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It takes roughly 6-8 hours of work at minimum wage to buy the normal priced a1 year+1 month xbox live card, or if you go deal shoppin, you can find one on sites like newegg, and even amazon and many other sites that have it for $40&free shipping which would bring the total amount of work to roughly 5-6 hours of work for a whole 13 months of Xbox live!! thats just a little bit over 10 cents a day!!  i can find that on the ground really easy. 

 

So really there's no reason to bitch about paying such a small amount of money.  If you own an xbox or xbox 360 why not just pay the small amount to play the great games xbox has, unless your not into online gaming.



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I don't mind it at all for me...  $0.14 cents a day isn't bad...

Now we get to my family, everyone wants to play online, and I don't want everyone using my Account.

Still do not understand why MS can't make the XBLGold for the unit itself (family Gold Plan if you will) and not individual people.

This is were XBLgold fails.


Note: Just got my card today from Newegg.com $38.95 free shipping, last year I got it for $34.99 free shipping. $0.11 a day

Should point out that you can get 12+1 XBL through VGcharts Store for $38 as well, I didn't know it before I bought mine.



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Too much work to pay, and money adds up no matter what way you look at it.....



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Not really a problem for me. Considering what it offers, it is well worth the price.



well look at it this way, for ten dollars more you could have a new game if you didnt have to spend $50 on XBL.



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i pay 74$ a month for my internet connection and i should pay an extra 50$ to use it?
why pay when you can get it for free?



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To me it's, getting a console like that here is already expensive to do, and the last i want to do is pay again for something like that(especially since it's not a one time only fee), I can stay monthes without using online and then just pick it up again if i got a new game, it's a lose-lose situation to me.



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It's not much, but considering that XBL remains the only service to charge for something as simple as being able to play online, it still seems as though the charges are unnecessary.

It makes a lot less sense when XBL isn't your primary online gaming platform; if you're not using it regularly, why pay for the service?

But if you are, then it really isn't a big premium, it's just that other service providers aren't charging for the same services.



its a service that has proven worth of my money so i have no problem with it, if i did not enjoy live, or the service was noto up tp my expectations i would cancel it.....

on the flip side if i had an alternative to comcast i would pick them up in a minute, but sadly they are the only cable/highspeed in my area, cant get dish or dsl it pisses me off



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greenmedic88 said:
It's not much, but considering that XBL remains the only service to charge for something as simple as being able to play online, it still seems as though the charges are unnecessary.

It makes a lot less sense when XBL isn't your primary online gaming platform; if you're not using it regularly, why pay for the service?

But if you are, then it really isn't a big premium, it's just that other service providers aren't charging for the same services.

 

wow charges if i remember right, alot or mmorpg do. xbosx live is accese to a closed off enviroment for games, one in which they try and moderate cheating and mach players togeather, after some of my early experiances on say C&C net and things i fint live to be a good option.

 

as to your second point very true.



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