January 14th 2009 4:57 pm PT

Guys always get the cooler clothes.. whats up with that! And what the heck is a Hacking Jacket?

What’s a Hacking Jacket?

I guess this is good. I haven’t tried customizing my avatar since the update. I still won’t…not my cup of tea. But I know a bunch of people that appreciate this kind of stuff.

Didn’t we used to have the option of saving outfits? Am I just insane/unable to find it, or did that go away?

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So.. whats up with all the sucky girl clothes I want a cardigan and embroidered pants! And what is a Hacking Jacket?

Hahaha. I love the new Avatar features. Avatars > Home. (Seriously, they give you like 5 shirts and 4 pants and expect you to buy the rest.)

would have like you lot to release R-type or Space Invaders Extreme or Arkanoid live on the arcade……… but no we get dlc only

I haven’t updated my Avatar since I made him either, as the clothes I picked then still feel more “me” than what’s been released since.
I definitely can’t complain about more variety though.
Looking forward to the game-related stuff, which I’m sure we’ll see eventually.
When that happens, I’ll probably go geek.

it would be nice to see a sample

When will we be able to customize the colors of clothing and other ‘items’? Position would be awesome too. I really don’t get involved in updating mine all the time, but I’d love to just give mine some jeans and the color of top I want.

oh.. and I agree about the crappy girl clothes bit… I think ‘most’ of the same clothes should be avialable to everyone and especially generic things like shoes, hats and etc…

“All clothing choices are free, and will remain available. It is easy to tell what is new when you are in the avatar editor, just look for the gold star. Any item of clothing with a gold star is new since the last time you signed in.”

That’s not entirely true, I saved an outfit when the avatars became available. I can no longer select that outfit. The shirt I’m wearing is no longer available (maybe more, but at least the shirt), it’s one of the open jackets with a t-shirt underneath.
I should mention that i was in the beta, but I can’t see why any cloth should have been removed after the beta.

Not to ruin anything, but I really liked the shirt
Anyway, keep the cloth coming, and more importantly, more avatar party games. I wanna kick my friends virtual ass when they come over.

Now my Avatar can dress more professional than I do in real life. Thanks Microsoft!

I like my tux and bowler hat.

My avatar dress’s like a fag. Oh wait, there are no straight clothing for the guys.

For some reason these new clothes aren’t showing up.

Im in the UK

Lights? Some people still have their trees in the livingroom, real trees.. with new xbox-green growths on the branches. I think our record was february 15th-ish when I was a kid, but then you have to take the tree out when it starts to pollunate the house.

As Lillemanden said, these aren’t entirely new. The shirt my avatar has had ever since I made it was flagged as being new.

I assume Microsoft are holding back on a lot of stuff just so that they can release some every so often. Surely you could just release everything that’s already been made, and then for further downloads, actually make some new stuff.

Keep the clothes coming!

I’d love to see themed releases, such as an 80′s pack, or 90′s pack, etc.

How about some true rave wear? I’m talking like 30+ inch bottoms with dragon designs sprawling the side of a leg.

ZOMG MEMORIES!

all i want is game content as clothes anyplans?? like a gears of war cog suite,a halo 3 armor variant,even a Cod army uniform. i think they could even linked them to achievements…just a thought

A hacking jacket is a horse riding jacket.

Oh no – who is designing the women’s clothing at Microsoft, everytime the clothes are updated I have to listen to my financée moan about how bad the new clothes are and how they just don’t match or go with her red hair – will someone please sort out the girls wardrobe, PLEASE!!

I think I found a look for my avatar that works, and I’m sticking with it!

please, people, before you ask, google “hacking jacket.” there’s an explanation there, and the GIS has images of them. basically it’s a tweed equestrian jacket. classy.

VERY hyped to have a cardigan! i am wearing one in real life right now of course, people will complain– no accounting for taste.

hopefully more is on the way… the choices are still rather limited right now.

