Share your 360 Laws

by Dustin Burg { Jul 17th 2007 at 1:00PM }

Over on TriXie's blog she chatted with community member DeaconBlade 360 about Xbox member conduct and rules for which Xbox owners should obey called "360 Laws". These "laws" are pretty much social rules when it comes to gaming on the 360 and are a perfect study guide for new gamers. Anyway, DeaconBlade came up with the original seven laws including such favorites as "never share your hard drive with a friend's console for more than a day" and "carrying an Xbox 360 backpack is not cool". These original seven rules then spawned a few community inspired 360 Laws like "the Xbox Live Vision camera is not a dating tool", "never play on a friend's profile unless invited" and "never abuse the Guide button mid-game". These are all laws we can agree with, which got us thinking ...

What are a few 360 Laws that you play by, laws that you enforce or laws that you think should be followed? Let's add to the community inspired law fun by sharing our favorites with eachother. So, go ahead and share with your fellow fanboys your 360 Laws, we'll start: X3F 360 Law: "Clean that controller! Nobody likes using a controller that is caked with Cheeto cheese, sticky substances and dried hand grease."

Tags: 360 laws, 360Laws, law, trixie, xbox com, XboxCom

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

RR @ Jul 17th 2007 1:10PM

Law #1: You will eventually get the red rings of death. Just embrace it and know that you are not alone. We are all there with you.

John @ Jul 17th 2007 1:10PM

1. Call every white player you meet a n*****
2. Teabag the person on the other team with the best score, especially if he's far superior to you
3. Quit when the game isn't mindless killing (CTF)

Toph @ Jul 17th 2007 1:15PM

I'd be fine as long as people followed one main, major rule on Live: STOP CUSSING. Talking trash is fine like everyone knows, but I don't want to hear you swear and cuss at me or anyone else. It's just so damn inconsiderate!

Bishop @ Jul 17th 2007 1:19PM

I don't see the problem with cussing unless you're aiming it at a specific person. I get killed by a grunt in Halo and I'm going to swear. I won't call you anything, but at least let me have my vulgar phrases. I didn't watch cable just so I could never use the words taught to me.

Jcarpio @ Jul 17th 2007 1:25PM

1) Stop using "gay" as a pejorative

2) Enough with the racist remarks

3) Stop bitching about lag. We know! We get it too. Stop using it as an excuse.

4) Grief all you want, just be creative.

jduke @ Jul 17th 2007 1:32PM

let me win.

Brooks @ Jul 17th 2007 1:36PM

Your music does not sound good on the other side of the mic! Mute your headset or turn down/off your music, because on the other side all music sounds like crap!

refinedsugar @ Jul 17th 2007 1:35PM

Take the mic out of your nose.

refinedsugar @ Jul 17th 2007 1:36PM

Take the mic out of your nose.

AnOffday @ Jul 17th 2007 1:38PM

Thou shall make fun of pathetic losers who try to pick up chicks on Uno.

TORO @ Jul 17th 2007 1:39PM

Okay to Stay Law: When you repeatedly say, "okay this is my last game", it's Okay to Stay for another hour.

Diamondxp @ Jul 17th 2007 1:41PM

10. Stop saying that you ever did or will ever do my Mom.

Dorothy Mantooth is a Saint !!!

therpham @ Jul 17th 2007 1:42PM

There is a professor in my CS department who actually calls the small orange granules from Cheetos "chesidue." I think that is a good name for it.

Jerrios @ Jul 17th 2007 2:05PM

I see a problem in cussing if you're playing Uno or something. But, if the game is rated mature, you should be old enough to hear it if you're playing it.

Mark @ Jul 17th 2007 1:53PM

Take getting killed like a man. Chainsawing and frag tagging are apart of the game. No sense in whining for the duration of the match about it!

FROSTYSMOOTH @ Jul 17th 2007 1:53PM

moms arent allowed to buy their 12 year olds any m rated games

Andrew @ Jul 17th 2007 1:55PM

Thou shalt not use they vision camera to show you dropping your bean bags out the bottom of your shorts. I had to experience that last night playing Uno.

