badgenome said:
crumas2 said:
bobobologna said:
crumas2 said:
BenKenobi88 said:
Yup, as long as you're willing to pay, you'll pay.
XBL might be the best service currently (not my opinion), but that shouldn't mean you should pay for it. It should factor into the cost of the console when you buy it...of course there's people working 24/7 for Live...just as there are people working for PSN and Nintendo...? (they probably sleep at night on piles of money hehe).
PC gaming is totally free and is way more expansive than console services...and we don't pay to play. If Games for Windows launched free, it might have done better...though probably not because it's sloppy, only really features a few games, and is pretty much pointless.
$40 a year isn't that much, so you probably don't care to throw it down...it'd be stupid to boycott and miss out on the XBL features, after all...but if everyone did stop using XBL and gave Microsoft a ton of negative press...they'd pretty much have to cut the price.
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PC gaming is definitely not free. Blizzard makes you buy a WOW package and then adds injury to insult by charging a $15/month fee. I've visited plenty of "free" online sites, but you have to consider that the publisher subsidizes the use of the online service by charging for the game.
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Um, you realize that WOW is an MMO. And that on TOP of XBox Live Gold fees, you have to also pay monthly fees to play FFXI (another MMO) on the XBox360.
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Well, now that is a good point. I didn't realize that FFXI had two fee layers. I've played Halo3, etc. on XboxLive and didn't have to pay additional fees so I incorrectly assumed this was true for all XboxLive gaming. What other XboxLive games, besides FFXI have this dual-fee structure?
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Actually, that's wrong. Final Fantasy XI on Live doesn't require Gold membership.
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Oh really? I did not know, and had assumed that XBox Live Gold was required to play any online game.
