Forum Overview :: I Can't Afford a XBL Gold Membership

I find it slightly more usable than the last one, but still comfortably awful. by Jerry Whorebach 12/07/2011, 5:21pm PST PROS: When you first power up the system, your cursor is sitting on "play disc" by default, instead of the What's Happening Channel or whatever it was before (I don't EVEN remember, that's how irrelevant it was to my interests). Immediately beneath "play disc" is the "quick play" menu, which displays the last ten games you've played or downloaded (if you think they managed to fit all ten titles on one screen, you're fucking dreaming). CONS: The entire thing was obviously designed to maximize the time your eyeballs spend looking at advertising. Trying to get to a screen where you can manage the files on your hard disk requires an epic journey through screen after screen of pirates and wizards and Toyotas and Axe deodorant bodyspray. The notion that people are out there willingly handing over money for this service infuriates me beyond all reason.

So wow, the new dashboard is unusable by The Happiness Engine 12/07/2011, 4:12pm PST     I find it slightly more usable than the last one, but still comfortably awful. by Jerry Whorebach 12/07/2011, 5:21pm PST         Paying money to watch ads is where I tend to draw the line. by The Happiness Engine 12/07/2011, 7:57pm PST