From Punch Jump: "Amazon.com this week discounted Microsoft Corp's Xbox Live subscription for the Xbox 360 to under $40 in the latest wave of video game price cuts."
It's the fact that there are other options that are free. That is why most people have a problem paying for Live. It's like buying oxygen instead of just breathing.
I guess I must have been referring to all the people with Silver accounts or play online with their PCs or PS3s. I couldn't have been referring to them. And I'm sure you asked all 12 million Gold members whether or not they like having to pay just to play online? People don't like having to pay for food, but they do. And if you want to play online on the 360, you have to.
drop the price 10 bucks after you've grown fat from charging 50 for almost 30 years. And that's only the 1yr subscription right?
you can make the argument that its cheaper than other things we buy, but its still 50 bucks just to connect. You can't get anywhere without gas and you die without food, that's a stupid comparison.
They make $hitloads off of old A$$ content like movies from the 80's and TV shows you can get elsewhere for free. They also have Xbox live arcade....plenty of streams of revenue. They don't need to rape you just to connect and play with friends...especially since that's what their "it's good to play together campaign" is trying to do.
I pay for it, but I enjoy sony's free service better. Who here honestly WANTS to pay for it. I just do it because more of my friends are on it than PS3...I suspect others do as well.
Did they drop the price of the 1 month and 3 months subscriptions, or do they just want you to bite for the whole year?
i also enjoy sony's service thanks to it being free, but i also pay because of where most of my friends are.. the reason xbl isnt free is because microsoft hosts the servers, whereas on the playstation it is the developers job to do that. therefore, no cost to sony means no cost to us. a cost to microsoft means they overcharge to make a huge profit off of what costs them very little in respect to how much they make off of it.
Lol, good stuff but I paid $39.99 for my 13 month ( yes 13, you get a year + 1 month, very common ) subscription just 4 months ago. Amazon always runs good deals on xbl cards. All you have to do is use Pricegrabber.com or Dealtime.com for best price. I've never paid $50, except my first year when I bought the card with my x360 from Best Buy.
according to your theory, I would want the PSN's developer servers then... Why would i want to share my game bandwidth playing bad company with ppl playing cod4, halo3, shadowrun, and 30+ other games off of MS's same servers?
it would be better if they gave you dedicated servers but you are paying for peer to peer and its just not as good. feature wise its worth the price its just the server issues that keep me away
if you dont like paying for gas then ride a bike or walk. There are allways options. If you dont like paying for live then dont. I think we all wish it was free. Why do people even argue that but the fact is that it isn't. I dont like paying for cable because I get T.V. for free. Same arguement (I think cable is way overpriced by the way) Still live is cheaper.
...they need to charge 1 XBL subscription per console and not per XBL account. This is the No.1 reason I gave up playing on-line on the 360 as I now have 3 kids old enough to want to play on-line and there is no way I'm paying for XBL x 3.
If Sony did that then it would kill a game like Little Big Planet.
Close_Second hit it pretty well on the head. I love my x360, but when I see that you have to pay PER account, it can add up. Roommates tell me "so I have to play the game on YOUR account if I want to get online". Yep. It truly sux.
Uh.... nothing would satisfy you about the 360 so how about stop being a fanboy and stay in your ps3 articles.
@Close second
Yeah dude I totally see what you mean about having kids etc and having multiple accounts that pretty crappy...they should have some time of family bundle er something for people like you.....but having on live account and being able to go online with multiple profiles would get rid of the whole reason behind having profiles etc because people would stat whore by using multiple profiles in games in order to rank up....which the 1 account at least prevents a bit.....
but I do still understand what you mean.
@HD below....
dude like really if you think your not a fanboy then you are retarded all you do is try to post first in almost every single 360 article and usually have quite the negative mouthful to say.....usually nothing productive tho....so how about keeping to the stuff you like instead just infecting this site with your fanboyism.
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[[even amazon doesnt support the xbox 360]]
good step
but 30$ a year would be better
IMO.
It should be FREE, or max 10 bucks.
Don`t Hate, Debate.
EDit: To those who disagree, PC gaming OFFERS just as MUCH and MORE for FREE.