Rest In Peace, “Xbox Live.”
Also, only one more week to pre-order Wave 1 of the Console War Generations poster series!
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Rest In Peace, “Xbox Live.”
Also, only one more week to pre-order Wave 1 of the Console War Generations poster series!
Idk whats the point of killing a decade old branding name.
Someone scored a big-ass bonus there for their initiative 😉
Johnson your a genius! And our initiative and innovation brain storming meeting is over before lunch. Lets take the rest of the day off, coke and strippers are on me!
Why did I read that in JK Simmons’ voice? You coulda just as easily ended it with “Cave Johnson. We’re done here.”
I think we all did
Xbox association with platforms other than Xbox. Xbox Live has always been geared towards the console thing. With Microsoft wanting to get Xbox more into Windows, Nintendo Switch Online, and their own streaming console, the move honestly makes sense. Most people colloquially just call it “getting on Xbox” anyway.
Honestly among my group of friends, I haven’t heard the Live part referenced in years.
Live was a fancy way of saying “Online”. So Xbox Live is basically saying “Xbox Online” and used to refer to their online games and features. Except now everything is online, so it is obsolete. Network better describes it now, especially with windows being part of it. Still seems rather redundant to me. Everyone will still just call it Xbox.
According to the article Tim posted, it’s to better distinguish the online service from the subscription, which is important when their other plan is to allow free to play games access to the online service without a subscription.
hmmm, and then we go over to the crossplatform games like rocket league and such?? Or are those just guns who act like fire and run away weapons?
yeah I’m sure changing the name of a service that’s been around for decades and that users are pretty well acquainted with won’t have any negative impact
smh microsoft you were doing so well this round…
In terms of things they could change I imagine the name itself is one of the least important parts, particularly given how much of gaming is online focused. The idea that “Xbox Live” is a different facet of the Xbox experience is fairly outdated.
What do you mean, you need Intel?
You’ve got AMD!
Not sure if you’re aware (and not meant to be a criticism), but the new pop up ads are covering about 30% of the screen on pc on 110% magnification. Covers a significant portion of the comic.
On which browser? I zoomed in to 175% on Chrome, and all of the ads moved to the side or disappeared completely before covering any of the comic or the newspost.
I have the same problem on Chrome for Windows. The stuff to the right of the comic vanishes when you zoom in enough (depending on how wide your browser window is, but the pop-up video ad in the bottom-right sometimes grows with the zoom level. Screenshot
I’ll see if there’s anything we can do about it zooming. I guess didn’t realize anyone used zoom for viewing websites.
Yup, what Flipdaddy said, looks just like mine. I’m also on chrome. Zooming in makes each panel fill the screen so we can enjoy the comic better and see all the detail. But that new pop up zooms too, and at higher resolutions it dominates the page.
They are going to look at it and see if they can create an exclusion based on resolution.
That would work. I’ll look forward to it.
The autoplay video ads are awful on mobile. They move but are annoying AND at the bottom of the page cover up the last comments.
I can’t seem to get video ads when the website is in mobile mode… What device/browser?
New phone, same service and brand as old (t mobile, on a samsung). Still no adds on *mine*!
It doesn’t happen often for me, but I do sometimes see video ads on my phone.
OnePlus 7t
Android 10
Chrome 79
Remember when Ethan-Zero had leverage over Microsoft, and used it to get free XBox Live? Does this mean that Ethan-Zero hasn’t got it, any more, if it’s a different service?
Knowing Microsoft, Ethan-Zero will still be blessed with a lifetime subscription to a defunct non-functioning service FOR FREE! 😉
Ethan-Zero’s a bit too dead to find out, unfortunately.
Too soon, man
Actually this is a good thing making two services easier to distinguish. Xbox live vs Xbox live “gold” and requiring it to play free games online was always frustrating. Now they plan on allowing you to play free games on the Xbox network like fortnite. I’m not sure if Xbox live gold will be needed for other games but may just be part of the free games each month. They haven’t dropped the pay wall for free games yet but that is the plan. Fingers crossed.
Came here just to give kudos for the “PissFive” name calling.
It cracked me up a lot more than I would have thought 😀
Not sure why the negative points… 🙁
PissFive fanboys din’t like it!! xD
Hahah, might be that…
Funny think is that I actually prefer Playstation to Xbox…
Thank you for the reminder on the art prints.
That second panel is a meme reference
I don’t see the point of changing the name. Okay, sure, they might be doing it because their focus has moved across to PC as well as console, but they ALREADY removed the travesty that was GFWL, so Xbox Live was good enough.
Is it sad that I knew what step two was before reading the last panel? Or just experience?
I don’t get why it can’t just be Xbox. To play xbox, you need an account right? That’s an Xbox account. Adding live/network just adds pointless fluff.
You’ve never played campaign games, or other stuff that didn’t have (or require) network access? A few years ago, I played everything offline, but it was eventually Rocket League that got me online.
Playstation Network now called Playstation ALive for the exact same reason. (‘A’ to avoid copyright, promote VR, and for shots fired.)
I have to wonder if this whole Xbox Live to Network thing is a workaround to not have to support Xbox Live legally.
Microsoft, you have the most recognizable, reputable brand of online console service. And your plan is to change its name to something bland?
So what you’re saying is that Xbox Live is dead.