Xbox Registration Stupidness
Sometimes I really wonder who makes decisions in a big company, how they got to that position, and why they haven’t been fired yet.
The most recent example of this: to view an Xbox 360 profile — that is, simple look at one — a single damn webpage — you have to go through a 20-30 screen registration process, selecting your own ID, giving your name & address, your email address, your phone number (that’s required!), how often you game, what other systems you own, what games you like, etc. etc. etc.
All this if you don’t have a 360, don’t play live, or really just want to look at your brother’s profile. You still have to do it.
Oh yeah, you need a passport account that you have to log into too.
I realize this helps drive up “membership numbers” and artificially makes the size of the network look more impressive, but it’s just stupid. It gives the impression that Microsoft doesn’t really care about users or at the very least, puts them second.
And they wonder why people don’t trust them? Go figure.
January 12th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
Wait you thought that Microsoft cared about the users?
January 13th, 2006 at 7:05 am
BIll, I just looked at the Xbox page. Had no trouble doing so, but of course I’m a MSN “member” … i had to get a passport sign- in so i could have hotmail. It’s also how I came to use MSN spaces for my blog, although I have come to love how easy it is to use. but registering with MSN wasn’t all those pages you mentioned, just fairly simple. maybe you should just sign up for hotmail to get a sign in; all of microsoft is then yours.