New icons since April update?

The star simply identifies a game or an app that has already been updated since you last played/launched it.

It will disappear once you launch it (for games you seem to need to go beyond the menu screen for it to go away).

It's red because that's your dashboard's theme colour.

It means the game or app has recently received an automatic update. To remove it you just need to launch the game or app.

A slight change in the sound of the menus selection noise that lasts a millisecond is enought to make you quit?

I can understand his feelings. The new sounds don't make browsing the dashboard a pleasant experience. Now I know the big rebuttal ia "well I don't spend time on the dashboard, why don't you use the console for gaming" but some people do use the dashboard
to browse for games, music, and videos...surely those acts should be as pleasant as possible. If they aren't then Microsoft are actively putting people off buying new content.

Then they should make different sound options to choose from if people cannot handle a certain beep. If it's that off putting that it's ruining their entire gaming experience and they are looking for a quite room to hide in, then
making different sound options would probably be best.

It is the shopping experience that is being ruined. As we move more toward a digital future the store on the console is going to be a resource that more and more people are going to be interacting with. It benefits Microsoft for that shopping experience
to be as pleasant as possible.

Now if people find buying from the console directly to be annoying then they are going to be going to third party code selling sites. This means less money in Microsoft's pocket. Then of course people are more open to fraud by potentially buying stolen keys
that could be revoked, meaning they lose product and cash.

So annoying sounds might be a small fraction of the gaming experience but having nice ones benefit everyone.

Then they should make different sound options to choose from if people cannot handle a certain beep. If it's that off putting that it's ruining their entire gaming experience and they are looking for a quite room to hide in, then
making different sound options would probably be best.

Why?

I mean seriously, why should they?

As I and others have said, nobody buys a console to play the mighty dashboard game, we buy consoles to play games. The sound effects on the dashboard are played a few times a day, the rest of the time its huge explosions, waves crashing on the hull of a
ship (guess what game I'm currently playing).

Why spend perhaps another month or so finding more sound effects, coding a menu system to choose which ones you want. Plus once they put something in there, people will be shouting from the rooftops "I want more sound effects"

Microsoft will never win, and they will be spending valuable time creating sound effects that could be used on more important things like, oh I don't know helping Rare fix bugs in Sea of Thieves.