I think most of you are bonkers.
Xbox live just incase you hadnt noticed is mainly a shop that you can spend more money paying for movies etc. So for example if I were to go to a video store like blockbusters I would pay around £4 for a dvd. On Xbox live Id pay (wait for it) £4.50.
Also on Xbox Live you or another person playing is the host of the game and therefore everyone is affected by 2 factors, 1 the quality of your connection and 2 the location of the players. This is about 40 percent of the games I have seen causes unbareable lag and also enables people to use lag switching to give themselves an unfair advantage.
On other platforms servers are being used to host games. Which is odd as this is a much more expensive way to enable online gaming at yet, you are not charged for it.
I have 2 Xboxs and therefore have to pay £80 a year to play online. If I were to change to 2 PS3's that would be nothing.
And just one last thing. Cross game chat is not worth anything. You can download software like Skype on a PC and do the same sort of thing for nothing. Once again Microsoft is just ripping people off and until everyone says no thanks they are not going to change.
Honestly paying £40 a year to host your own games. Refuckingdiculous.
Now after all that I wouldnt mind paying £10 a year. I think thats fair for a service that gives you nothing you cant get elsewhere for free. They can make their money from the DLC, which btw is being well over used by companiesa and that is going to backfire if they are not careful.
