With the recent comparison of the Australian XboxLIVE service to that of the American one, DarkArmada elaborates on the value of XboxLIVE's different payment methods.
DarkArmada writes: "In the first part of this look at Xbox LIVE in Australia, we had a look at what we Aussies are actually paying for. In comparison to what our Yankee friends from up North get for a lot less money than we pay, we see less features. And although yes this seems somewhat unfair, even taking all that into consideration, I still feel that Xbox LIVE is worth my $80 per year.
But a key feature in the marketing of Xbox LIVE has been in the flexibility of payment, the ability to have your account auto-renew every year or be renewed via a subscription purchased in a retail store. Since day dot I've had my account set to auto-renew and every year, $80 is taken out of my credit card to refill that 12 month size cup of goodness, but lately I've changed my ways…"
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I love making the trip to my local GAME and buying the 12 Month LIVE Card in person... Not because i do not have a Debit Car nor a CC even though many do..
It's for the pure joy of walking into the shop and having an awesome chat with the guys/gals that work there as it is always good to have a chat with them as i am good friends with the staff there and for me it feels more safe than having my CC details and such on LIVE with all these scams, hack, and so forth of ways to obtain people info...
Of course over LIVE is way more convenient i enjoy making the trip to buy it in person :)
Yeah I'm happy to pay for it simply because the amount of time I spend on it is worth much more than an equivalent expenditure on 5-6 movies at $15 a pop.
But it's freakin outrageous that we pay so much compared to our American colleagues when the dollar is almost at parity.
And don't get me started about the lack of content compared to the US and the shocking prices of games here. I love the guys a GAME because they tend to know their sh!t, but recently I've found if they can't match the import prices I simply import from their UK stores or buy off ebay/PlayAsia.
As much as I would love to support the gaming industry here in Aus, the disparity between prices here and abroad are ridiculous. I don't even buy my XBL Gold subscription cards in Australia.
The cost to me aint really an issue but it is a little much considering our aussie dollar is almost as strong as the yanks. but i will always keep paying for the service because there is no other console in the same league as the xbox live service.
the one thing microsoft should do is improve the aussie servers to help reduce lag, because lets face it aussie internet is a joke. while the US are tearing us new a***holes with their T1 and T3 connections its kinda of hard to enjoy the online expirence, when we are playing on their equivalent to dial-up. as far as i know the only servers in australia are in Sydney, so there would be alot of data being squeezed into those servers. sure they can handle it but THE MORE THE BETTER, put servers in all australian states to share the work load around.
either that or microsoft can introduce australia to T1 and T3 by starting their own ISP.