A single-member panel with the National Arbitration Forum has ordered the domain Xbox-Gold.com be transferred to Microsoft. Microsoft continues to grow its portfolio of “Xbox Gold” domains, having privately acquired or registered several related names including XboxGold.com. The company recently bagged the name XboxGold.org in mid-March, after the previous owner turned over the name before the case was even decided. It is still “officially” unknown what Microsoft will call it’s next generation console or what plans (if any) it has for Xbox Gold.
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So who wants to bet that this is MS answer to PS+.
MS would be smart to copy Sony with the free games subscription - I dont see MS charging to play online next gen, not with what Sony showed at the PS4 event.
For people to keep paying $60 a month MS will need to bring something that will blow everyone away and the competitors do not offer...if they do keep charging to play online then Sony will win next gen.
I suspect MS will bring something new and different to XBox Gold.
Edit: @ Rain - I agree, nothing wrong with taken an idea from someone else and improving on it.
I love my 360 but will be the first to say that the share button on the PS4 controller sounds sweet and hope the 720 has something similar.
Send the disagrees my way but my gamertag is posted so I'm not trolling, just being honest when I'm saying this....
I've been on XboxLive for 7 years and honestly there is nothing on there right now for me. Maybe there is for other people and new buyers so good for them but I've found myself playing those hokey indie demos & a few arcade games and the occasional older titles I own more than anything.
I also barely even play online anymore with the exception of checking out the Gears Judgment online demo, so paying for Gold these days to access Hulu, Netflix or for that matter. THE INTERNET and various other apps or " access early demos, voice chat " It isn't worth the price or the once " exclusivity " that it once was heralded as.
Even the market updates on Tuesday suck now. Gone are the days of 2 or 3 DECENT demos, a bunch of game videos or what not. It's pretty lame. It's all ads, Kinect, Niki Minaj, Justin Beiber, Gears, Halo and whatever commercial nonsense they have on there.
What I'm saying is in the end after all the fun I had playing Halo 2 online back in 2004, the great run they had with the launch of the 360 and games that were classic and still are for me. Condemned.
But.....
After all these years of paying for Live the RROD and latley, the lack of games. MS has lost me as a consumer. LIVE ain't worth it no matter what they do or offer because there always some hook, scam or hoop you gotta jump through to go along with it. Plain and simple and with all the talk of " always online " if true. It will be the nail in the coffin.