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Matt from RatedG4Gamer takes a look at the question every Xbox 360 owner has thought are talked about, why do we pay for Xbox Live?. He takes a look at other services out there and gives us his run down.
Xbox Live is great fun, don't get me wrong. It is an amazing social experience in which you can have an amazing time and meet some truly incredible people. I've made lifelong friends from all over the globe thanks to Xbox Live, and had some of the most memorable gaming experiences on Live, such as scoring that 43-3 on CoD4 or having some guy threaten to kill me over a game of Halo next time we were at a LAN together. I even became addicted to Achievements for a period of time, only slowing down when I got to 60k. But the thing is, these experiences could've happened anywhere. I could've met lifelong friends in a chat room or down at the shops. I could have been somewhere else experiencing all these emotions. It's not like they're exclusive to Xbox Live.
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I'm happy to pay for XBL as it's dirt cheap and the service is excellent plus it's getting constantly upgraded and having new features attached to it.
You can't say XBL has a ridiculous price when single games(MMOs mostly) go for $10-$20 per MONTH and even then they don't update as often or have half the features of Live.
$50 may not seem as much at all, but why would I pay anything for something that I feel should be free? That's like asking to pay money to goto Gamefaqs when Neoseeker is free. Sure, Gamefaqs may offer more guides or streamlined better, but Neoseeker offers similar services.
Money is tight for me. I have a steady job that pays well, but I have bills to pay, college and my car's needed some work done on it. So yeah, $50 good bit to me.
And yes, I definitely agree with your second point. $15 a month for a MMO such as World of Warcraft is ridiculous. No wonder Activison wanted to buy Blizzard so bad.
Complaints drive progression. Simple as that. If enough people complain about something, and bring up good reasons for their complaints, as I or the writer of the article has, the company should answer the complaints to please the customer.
It's not random bitching or trolling, there's good reason behind the complaints. It's the same as someone complaining that Valve's recent DLC for Left 4 Dead is free on PC but costs money for the 360.
the only thing that would deter them is if a good 70% of Live subscribers suddenly canceled and told MS they were switching to PS3 cause of the free online. other than that, MS isnt gonna change squat. you can complain all you want, it wont change anything.
In this case, yes, yes it is. Because that has made Microsoft quite a nice sum of money over the years and hasn't cost the consumer, as an individual, much. You can say it isn't a wise decision but try telling that to the head of the LIVE division whilst s/he's throwing money around and squealing.
'People can only fool themselves into saying it's worth it for so long.'
And at what point did you become the authority of what is or isn't worth the money in the gaming world, hm?
the guy who wrote this article (this "Matt" person) needs to STFU and go get a PC or PS3 and play on that.
What are we paying for, aside from a centralized gaming portal? Not much. Almost every piece of DLC costs *points*, most multiplayer games still rely on laggy match-making instead of D-E-D-I-C-A-T-E-D S-E-R-V-E-R-S... and as far as security goes, it's not too difficult to recover someone else's gamertag.
Microsoft can charge for Live now because there's currently nothing equivalent on the console market.... One can only hope that Sony continue on track to challenge Live with future updates; consumers win when companies compete against each other.
That's one of the reasons I refuse to pay for online.Our internet and games are to expensive compared to what other countries pay.But I can't live without games so I'm willing to pay our prices for games but refuse to pay extra money to do something that should be free considering I've already spent the money on the game and online play is part of that game.
People complain when they have to pay for extra content for a game that is already on the disc.I see NO difference between paying money for missions for example that are on the disc alyready and paying for online play when that feature is on the game already.
Well apart from the fact that you don't pay to play onlin for each game you buy.
As far as paying for Xbox Live goes, it's a pretty good service and as said, something like $60 for a year is pretty great compared to something like the $200 for something like WoW, which is only one game when Xbox Live lends it's services over many games.
MMO's are the same thing.There's no way in hell I'm paying every month just so I can play a game.I know the reasons they do charge for MMO's but that doesn't make me any less like paying to play them.
I just refuse to pay to play online no matter how cheap it is.The only reason I've even experienced online gameing is because of PSN being free.
Besides I rarely play online.
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