SheNaniGenz 510 @ Jul 17th 2007 1:57PM

Let me start by saying... I am not a prude. I am a fun loving normal gal... no crazy hang ups.

However... I am so fed up with men who think that they can get you in a game of Uno or Poker and masturbate on cam or send simular still pictures.

I am starting a list on my myspace and intend to make these creeps xbox lives ***, if not get the arrested!

I have messaged trixie360 their gamer tags as well and messaged all the gamerchix on my friends list and gave them their names too.

If one of these freaks were to say be doing the same thing in his front window, or somewhere where someone might see... they would be arrested. Why is it any difference here? I paid for my live membership with the intention of playing games, as did my 12 year old son. Not to be visually assualted anytime cams are allowed. I have disabled cam except for friends for my son and may just have to do it for mine too, which I think is really effen lame. Now I can't see cool funny things because of a handful of sexual deviants who are so effing stupid and lame. WTF!!!!

This weeks undesirables are..... sacdaddy2006 and bill cooper

qbix @ Jul 17th 2007 1:57PM

1) Remember the color of your team. 2) Communicate with your team. 3) Stop sending negative feedback after losing to good players. 4) Don't try to de-rank, and if you do, don't announce it. 5) No screaming because even if you are on my team, I will mute you. 6) Nobody wants to listen to your music. This is another instant mute.

And I could go on, but I think most of us agree on the major Xbox Live annoyances.

matt @ Jul 17th 2007 2:01PM

Anybody who sounds like they haven't hit puberty need to use the microphone VERY liberally. My ears can't take the high pitched screaming.

albinogoldfish @ Jul 17th 2007 2:00PM

Thou shalt not screen look in multiplayer split screen

Diamondxp @ Jul 17th 2007 2:28PM

@ 18. You should not have to be subjected to that I agree. What I would do as revenge is act like what he really did turned you on send him a invite to a private game. Stay in the lobby. Pretend like your going to get naked on cam. Make it look that you are going to take off your top and then boot him. Revenge is sweet.

By the way I can top your experiences on XBL. Some team of men and yes I did say team at least 8 were all engaged in some homosexual activity and doing things to each other that would bring many men to vomit. All I did was go to the main lobby and boot them everytime they came in they are so stupid I did this for an hour until they gave up. Do not get mad get even.

xboxfreak91 @ Jul 17th 2007 2:39PM

21. All your base are belong to us

xboxfreak91 @ Jul 17th 2007 2:40PM

21. All your base are belong to us

T Ghost @ Jul 17th 2007 2:47PM

Well, once I'm in hate mode today, here it goes for Trixie and M$:

Could somebody please show trixie what a controler looks like?
And someone please hide the redbull and cocaine from this chick?

I know it's asking too much to ask for a hot chick with the ability to do smart ass comments on everything, with a bad-girl atittude to be a gamer but, M$, could you PLEASE find a REAL GAMER to fill the role of a bridge between your gaming business and hardcore gamers?

I don't mind if you come with a not so hot girl, I little meat never hurted anyone, but SHE NEEDS TO BE A GAMER!

And do not be a coke and redbull addict.

Thanks M$! Now fire Trixie or shut her up and let her only show naked on Major's video cast (that was supposed to be on marketplace by now, remember?) emmiting no sounds, please?

FrogJD2 @ Jul 17th 2007 2:50PM

Law #3867.2

People will always know your sexual preference and race based on how you play... Apparently everyone on Xbox Live is either Homosexual or Jewish... or both...

colin @ Jul 17th 2007 2:57PM

noob, and all its variations and deviations should be stricken from real gamer vocabulary.

i've been called a noob after telling some douche to be quiet because he was rapping in the pregame lobby. then i had to devastate him and then leave to go put on my tie and head into work.

T Ghost @ Jul 17th 2007 2:57PM

# 26

Oh, don't forget that if you have ANY accent that's not a:

redneck accent
soprano's accent
british acccent
beaner accent

you are a dirty filthy french whore that deserves to be told to shut up all the time.

