Why Xbox Live is Worth the Price

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Lord Flashheart said:

Adjudicator said:
I will try to keep it as simple as possible. I wantto play COD4 . I choose this game as it is multiplatform and is supposed to be very good online. After buying the game for $60 on either PS3 or X360 or $50 on PC. I get the full game all features enabled and I play online. Why is it I have to pay extra to play it on the X360. I don't care about demos, movies or anything else. I just want to play the game I bought to its fullest.
Why is this free on the other platforms and not the X360.
If MS and Sony feel the need to sell me demos, previews insider access and all that crap I don't want I don't have to buy it. I only want to play COD4 so that is all I should have to pay for. It's that's simple, I want to play what I payed for. It is unfair that others can play online unlimited for the price of the game and I can't.

But you don't have live so why does it bother you?

I want demos for free. I love demos and I'm not going to pay for that when it is free elsewhere but I don't go into sony forums yelling that qore is a rip off and acting like my excuses for it are the only reasons that can should be true. I enjoy what I have and leave others to do what they want to. Why can't the people on here. You can't ignore qore and what it represents because you aren't interested in it if it comes up. If XBL gold is a scam to you then so is qore to me. It has all of the arguments you make against Gold in it.

You have what you want and even if you and others seem to be so offended by anything ms... i mean XBL Gold you could not act so critical of it when millions enjoy the service and are very happy with it. Happy enough to pay. To me if you can't state your opinion in a well thought out way in a thread you don't belong in then you're trolling. This doesn't necassarily apply to you.

First off, after 2 minutes of Internet research on Qore (and correct me if I'm wrong), Qore is simply a subscription like the old PlayStation Underground (and in fact is the successor to it).  You get game videos, interviews, beta invitations, and EARLY ACCESS to demos.  That's right, (Wikipedia sez) Qore has not given ONE EXCLUSIVE demo, only exclusive early access to demos, and probably not very much before everyone else got it.  Hell, it might have been the beta for the demo, although I freely admit I'm pulling that out of my ass. 

Gold is an ABSOLUTE REQUIREMENT for multiplayer.  You can't wait a week (or month or whatever) after everyone else gets MP and then start playing like with Qore's demos.  So I believe that you are making a false equivalency here.

To backtrack a bit, earlier you were talking about WoW.  I see this, too, as a false equivalency.  One game having a special fee (subscription) to play it is not like having a subscription to be able to play (MP) on a platform AT ALL.  In fact, isn't it true that FFXI (the MMORPG one) was on the 360, and required you to pay Gold AND its own fee?  This alone should tell you it's not the same thing, because you're getting double-dipped when the two subscriptions coincide.