Web content on Xbox Live not a Microsoft priority

Gamers like watching things about gaming? pish posh.

Lately I've spotted several posts posted at "{{X} minutes ago}". Am I privileged? Are posts from the future traveling in time just to see me?

I just watched "The Guild" for the first time last week, I have to say it's a great little show.

How about I already pay a fee and they should be working to bring content to me to keep me happy.

Either way, my TiVo downloads the web podcasts I watch, or I can save them in iTunes and stream them to my 360.

Really? That's it? Better than The Guild? Wow Microsoft, I've heard of lowering standards, but to dismiss them altogether? Bold move there.

Back before the 360 was released, weren't they saying the 360's marketplace was going to be 100% supported for user-based content? That whatever we designed, including shirts, could be bought by others and the etc. What ever happened to that idea?

With a name like Ross Honey, you'd expect the man to "move needles" on a daily basis.

b-b-b-b-b-but what about my gaming-based video game parody web series that parodies games in video form?

No but seriously, I've violated too many dozens of copyrights to ever have the show monetized (unless Squeenix, Nintendo, Sega, Capcom, Valve, Blizzard, and everyone else don't mind!)

The Guild is awesome. It's now up there with my other top fav shows including South Park. This only has partially to do with Felicia Day being a very hot redhead.

I never get the whole "I watch a show cause such and such is hot". I watch porn for the hot women, comedies to keep me entertained.

The Guild does not entertain me.

This is more about the web on the Xbox in general, but why don't I ever see discussions about the company responsible for the most widely used web browser omitting it from their console? Every other console has some sort of web browsing feature. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't wish IE on anyone. But it is ironic that MS doesn't even trust it on their own hardware.

It is not like Microsoft has not added new web content. They added a new show that spotlights geek girls, and they had a bunch of shorts of Truimph the Insult dog going to a music festival.

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I don't see what the problem is, The Guild is sponsored by a company, so they make it on XBL. Microsoft would have to foot the bill for the non-sponsored programming in terms of storage and bandwidth.

Microsoft would consider playing re-runs of the Gummi Bears cartoon if Sprint paid them to do it, but it's not worth the monetary investment for them to provide "free" programming to an audience so varied as the Xbox Live community.

Hell, the comments on this post alone shows how different peoples tastes are. It's just not worth it to Microsoft to expend the resources to only hit a small portion of the demographics they are working with.

And really... if you want to watch user created web content, or if you are upset about the lack of a web browser, go sit at your computer and surf the web. If Microsoft wants to add new features to the Xbox, great! But it's not their job to build the Xbox into anything other than what I bought it for, a gaming console.

i dont want crappy youtube videos on my xbox 360. for every good episode of 'The Guild' and 'Red vs Blue' theres 1000s of collegehumor vids that cant make me laugh once.

and Tinkerbell is definitely the hottest chick on The Guild. i hesitate to call Felicia Day hot tho: Felicia Day is attractive but i think calling her Hot is a stretch.

Sucks. There are definitely a lot of podcasts that I wouldn't mind having available directly. They know that they can sell a million Family Guys and South Park episodes rather than wasting bandwidth on free podcasts...

"gamers love watching things about gaming,"

If they did more seaons of WCG Ultimate Gamer, I'd watch that. It was pretty entertaining.

Wow, that actually makes good sense to me dude!

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