Also if it happens that you're not in a english speaking country or know people from this "remote and damned places full of brown people" and join a room where the language is not english you're entitled to be told do "SHUT UUUUUUPPPP!!! SPEAAK EEENGLISSHHHHH THIS ISS AMEEERICCA DUUUDEEE!!" even that you are sitting in your living room in Paris and playing with a friend that's sitting in his living room in Tokio and another that's sitting in this living room in Rio de Janeiro.

Those precious moments (I lived once I'm fluent in either portuguese, spanish and little french and have Live! friends in all 5 continents) invoque me to recite the beatiful war calling: "AMERICAAA!! FUCK YEAH!!!" from that lovely motion picture called "team america". Peals that only my home country can bring you!

Joe @ Jul 17th 2007 2:59PM

This is one me and my friends enforce in M games: "If your balls haven't dropped, you can't talk."

T Ghost @ Jul 17th 2007 3:11PM

hahahaha! @ #29 That's so true and majority of my friends have a similar rule:

You're asked your age, and if you answer any number lower than 18 everybody yells baaaaaaaa! wrong answer! and the host kicks the kid out of the room.

It's mean, I know, but it's so fun and kids voice in games like rainbow, Gears, GRAW yelling "kill him! hhaha I got a headshot! Suck it noob!" totally kills the immersion and fantasy that the game tries to create on our minds.

Zac LaCombe @ Jul 17th 2007 3:18PM

Law #8728406.117 (also known as "The Spartan Law") - When in the post-game lobby, the player with the lowest overall score will likely trash talk the most in a highly annoying pre-pubescent voice. At this point, you may either point out his lack of skill or choose to ignore his ignorance.

Oh, and putting all jest aside, please guys. Halo 2 is not even hard to be skilled at. Don't trash talk over the use of button glitches because I have and will destroy most BXR and Double Shot advocates in Halo 3. Your time is almost up.

BananaBoat @ Jul 17th 2007 3:23PM

Most of these have already been said by now, but these are my version of the rules.

1. Use the racial slur that least fits the person on the other end of it.
2. No swear is against the rules. Voices aren't being recorded, so it's your word versus whomever might complain against you. So people take all the liberties
3. Insult the other persons mother
4. Teabag all dead bodies, whether or not you had anything to do with their demise
5. Everyone else is a noob, no exceptions.
6. If you lose, blame it on your teammates. No exceptions.
7. Immediatly take the sniper rifle, or the Covenant Energy Sword/Spartan Laser, and run towards the enemy. Die, and then give them the weapon. Repeat.
8. Screaming as loud as you can into the microphone is good manners
9. If you sound like a 10 year old boy, you are going to get laughed off of live, so don't bother.
10. If all else fails, claim the other team is Haxxors and quit during the middle of the round, leaving your team to die a miserable death.

BananaBoat @ Jul 17th 2007 3:34PM

Oh and I forgot a rule.

Rule 11. Unless someone is cheating, or (as in #18's case) showing you their testicles, you are duty bound not to tattle on anyone to an Xbox live mod. The same rules apply for most of the internet; You wouldn't like it if someone told your mom that you called them a swear word, so the same is true for Xbox Live.

I can't tell you how many times I've beaten someone, just for the loser to say something to the tune of "You called me a noob POS! I'm telling an Admin!" (grown men, no joke). Take your loss like a man, and get on with your lives.

Oh and yes, everyone's sexual orientation is automatically set to non-heterosexual on Xbox Live (until proven otherwise). Or atleast, after 10,000 people having called me various slurs for non-straight people, I assume =P.

KineticOnline @ Jul 17th 2007 3:47PM

Under no circumstances should you pay for gamerpics, tutorial videos or content that is only being "unlocked" from the disk.

Dont pay for content and then bitch about the pricing. The prices are set by what they think people are willing to pay for content. If nobody buys it then the price will drop.

Kill me when your on my team and i'll swap sides so when i rape your ass you teath fall out.

DjDATZ @ Jul 17th 2007 4:03PM

'This is one me and my friends enforce in M games: "If your balls haven't dropped, you can't talk."'

