Thanks to this new feature, sharing content with your friends is just a click away, our blogging job has become more efficient and spending your Microsoft points has become even easier. It's a win-win-win!
Thanks to this new feature, sharing content with your friends is just a click away, our blogging job has become more efficient and spending your Microsoft points has become even easier. It's a win-win-win!
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Posted: Feb 3rd 2009 11:00PM (Unverified) said
Couldn't you already just copy the URL from the address bar? Or is it different?
Posted: Feb 4th 2009 10:42AM CyberKnight said
Apparently, copy and paste from the address bar is too difficult for your average X3F -- excuse me, Joystiq Xbox -- blogger. :rolleyes:
Because yes, to answer your question, you could do exactly that. Worked just fine.
The only thing new here is that the "Send a link" tab also appears in the lists, so you can get a link to an item without having to click on that item and bring up that page.
Save one click? Well, no, because you do have to click the "Send a link" tab. It just makes it more clear to people who might get confused by concepts like "copy" and "paste" and "Address Bar"...
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Because yes, to answer your question, you could do exactly that. Worked just fine.
The only thing new here is that the "Send a link" tab also appears in the lists, so you can get a link to an item without having to click on that item and bring up that page.
Save one click? Well, no, because you do have to click the "Send a link" tab. It just makes it more clear to people who might get confused by concepts like "copy" and "paste" and "Address Bar"...
Posted: Feb 3rd 2009 11:18PM OptimumEDGE said
This makes things easier either way.
Very niiiice.
Very niiiice.
Posted: Feb 3rd 2009 11:22PM (Unverified) said
What has happened to the xbox live arcade Hits program? Did they do away with that program during the relaunch?
Posted: Feb 3rd 2009 11:36PM The Punisher said
Awesome
Posted: Feb 4th 2009 12:12AM (Unverified) said
Wow, I was just in Chicago and past by that place. I saw the big EA logo. Sucks to be them.
Posted: Feb 4th 2009 12:15AM (Unverified) said
Sorry about the last post, my password manager saved a comment I made on an old thread.
QUESTION:
Is it possible to search for FREE content on XBL thru the web interface?
QUESTION:
Is it possible to search for FREE content on XBL thru the web interface?
Posted: Feb 4th 2009 2:38AM Jazza said
and if you remove en-us then it will work globally ;)
Posted: Feb 4th 2009 6:26AM Red Son Rising said
has anyone else had problems w/ xbox.com? ive been locked out for 2 straight days, cant check messages or forums or queue content for download. anything requiring a log in is page unavailable
Posted: Feb 4th 2009 8:58AM SuperDunner said
Clear your browser's cache and cookies ... it'll work :D
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Posted: Feb 5th 2009 12:20AM Red Son Rising said
finally started workin for me again, clearing cache seems to have done the trick.. never had this problem before, dunno why it happened but who cares, its workin now. i use xbox.com to message while im online and not having that really slows me down. thanks for the tip super d..
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Posted: Feb 4th 2009 10:21AM (Unverified) said
My only problem with all this is that I use multiple 360s in my house, but one hard drive that I just move from console to console. If I log on to one of them in particular, it won't download because MS has tied this to content to an exact console. I wonder if there's a way that I can register both consoles with my gamertag and that could somehow work?
Posted: Feb 4th 2009 11:33AM CyberKnight said
Major Nelson brought this up on a recent podcast (in the Xbox 101 segment). You have one "home console". When you queue up a download on the marketplace, and you sign in on your 360, one of two things will happen: (1) If you're on your home console, everything starts. (2) If you're on another console, if you go to "Active Downloads", you'll see everything listed in some status that means it's waiting to download on another console (I forget the exact message).
If you want to download the content on that second console, you can select that item and say "Download Now". You are then prompted if you want to download *all* content to the second console. If you say "yes", that console becomes your "home console" and all queued content now and from that time forward will download to that one. If you say "no", then only the selected item gets downloaded to the console you're sitting on at the moment.
Either way, with your gamertag, you can download the same content to both consoles (via Marketplace on the console and *probably* through the web as well) and use it on either console, as long as you're signed in to Xbox Live with that gamertag, because that gamertag purchased it.
Does that help?
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If you want to download the content on that second console, you can select that item and say "Download Now". You are then prompted if you want to download *all* content to the second console. If you say "yes", that console becomes your "home console" and all queued content now and from that time forward will download to that one. If you say "no", then only the selected item gets downloaded to the console you're sitting on at the moment.
Either way, with your gamertag, you can download the same content to both consoles (via Marketplace on the console and *probably* through the web as well) and use it on either console, as long as you're signed in to Xbox Live with that gamertag, because that gamertag purchased it.
Does that help?
Posted: Feb 4th 2009 11:43AM (Unverified) said
Thanks CyberKnight. I'll give that a shot today and let you know how it works.
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Posted: Feb 4th 2009 11:32AM Dralthi said
Now all we need are previews for the themes and gamerpics.
Posted: Feb 4th 2009 1:34PM mrballistic said
if only they'd use mod_rewrite or the equiv for iis. those urls are u-g-l-y and way too long.
marketplace.xbox.com/en-us/springsteen would be much nicer.
marketplace.xbox.com/en-us/springsteen would be much nicer.
Posted: Feb 4th 2009 2:55PM CyberKnight said
Nicer looking, but then they'd have to make sure they came up with a unique URL for each bit of content, and there'd be different spellings for different regions and crap...
A base URL and a GUID is probably a lot easier to maintain, and we want things that are easy to maintain, because it means less likely to break and we don't have to wait long for them to fix when it does.
Want something shorter? Use a tinyurl. Welcome to 2002. ;)
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A base URL and a GUID is probably a lot easier to maintain, and we want things that are easy to maintain, because it means less likely to break and we don't have to wait long for them to fix when it does.
Want something shorter? Use a tinyurl. Welcome to 2002. ;)
Posted: Feb 4th 2009 2:58PM mrballistic said
kinda sorta. how hard would it be to use a tinyurl-esque system, though?
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Posted: Feb 4th 2009 3:14PM CyberKnight said
Huh, you mean if *Microsoft* used a tinyurl-type of system?
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Hey, Microsoft! Welcome to 2002! ;)
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Hey, Microsoft! Welcome to 2002! ;)
Posted: Feb 4th 2009 5:34PM ZEBRA NINER said
I always appreciate when posts have a link to the marketplace. You guys at joybox xstick fanbox are all right.
