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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You realize MMO's still require a subscription fee on consoles. Also they require you to buy the game, which is apparently adding insult to injury. Granted FFXI does not require a gold membership on the 360. But it does cost $12.95 a month and an additional $1 per character. (I believe WoW allows 50 characters on one account) That $15 for WoW goes towards very stable servers (in my experience) and regular updates (new content, improvements, bug fixes, various tweaks for balance, etc).
I don't get why you keep bringing up the fact that you have to pay money for PC games. Are you not paying for 360 games?
