Why is there a limit to the amount of xbl friends you can have?

[WasteSomeTime]

Like the title says. Also will that number change once the next Xbox launches?
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[peachy001]

99 currently, but in my opinion it is highly likely to increase. There have been many rumours over the last 5 years that the existing limit would be increased, so I am pretty sure it will happen when they move to the next one.

 

[BIGPADDY]

They don't believe that you can have that many friends? :wink:

 

[WasteSomeTime]

You can easily make 100 in a month.
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[travis_valkyrie]

Friends are different from acquaintances, besides there are lots of immature gamers online, everywhere, it's not that easy to make friends. It's like high school, even Microsoft has terms for it.

 

[kevin2577]

The limit comes from the original Xbox, the original Xbox live infrastructure was restricted to 99. Now that they have officially suspended the online features of the legacy console the restriction should be able to be lifted, my guess is that they are waiting for the next generation of the console and the service to announce it.

 

[Flagz]

Yeah I think its pretty stupid that they have a limit, I literally have 4 gamertags at 90+ two of them are silver a d I,just use them to invite friends and two are gold,and I actively power level and boost in Halo 4 and Halo 3. Its easy for me to get 100 friends in two or three days on Xbox with all the competitive customs and power leveling in MM on Halo 4. I need to clear out my FL though since alot of people moved to different game I think I should only have about 200 total but I just,cleared my main account and added about 15 new people first day CSR came out in H4.

 

[WasteSomeTime]

It would be easier to boost achievements if they lifted that limit. Then maybe I could have friends group and a achievement group.
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[peachy001]

I routinely clean mine up. Only got between 12 and 20 on at any one time.