The reason why you pay for Xbox Live - An attempted Explanation

[theprof00]

Sardauk said:

theprof00 said:
To me, it comes down to a moral issue.
MS has these servers already, they have had the structure available and have it paid for.
The fact is, if MS actually made profit on xbox and 360, live would not have to cost anything. The cost is there to recoup losses and actually make profit, which is still yet to be nearly worth the investment.

 

Business has nothing to do with morality those days (except if morality is a business)

I'm not sure that the shareholders would be happy to invest in a company that does that ...

I agree, but I mean, there are better ways to do things than by charging money. That is what is wrong with companies nowadays, they don't think outside the box.

Like I said before, Blizzard didn't charge for their servers and it resulted in some of the biggest and best selling titles at a time when people were either charging for online or had just very bad online.