Xbox Live Friend Limit to Increase to 1000

[Nathan]

It looks like our brilliant plan to stop playing Halo 2 (which was helped along by Microsoft's removal of Live support for Xbox 1 games) worked! According to a deleted Facebook announcement from Xbox Germany, the friend list cap on Xbox Live is being boosted from a paltry 100 to a ridiculous 1,000. "How many friends do you have?" the (Google-translated) announcement read. "Not enough? Then you looking for new friends on the Finder tab!" (View the full announcement and translation after the break.)

Strangely, neither the embiggened friend list cap nor the "Finder tab" are present in our preview version of the upcoming Dashboard update. We're still locked in to the smaller, more intimate, friend limit. We're checking with Microsoft now to determine when this update will roll out to you and the masses of people waiting to be muted by you.

Update: It appears that the "Finder tab" feature refers to a "friend finder" on the Xbox Facebook site, not in the dashboard.


Original Facebook announcement (Xbox Germany):

Eine von vielen langjährigen Xbox LIVE Usern gewünschte Änderung war das Limit der 100 Freunde. Mit dem Update könnt ihr jetzt bis zu 1.000 Freunde eurer Freundesliste hinzufügen. Wie viele Freunde habt ihr? Nicht genug? Dann sucht euch neue über den Freunde-Finder-Reiter!​

Translation (via Google):

"A lot of long-term change was desired by Xbox LIVE users the limit of 100 friends. With the update you can now up to 1,000 friends of your friends list. How many friends do you have? Not enough? Then you looking for new friends on the Finder tab!"

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/10/14/xbox-live-friend-limit-to-increase-to-1000/
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[SamScfc]

Don't have 1000 friends anyway XD

 

[Dunc]

I don't even have 10 friends.

**** you xbox, making me feel unwanted.

 

[Irish Scouse]

It would be good if there were lists, so you could sort them. 1,000 is sorta excessive though.

 

[Dunc]

It would be good if there were lists, so you could sort them. 1,000 is sorta excessive though.

Good point, I doubt I would play with anyone whos name doesn't begin with A.

 

[Ride The Walrus]

I have like 5...Sort of because I don't go on it...

Add me if you want - OneInchWalrus.

 

[Shay Given]

i doubt you would have 1000 people you would want to play with, my 100 was filled and then i realised i only play/talk yo about 30 of them, so i deleted the rest

 

[ravenie]

Would be funny if someone asked for more friends because they had filled the limit lol

 

[Nathan]

UPDATE: Microsoft's Major Nelson has tweeted that Xbox Germany was mistaken. "We will not be expanding the friends list as a part of the next Xbox LIVE Update," he insists.