CES 09: MS wants to raise Live's 100 friend limit

by Dustin Burg { Jan 10th 2009 at 1:10PM }

While not quite an official confirmation that we'll see an increase to Xbox Live's current 100 friend limit, Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg did come close to admitting that a friend limit increase is in the works.

Talking at CES, Greenberg told Joystiq that "I can't commit to when that will happen, but that is something we want to do. It's definitely something we're looking at expanding and, as this social network grows, we've absolutely heard the pleas for that. It's on the list."

We can haz friends list increase soon? Maybe. Until then, we'll have to continue to reject friends requests with a frowny face :(

Tags: ces-2009, friend, friends-list, x3f-twitter, xbox-live

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

UNSCleric @ Jan 10th 2009 1:15PM

They've been putting it off cause it won't be compatible with Xbox 1 games like Halo 2 that have built-in friends lists that were only coded for 100 friends.

Louis @ Jan 10th 2009 1:25PM

They need to add a list option for viewing friends in NXE. Then raise the cap.

What do I care though, I have 10 friends, but I don't accept unknowns.

Jon @ Jan 10th 2009 2:47PM

You can view your friends in a list... it's in the Guide.

beckerist @ Jan 11th 2009 4:18PM

not while you're in an original xbox game

Mazrael @ Jan 12th 2009 1:30PM

more than me.. I only have 6 friends - no randoms for me either.. althouh I keep getting one

BobTheElephant @ Jan 10th 2009 2:03PM

Heh, I've wished it was more than 100 since old xbox live...hopefully this goes through all right.

SaNcTuS @ Jan 10th 2009 1:34PM

About time. The cap has been at 100 since 2002. I hate having to delete old and new friends because I have to make space. I hope they raise the cap to like 300 or even be able to have unlimited space. But unlimited is asking too much already...

joeybeast @ Jan 10th 2009 1:35PM

Oh admit it, we all enjoy rejecting friends.

KineticOnline @ Jan 10th 2009 2:08PM

If they add more friends then they need to add some kind of way to organise or group your friends

imbecile pete @ Jan 10th 2009 3:07PM

but...why? most people dont have 100 friends

myabsolution @ Jan 10th 2009 3:50PM

Ive only ever reached 65... and when it gets that high I trim the fat off my list, so to speak.

Perhaps one day I shall actually reach the limit.

SadisticHam @ Jan 10th 2009 4:10PM

I'd really like to know how someone manages to play and keep in touch with 100 people on Live on a regular basis, I can barely keep in touch with 20.

xenocidic @ Jan 12th 2009 8:21AM

well, most of us play several different games so we have various pockets of friends... i.e. here's an example of the breakdown of my FL

1. Real life friends/family (yes I have some) : 15-20
2. Shadowrun friends: 10
3. Texas Hold'em friends: 10
4. EndWar friends: 15
5. Viva Pinata friends: 10
6. People who sent me a friend request because I'm an Xbox Ambassador and I'm supposed to accept them: 10
7. etc...

Matt @ Jan 10th 2009 4:34PM

I have around 66 friends and I always have someone to play with. There is rarely a time that no one of my friends are online. If you have over 100 friends than there is no way you play with all of them, a lot. So is this necessary? Maybe work on something with some depth to the Xbox experience?

MadamTampini @ Jan 10th 2009 4:45PM

I'm fine the way it is, but it wouldn't affect me if this happened or if it didn't. I only have ~25 friends and most of which I hardly play with (if at all) in the first place. I only have like 3 or 4 people I play with on a daily basis.

I'm pretty meh about a friends list upgrade.