Xbox Ideas is Microsoft's revamped feedback program for gamers

Microsoft is giving its Xbox Feedback program a slight overhaul. The visitor this calendar week revealed that Xbox Feedback is becoming Xbox Ideas, complete with a new home and a greater emphasis on honing in on specific characteristic areas or topics.

The program will nevertheless solicit feedback from Xbox Insiders as usual, but the procedure for gathering that feedback is at present office of a three-phase system. Each Thought Drive campaign will run for between one and three months, with the goal of focusing on a limited number of ideas at a time.

The showtime phase involves collecting ideas from Xbox Ideas users. During this phase, Microsoft says that it will "very carefully moderate" the ideas and make any necessary edits for description on those that are accepted. Duplicates will be pruned, and any unrelated ideas will be weeded out.

Afterward the collection phase, ideas go into a voting phase in which users can vote and comment on all of the new ideas. When voting closes, the ideas will still be visible on Xbox Ideas. Microsoft will then review the results and post them on the Xbox Insider blog.

In that location's one final feature of Idea Drives called the proposition box. Microsoft explains:

The last feature on the site is the Idea Drive Suggestion Box. This is your opportunity to pitch an Idea Drive of your own. If there's an area of Xbox that you want to assist improve, please suggest the Idea Drive here. Just like the Idea Drive forums, this area is highly curated, and specific idea requests or unrelated posts volition be removed, so please focus on suggesting general Idea Drives. If we pick your Thought Drive then you lot tin can post your Thought.

The new programme is an effort by Microsoft to keep Xbox feedback more tightly curated and focused. If you lot're curious, you can check out the new Xbox Ideas UserVoice folio for more than. Every bit for the older Xbox Feedback UserVoice, Microsoft says that it will remain available as a read-just archive, and then you'll withal exist able to read erstwhile posts, but you won't be able to comment, vote, or submit new posts.

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