Xbox One Friends List and Messages

I am not sure where to put this post, so I figured here was as good as ever.

I have questions regarding the Xbox One Friends List and Messages. I know there is a notifications page, but I want something like the 360 had. I should be able to bring up my friends list and messages without a hitch, just like the 360. I want to be able
to either snap my friends list and messages or bring them up on top of a game. If I see a friend get online and I am in the middle of a Titanfall match, I should be able to invite them easily and not have to go to the dash board and wait forever for the friends
list app to load if it ever does. I do not know about anybody else, but I have been having issues with Xbox One apps. I will try to go to the App store or my friends list and it just darkens the screen like it is loading, but never loads. I have to back out
into the home screen and go back into them in order to get them to work. My friend said it best, "this console was not ready to be put into production and was rushed out to compete with the PS4." Also, he said at this point the 360 is the better console.

Also, I think it is ridiculous that I cannot listen to the voice messages I receive on party chat with friends on 360 through my Xbox One. I know they are avoiding backwards compatibility, but if the "All-In-One Console" wants to live up to its name, I should
be able to interact with friends, regardless of what console they are using.

:)

 

Disconnecting Controller? Please sign this petition which is being sent to Microsoft

Ok thanks lee I got a message early hours of the morning for the preview program. Worked out friends work differently on the xbox one, if you add someone they are added to your friends list, but you show as a follower on their list, it's up to them to add as a friend if that's what they want, if this makes sense. Anyway signed up for the preview programme so fingers crossed.

 

Chatting with 360 players when your using a One?

You will only be able to send them text messages no voice messages etc.
www.vg247.com/.../xbox-one-friends-list-includes-xbox-360-no-cross-console-chat

 

There are a few different ways you can do what you're taking about. You can snap the activity feed to see what your friends are doing. If you press the system menu button when you have a friend selected in the Friends app you can message them directly. When
sign in notifications show up you can hold the Home button and invite them to your party/game from there. We're aware that bringing up someone's profile over a game is sometimes slow; we're actively investigating it.

Thanks for the feedback regarding 360 integration (I completely agree). I'll pass it along.

 

Thanks for the help there. But what happens when I am too late pressing the Home button when a notification shows up?

I think there needs to be a way for sending/accepting invitations or messages needs to be streamlined. When I am playing a FPS like Titanfall, I can't just leave my character standing still in the middle of the battlefield while I back out to the home screen.
I think there needs to be a Kinect ability where you do things like this. Say you are playing in an intense Attrition game and you see your friend got on and you want to invite him. You should be able to say "Xbox invite Person 1." Person 1 being a friend
that you have set as Person 1. Almost like speed dial on a phone.

 

All notifications go to the notification center (top left corner of Home). If you miss acting on a toast (party invite, friend coming online, etc.) because you're in a match you can wait until it's over, go Home, go to notifications and you can join there,
open their profile etc.

You can actually do what you're talking about using voice though it's a couple more steps and you'll still get some UI over your game...

Here's an example:

You get a party invitation from your friend. When you see the toast say "Xbox, show notification" and then "Launch." This will launch the party app and accept the invitation so all you need to do then is say "Xbox, unsnap." At that point you should be in
a party with your friend.

Another example:

You see your friend come online (starting in April) but you don't have time to act on the toast. You can say "Xbox, invite" which will snap the party app, "Invite friends," (you will get UI over your game unfortunately), find the person in the list and say
"Person 1," and then invite them to a game/chat party. Then you can unsnap the party app again with "Xbox, unsnap" and you're GTG.

Give these a try and let me know how it goes. I really like the suggestion about being able to invite someone directly when you get a toast, I'll take that to the team. Thanks for the feedback!