The avatars blow. Will I have to pay another 500 points so I can change the shape of the head? The current result was nothing like me so I made Frank Zappa instead. Not that this new experience effects the way I play xbox in any way.

I'll have to resize my background. The difficult part is making the focal point above the white surface but making sure there is something under it so when I load certain menus it doesn't look like crap.

One thing that was disappointing about the NXE is the insall on hard drive function. You still have to change discs for games like Lost Odessy. Well at least the longevity of my disc drive has been increased.

PROTIP:You will not be forced to buy new clothing for your avatars.

Wow, pretty low even for Microsoft. Exploiting the fact that all the themes they came out with are shit and the fact that no old themes work properly by making you pay for a hopefully decent theme.

That's pretty much bullshit. Couldn't they charge 150 points and give us the clothes for free? Bastards.

Why does new have to mean more expensive?

not a surprise at all, we all knew msoft was going to charge money for clothes and themes, it was so obvious.

Microsoft is going to make a killing by selling digital clothes for the cartoon characters. Poor people getting ripped off by rich people makes me sad :(

And dude buying themes and pictures is totaly for console boy noobs who don't know any better that everywhere else that crap is free.

Company tries to make money by selling superficial digital crap to consumers; film at 11.

Christ, nobody is forcing 360 owners to buy shit for their avatars. If people want to spend their money on it, that's their right. If buying bling for the electronic person living in their game console makes them happy, awesome.

I'm still not going to be happy unless they start doing the sensible thing for their community by releasing themes and avatar clothing on the discs of games you purchase at retail. Honestly there is no excuse to make people BUY things like wallpapers and clothes; these things should be included in the purchase price of the game you buy. For example, you buy Gears 2, you get Gears related clothing, etc. depending on the title, you get something related. Why they haven't done this by now is beyond me.

This isn't without precedent. Remember music CDs? They used to just have music but as time went on and more things developed, albums started to include videos, lyrics, wallpaper, and all types of other good stuff.

Seriously, what gives? Why haven't they thought of this, and if they did, why hasn't it been brought up? I don't buy the whole "because they want money" argument because they sure as hell do not (should not?) turn much of a profit with the sales to begin with...so why not give a little atmosphere back to the player? It's not like we don't pay a ton as is...throw me a bone god dammit!

Got to go with Mxyzptlk on this.
And it's not like this sort of stuff is reserved for MS.
Remember the LBP DLC?

What is this? More destructoid-sanctioned trolling?

wow, they force me to update to nxe with stupid avatars and ruin all my theme's, now want me to pay to get things looking a little bit better...no thankyou microsoft.