PM (Unverified) said

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Where's X3F TV at?

I need to see if there are any new xbla reviews etc..

Posted: Jan 28th 2009 4:34PM Caublasian said

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Aww man! What the hay. It's good to see some of the familiar ex-fanboy names and all.. But I feel like a 25 yr old kid who just found out the truth about Santa claus. -Or as if microsoft sold themselves out to Sony. The old site was for 360 gamers. The fact that there is a Playststion, and nintendo tab on top makes it weird. I foresee lots of console bashing smack talking in the near future. :0(

Posted: Jan 28th 2009 3:46PM (Unverified) said

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Hate it! It's really awful. Now, the Joystiq website looks cleaner, and I may visit (never have), but the xbox tab for the site is really bad--it's like i'm on ign and need to select my console.

The character that has made the x3f nation is not represented in the layout/style/etc. Miss it very much. Anyway, we'll see if the new features Xav described will keep me visiting. At this point I doubt it--I will just keep downloading the podcast.

The cross-platform content links may get a few click-throughs from others, but it will probable mean I'm done here.

Posted: Feb 9th 2009 11:49AM (Unverified) said

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Salutations, former Xbox360Fanboy!

Can't express enough how disappointed in this new site and name change. This "Joystiq Xbox seems soulless, lifeless and NOT 360 centric. I see PS3 and Wii stories and news on the right banners. WTF and... WTH!

Change is good however now you seem more in being general video gaming than 360 focused. Which was your niche, that no longer the case I have not reason to visit your site. As other sites beat you in this arena. I love my 360 and see no reason why a website can't be dedicated to it exclusively.

The Sony PS3 fanboys love their games and the system... So now have to find another focused dedicated Xbox 360 site. Because now I won't recommend you, come here to this site or even list to the podcast. Which is sad but you just like Sony have lost your focus.

Bye

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