Windows 10: Closing Idea Drive: Learn More About Future of Xbox Insider Program

Brink · Dec 11, 2018

We’re excited to announce that the Xbox Insider Idea Drive has been marked “Complete.” As a team, we’re incredibly grateful for all the terrific ideas and comments you submitted over the past few months. To close out, we’d like to review some of your top ranked ideas and provide a quick update on where they’re at:

Have an Icon Next to Gamertag to Show You Are an Insider (1461 votes) – We haven’t been able to provide Xbox Insiders with an icon for their Gamertags; however, we recently invited Xbox Insiders to redeem exclusive Xbox Insider Avatar gear via the Xbox Insider Hub. Learn more about our Level 2+ and Level 10+ Avatar shirts.

Integrate Microsoft Rewards in the Xbox Insider Program (1056 votes) – While we don’t have a specific update for this, we can say we’re researching this idea and other similar possibilities! For now, we plan to stay focused on bring our community early access to some of the coolest Xbox features and games out there!

Adding the Xbox Ideas Site into the Xbox Insider Hub (1042 votes) – After looking into this, we realized that more than 70% of the traffic to the Xbox Ideas site is from a mobile device or tablet! So, with most of the traffic off-console, we plan to keep Xbox Ideas on the web. You can access the site through the browser on your Xbox console at any time, however.

Reward Insiders with Access to Alphas, Betas or Game Previews (1053 votes) – This is one of our primary goals, and we continue to partner with more and more game studios. These partnerships provide you with a sneak peek at a variety of games prior to general release while also ensuring game studios receive early feedback. It’s important to keep in mind that studios often choose to invite a specific subset of the Xbox Insider audience based on their needs.

Reward you with items from the Store (1028 votes) We’ve accomplished this by offering two Exclusive Xbox Insider Avatar t-shirts, now available to Xbox Insiders who have reached Level 2 or higher and Level 10 or higher! We have more thoughts on what we’ll deliver in the future, but we do want them to be a surprise. We’re also encouraging game studios to provide DLC or Avatar gear as a “thank you” for your participation in their specific game flights.

Xbox Insider Hub on Mobile (603 votes) – We’re currently exploring different ways to offer the Xbox Insider Hub on a mobile device. Imagine being able to review Quest steps on your mobile device while completing them on your console or being able to join a flight and start downloading a game beta while on the go! Although we can’t currently do this, we are researching the work that would go into each of these scenarios and prioritizing from there.

Have more content available to Xbox Insiders (577 votes) – So far this year, we have had over 20 game flights, including Sea of Thieves, Super Mega Baseball 2, Vigor, and Fallout 76 as well as app flights for Twitch and EA Access. Additionally, we have worked closely with the Xbox Platform and Localization teams to create more Quests and Surveys to gather structured feedback based on your Xbox One Experience. Our goal has been to have at least 1 Quest or Survey for every new Xbox feature, and to have from 1-5 surveys for each game flight, at the studio’s discretion. We’ve had Quests covering the new Avatar experience, My Games & Apps, and Store features like Wish List and Shopping Cart! Keep an eye out for more opportunities to provide feedback on new Xbox features and games in 2019!

Providing more details and consistent release notes (544 votes) – We launched the Xbox Insider Blog a little over a year ago for this explicit purpose and have since posted ~300 stories, spanning release notes, playtest announcements, Team Xbox Q&As, and more. You no longer have to launch the Xbox Insider Hub to read release notes, you simply need to check out the blog from a browser on your phone, tablet, PC or other Internet-connected device. We also worked with our mods to breathe life into the Xbox Insiders subreddit, where you can find and discuss every single Xbox Insider Blog post, and we unveiled the @XboxInsider Twitter account last summer.

Add Achievements to the Xbox Insider Hub (544 votes) – We prize transparency, and because of that, we’ll say that we don’t have plans to do this due to technical limitations. Xbox Insider XP (eXperience Points) may not seem quite as exciting as popping an Achievement, but it is a great way to advance your status in the Xbox Insider Program and gain access to even more game previews.

Notify me via email when new content is available (473 votes) – We’re currently exploring ways to improve notifications and are also planning to allow Xbox Insiders to express their interest areas or preferences for previewing content with the program. For now, the Xbox Insiders Blog is the best place to go to find this information, but thanks for letting us know that email is much preferred over SMS-based notifications.

