Xbox 360 Anyone Miss Netflix Party Mode?

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ed6ey

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I still remember the night I had all my buddies lined up to watch some Netflix and we spent about 20 minutes trying to dig through the new dashboard trying to figure out where they put this feature only to find it had been removed. Every once and a while I still find myself wishing I could use it.

Anyways, me and a couple friends want to remake a desktop version (Windows, Mac) of this software at our company and we're trying to convince our boss it's a good idea. If you think it's something you'd like to see done, checkout the petition we made to try to convince him: bringbackpartymode.com
 
I honestly never even knew that Party Mode existed for Netflix...What was so fun about it? I guess I wouldn't think that would be super popular. Did you watch movies and stuff together over your headset? I'm totally not being a smartass here. I just don't get it. I'd rather either A. Have someone at my place watching a movie with me or B. Watch it w/o having a headset on. If they aren't there with me, why would I want to listen to them talk throughout the movie, or sneeze, or eat chips, etc. I may be totally oblivious and missing an epic use for Party Mode for Netflix, so please explain!! :)
 
It's hard to describe why it was so awesome. I guess I first tried it out because my long distance girlfriend at the time. We used to do kind of a remote 'date night' and watch a movie together once a week.

After I got used to it, I started using it with more and more people over time. Eventually it got to the point where we had enough people that I'd be sitting trying to decide what movie to watch when i was alone playing xbox and would end up thinking to myself, 'hey this would be way more fun with someone" and I'd go and send invites 10 invites out and was usually able to get one person to join me. Sometimes we'd talk a lot through our headsets and sometimes just chat with keyboards we'd hooked up. Either way having someone else there just made the movies more fun I guess.
 
Made an account just for this!! F*** YEAH PARTY MODE! I wish I could already try what's in your video. I had a long distance gf in the party mode days too and it was amazing being able to watch videos in different parts of the world. I eventually tried it with some old highschool friends and it became an almost weekly thing. We'd dress up (virtually!) and watch whatever was new, it was jokes just to yell **** out or fist bump the screen. It looks like you're axing avatars which I think maybe is a good call, it was fun within XBox but now I'd just want to get right to the movie watching :)

I filled it out! Hope you let us know when it gets made! I shared it on facebook and my friends seem excited to have it back!
 
Oh and jstep7262! It was sweet because you didn't have to set a time to go to the movies with friends but it's was still like you were there with them, it's hard to explain. I'd say just wait for it to come out then try it! ed6ey I assume that you'll email everyone when it's done?

Oh, and also, no pants were needed for a team watch of like 10 people. This was key.
 
benstinks said:
Oh and jstep7262! It was sweet because you didn't have to set a time to go to the movies with friends but it's was still like you were there with them, it's hard to explain. I'd say just wait for it to come out then try it! ed6ey I assume that you'll email everyone when it's done?

Oh, and also, no pants were needed for a team watch of like 10 people. This was key.
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Unlike the movie theater which imposes it's fascist views on being fully "clothed" while there....lol
 
I tried the Netflix Party feature with a few friends once. I will agree it was fun for what it was. It's like getting together with friends in your living room to make fun of the most god awful movie you can find to watch. But, in my opinion, it's loads more fun actually having your friends with you physically.

Plus, having a female in the group on Xbox doesn't do any good. She can't make the sandwiches or fetch the beer that way.....

That was a joke ladies. :D
 
OMG! This was the COOLEST **** ever. WHY in the name of all things sacred they stopped it. The only thing that was said about it was when they updated the dashboard Major Nelson only said "The current updated dashboard does not support Netflix Party" and that was it. I mean, it couldnt of been rights issue, u still had to have gold AND a netflix account. So I dont know why they stopped it. But some GREAT times with that. We would watch a cheesy horror-movie and voice ove rit, man, fun times
 
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