I thought that I would customize my avatar once. But, it turns out, I keep changing things while waiting for friends to show up on line. It would be great if we could, at least, adjust colors using rgb values.

I’m not sure about rgb values — two slider would be fine: color and saturation. At least for the simple items, like T-shirts.

The girls clothes are terrible… what am I a 60yr old lady that wants to wear a moo moo, or a 5 year old kid who skips to school. get some better stuff, and come on… make it more customizable. If I pick a shirt or pants, or any item for that matter, let me pick the color. How hard can it be, you already can pick the color of the hair, so you would just need to tweak to code a bit to work for the clothes. I’m tired of looking at the new stuff you put out, as I just end up staying with what I started with because it’s pretty lame stuff. I think you guys really missed the boat on this one, and if you don’t make it better soon, it will be too late (if it already isn’t)

OMG Could these clothes get any worse, WTF, comon major you can give us better shit than this crap.

Is it really too much to ask for a plain black t-shirt?

I’m still waiting for the option to completely disable avatars. Come on Microsoft, all I’m asking for is an option and then I’ll shut up about avatars.

Hey, in my opinion, keep the clothes coming!

Theres a limited rate at the moment but I’m sure that will change over the months.

I don’t really think many of the clothes fit my style, we need the funky, rave clothes and the Kayne West looking glasses, whatcha think?

Bright coloured clothes!

Rather this than the “rave” thingy =)

Please include a clothing editor! I’d like to be able to choose a shirt, choose a color and then maybe choose a logo or an achievement or something to go on it.

Hacking jacket is a type of tight fitting blazer type of jacket used to be worn by horse riders but now is for every day…. just look it up in google images.

I’m not super into the avatars…but the community certainly seems to like all this stuff. Just look at how many people make their avatar into their gamerpic.

lol, if they put a master chief suit for an avatar outfit… you wouldn’t be able to play a game of 1 vs 100 when it comes out without seeing at least 20 people with the armor on… not a good idea

wondering about the new consoles???
umm and if they r going 2 be released or unreleased?

Thanks major!My clothes were getting a little stinky.I sure needed a changing.Stay warm!

Guys, I’m pretty sure MS are trying to make crappy clothes so the ones we get WITH GAMES, or as achievements from games, or god-forbid-but-most-likely buy from game publishers – would sell better.

If they gave us all sorts of cool clothing, the only thing going for the publishers’ paid content would be the game logo.

A brand new bundle of clothes is now available in the Avatar Editor…and all of them sucks.

i like the avatars even if they are just there but it represents me so its cool to me…keep it going with the clothes…i want to see more…its just not enough

When are we gonna get some vintage t-shirts and some game related clothes? I wanna dress as a spartan!

Joergen8, Is that really such a bad thing? Do you support the idea of game devs making clothing to sell instead of keeping their focus on making games with fewer bugs and solid code? Personally, I don’t want the game devs to waste one single minute on this clothing crap. Make a game without any bugs first. If they accomplish that, THEN maybe they can think about other stuff like avatar clothes. We all know they can’t produce a game without any bugs or glitches though, so they should NOT muck about with the clothes.

c’mon man, where’s the redneck gear? like to see a nice dinner jacket (flannel jacket) big boots, and some better hats.

Nice, got to make a decent avatar lol

Where are the wifebeaters(it’s a type of shirt)? If my avatar had one it would look just like me while playing.

Where the hell are the cool uniforms from games? Halo, Fallout3, others…..

Joergen8 – In England, at least, decorations are usually taken down by January 5th, “Twelfth Night”, as it’s considered bad luck to take them down afterward.

http://www.equusukgroup.co.uk/images/Epsom%20Tweed%20300×400.jpg <-hacking jacket

Awesome. I have the best time with these customizing my avatar. I just want some game themed clothes. Like maybe a t-shirt with the Halo 3 or Gears of War 2 logo.

