Why Xbox Live is Worth the Price

[vlad321]

Lord Flashheart said:

Adjudicator said:
@Lord Flashheart............... Ok I'm not really sure what you're getting at here. My point is regardless of what console (you seem really hung up on this if it was Sony or Nintendo or everybody dislikes what they don't have thing) I have a problem paying to play a component of the game that is free elsewhere. People do pay to play WoW but that is the entire game, you have no choice if you wish to play it.
To put it simply I do not like paying for any part of the game that is reviewed ie was meant to be played if competitors offer it for free.
WoW is a different game to Guild Wars etc (Is that one of the free ones?). Therefore they are charging you to play there game. It's not as if you can play WoW for free somewhere else. In Live I pay to play a game online that I can play for free somewhere else.

So if your choice is removed it's ok? I'm not hung up on Sony or Ninty but you keep talking about competitors and thats them so I use them as an example.

You could play Wow offline if they wanted to but they chose to make the whole game online and charge half the price of a normal game each month.

When you look at it that way it's a rip off but people chose to pay and that system doesn't get knocked.
Do competitors offer forza online for free?
XBL is different to PSN therefore they are charging you to use their system. It's not like I can get XBL anywhere else. In live you pay to play games that you can't play for free anywhere else.

You accept there are alternatives to Wow that you could play but don't want to as Wow is what you want. I'm using that as an example for XBL. People chose to pay and don't want the alternative why is that wrong?

People are saying it's a rip off with out using it yet are willing to pay for things that are rip offs on their console. Bit of a double standard. Also those who don't own a 360 feel qualified to comment are acting like their opinion is fact and are righteous over those who do pay and use the system and have no problem with it. I thought it was supposed to be only the Sony forums that got hijacked here? That's what I've been told.

OK I'm here to put a stop to your utter bullshit you have been spewing this whole thread abou Multiplayer on other platforms.

 

WoW Has thousands of player simultaneously playing in a single server. You heard me, thousands, if not more. Also my WoW folder has grown from 4gigs back in 2004 to 16+ gigs right now. That means the sheer amount of content has quadrupled on top of any small balances,fixed, etc. they have done.

The whole thing is called an MMORPG, something consoels have basically never even heard of. Don't use something that doesn't even exist on a console to bring down another platform. ALL types of games that the Xbox has and are played online are free on the PC. FPSes, RTSes (ok mayeb these arent on consoles either), RPGs, Racing, etc. is FREE on the PC. In fact people have NEVER had to pay to play online for PC games until MMOs came out, and they stil don't.

Also I'm willing to bet my left nut that my experience on a PC online is infinitely superior to any service Live has to offer.