Bored? Need friends to play with? Xbox "Buddy Bench" feature will help connect you.

(Xbox series x platform - Xbox subscriber since 2002)

Enough with the "Beacon" feature, xbox live "buddy bench" is a way to 'passively' notify everyone in your friends group and beyond that you are looking to play and chat. Xbox live will also include an anonymous party matchmaking feature to connect you randomly with other players using "Buddy Bench". Random player connections will be based on game title history and skill/tenure of your gameplay. This feature will remove the hassle of scheduling gaming sessions with friends via social channels/cell phone. It will allow someone to sign on and match with another person who wants to connect, chat, and game with similar gaming interests. (preferably in your friends list, if not, a random similar person while allowing you the option to skip a player connection to find someone more suitable)

This is not a real feature for xbox live, but should be. I recently sent my 5 year old to kindergarten. I learned of "Buddy Benches" on the playground. Where there is an entire playground with 100's of kids playing/swinging together but there is a bench you can sit on(if you have no one to play with) and random kids will approach and ask if you want to play tag, race, or climb monkey bars with them. It is truly a great idea and truly gives me hope for the future generations with their kindness. An idea so good I had to post it for the xbox live community, even it it's been suggested before it's not deployed to xbox live currently. It really should be. Please consider this suggestion

Thank you,

-Jon

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