Well, I’m pretty sure we Lutherans would say that its inappropriate to link superstition with the celebration of the birth of Christ. Unless it says “Its bad luck to keep your christmas tree after the 5th day of an ISO calendar year” in the Bible, its superstition

But thats interesting. Over here, some people turn off their yard decorations around easter when they realize its the next holiday already. Some not even then.

The clothes are lame, all of them! They need to let us put whatever color we want on the clothes. That way no one will have 2 of them same shirt on or pants.

the nxe, avatars, and optional clothing posts remind me how different MS priorities are versus my own.

- MS is nickel and diming customers on fluff stuff.

- I have been waiting for updates to the Media Streaming interfacing. Hoping for MPEG2, Album Art on WinXP, heck even fast forward and rewind, WMP11 mp4 native support, better wi-fi throughput, DHCP that fails less than half the time.

Please please please forget all this avatar cr*p and spend some investment on improving the media streaming experience. The hardware and pieces are all in place. I don’t want to have to buy a box just because of software deficiencies.

hmm…I usually take mine down on the 25/12, I just don’t see the point in keeping “Christmas Lights” up after Christmas….but maybe that’s just me…

For those that want to see a sample of the clothes http://x2theg.blogspot.com/2009/01/go-preppy-with-new-avatar-clothes.html

Hacking Jacket?… Prepare to lose your account with my amazing jacket.
It’s sexy

Hmmm, more free stuff. My next order a ‘No Shirt’ option (summer is almost here, well in Orlando, FL its almost summer now with a few cold days), a ‘Tank Top’ and a pair of Beach Shorts (blue with giant yellow poka-dots) and ‘No Shoes’ for bare feet. Are we going to get some Namco Clothing Designs? Why only RARE?

Who the HELL designs this clothing?!

Well instead of my typical rants I think I’ll just do the list style of stuff that sucks now with 360. So sick of making speeches about it:
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-360 Games cost to much and usually give to little.
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-NXE was flop. Just offers more stuff that cost more money.
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-Netflix did one thing. Took away more movies that you were available to view online before! Pointless.
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-Arcade has turned into a junkpile. And most things now cost 800-1600 for stuff you can download for free on the net half the time.
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-Add-Ons and other stuff for games are a rip.
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-Community Games is a joke. You know its bad when a fire log is the top seller.
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-Avatars were suppose to be these awesome free things. Instead we are now told we get free crappy clothes and have to pay for “better” stuff. Is anyone surprised? MS is never giving.
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-Anything else on 360 you have to pay for. TV shows for instance. Why? You can watch them online for free! Themes? You can’t even preview them and yet we get charged 250 to see if we get stuck without a refund! MS is about nickle and dimming you to death in these times of economic struggles. Fail for MS!
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-Xbox originals is a fail too. Why pay that much for games that have many glitches and you will lose if something happens? You can buy those same games for like $5 new now! lol.
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-Gold is a rip too. MS throws “Play games online” in the package so you forced to for Gold. We all know playing games online is free and thats why you buy a game. I don’t care about 101 of these stupid features that come with Gold. I just want to play games online. Thats it. Make gaming online for Silver membership and keep those stupid other features for Gold…for people who are sheep.
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Finally for anyone saying otherwise to anything I say. Mods on pc are free. Playing games online on PC are free. Chat feautres on pc are free. Doing anything on a pc is free that you can do on a 360. Pretty much that is. MS just knows people that own a console are sheep and follow them hook, line and sinker. They know people believe that because its a console that somehow they SHOULD pay other fees beacuse thats what you do. Thats the “down side” to consoles.
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What? 360 is a PC! HELLO! MS did nothing special to make a chat or to make you play games online! ITS MS FOR GOODNESS SAKES! They make more then everyone combined here! Lastly if I was wrong about online gaming for instance then MS wouldn’t have got its butt handed to them on the PC when they tried pulling the same thing with Gold. PC users told them “HECK NO! Online gaming is free!” MS knew PC users weren’t dumb and made it free like it always has been.

