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Domicinator on 21 October 2009
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ironman said:
exit52000 said:

I think most of you are bonkers.

uhuh, judging from your satements here, the same could be said of you.

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.

XBL just incase you hadn't noticed, is an online community that just happens to have a very conveniant online shop available to it. You forget that with the gold membership, you can use crossgame chat, play games with or against other gold members, and have access to free content. But hey, don't let the facts stop you!

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.

I believe that would be your connection. Ever since  Igot my new ISP I would say my lag experiance has dropped from about 30% to about 7%...and that is with a really crappy router. Nice try though.

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.

This may be true, but it has no relevance to the topic at hand...actually, non of this really does, it looks to me more like a troll post...

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.

No, you can switch your account back and forth between them if you really must use them both, it only takes five minutes.

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.

Yeah, since when have you ebver used skype or MSN to chat with people plying other games on the PS3...I would venture a guess...NEVER. you know why? because that is a clunky and inefective way of doing it. Don't try to downplay crossgame chat, it is a lot better than you make it out to be.

Honestly paying £40 a year to host your own games.  Refuckingdiculous.

Not really, it's the only option for people wanting to play certain exclusives online with their friends. I would say your statements thus far have been "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.

Yes because the netflix, Last FM, Facebook, and crossgame chatting are something that PSN offers. seriously dude, get a life.

 

I'm not sure you can use Facebook and Twitter as additions to XBL that are worth the subscription since you can very easily access both on PS3 through the built in browser.  Not so sure about Last.FM--haven't tried it and will probably never use it even on Xbox.  Cross game chat is supposedly coming to PS3 very soon, so that will no longer be a sticking point either.  In the end, if the rumors come true at least, the only really big differences there are going to be are Netflix and Last.FM.  Sony could easily come up with its own solution to Last.FM, and probably will, so that kind of just leaves us with Netflix which is supposedly an exclusive deal, at least for now. 

So if you're going to compare PSN to XBL, the only really big sticking point you're going to have is Netflix.  Truth be told, now that I have a PS3 too, I have converted my Netflix account (the one I originally started mostly just to use on the 360) over to all BluRay so that I can watch movies on my PS3.  There are very few new releases on Instant Queue that are worth watching--most of it is garbage--so I rarely use it anymore unless I want to watch an old 80's movie for nostalgia's sake.

I'm sorry, but it's just going to keep getting harder and harder for people to pay $40 to $50 a year for features they get for free everywhere else, including the PC and the PS3.  I know for a fact that if Xbox Live is $100 next year I will not be renewing.  I'm glad I just renewed a couple of months ago so that if this rumor is true I still have a pretty long time before my account expires.