S.T.A.G.E. on 06 August 2009
| ameratsu said: Just because you don't pay doesn't mean you get an inferior service. Steam has most everything you'd need directly involving gaming, while xbox live has more multimedia features and a more streamlined setup. The fact that it's free, there's free user created content, and dedicated servers make it a great service. Remember that Microsoft tried the Pay model with Games for Windows live. Granted it was a pretty much just a hollow shell of Xbox Live, the complete rejection of a pay to play model for regular (non-mmo) games is still interesting. PSN has some issues compared to Live, especially related to the social/communication aspect. Short of making XBL Gold free, Microsoft could still make all their features (crossgame voicechat, crossgame invites, netflix, whatever) a paid service but online multiplayer free. I just don't see a good reason why microsoft has to charge someone to use their own internet connection to connect to another user when both users have paid for their games. |
Why must people interject and then talk about steam?
