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Yechezkel posted:Best Buy stores are going to sell 12-month Xbox Live Gold cards for $35, starting tomorrow and lasting for a week. Can anyone verify that Canada is getting this deal as well? (Or at least the CDN$ equivalent), or do I need to paypal someone $35 to go do a thing for me?
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 07:43 |
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Martytoof posted:Can anyone verify that Canada is getting this deal as well? (Or at least the CDN$ equivalent), or do I need to paypal someone $35 to go do a thing for me? There's nothing in the flyers for Quebec. A deal like that is usually national, so they're probably not doing it in Canada.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 15:30 |
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Hmm. So I guess the only other question that remains to be asked is whether you can use an American XBL card in Canada. Are they locked down by country or by region or what? Cause I'm going to have someone pick one up for me if I can use it here in the great white north.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 17:02 |
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Subscription cards work fine.
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| # ? Jan 27, 2013 17:34 |
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http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-LIVE-Mon...RVFX77WY8YBEK8G Live cards for $35. It wont ship to me in Australia, however it appears I can buy the code and have it emailed. This will still work on my Australian account right, just been a code wont matter?
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 04:32 |
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If you go through it will refuse to sell unless you have a US account. I'm trying to figure out how to switch my account to US right now. I don't know if I need to use a VPN or what. e: Just use a USA billing address. I put in the address I used to live at like seven years ago and it worked fine. Redeemed the code then changed my billing address back to Canada  Thanks! Martytoof fucked around with this message at Jan 30, 2013 around 04:44 |
| # ? Jan 30, 2013 04:40 |
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Thanks for that. Already have a US address set up for e-books that aren't available to the region. From memory you don't need a real address, just as long as the postcode is legit. Edit: Worked fine using a fake US address. Nibbles141 fucked around with this message at Jan 30, 2013 around 06:06 |
| # ? Jan 30, 2013 05:51 |
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Probably a stupid question, but Live subscription codes don't expire at all, correct?
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 05:58 |
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I think this is an appropriate question for here: This morning, netflix (in the UK at least) has sent an update out which seems to poo poo the bed pretty badly with regards to TV shows. Normally when an episode ended, it'd give you the option to start the next one until you reached the end of the series. Since this update though, it just shows recommended other shows at the end of an episode, and if you exit back to the main interface and reopen the show, it just shows the last episode you watched again. Is there anyway to revert to the old version or fix this one so it actually works properly?
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 10:46 |
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Charles Martel posted:Probably a stupid question, but Live subscription codes don't expire at all, correct? I don't believe so, but they also stack. So if you've got 2 months left on your current Gold, then add a 12-month card to your account, you'll have 14 months of Gold. There's no real harm in just entering it now unless you've got other reasons to wait.
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Experto Crede posted:This morning, netflix (in the UK at least) has sent an update out which seems to poo poo the bed pretty badly with regards to TV shows. Normally when an episode ended, it'd give you the option to start the next one until you reached the end of the series. Since this update though, it just shows recommended other shows at the end of an episode, and if you exit back to the main interface and reopen the show, it just shows the last episode you watched again. Christ, just got this update in the US. I thought it was kinda lovely when they got rid of the episode list and launched right into playing but this is just aggressively bad design. No possible way to go to the next episode from the end of one, you have to back out to the menu, select the show again, wait for it to load the old episode, then go to select the next episode. In case you thought "More Episodes" was still convenient and started at the current episode, but nah, S1E1. e: Kinect no longer recognizes "Next Episode". It's like auto-starting the next episode wasn't ideal, so their solution was making accessing the next episode horrendously lovely to compensate JawnV6 fucked around with this message at Jan 30, 2013 around 17:53 |
| # ? Jan 30, 2013 17:49 |
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JawnV6 posted:Christ, just got this update in the US. I thought it was kinda lovely when they got rid of the episode list and launched right into playing but this is just aggressively bad design. No possible way to go to the next episode from the end of one, you have to back out to the menu, select the show again, wait for it to load the old episode, then go to select the next episode. In case you thought "More Episodes" was still convenient and started at the current episode, but nah, S1E1.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 21:48 |
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It does auto-play the next episode. Sometimes. Other times it punts you to an ad for a Netflix Original without any way to get back. I dunno, maybe a few of my issues were first-time things, but I'm still quite annoyed at the lengths they're going to just to shove Netflix Originals in my face.
