JaggedSac on 19 November 2008
Not sure how the old blade system was customizable. I haven't tried to change my gamer picture but there is a menu for purchasing them. Seems silly to have that if you can't use them. The main thing wrong with the blade system was how DLC was organized. This way is much, much better. Also, it was butt fugly.
What people fail to realize is that the NXE is not just about the external changes. There were major changes to infrastructure that allows them to deploy functionality more than 2 or 3 times a year. There were changes to Live's APIs, there was the addition of XNA games, there are tons of things other than the GUI.
I just went to xbox.com and I could change my gamerpic on there. I will try it on the 360 next time I am on there.
