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Lol, all the people missin the point. Read between the lines.



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Turkish said:
DirtyP2002 said:

I played on steam, battle.net, PSN, Dreamarena and Xbox Live. Xbox Live is by FAR the best service on the market.

The UI and integration of all the apps works just perfectly fine. Better than anywhere else. The content is awesome, the online gameplay works easily, same for the cloud storage, cross game chat, perfect customer service (something PC gamers don't even know in this form), integration with PCs is already pretty good and smartglass will be another step in the right direction.

XBLA > every online-game-service on the market.

Steam has good deals from time to time, but is full with cheaters. CSS, CS 1.6 is nearly unplayable. It doesn't feel like a community at all. Account-hacking is pretty bad, too.

Battle.net is full with hackers as well. 2 out of 5 games on WC3 (I still love that game) is against someone using MH.

PSN has a crappy UI, less content, fewer apps, no cross game chat at all, but more updates which take forever to download. Not everybody has a headset.

Sure you pay for XBL, but it is worth it. I am a XBL gold-member for 8 or 9 years and I don't regret a single day.

Its not worth it, paying 60 euros to access Twitter or YouTube is not worth it. Free services like PSN and Steam are the best, you cant beat free services. Online gaming has always been free. I dont see why anybody would pay for Live anymore when PS4 launches with more ram this x game chat, Vita already does it.


It is worth it. If it wasn't I wouldn't pay for it.

Being free is the only positive aspect of PSN people come up with. And it is okay, if you don't have $3 - $5 a month to spend. fortunately I have more money to spend, so I can afford a better premium service.



Imagine not having GamePass on your console...

I don't care that it's satire, it's effing crap. Seriously....



So many people fell for this!
It's funny how many people fail to read beyond the title.



It being american is the very reason I will not use it :)



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Over 40M members cant be wrong.

Xbox Live is the best online service on earth and nothing will ever top it.

Steam is Great and PSN is really weak but hey its Free.

Live is on another League, a league of its own, its simple and effective, Psn is messy and buggy.

Psn is so slow when i hit the guide button then messages are a pain in the ass, seeing friends is strange, on Live is so easy and simples and thats why Live is the best. Also has much more and better features than all the others.

But this article is funny haha this guy has to be the master troll.



Lol, I love Xbox Live (I pay for it with great enthusiasm)but the OP didn't really provide 'hard facts'.



Yay!!!

Wow really guys. Supporting Xbox live likes it's some kind of special thing. Imagine if Microsoft decided to go with free online like everybody else. Cross game chat would still be there, I know that's the biggest feature the console has because it creates the community and atmosphere on the console. I can't think of any feature that wouldn't exist if XBL was free. You can argue better servers, less lag, better security, but there isn't strong facts to support that. For every person who says that XBL doesn't lag there's a person who says PSN doesn't, there needs to be a real test, not consumer speculation. Sure PSN had a huge hack but XBL gets hacked all the time, individual accounts are often targets, hackers have even taken over high profile accounts of Microsoft employees, people are oft to forget when XBL went down for a month (or so) a few years ago.

The whole point of this satire piece is to imply that the services are not so different and that Microsoft should either stop charging for their online service or provide more incentive to match competition. This gen they have an edge with cross game chat, but next gen they have to do something to justify the subscription. Be defensive of your hard earned dollars you plugged into this service, if you hadn't paid it you wouldn't have it simple as that, but as far as what they need to do to keep their business moving forward they are going to have to make a decision.



Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(

When it comes to the gaming part of XBL and PSN, there is absolutely no difference between them. Anyone who says otherwise is either talking about cross game chat or is ill-informed.

Everything else is secondary, and psn has obviously no obligation to provide it for free. Or even provide it, really.



This is just awful lol