How Microsoft Ruined fun for everybody

[Slimebeast]

_honeybadger_ said:

Slimebeast said:

I think it's right that XBox Live costs a subscription fee to play online. Not only do they provide a great service with matchmaking and other stuff on the marketplace, friends lists etc, but I always thought how can online gaming companies make money off of tpeople who keep playing online year after year (or rather, how come they accept to provide that service for free?). Like COunter Stirke, Age of Empires and STarcraft, you buy it for like $30 and can play for free for many years.

It's only logical that online gaming costs some money.

ALso, it's not like we're just filling the poclets of some greedy rich people in this case because Xbox division doesn't even make much profit.

Let me ask you a couple of things

 

1. Do you have a job?

2. Are you pro corporation and anti-consumer?

3. Do you know that Xbox live games ( EA  uses is Own servers) are P2P so no server maintance cost should be charged to you?

 

Also you should know that the reason why MS Xbox division doesnt make much profit has nothing to do with the online service cost and everything to do why core problems within the division, that microsoft as a corporation is considered by some as the most greddy  and the must anti-consumer corporation in existance today, and that they make billions of dollars every fiscal quarter and millions of dollars by the second.

1. Yes.

2. Yes (to both)

3. Yes.

Online gaming still has costs to the provider of the service (scanning and banning cheaters, maintaining the interface, lobbies, announcing news, providing patches etc) so it's only logical that everyone (the consumers) pay for it. I believe Nintendo and Sony will do this too in the future. $50 per year is less than one full priced game. Every gamer can afford that except the poorest children (but they can play co-op or split-screen Halo with their friends for a few years until they grow up and get money).