What are XBLG subscribers paying $50 a year for?

[nightsurge]

Nitrous_18 said:

nightsurge said:

C_Hollomon said:
They say the XBL fees is for cross game chat and better match making I guess. To me XBL fees is use to make up for the money lost to RROD. I don't see any difference between XBL and PSN. They both have movies, demos, and online gaming is the same to me. But hey MS don't like giving things away for free so it is what it is.

PSN has yet to make any profit at all.  So I guess Free isn't always the best option.  Contrary to what people may think, it does cost an extremely large amount of money to run these services.

What do you mean 'Free isn't the best option'? Yes I agree it does cost a lot of money to keep the service free but at the same time Sony are aware of this and have their premium service which can cover that. Also how do we the gamers suffer if the Psn service if Free? Because remember its not about how much the Brands gains or loses in money, its about how much we the consumers are paying for there services.

Because the free PSN is not as good as the for pay XBL and because of the losses they are adding the premium services.