When the Xbox 360 arrived in 2005 with 1,280 x 720 decision, 72×72 pixels most likely appeared a wonderfully affordable gamerpic dimension. With the 4K Xbox Series X displaying eight instances the variety of pixels, nonetheless, anybody nonetheless utilizing the traditional gamerpics will get a hilariously tiny view of their avatar. 

Video producer and editor Gabriel Roland (@Noukon) was complaining about that very concern on Twitter. “I bought this gamerpic for 80 Xbox Points in 2006,” he tweeted. “And I’ll be fucked if it won’t remain the best dollar I’ve ever spent.” An accompanying picture reveals his beloved, barely seen avatar floating in a large circle of gray. 

Fortunately, the precise individual noticed that tweet within the type of Xbox engineering lead Eden Marie. “Listen, I can’t promise anything, but I’m going to make it my personal mission to fix this,” she replied. Amazingly, she discovered that the identical gamerpic Noukon bought was nonetheless on sale, albeit at practically two and half instances the value, however she gladly splurged the $2.38 to purchase it. 

Right off the bat, Marie observed that Xbox 360 gamerpics show otherwise should you’re your individual profile or another person’s. On your individual, the avatar is displayed as above and appears actually wonky. On another person’s profile, it shows higher in opposition to your background, however it’s nonetheless tiny and the sides are minimize off by the round format of newer gamerpics. 

The gray border concern turned out to be a bug launched sooner or later, so Marie was in a position to repair that first. Then, she took benefit of the Xbox UI’s means to deal with transparency in pictures by overlaying the sq. gamerpic right into a clear round picture. After upsizing every little thing to an affordable dimension, the avatar appears to be like nice and the issue has been solved. “What do you assume, @noukon? Feel higher about that greenback?,” she tweeted. 

“I have never and will never feel better about a dollar in my entire life,” replied Roland. “I’ll also say this: I worked in game QA for over a decade and I’ve never seen a bug addressed this quickly.” Replied Marie: “It really helps that your bug report tweet made me laugh.” 

While this story by itself ought to heat the cockles of any gamer’s coronary heart, that is not the tip of it. Marie famous that the repair shall be launched for all Xbox customers nonetheless rocking these previous gamerpics. “PS, since there have been questions, this will need to roll out with other console updates, Insiders first, and this will change how all 360 gamerpics show up on console, not just certain ones,” she famous. The repair has now been added to the Alpha ring, so if all goes properly, it ought to repair all people’s tousled Xbox 360 gamerpics within the coming months.