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It also leaves a lot to be desired in terms of being able to sort and browse in any meaningful way.  It's basically just one long, seemingly random, list of games rather than being sorted by any category, name etc.

Don't get me wrong, it's great you can do it through the Bone, but it can, and should, be improved.

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Yoshimax

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20 minutes ago, Bojangle said:

It also leaves a lot to be desired in terms of being able to sort and browse in any meaningful way.  It's basically just one long, seemingly random, list of games rather than being sorted by any category, name etc.

Don't get me wrong, it's great you can do it through the Bone, but it can, and should, be improved.

 

I think it's on the cusp of a redesign of sorts with the Win10 store merger which I suspect will hit preview members prior to E3.

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Yoshimax

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This is a good read:

 

http://wccftech.com/dev-confirms-power-microsofts-azure-cloud-explains-developers-reclutant/

 

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So it’s true, then, that the Azure cloud can actually provide additional computing power like Microsoft advertised for its Xbox One console? Most people dismissed that as a joke.

Yes, it is absolutely true.

 

Games like Titanfall on the Xbox used Azure to provide locality, dedicated servers and an external AI system, and similarly Crackdown3  uses the compute power of Azure to make entire cities destructible.  However, both games have their gameplay focus on small-team multiplayer rather than massive/ultra concurrency amongst the players themselves – which is a very different set of challenges to overcome.

 

The gameplay model for AoA has a high-concurrency multiplayer focus from the ground up, where we treat the game client essentially as an input/output and rendering device; and use Azure to spread out the staggeringly-large (and rapidly fluctuating) bandwidth and compute demands that we have to cope with.

But yes, the essential purpose of the cloud is to offload compute and I/O, and to scale them rapidly, as required.  One of the main challenges is getting the results of that cloud-distributed compute back to the clients that need to know, whilst keeping track of the bigger picture across all of the cloud nodes and clusters that need to know more.

 

Make sure you read to the bottom for the fanboy shitshow in the comments :lol:

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Yoshimax

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4 minutes ago, BitterToad said:

Did someone say they couldn't buy from the Argentinian Xbox Store? Looking to get Doom as it's cheap there but obviously dont want to waste the money if it no longer works!

 

Nobody is sure if it was a live problem or they'd actively blocked it. You can't buy store credit so you won't lose anything if it doesn't work.

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bignige

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16 minutes ago, BitterToad said:

Right, I'll take one for the team and try and Revolut it. I'll let you all know!

Don't waste your cash! 

It no longer works. I've been trying for several days. Previous to this I'd bought most of my games from the Argies. 

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Quick question. 

I changed my GT last week when my first name became available. 

I'm now know as NIGEL. I've just been befriended by a Canadian with

the GT of Nigel. 

I didn't think this was possible?

i thought NIGEL, Nigel, N I G E L, N igel etc were the same thing?

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15 minutes ago, ashmatuk said:

Does anyone elses usb drive stay on in instant on mode? 

 

Yes one of mine does

4 hours ago, evilashchris said:

Use Vypyr to connect to Vietnam, then buy from the Argie store. That worked for me :)

 

When did you do this, its not working for me and hasn't for over a week

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20 minutes ago, rafaqat said:

Gamertags are case sensitive. So Nigel and NIGEL are different gamertags.

I don't think this to be true. Every permutation of NIGEL including Nigel (Canada bloke) leads back to NIGEL (mine) when I search for friends via smart glass. 

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rafaqat

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Yeah that's pretty weird.   No idea how that's possible if gamertags aren't cases sensitive.  I'm still convinced they are but if MS support are saying they're not, who am I to argue.

 

 

Anyway, changed my gamertag to rafaqat75.  Spreadsheet updated.

 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1EHykfNx3wKSen3j64cCP2Bgr9tusBPtPXkitPAPAMxM/edit#gid=0

 

 

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2 hours ago, bignige said:

Quick question. 

I changed my GT last week when my first name became available. 

I'm now know as NIGEL. I've just been befriended by a Canadian with

the GT of Nigel. 

I didn't think this was possible?

i thought NIGEL, Nigel, N I G E L, N igel etc were the same thing?

 

6 minutes ago, Bastion said:

 

NO! End of an era!

 

You know, you can change your gamertag but you'll never retrospectively undo the nasty connotations of your original name. I've still got your number.

 

hehe.  I actually recounted the story of BigNige vs Microsoft to some of the guys at work the other day.  

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