Sad news fellow fanboys. We know you and pretty much the entire Fanboy community was excited to hear that the Fall Update would allow for deletion of XBLA game trials from your recently played history. But, according to the tech heads over at Xbox Team's blog, this deletion feature isn't what we thought it to be. Instead, the Fall Update will get "support to not write trial-version Arcade games to user's played games history (this is only for newly downloaded games after the Dec'07 update is released)". See the key words there? The 360 will not write XBLA trials to the games history after the update gets released, but anything prior to Tuesday's update is set in stone. So, no deletion option, it's just an enhancement that will stop future XBLA trial games from appearing on the your games played list. Sad ... we thought we were finally rid of our old XBLA trials.[Thanks, xenocidic]
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11-30-2007 @ 4:06PM
xenocidic said...
Hrm, didn't know you guys pulled news from comments =) Thanks for the credit.
yes, I'm a sad puppy!
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11-30-2007 @ 4:10PM
rainking187 said...
...is this a big deal? Are random people coming over and looking through your played list? "Dude, you were playing Hexic? What a tool."
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11-30-2007 @ 4:13PM
Wilson said...
It is for us people who care about game competition percentage.
11-30-2007 @ 4:11PM
Rukaribe said...
This is completely useless. This one simple error ruins the whole aspect of comparing games.
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11-30-2007 @ 4:11PM
Modeps said...
On the official gamerscore blog, they have a video, and they clearly state that it will remove the demos at 3m45s.
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11-30-2007 @ 4:22PM
Modeps said...
Here's the direct link for you lazy people.
http://gamerscoreblog.com/team/archive/2007/11/30/554969.aspx
11-30-2007 @ 4:37PM
xenocidic said...
I'd be inclined to believe the developers from msdn over the good folks at gamerscoreblog, but only time will tell.
and by time, I mean 4 days.
11-30-2007 @ 4:41PM
Modeps said...
Well, here's the thing... its basically pointless for them to only not do it "from this point forward". Either you get rid of them all or don't bother.
12-01-2007 @ 4:12AM
xenocidic said...
modeps, I finally had a chance to check out the video, and for the people even lazier than I am, here's the exact text as quoted -
""...if you like to use a database to manage your gaming and you love lists, the live arcade trial games will no longer be on your profile - it's something everyone was screaming about, their profile was littered with demos and trial versions..."
so they definately don't 'clearly state' they are removing exiting ones, his comment was rather ambiguous.
and in weighing the statement of someone from the msdn (remember the D stands for or developer) versus a marketing dude, i'm going to lend more credence to the words of the developer (especially when written in technically accurate bullet point rather than spoken in semi-ambiguous marketing spin*).
*this is not meant to knock the good work of the folks at at gamerscoreblog, I enjoy their column as well.
11-30-2007 @ 4:14PM
Gemini Ace said...
Why does it matter if they show up on your gamercard? I like it. Can you turn it back on?
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11-30-2007 @ 5:23PM
Nieker said...
Dude, how can you "not" care? Gamerscore is like your virtual penis and the last thing you want is uninteresting games soiling you precious history.
11-30-2007 @ 9:27PM
Gemini Ace said...
I guess I'm not trying to compensate for my the real size of my penis by inflating my virtual one.
11-30-2007 @ 4:20PM
mattclarkie said...
I am so fed up of Marathon Durandal being on my played list. I was going to buy it, but like many it really made me feel sick. Removing it could be easily implemented, give you an option in the Dash to delete a title from your History, but why would MS bother?
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11-30-2007 @ 4:22PM
BoxNut said...
How will the divx thing work?
will it simply play discs with divx files on it, or can i load up my external hdd, or better yet put divx files onto my xbox360 hdd?
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12-01-2007 @ 12:49PM
L said...
You can play them from a DVD, CD, Any USB hard drive, WMP 11...zune..,.,.,.,so on .....
i am 99% not from your XBOX hard drive
BUT WHO CARES WE HAVE AVI =P lol
11-30-2007 @ 4:27PM
Cass-D said...
Oh, well. I was kinda hoping I could get rid of that Wik trail. Yup I tried it...
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11-30-2007 @ 4:28PM
stukorn said...
My hopes were so high, I hate having all those 0's on my card and the shit games.
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11-30-2007 @ 4:31PM
Josh said...
weak! they should give us the option to clear out games with zero gamerscore on a case by case basis (make it available on the website!)
it also would have been nice if they took care of this issue:
http://schlagging.com/2007/08/14/got-360-read-this/
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11-30-2007 @ 5:30PM
Cerixus said...
It's not a big deal, which is what makes it such a big deal. How hard would it be to clear your played games list? What could it hurt?
I have 3 words for this announcement: Re-Tard-Ed
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11-30-2007 @ 5:55PM
Amber said...
It might be difficult to program... I don't know.
And don't you mean 3 syllables?