1) I’m really enjoying the rhetorical BS in the comments from people as clueless as ever about the point of Avatars. Considering add-ons for games a rip-off is definitely a load of crap, since people really enjoy buying them. If you make it, they will buy it. End of discussion there. (Includes you nickle-and-diming argument people. Make a better argument, please, you’re making the philosophy students laugh.)

2) That “Striped Jacket with Polo” is awesome for Nova Scotians like myself! Totally rockin’ the NS-colors of blue and yellow. Who do I thank for making that shirt choice, Larry?

when are we getting a shell suit for us scousers ?

great! new clothes

Always good to see a freebie.

A ‘Hacking’ Jacket is worn when horse riding. Kinda like a blazer.

@ oAssassin Xo

You again, why don’t you go off and talk to someone who gives a stuff. Plus next time get all of your facts right before posting your hormonal rants.

@oAssassin Xo

you’re always free to leave Xbox for what it is and go to Playstation.
with live you get a working matchmaking system, you get active cheat protection, connection priority over silver members when downloading.
and your comparison with PC just shows you’re an idiot.
the money you think you’re saving by playing on a PC gets lost on the continuous upgrading required.

you’re accusing gold members of being sheep, yet you’re a gold member yourself.

with that comment about avatars accessories you just show you’re either stupid or too lazy to read the major’s words: “All clothing choices are free, and will remain available”

lay off the crackpipe and get a job so you can afford games, live and marketplace content instead of coming here to whine, you’re looking like a chav.

“All clothing choices are free, and will remain available”
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Ok? Point being? lol. In cased you missed it MS said over the Live on YOUR 360 that the Avatars will have free cloths every 2 weeks for a awhile (aka the crap stuff). And at some point there will be a Avatar store where you can buy clothes, animations, sounds…. etc. Key word being “BUY” as in once again we get the crap stuff with every feature and the nickle and dime you for anything thats REMOTELY worth anything.
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As for PC. You only have to upgrade every other week if your stupid. You can live on a upgrade for years if you need to. I upgrade my computer every other year with maybe a new Video Card and thats about it unless I really need something else. So my console cost about the same as my 360. Ok maybe my pc cost a little more. Still PC gaming is relatively cheap unless your more worried about hardware every week then gaming.
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And as for my facts. Nope. They are all accurate. Some of us have read everything there is. Which yes that means I got nothing to do in my free time. I am sure most of you do more then me so I think I know more about whats going on then you.
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Of course I have Gold Not exactly like I have a choice. MS forces you to pay for it if you want to play your $60 games online. Its either that or NOT play them online. You can always complain to MS…oh wait you can’t. When you call you talk to “Bob Smith” the the guy from india who never understands what you want anyways. So its not exactly like you can complain when no one speaks english right at customer service.
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Another example of MS’S cheapness. They avoid customer complaints by getting cheap workers to work customer service. If “Bob Smith” gets a complain he only knows to tell you “I am sorry for your dissatisfaction. I can’t do anything for you right now. Please try later thank you!”

dude, if you’re so pissed off at MS cause you have to pay, go to playstation and use linux on your pc.
have fun with cheaters online on the PC and a poor amount of good games on the PS3

don’t like it, leave.
it’s not like MS is FORCING you to buy avatar clothes.
besides, there are free alternatives to live like xbconnect and leaf and xlink kai.

if you’re really that pissed, stop being a whiney bitch and go to another platform.

It’s not really that kind of superstition – I think it stems from a widespread pagan belief of the spirits that live in holly and ivy and so on. You brought them in for the winter and returned them to their natural habitat no later than the 5th, otherwise they wouldn’t survive. That’s why we have all the associations of those plants with Christmas – it just so happens to be at the same time.

I’m still waiting on a decent black suit. Tuxes are for penguins and the white suit is unprofessional and the dark suit is poorly cut. (sleeves and pant legs are too short, no self respecting man would wear something tailored so poorly)

I want game content as clothes! HALO3 SOMETHING? TSHIRTS OR ARMOUR SUIT?

