anything over free

yes i'm a psn user :P

then you should not be posting here, this is a thread aimed at XBL gold members.

I usually pay $30 to get LIVE card code e-mailed to me. In the past 5 years, I have paid - $90 because we got free codes for LIVE from the paper. I did pay for 3 years of service but just $30 a year. That's all.

I would probably go up to about $50 a year, I might be willing to go up to $60 but that would be really pushing it. At the moment I don't have a problem with $30 and is well worth the speed, Netflix, and the little bit of multiplayer gaming I do.

Strange as it is, I would actually be a lot less willing to pay the $50-60 range if it was a monthly fee instead of a one time charge.

i've been one for  1 one month after buying my box, so i'm entitled to post here.

Fair enough, but bringing up PSN in a thread about XBL is bound to cause problems. @ Twesterm and Madskillz, where are you guys getting your XBL memberships? The cheapest I have found was $38.99, and I am up for renewal next month. Hook me up guys!!!

Amazon (or maybe Dell), I believe it was just slightly over $30 (like $31 or $32), and it was even the 12+1.

I just checked the Cheap Ass Gamer's forums Canadian section and they recommend that importing from the states is the cheapest way to get XBL Gold cards (there is an American member there that can hook us up apparently). Why does it always seem like Canadians get the short end of the stick on gaming deals? The cheapest I've seen xbox live gold on a canadian store: $47.99 for 12 + 1 months. The Canadian dollar is also very strong these days (1 Canadian dollar = 96 cents US) so that excuse doesn`t work. Charging $60 Canadian MSRP for live gold is absolute madness.

I'm with you man, it's hard to find good XBL deals in Canada.  I ended up getting a decent deal last year on the Live Starter Pack with another headset, chatpad and PGR4 for $60 from Amazon once my free month was up so that wasn't too bad, but this year (well, February I think?) I'm not sure what to do yet.  I'm considering just letting it lapse, unless a sweet deal comes up over the holiday sales season, and focusing on my single player game collection and cleaning up missing achievements lol. 

I also get mad that the $20 points cards in the states are 1600 points and ours are only 1400, regardless of where the dollar is (80 points per USD vs. 70 points per CDN).  Hopefully it stays high over the holidays so retailers start matching prices on games and whatnot again like they did last time when the dollar was at parity or above.

My real question is... if free PSN is so great why in hell is there more people using XBL gold membership ??? you tell me... and about lag... I might have had that a couple times knowing that I have 2 other computer DLing at the same time... then again the simple fact that you have to pay keeps away a lot of lame ass kids in matchmaking is an argument strong enough for me to pay for lol... now i can understand people being cheap... for me as i said many times it's one less drink a month in a club... not really much... the question isn't should it be free?? but how much am i ready to pay for it no matter what the service is...