+1

Bernice A @ Jul 17th 2007 5:47PM

Rule #242 Section 9
Never claim to be able to pwn everyone on the opposing team when losing a TEAM based game.

Mr Khan @ Jul 17th 2007 5:29PM

@ 20

You mean use the mic conservatively, liberally would cause them to use it more

I would say don't bitch about losing unless the opponent is flat-out cheating (modding the internal code of the game or altering the network stream), if they're doing anything that's in the code, you can do it too...

colin @ Jul 17th 2007 6:44PM

@ Mr. Khan,

sorry dude, but glitching is cheating in most people's eyes. even though you aren't "modifying" anything, you are manipulating the environment to give yourself an unfair advantage.

-2

AoE @ Jul 17th 2007 6:43PM

I only have one law: wash your nasty hands before you touch my controllers.

Coppiceman @ Jul 17th 2007 8:40PM

How 'bout this:

If you're a kid who's still in school, doesn't have a job, and doesn't care about homework, (or someone who isn't productive/useful to society in some way), don't give others crap when they don't play as well. Some people have to EARN their ability to play games. You folks, on the other hand, leech off those willing to subsidize your addiction. Some of us cannot play six hours a day, and thus we have an excuse not to be as good.

NikeboyN4 @ Jul 17th 2007 9:06PM

ok, im dont with the lil kids screaming in the mic, im tired of the complaining that people have, such as " my sister is annoying me " cause idc it a excuse if it so bad punch her in the face.... uhm lag is a excuse but if its so bad just quit we dont wanna hear it... host is host, dont complain about other team having host, you choose that team and if you dont like it leave.... hackers need to stay within unranked limits... dont eat anyhting messy while playin xbox. dont talk trash unless your leader.... so many more just a few to point out

Psycho300x @ Jul 17th 2007 9:16PM

I play by the law that Trixie is a fat whore, which is very unlike that drawing she represents herself with, shes just a fake ho, why does microsoft even hire those fools on xbox.com lol

mec11 @ Jul 17th 2007 11:40PM

"[...]and dried hand grease."

Hell yeah, how does that crap (and dead skin) always get under the analog sticks!!!

Don Smith @ Jul 18th 2007 8:19AM

When you talk with someone online, please keep in mind that there may be children or other people listening.

I recently was talking with someone on Xbox Live, which I always listen to through both my speakers and headset at the same time.

But the person I was speaking with started telling me stories about how he gets females to "flash him" with the Xbox Live camera.

My family was watching me as this person said those things, and they were NOT enjoying what they were hearing.

So, I would say my Law would be: Keep personal storytelling to yourself, or at least look at the person's profile to see what it is set at.

I have my profile set for Recreation, and others have theirs set for Family. This guy had his set for Underground. So, another Law might be worded as:

Look at a persons profile before you tell stories.

ajw1371 @ Jul 18th 2007 11:43AM

1). Kids shall not play M rated games when they have a GAMER tag apprpriate to their age i.e PEAPOD!

2) Anybody with VIVA PINATA on their "played games" list shall NNNOOOTTT play Gears of War....ever

D. Gray @ Jul 18th 2007 2:34PM

Gears of War is my favorite game, but playing on Xbox Love is a friggin' nightmare...I think I could come up with ten commandments for that game alone.

Here's my average Gears of War experience:
Die
$hit talk from some prepubescent boy
Respawn
Die
$hit talk from some the same damn kid
Respawn
Die
$hit talk...well, you get the idea.

And for some reason, I keep thinking that I'll get better if I keep playing. I know I suck at the game, but I am beginning to get really friggin' scared of 10-year old boys.

D. Gray @ Jul 18th 2007 2:33PM

Oh, also in Gears of War those bastards that want to be on the same "team" so they all find the same damn ranked match game and then wait everybody else out so they can all be on the same side. Boy, that pisses me off, and it happens almost every time I play.

BTW Newsflash: If you think what I have listed above isn't cheating, it is. If Epic wanted teams in Gears of War, there would be an option to make teams. Not being able to choose who is going to be on your team is what is supposed to level the ranked-matches field. If you don't understand this, you're a moron.