My God I feel like a dumbass right now.
For the past month, I have kept getting popup messages every time I'd go into multiplayer in a game or into party chat with various friends saying "Your communication privileges are currently restricted." I couldn't talk to anyone who wasn't on my friends list, and I could not send messages to anyone not on my friends list. Also, for the demo, trying to share it for the Pro Combat unis, and then in the retail game today, trying to access Online Dynasty, every time, I'd get a popup saying "Your Gamer Profile does not have the correct permissions to access this feature."
I was starting to get pissed because I had bought the Commish Bundle DLC so I can run a couple different single player Online Dynasties, as well as take advantage of some of the new online capabilities, as well as continue taking advantage of Dynasty Wire (it's there, so why not use it?). I bought the Commish Bundle DLC this morning hours before my game ever even arrived from UPS. So I was starting to get pissed that I had the bundle sitting there waiting to be put to use, and I couldn't access Online Dynasty at all.
All of this, for the past month. I was thinking this entire time that for some reason, I had been communications suspended by Xbox Live for whatever reason. It wasn't until today, since I couldn't access Online Dynasty at all, that I started looking into stuff and searching the web, if anything, trying to find a way to see how long this supposed communications suspension was set to last. After seeing, and thereafter remembering, that you get a notice when you first sign into Xbox Live after being suspended as well as receive an email, neither of which I had ever received, I started to think that maybe I wasn't communications suspended after all.
It turns out, this entire past month of not being able to talk to a soul except the people on my friend's list, and not being able to share the NCAA demo to get my Pro Combats, despite dozens of tries, was my fault. I happened to be looking around in my account on my Xbox dashboard, and in the Online Safety Settings, I had changed Voice and Text to Friends Only back in early June. Now at the time, I thought this would just keep non-friends from sending me text and voice messages (since I had been dealing with some douchebag for a couple weeks sending me profanity laced messages every so often because he had some issue with me after me and a couple friends whooped his ass in COD one night) but looking back now, I now see it completely kills off any and all communications, both being received from other people and being sent by me, to anyone not on my friends list. Thus why every time I'd pull up the profile for someone not on my friends list, I couldn't send them a message.
So I just now when into the Online Safety Settings and changed 'Voice and Text' back to 'Everyone' and what do you know. I was able to share the demo to get my Pro Combat uniforms. I am currently sitting in the screen to create a new Online Dynasty (or join one) now that I can finally access the OD menus. God I feel like such a dumbass now looking back at all this hassle I've dealt with for the past month because of that one stupid little setting.

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