@oAssassin Xo
The NXE isn’t that bad, while agree quite a few things ‘from the Atari to 3DO’ era – No online needed to play. Without Xbox Live online play, I would not own as many games and probably never gotten past Halo 1 or tried (purchased) Burnout Paradise. NetFlix is albeit the BEST part of NXE. Now, that PlayOn (hulu.com, youtube, CBS and more) is on Xbox Live Media Center ($30), WHY pay for movies from the Market Place? Obviously, quite a few people are using that part of the service. At this point, the avatars, I truly thought the new year was going to being us a 3D world to walk around in and loads of clothes. No big deal, but some of this stuff being released is making me wonder does the NXE Avatar team really have a surprise for us? Surprises such as ‘normal clothing’ (a tee shirt and simple khaki pants, no shirt or shoes options)? I can careless if the ’3D Avatar World’ is like an empty The Matrix weapon room with HUGE space and a soccer ball myself and 7 friends can kick around and we have a small scoreboard and goals to tally points. ‘Casual Fun’ in a low poly world, awesome.

@JohnnyricoMC
What is ‘active cheat protection’? When you said that, the FIRST thing that came to mind was “This guy has not played Dead or Alive 4 (with an SS or B+, Gears of War 1, Halo 2 and the ‘invincible’ glitch some kid found in Super Street Fighter II HD Remix (lately) on Xbox Live”. I haven’t had the liberty of fighting him, so for now it is hearsay. I’ve played with cheaters and glitchers (quickmatch godsend/devils’ playground), invited to glitch party matches – which I gladly turn down. Why? I’m a gamer, I can find glitches by myself, for fun and to laugh at, not to be a handicap to win (it’s not skill). oAssassin Xo’s rant is a bit extreme, but $60 for a buggy game that will be updated (fixed) later is a tad bad shame and once sales start to slow and more people buy used games and go to goozex.com to take their business, ‘Take it or Leave it’ will be in full play. Even the new Halo 3.5 is causing quite an uproar, wait that’s too strong a word, ‘stir’ is more like it. I have no say or opinion on it, but yet lately my party chats and IMs are littered with fellow gamers ‘going off’ on something so simple. What gives? [backtracks - "what?"]

Darn, forgot to check out the new clothes yesterday. You guys need something on xbox.com that lets you edit your avatar online, and if you do please tell me.

hey major ,hook me up with some good clothes alright dude.

Something is broken about the avatar updates here.
I got a new console and kept my HDD. Ever since, I only get the default clothes from NXE launch. I can’t delete the avatar update to re-download it since it doesn’t show anywhere in memory. License transfer also requires re-downloading, but that doesn’t trigger since I already have it on the HDD afterall. Any idea?

@Arakon Delete your NXE udpate from the HDD? Wouldn’t that force you to re-download everything and (hopefully) end up with a bug-free version of the avatar editor?

Haven’t checked it out yet. But it’s always good to see new additions for free. I’m liking this pattern.

hey Major, why doesn’t microsoft get smart and finally give our avatars clothes from game characters? people might even be willing to pay for that.

i haven’t given my character a second look since it was greated… but give me the opportunity to slap on a halo helm/outfit, or let him hold a COG assault rifle/chainsaw, and i’d be right up in there.

Just a thought.

I want a top hat a cane…no no no…I NEED a top hat and a cane for my avatar

Why are they adding more of these crazy clothing choices? Give us some basics! At the very least give us something simple like color variations.

I just want a hooded sweatshirt.

XBL’s NXE Just Rox My Sox

H4X0R :O

@Honeycut1
AFTER I get my flipflops, beach shorts and no-shirt look. Oh and a Beach Premium Theme (like the Day Theme for NXE) with a beach ball, sandcastles and animated crabs and flying seagulls.

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