Xbox One - Horrendous

[daemon]

Invested in a games console with an amazon offer on the xbox one.

Unpacked it this afternoon @ 12:50, took over an hour to update. Then stuck in Forza Horizon 2, this needs a 3.7GB install to work, so its now at 77% of that. Says "Ready to Start" but wont actually start, so now waiting, and waiting and waiting....

Over 3 hours so far and havent got a game started yet!

Granted we've just got 2Mb broadband but seriously, this is just st.

VERY tempted to box the whole lot up and send it back to Amazon.

Woeful.

[daemon]

LandR said:

Welcome to gaming in 2015.

Is this really 15 years of gaming development?

Have now uninstalled everything to do with Forza and am trying to play Assassins Creed Black Flag.

It asked me did i want to do a 2.7GB install to play the game online, so just so my afternoon is not a total write off, i said no, and its now "installing". At the rate its going at now, this could take 30 mins just to get the game running....

Only i ordered it from Amazon Germany i'd have this thing boxed up and away back.

Genuinely Awful

[daemon]

So it came up "Ready to Start", and then has FORCED me to do the big update, so i thought maybe it can do that in the background.

The game is sitting at "ready to start" in my list but makes a "ding" noise now and wont start.

I've just lost an afternoon of my life on this st.

[daemon]

Have now uninstalled that game too.

Back to square one.

[daemon]

snoopy25 said:

To be fair if the games need updating then you need to have faster broadband, 2mb just isnt cutting it these days for online gaming.

As for the size of the games, yes the installs are huge, i mean one of the games ive got (Halo Master Chief Edition) requires 60GB install. I feel you pain but i think its going to come down to patience especially as you have only just unpacked it this afternoon

Yeah i think its broadband speed is exacerbating the problem.

2Mb is all we get out here though so i'm stuck with it.

I "think" the problem is as follows :-

Game disc in, asks do i want to do update or defer, i click defer
Several minutes in, it gives me the "Ready to Start". At that point i try to play the game and it seems to want to do the big update then, so i've then a situation whereby the game isnt installed AND its trying to do the big update.

Going to let it install first, then do the update.

I guess i am just going to have to leave it running.

Very frustrating that you effectively have to leave several hours between buying a game and playing it.

[daemon]

MattyB_ said:

daemon said:

LandR said:

Welcome to gaming in 2015.

Is this really 15 years of gaming development?

Well...Yes. Things have moved on, and you internet connection hasn't. 2mb was the average internet speed 10 years ago.

It may be (like me) you're out in the sticks (I struggle with 6mb, let alone 2mb) but you can't blame the product for that.

Yes, totally happy with that, but it would be nice if the unit actually told you what was happening. Showing "ready to play" when its not, and simply wont let me is very poor - and more importantly, doesnt tell me "WHY" it wont let me me other than "ding" is very off putting.

If it wont work for me then it will be going back and Microsoft will have lost another customer.

Of interest my son has a PS4 upstairs and hes had no issues - either with ridiculously long downloads or with online gaming speeds.

Edited by daemon on Saturday 23 May 17:36

[daemon]

Mastodon2 said:

I haven't had any issues with my Xbox One. Get faster internet, or set it to download while you're asleep.

Where we live, 2mb is as good as it gets. We're pretty much at the outer range of the nearest exchange

I had left it to download there for a couple of hours and came back to find it had decided to knock itself off through inactivity, so have worked out how to stop it doing that and how to keep it in fast startup mode so that it does downloads when its on standby.

Will have to leave it now. Broadband speed or otherwise, its fairly naff when you open a new console and six hours later you cant play any games on it yet.

But thats progress for you....

[daemon]

FourWheelDrift said:

And it used to be so much quicker - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fYFsBRVC8Y

Yes. Genuninely it did.

[daemon]

Baryonyx said:

OP, it's definitely your Stone Age era internet connection that is the issue. Don't buy the Borderlands: Handsome Jack Collection either, that needs a fking huge download to get started!


FWIW though, that's how it is these days. PS4 is much the same - the marketplace and general layout on the PS4 is better, but the trophy system is fairly naff compared to the achievement system so there is always that trade off. I use my XB1 far more than the PS4 but I've no allegiance to either camp any more. Both require a good internet connection and lots of updates, and both offer functionality to allow for downloads to continue whilst the console is in sleep mode.

It still takes 1/2 an hour to install the game off the disk and i dont understand why the game says "ready to play" when its still doing the download of the update? Why not simply have a "please wait" message up?

Hardly intuitive for new users.

[daemon]

sparks_E39 said:

I've never had a major problem with my Xbox One. It was a bit noisy when it was new but it's very quiet now and I don't recall waiting long for games to install. Even GTAV installed in less than 30 minutes. But I switched the internet off first and once the disc was installed I switched the internet back on so it could update itself. It's apparently much quicker that way, and like I said from putting the disc in to playing the game was no more than around 30 minutes, which I think is acceptable.

The Netflix/YouTube etc apps work perfectly on my console. If you're having trouble it may be worth uninstalling then reinstalling the apps?

Every now and again the console will want to update itself but I don't think that's ever taken more than around 10 minutes. Our internet isn't great here either..

My only gripe really is the shoddy menu layout.

All working now and updates complete. Working well.

Definitely not as intuitive as it should be though - given they should be trying to encourage new users, not discourage them.