What if LIVE was totally free?

[FayeC]

Destroyer_of_knights said:

FayeC said:
If live was free the quality would suffer. Features would be skipped, and corners would be cut. I'd rather pay than have to deal with something like PSN or the Wii online service.

That's no true, the service level can be maintained and be free, all Microsoft needs todo is find another source of revenue to support live, like comercials, but I guess microsoft is fine charging customer and advertising to them at the same time, cuz for them 2 sources of revenue is better than one...but they should be careful as PSN is catching up and it's free.

I suppose they could always find a way to make money another way, but I doubt they would find an option as simple and effective as charging those who use the service. Both that method and the ad based method use the scalability they need  because they are based on the amount of people using the service