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| # ? Jan 30, 2013 21:55 |
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Does anyone know if there's anywhere with a particularly good deal on 360 hard drives at the moment?
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| # ? Jan 31, 2013 08:54 |
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I got a new packages 250 from a 2nd hand seller on amazon for like $70.
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| # ? Jan 31, 2013 14:11 |
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Yeah, my 20 is fine if I just want to play one game, but suddenly very cramped if I'm looking at more than that  Thinking of doing hddhackr again.
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| # ? Jan 31, 2013 19:47 |
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Anyone else get this message? (UK)quote:Thanks for your patience during the recent Cloud Saved Games service issue. We apologise for the inconvenience and have applied a free one-month extension to you Xbox LIVE Gold membership. Rest assured there is no action required by you. Game on!
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| # ? Feb 1, 2013 18:11 |
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Time for Microsoft to slap something together before the 20th because Sony is holding a press conference exclusively for next Playstation. http://kotaku.com/5980715/is-sony-g...-on-february-20 My guess is some photos of the next Xbox will "leak" right before the press conference.
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| # ? Feb 1, 2013 18:49 |
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Chuck Bartowski posted:Anyone else get this message? (UK) Yep. I've only used cloud saves once, and then decided not to use them after my internet went down and I wasn't able to access my precious Dark Souls save. I guess even just having activated it at one time put me in the queue?
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Neo Helbeast posted:Time for Microsoft to slap something together before the 20th because Sony is holding a press conference exclusively for next Playstation. http://kotaku.com/5980715/is-sony-g...-on-february-20 Screw that. Wait, see what Sony unveils, determine weaknesses, make sure Xbox fills those weaknesses, exploit during your own conference date TBD.
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BonoMan posted:Screw that. Wait, see what Sony unveils, determine weaknesses, make sure Xbox fills those weaknesses, exploit during your own conference date TBD. Well that's kind of what Sony did last time. 'Well um we've got TWO video out ports! So that's twice as good as Xbox! And three ethernet ports! Oh and here's a motion controller because we heard Nintendo are doing one of those'. Now it's too late for hardware changes though. But Microsoft are supposedly looking at not announcing anything for another couple of months at least after Sony, but probably something before E3. A few more details about both systems are leaking out, apparently Sony announcing their announcement is prompting developers to be a bit more loose lipped. Really it sounds like the two machines are nigh-on identical spec-wise, with a slight advantage in GPU to the PS4. Third party developers working on both platforms though are going to end up having stuff look more or less identical on both systems as usual, and each first party side is going to eek out some more effects and stuff from their respective systems so it'll probably be a wash in practical terms. It's all about the supplemental features. Sure wiz-bang graphics will be shown, but MS will be pushing Kinect 2 hard and Sony will have their partial touch-pad controller and new Move/Eyetoy (they're not giving up on that) and whatever else they're both doing. There have been rumors of an in-HDMI port on the Xbox as well which some have taken as evidence of a possible DVR functionality, but my tip is MS are doing something more like Google TV, you plug your DVR/cable box into the Xbox, then that into the TV, and then they can overlay channel guides along with all their supplemental Xbox Live based programming etc right on the TV all the time, which you know they want to do - the problem stopping further uptake of using the Xbox services for entertainment is you have to go to that whole step of turning it on and switching over to it, if it is controlling and passing through your DVR/cable box then it's all there already, it's just like changing channels to watch something on Live. Edit: Yeah 8gb seems to be almost certain for PS4 now as well, devs pushing real hard for that, part of making things much more equal, makes their lives so much easier. Red Warrior fucked around with this message at Feb 1, 2013 around 20:14 |
| # ? Feb 1, 2013 19:59 |
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I'm curious to see how much ram the PS4 ends up having. I've seen a few places say the earlier leaks were wrong and it has the same amount as the 360-2 recently.
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| # ? Feb 1, 2013 20:02 |
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Durango announcement before GDC at the end of March, book it. Otherwise Bungie and a few other developers are going to talking about making their cool new games on the PS4 and a yet unconfirmed New XBox.