These are just a handful of your Top Requested Ideas for the Xbox Insider Program. We look forward to your participation in 2019 as we continue to release new Xbox System Updates and work with studios to provide more and more game playtests. As always, thanks for being an Xbox Insider and helping shape the future of Xbox on console, Windows and mobile devices.
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Source: Closing an Idea Drive: Learn More About the Future of the Xbox Insider Program - Xbox Wire

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Brink · Dec 11, 2018

Xbox Ideas Update: Start Voting for your Favorite Ideas

Hello again, Xbox Insiders! I’m back to talk about the next phase of Xbox Ideas. You might recall last month when I introduced the concept of Idea Drives as part of the new Xbox Ideas. If you’re not familiar, head to last month’s post to read more about Xbox Ideas.

When we launched Xbox Ideas, we included three Idea Drives, all of which asked you to submit your own suggestions and ideas for our feature teams to review. And you did! We received thousands of suggestions, comments, and votes on each Idea Drive, and have carefully chosen the best ideas to represent you in each Idea Drive forum. Here are the three Drives currently active:

Xbox Insider Program – The Xbox Insider Program allows passionate Xbox fans the opportunity to give us feedback on the latest Xbox One System Updates, as well as features and games still in development on both the Xbox One console and Windows 10 PCs. Join the Xbox Insider Program and help make work-in-progress content and features coming to Xbox even better. Then tell us how we can improve it!

Ease of Access – The Ease of Access team is looking for new hardware and software suggestions that will make it easier for people with disabilities to enjoy the Xbox console and services. We’re eager to learn more from you and to share that information as a team. We look forward to receiving and exploring your feature requests via Xbox Ideas. Let’s build a more inclusive Xbox together!

My Games and Apps – My Games and Apps is where you manage your content, including downloaded games, games you have purchased but haven’t downloaded, and your subscriptions. You can also update your games within My Games and Apps, filter and sort, view download progress, and manage your download queue.

The Next Phase of an Idea Drive

Idea Drives will often start in the Accepting Ideas phase, where anyone can submit an idea. After this phase, the voting phase begins. This is your opportunity to vote and comment on a fixed list of ideas that will be used to help our feature teams prioritize their next set of features for Xbox.

This week, both My Games and Apps and the Xbox Insider Program Idea Drives are moving to the voting phase! Soon, Ease of Access will be shifting phases as well. And our next Idea Drive will be announced very soon! We look forward to hearing from you at xboxideas.uservoice.com. Remember, Xbox Ideas are driven by you!
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Source: Xbox Ideas Update: Start Voting for your Favorite Ideas - Xbox Wire

Wilfred Mac · Dec 11, 2018

Xbox insider program enrolment.

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We appreciate your interest in joining the Xbox Insider Program. For you to be able to get an invitation, you need to ask any of your friends that member of Insider Program or Preview Program to send you an invitation. Once you have received one, all you
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Brink · Dec 11, 2018

New Idea Drives Just for You: Designed for Xbox and PC Game Bar

Greetings, Xbox Insiders! We’ve just launched a new pair of idea drives and are looking for your participation and input to help Team Xbox. If this is your first time hearing about Xbox Ideas, then you should know that Idea Drives are focused on a specific area and contain three different phases (Collection, Voting and Results). The information we gather from Idea Drives is then shared with various teams across Xbox!

We’re very excited about these new Idea Drives and can’t wait to see what ideas you have brewing.

Designed for Xbox

From fight sticks to racing wheels, network adapters to headsets, there is a wide variety of accessories available for the Xbox One and Windows 10 devices, but is there something that you think is missing? Some peripheral that you think would make your gaming experience that much better? Here’s your chance to contribute and let Team Xbox know what’s missing, what you would like to see, and perhaps even a brand or manufacturer you’d like to see partner with Team Xbox on creating licensed hardware.

Some of the user suggestions so far include:

“Xbox Should Create Wired Versions of Controllers”

“Support the use of a USB WiFi Adapter on the console”

PC Game Bar

Do you like to record your gameplay on Windows 10 and share it with your friends? How about creating highlight reels or compilation videos? What kind of features would you like easy access to while playing a game? Team Xbox is looking for your contributions on how you would like to use Game Bar in Windows 10 right before, during, and after finishing a gaming session.

Take some time to explore the current Game Bar by pressing Win + G while playing a game on PC, then swing by the Idea Drive with your thoughts and feedback. A few examples of existing user ideas include:

“Add a Battery Indicator for Connected Controllers”

“Let Users Voice and Chat via Text Directly Through Game Bar”

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Source: New Idea Drives Just for You: Designed for Xbox and PC Game Bar - Xbox Wire

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