The Windows Media Center/Zune interface is nasty, even more space is wasted than before, and it was a stupid idea to do a redesign like that.
Granted, I'll be glad for the technological part of it- the new 8 person parties and the guide finally not taking up half the screen...
But that dashboard makes me want to punch a baby. Especially the forced avatars. If you still think avatars will be optional, or that you'll get to keep your gamerpicture the same as it always has been, you're screwed. I really hope they implement them, but at this point, even the T-shirt thing doesn't even seem likely. The reason they aren't showing themes or pics is because they have probably gauged the user reaction to the new implementations to be terrible. Nothing about the way M$ has handled this makes me feel like the customers are being considered in the decision at all. The dashboard was good- if cluttered- and they could easily have built on that, instead of a bunch of scrolling, ugly squares.
Posted 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Granted, I'll be glad for the technological part of it- the new 8 person parties and the guide finally not taking up half the screen...
But that dashboard makes me want to punch a baby. Especially the forced avatars. If you still think avatars will be optional, or that you'll get to keep your gamerpicture the same as it always has been, you're screwed. I really hope they implement them, but at this point, even the T-shirt thing doesn't even seem likely. The reason they aren't showing themes or pics is because they have probably gauged the user reaction to the new implementations to be terrible. Nothing about the way M$ has handled this makes me feel like the customers are being considered in the decision at all. The dashboard was good- if cluttered- and they could easily have built on that, instead of a bunch of scrolling, ugly squares.




