How long can Microsoft keep charging for Xbox live?

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Ronster316 said:

exindguy said:

Ronster316 said:
12 million xbox live gold users can't be wrong.... we pay for it to ensure we get as many possible games that have online multiplayer... allow me to explain... wheres the online multiplayer for Virtua tennis 3, Virtua fighter 5 and Tony hawks project 8 but to name a few on ps3? they all have online multiplayer on the 360, theres now over 150 XBLA titles and a very high percentage of them have online multiplayer...... I love Doom multiplayer or playing 2 player on Ikaruga or Streets of rage 2, if microsoft make xbox live free it wouldn't have 80%+ of games that have online multiplayer that it currently has, if it was free it would have around the same amount of games that have online multiplayer as ps3 does... a POOR 55%

I'm not certain I see your logic.

You are suggesting that if Live goes free, that less games will be compatible with it? Despite the fact that one of the big selling points for 360 titles is such play? Am I reading you correctly?

look at how many ps3 games have online multiplayer.... and look how many playstation network games have multiplayer.... they pale in comparison to games that have online multiplayer for 360 games and xbox live.... if xbox live was free, then a lot of games that have multiplayer on xbla could cease to exist... we know the big games (Gears, Halo , forza ect) will always have multiplayer, but if xbla was free a lot of the older games would no longer have multiplayer.... now Quake 4 or Prey might not mean much to some people but they do to me and i enjoy playing them online... and on xbla i love Ikaruga, streets of rage 2 and Doom multiplayer.... also remember that SEGA never bothered to give the ps3 versions of Virtua tennis 3 or Virtua fighter 5 any multiplayer on ps3.... VT 3 and VF 5 have multiplayer on 360.... if xbla was free games like that could go by the wayside and no longer have multiplayer..... hence myself and many millions more will continue to pay for xbox live to keep those games multiplayer for many years to come.... i currently own 24 xbox 360 games and of those 24 games 22 of them have online multiplayer... i own 13 xbla games and 12 of them offer online multiplayer.... would i like to see these games lose their multiplayer capabilities sometime down the road.... HELL NO....

 

 

how does it Live being free make games on XBLA not have online im pretty damn sure they would have online still, why would they change that? Microsoft gets the Live subscribtion money, the money the company that makes the game only gets what they charge for the game so online play is an incentive for people to buy the game over another on XBLA