| ChronotriggerJM said: @Grham That goes back to another topic on a different day, but long story short, you shouldn't have to pay for the ability to play with friends >_>;;; That's all a gold subscription lets you do... If your one of the MANY people that's simply not willing to pay to play online, then you can't access this feature. Seriously? For a while, the new cheap versions of the 360 were tempting me :P But not because of ANY multi-player aspects, I've got my PS3 for that which has free online gaming. No. I wanted it for the JRPG's that it's been getting, you know, the games I'd probably play by myself >_> Then BAM, MS lands Netflix. Holy shit :) icing on the cake if you ask me ^^ Then Microsoft put on it's blue swede shoe, and shoved it up my ass >_> |
Well when you put in that fashion I understand what you're saying, but it seems your main issue is with Live itself. Also yes it's a cuthroat move especially to us relaxed Californians =) but Chrono, this isn't even as cutthroat compared to what a lot of other companies do.
To me it's just smart marketing, I don't think Microsoft expects to move consoles with Netflix, only try to get some Silver accounts gold. Cutthroat to me is in my "Boycott Blizzard" thread because I was upset they closed 350,000 accounts in D2 and Starcraft 5 days before Wrath of the Lich King would release. At least with the LIVE/Netflix you can choose to have either one or neither or both and Microsoft won't ban you if you choose neither.
Xbox LIVE costed Microsoft a lot of money to produce, anything that's worth having has a price. The price of live is also really cheap 40 dollars for a year amounts to less than 4 dollars a month.
