Xbox 360 Marketplace Territory Controls Strengthened
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Does this means Malaysian can't download any contents from any region's marketplace anymore after the Spring Update since we technically have an account that does not match the country where we are located? 

So we have to wait for official announcement. Like someone pointed out, there are alot of US soldier located in Iraq etc etc who also play Xb360. (quite a large sum of Halo 2 players are in the Army!)

Michael Newey: While we do not advise or condone this since a user who does this is technically breaking a contractual agreement, users with this type of account will still be able to use it. However, they will not be able to download content from Xbox Live Marketplace.

If you're looking forward to Half Life 2: Orange Box, it will come as good news to hear that Valve have no intention of scraping the barrel for money when it comes to additional content. They told Eurogamer they have no intention of charging users for any of the content they put out.

Team Fortress 2 designer Robin Walker told Eurogamer:

    "You buy the product, you get the content. We make more money because more people buy it, not because we try and nickel-and-dime the same customers."

In relation to DLC, Valve's Charlie Brown also added:

    "[In multiplayer games] the content you're playing is being created by the players you're playing against, so the more people that get into the game, the more content you're going to have.

And finally, Valve's marketing director Doug Lombardi had the following to say:

    "Our philosophy there is, if you buy the product, we put more content out to keep the game interesting, we sell more products. Counter-Strike is number one and has been since '99 because we kept the game interesting, not because we tried to charge people more, and that's come back in sales of Counter-Strike."

This is all good to hear because it's nice to know that not every developer and publisher is out there to milk consumers as much as possible. However, it seems too good to be true.

Cast your mind back a few months and you will remember Epic promised the same thing. They promised to release maps that would be free from day one for gamers who wanted to add a little bit more to the excellent Gears of War. However, come the time for release, all has been changed and the maps, as we all know, cost 800 MS Points until September when they will be made free (admittedly two were released free, but they were sponsored).

It's clear that Microsoft have an overruling hand in DLC content and the prices they should be. So despite Valve saying DLC will be free, don't get all excited just yet. They may well have been talking about PC content and possibly PS3 content being free, rather than specifically 360 content. Either way, promises of free content, in this day and age, can never be taken seriously until the content is finally released.

There are of course other ways to make money and Valve have recognised this. They are thinking that in-game advertising might just work, and many people would certainly prefer that than have to pay for the extra stuff.

Don't hold your breath for free DLC, but do know that at least Valve have the best intentions. We will see what happens after the the Orange Box ships sometime in October (hopefully).

is it possible to obtain updates without connecting to live? i havent bought the wireless adapter yet

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thanks a lot!
what updates are those? i need game updates basically

It's just a small update for the upcoming game 'scene it'.

COD4 on no.1 again Playing Halo with Luna,WussWss & latios as we speak....only got 41,000 players online.

guys
im so fcuking piss off now

last night suddently i disconnect from live
until now..still cannot login

anyone try celcom broadband to live
now at my office had a promotion

RM120 permonth for 2 years + free modem