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LIVE price increase
Mick Dundee:
Anyone else think this is BS....Because Xbox knows their online experience is a bit better than everyone else they charge for it... now.. they will charge MORE for it... 9.99 if you go monthly...24.99 for a 3 month card.... and 59.99 for a year.
what a bunch of douche bags at Microsoft...
KaiserWAVE:
The curious thing is that they raise the prices in the U.S, Canada, Mexico and the UK. The UK is (for now) the only European country that gets a price increase. Official word is that the prices in Germany (and supposedly other European countries as well) will stay the same. Could be related to the Euro, as Great Britain is one of the few (and among them the biggest and most important country as far as the toal population is concerned) that doesn't have the Euro. Don't know. I hate to admit it but I think it's worth it. But it would be really interesting to know WHY they do it other than being Microsoft and just saying "beacause we CAN" :)
MedaForce:
I would feel a bit better about the whole price increase if they just came out and said WHY they are doing it.
It would also be nice if they just released a 3rd Live group for people who don't want all the bells and whistles. I use Live just for Online gaming and Market Place. I shouldn't have to pay extra fro crap I don't use (NetFlix, Twitter, FaceBook, LastFM, and ESPN)
Jonesat:
--- Quote from: MedaForce on September 01, 2010, 09:46:14 AM ---I would feel a bit better about the whole price increase if they just came out and said WHY they are doing it.
It would also be nice if they just released a 3rd Live group for people who don't want all the bells and whistles. I use Live just for Online gaming and Market Place. I shouldn't have to pay extra fro crap I don't use (NetFlix, Twitter, FaceBook, LastFM, and ESPN)
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you just said why they are doing the increase -LastFM, NetFlix, Twitter, Facebook...etc...
plus prices are going down on all OnDemand content as well. plus to pay for all the extra goodies your getting with Natal in November. (hense the price change in november)
I think its defiantly worth it. its 5$ a month(when you purchase a year pass). its just like cable tv, you pay a shit load of money, and you get all these extra channels you never watch or ever will, but your paying for them anyway. same thing, except this is cheap.
things like world of warcraft is almost what, 20 a month?
but still, 5$ a month is not bad at all all things considered.
Plus keep in mind they are being nice compared to most places and allowing you to still purchase the cheap year passes until November and not charging an additional fee once the price increase comes into play, which is also good
But anyway, with all the extra stuff you get, discounts, plus the amazing servers that microsoft uses, i think 5$ a month is not bad at all.
Phantom5800:
Microsoft does have to pay for all that crap they're adding ... though with 17million subscribers (old figure I'm sure, probably higher now), if they all buy the year pass at $50 that's $850,000,000 gross to MS. That is ... a lot of money from fees alone. They really don't need THAT kind of money to support Live, they really don't considering who they are. They also make more money from advertisements on the XBox and dlc, etc. Considering the last fiscal year showed $1billion in profits (profit, not counting what they spend to maintain stuff) from XBox Live ... I see no reason they had to increase price. Also note ... online games over Live are Peer2Peer and do not run on servers which should cost almost nothing for them (a server or two for match making and that's it).
I may be a little bitter towards Microsoft, but I look at the numbers ... and that is way more than "required" to run the service for what they give in return. For now Sony gives a free service to play games online, and if you want to pay extra for discounts, free game deals, and some other bells and whistles you can. Why Microsoft doesn't adopt the gamer friendly policy, and why their fans support it is beyond me (but it's most likely because they know/think they would only get a million or so people with a plan like that).
Sorry, end rant here. I don't even own a XBox 360, and my reason was very simple ... I have to pay for online play when PS3 does it for free.
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