I knew this was going to happen. The console gamers are getting pissed because Xbox Live will be free to PC gamers on Windows 10. I was telling some people that this would probably come up because of the fact that PC gamers refused to pay for Windows Live last gen and Microsoft was forced to let them use it free of charge. Can't blame the Xbox Users for bending though. It was a trap from the beginning and if you pay for it they see it as a value and will continue with it.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2893767/pc-gamers-wont-pay-to-play-xbox-live-games-online-and-console-owners-are-furious.html

Makes sense really... Although, they should have been furious from the beginning instead of doing it now where its basically too late but oh well! If MS charges for PC, we won't bother using their service but if they don't then xbox owners will be mad so hopefully, this will make them have two versions of XBL where one is free and the other u pay for but it has extra stuff like how it was back in the ps3 days! But I doubt it though

Such a reaction is to be anticipated. Not too much else the Xbox community can do at this point.

I don't get it. So they're mad that PC games that are already free to play online will remain free to play online?

Well, it's not like they can charge PC gamers for something they've had for free for years and get for free from competing services like Steam. So this is expected and MS should never have charged for Live in the first place.

Now Sony have jumped on the bandwagon and it's ever so slightly annoying that console gaming online costs. I sympathise, but I'm glad I game on both platforms.

But we also get "Live" features.

Like... errr... the stuff Steam already does for free?!

Seriously? What the F***?

I would be very angry if I was a Xbox One owner :S

Sadly you were true.

I waited for someone to post this.

After reading the article two days ago all I can say is that XBL gamers have no right to be angry, after all they never bothered to put up a fight in the first place like PC users have done for years, the majority of PC games have always had free online, we've even had the ability to host private servers and all while people on X360 thought it was totally fine to keep paying a sub in thinking their online services improve with all the money thrown in, the problem with that is that they haven't and they still don't realise this.

I don't see why I should start paying for online when I already pay for my electricity, pay for my heardware,pay for my games and then pay my ISP, I don't see why I should ever have to fork over extra cash for next to nothing in return, the amount of money that has been poured over the last 8 years of XBL should have made most online multiplayer experiences unmatched to those that are free, that hasn't happened in the slightest, the only thing that has improved is parts of the store with some slight UI upgrades, something that Sony, Valve,Origin,Blizzard and hell even Uplay have done for free.

The sad part is now Sony and MS are in on the pay sub for online this gen, MS started it last gen and now both parties are fooling people into believing paying to play all your multiplayer games online is a good thing when it;s really not, I've been having an absolute blast playing Planetside 2 online, a free game that doesn't cost a penny with free online and no sub required, I can play Diablo 3, battlefield series, COD series, just about every multiplayer game online for free besides certain MMO's (but that's a different can of worms and business model).

The only way I would see paying online being good is if multiplayer servers were the cream of the crop, state of the art with bleeding edge hardware that made it so we didn't face day 1 or week 1-2 online issues, where you hardly drop out of a game and if you do it's entirely on your ISP, where you can see what your money goes into instead of just watching your balance deplete and hope it goes towards bettering your online experience.

I will admit I was a sucker for a few years on my 360 but it wasn't for a whole 8 years and I realised in a shorter time that none of the money I was giving went towards bettering my online multiplayer experiences, in fact most of the experiences at the time were via p2p type conections instead of actual dedicated servers because it's already a known fact that many businesses love to cut corners and save money at the expense of the very customer they want to try pleasing but still rip off.

I hope this makes them realise that paying to play online multiplayer on a console is complete bullcrap, you can claim it all on security but that would net you a complete invalidation with what's happened to PSN and XBL over the years.

free is better than paying, especially when you don't know where your money is going and what's happening around you.

Do I smell another 180?

If these people are mad why do they continue to pay for 10+ years?