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| # ? Feb 1, 2013 20:09 |
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How do they calculate the "Tenure" in your XBL profile? I know I've been an XBL gold member longer than two years 
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| # ? Feb 1, 2013 20:59 |
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Badly, apparently, because it is supposed to be the sum total of your time with a Gold subscription.
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| # ? Feb 1, 2013 21:01 |
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pseudorandom name posted:Badly, apparently, because it is supposed to be the sum total of your time with a Gold subscription. Uninterrupted 
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| # ? Feb 1, 2013 21:01 |
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That was the original plan, but users whined and they switched to aggregate total.
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| # ? Feb 1, 2013 21:03 |
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Red Warrior posted:Well that's kind of what Sony did last time. 'Well um we've got TWO video out ports! So that's twice as good as Xbox! And three ethernet ports! Oh and here's a motion controller because we heard Nintendo are doing one of those'. Now it's too late for hardware changes though. I'm definitely down for in-line functionality.
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FYI I took the lazy way out and fixed my sticky a-button with a toothbrush, vodka, and some scrubbing around the button. Dried it off and hit the button real fast. Risky, maybe. Works fine so far.
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| # ? Feb 1, 2013 22:49 |
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Microsoft is ending XNA but it's unknown if they're killing XBLI too. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/new...-the-End-of-XNA
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| # ? Feb 2, 2013 05:54 |
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Neo Helbeast posted:Microsoft is ending XNA but it's unknown if they're killing XBLI too. I wouldn't put it past them to "lose" the indie games store between consoles, but XNA drives Windows Phone app development too, and there's no way they're ditching that already. I'm sure they'll be coming out with something similar later, and the tools are good enough as they are for now, but it still seems incredibly stupid to pretty much announce "we don't care about these things any more". They MUST know the common interpretation will be "don't bother using them".
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Tempo 119 posted:I wouldn't put it past them to "lose" the indie games store between consoles, but XNA drives Windows Phone app development too, and there's no way they're ditching that already. I'm sure they'll be coming out with something similar later, and the tools are good enough as they are for now, but it still seems incredibly stupid to pretty much announce "we don't care about these things any more". They MUST know the common interpretation will be "don't bother using them". Don't put it past them. MS is in a state of flux right now, and it seems like a lot of user hostile people are steering the ship. I would surprised if the new Xbox didn't have some easy to implement, expected, functionality missing for no reason.
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BonoMan posted:I'm definitely down for in-line functionality. They'd better be drat good at thermal engineering now if they expect to sell an Xbox that you're not supposed to ever turn off.
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| # ? Feb 2, 2013 16:03 |
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So here's an odd thing, I had gotten Star Wars: The Force Unleashed recently cause I hadn't tried it and I saw it was 5 bucks. It worked fine for a while, about 2-3 weeks, then just displayed a black screen when I turned it on recently. So I exchanged it for another disc, that one is just a black screen too. I tried installing it and it doesn't work that way either. I can hear the disc spinning if it's not installed and the system recognizes it as the right game. All other games work without problem. Is this game just known to be cranky?
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| # ? Feb 3, 2013 00:14 |
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Neo Helbeast posted:Microsoft is ending XNA but it's unknown if they're killing XBLI too. Microsoft won't dump it without a replacement. They obviously have something way better in development that they are not ready to talk about yet.
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| # ? Feb 3, 2013 09:08 |
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A development tool for the next XBox AND the Windows 8 store!
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| # ? Feb 3, 2013 20:15 |
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Supercar Gautier posted:A development tool for the next XBox AND the Windows 8 store! Yep. I can easily see this happening. MS will find a way to get more people onto Windows 8.
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zarron posted:MS will find a way to get more people onto Windows 8.
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zarron posted:Yep. I can easily see this happening. MS will find a way to get more people onto Windows 8. Short of requiring a surface to use as a controller with the next xbox, I don't see myself ever upgrading to 8 from 7 or even considering a surface unless some class or job needs it.
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I have a question on the uDraw 360 tablet if anyone knows the answer: Outside of the two uDraw 360 titles that were made for it, can anything about the tablet be unofficially used in any other games or for Xbox functionality at all? I'm not expecting anything awesome, just if something like the tilt/tablet features translate into analog stick movements to experiment with some arcade or indie games, or if I can use the tablet and pen to control dashboard stuff, etc.
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