I do the same as a lot of others do, and talk to the people you're comfortable with talking to in Party Chat. I have a few friends from school that play and some friends from LIVE that aren't the common annoyance that you'd normally see in-game, and I stick with Party Chatting with them. If they aren't on I just switch my mic off and put it down. I'd like to actually use my mic besides party chat because sometimes on games like Call of Duty it can be helpful for teammates to point out enemies for you every now and then but there's always someone that's trash talking others or has their mic too close to their mouth, or a little of both, which keeps me from even bothering to put it on. I've never quite understood the reason behind people bothering girls on LIVE. Alot of them are actually pretty good, a lot better than some of the cocky idiots that you normally find.

I don't think that a third Xbox will come out anytime in the next 3 or 4 years, so it's too soon to really know what will happen between now and then on the 360.

Also, buying things with Gamerscore? I don't think so. I have over 10k GS, and I've seen others with much more, so GS having the same value or anywhere even closeto Microsoft Points wouldn't work, seeing as a 1.6k MP card is $20 USD, and so on. It also wouldn't work seeing as they share the money made from the downloads to the Devs/Pubs, even if it's for useless stuff. Microsoft wouldn't cover the cost of us on the things we buy when it comes down to the third-party getting their share of the money.