Comments on: XBLA marches on with avatars

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:22:19 +0000

I guess there is more point to buying clothing for Xbox avatars than there is in Sony Home, since Xbox avatars can actually be used in some games, where as Home avatars can do nothing but stand around and chat.

But then again there are so few games to incorporate the avatars that most of the time you’ll only see your purchased brandname jacket as you skip past the profile select on the dashboad, so perhaps its even more pointless than Home.

Make avatars a more integral part of the Xbox community first – then I’ll think about spending money on him.

By: Yukon Sam

Yukon Sam — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:08:44 +0000

Is virtual item gifting far behind what? I already trawl the Second Life grid to get something nice for my wife’s rez day.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:39:27 +0000

How long before the avatars are given the ability to play coffee-break mini-games ($2 apiece), to escape the monotony of their virtual prison?

Eventually, they may become bored with the poor fare of these games and demand better games – FPSs, RTSs, RPGs.

Oh, the wacky world(s) we live in.

I think there’s a very real danger in modeling the real world too closely.

By: Xoduz

Xoduz — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 11:04:02 +0000

Ehm. On a second reading of your post, I’m not sure myself. Though to me, paying $2 for a jacket for an Xbox 360 avatar sounds ludicrous, so maybe I saw sarcasm where there was none, or some such. Hard to say

By: Raph

Raph — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 04:52:53 +0000

Hmm, not sure why you have that impression…?

By: Xoduz

Xoduz — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:15:05 +0000

You almost sound as if you don’t approve, Raph?

By: Skip

Skip — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 01:29:26 +0000

I think that one of the Tiger Woods 10 achievements is supposed to give your avatar a green jacket.