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When we spoke to him at CES today (more on that later) Greenberg told us "I can't commit to when that will happen, but that is something we want to do. It's definitely something we're looking at expanding and, as this social network grows, we've absolutely heard the pleas for that. It's on the list."
Greenberg explained that original Xbox games were coded to be limited to 100 friends, and that limit was brought into the current generation. But now that Live is built in to the system, they've got a little more flexibility. We, and the thousands of potential friends we turn away daily, can't wait to hear more.
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I have nine friends on my Friends list. I used to have 3o but after a huge cull I only kept those people that I regularly interact with. If I haven't spoken to them in more than a few weeks (or can't even remember who they are!) they are gone. I'm not being sarcastic when I ask this; Who has a 100 friends on XBL? If you do, do you feel that you couldn't delete a single one? If yes then you're lucky :)
* Excluding this initial warning which is portrayed as humorous and this sentence explaining it.
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On that note, this is officially my last of the day. I seriously, SERIOUSLY need to get some work done.
Goodbye...
I need a better way to sort my friends list before I'll ever hit a 100 friend limit.
It's free and it takes Microsoft as much effort as editing SetMaxFriends value in their XBL network configs.
So, why not?
The people with 100 friends are the same douches that have 5000 "friends" on Facebook.
That said, like others have noted, I'm in no way AGAINST this. Raise it to 50,000 for all I care.
If anyone tea-bags me in a game, I know where they live and I can drive over and smack em.
That's what friends are for. :)
I approve of this idea.
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Like Facebook groups.
For example I could tag all of my friends that play Left 4 Dead or Call of Duty. Open the friends list, pick L4D, and BAM I have a list of all of my friends that play that game.
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"He fixes the cable?"
"Got any Kahlua?"
Lulz
You really need to get your own blog, Justin. I'd be on that sucker LMAO all day. :)
Justiq? O_o
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I'd subscribe!
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I guess in general alot of us would like some sort of list management feature.
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Friend groups. You have a "default" friend group. You can create as many friend groups as you want and name them as you choose. But the default group has a 100 person limit and it's the only group that can be seen by original Xbox games.
Problem solved.
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*sniff*
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100 limit is fine for 99% of people. Its really only "industry types" that have a major problem with this. And BIG clan guys. I'm around 40 having NEVER culled.
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