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No Community Games In Xbox Quick Launch?

Last post 6/15/2009 6:06 AM by Catalin Zima. 6 replies.
  • 11/21/2008 1:23 AM

    No Community Games In Xbox Quick Launch?

    Is it just me or do the Community Games not show up in the Xbox Guide - Quick Launch?  (Hit the Xbox button, choose "Quick Launch"; community games don't seem to show up for Recent, Latest Downloads, or All)

    If you see this problem too you can vote for the problem here. 

    https://connect.microsoft.com/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=383258&SiteID=226

    Related to this, but I don't know who to send it to... :

    Netflix and Xbox Live Photo Party doesn't show up in Quick Launch Recent

    Anyone know who to send these issues to?


    Dan Melchione | If you ship a good game there will be cake!
  • 11/21/2008 3:48 AM In reply to

    Re: No Community Games In Xbox Quick Launch?

    I can confirm this is an issue and I'd like to see it fixed.
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  • 6/14/2009 6:24 PM In reply to

    Re: No Community Games In Xbox Quick Launch?

    At the moment this issue is "closed by design". I hope they change their mind, because (as I noted in the bug) the current behavior is confusing to the user. The page says "All" on one tab, it should show all my immediately playable content. It says "Latest downloads" on another tab, and I expect it to show all the things I've downloaded lately. And finally, the "Recent" tab should show.. wait for it... anything I have played recently.

    Anything else is confusing. I'm surprised I am here feeling the need to post this; this all seems so plain & obvious and I don't understand why they would intentionally obfuscate the UI like this. Perhaps they will sneak in a change for the next update... we can always hope!



  • 6/14/2009 6:55 PM In reply to

    Re: No Community Games In Xbox Quick Launch?

    Sometimes "Closed (by design)" simply means they closed it on Connect, because they moved it into their internal bug-list. Don't despair.

  • 6/15/2009 12:47 AM In reply to
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    Re: No Community Games In Xbox Quick Launch?

    Eric Cosky:
    At the moment this issue is "closed by design". I hope they change their mind, because (as I noted in the bug) the current behavior is confusing to the user. The page says "All" on one tab, it should show all my immediately playable content. It says "Latest downloads" on another tab, and I expect it to show all the things I've downloaded lately. And finally, the "Recent" tab should show.. wait for it... anything I have played recently.

    Anything else is confusing. I'm surprised I am here feeling the need to post this; this all seems so plain & obvious and I don't understand why they would intentionally obfuscate the UI like this. Perhaps they will sneak in a change for the next update... we can always hope!


    Well you could just read the reply:
    "Thank you for the feedback. Marking this as a duplicate and closing it out as we have items already tracking these items internally."
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  • 6/15/2009 1:41 AM In reply to

    Re: No Community Games In Xbox Quick Launch?

    Community Games don't show up anywhere. Not in Quick Launch, not on the gamer tag, doesn't appear anywhere that the normal games appear. Apart from in the Game Library, of course.

    I think closed by design here just means that they never designed Community Games to have these little features that real games have. It wasn't intended, so nothing needs to be changed.
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  • 6/15/2009 6:06 AM In reply to

    Re: No Community Games In Xbox Quick Launch?

    Murudai:
    I think closed by design here just means that they never designed Community Games to have these little features that real games have. It wasn't intended, so nothing needs to be changed.


    Or simply the first iteration of the software architecture used to enable these games to run for any consumers, without the need for executables to be "signed" by Microsoft or the need for a CC account, causes these things to happen (like all games being launched through the same hidden "game" called XNA Game Studio Connect).
    And maybe they'll change this in the future, and just require some extra work for it (or maybe some inter-department work), which they couldn't do yet.

    Even Pheel said above that it doesn't mean anything, because they simply moved it into their internal database.

    Have a little faith and patience. Sure, it's probably not going to get solved with the 3.1 update, but that doesn't mean it won't ever get solved.
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