Pyramid Head said:
thats what its more like. i love ms, but i won't defend a money grab. |
It's not a money grab.
They pay an entire team of programmers, designers, and artists to work on Xbox Live. Every feature that it has, every new addition that you see, every little moving part had to be built. It all didn't just appear out of thin air. Bill Gates didn't just pull a fully featured Xbox Live out of his arse one sleepless night.
It has cost Microsoft a lot of time and money to build the service to the level it is today so I have no problem with Microsoft turning around and expecting users to pay for it. Microsoft isn't a charity, it's a business. They want to make money.
Now going back to your example. My example was entirely different from yours as I was contrasting the ISP/Live Service, not PS3/360 online services so your statement of "It's more like" is just garbage that says you didn't understand the point of the analogy in the first place. Let's make a fastfood analogy that fits the 360 and PS3 though.
McDonalds offers a free side of fries with every burger while Arby's requires the customer to pay extra for its signature curly fries. Both are still fries but they're a little different. There are some people who like the skinny fast-food style fries McDonalds has and there are some that like the spicy curly fries Arby's has.
That's a slightly better analogy.
