Microsoft to increase price of Xbox Live Gold

[Reasonable]

Seece said:

Reasonable said:

Seems in line with inflation, still going to get booed though I suspect.  I'm more interested, if this gen does last longer, how people might view the higher Live vs ever cheaper console prices and whether Live might start to seem expensive in ratio to the initial console investment as a result.

I doubt it'll see more than a few actually quit the sevice myself.

The rise in price will more than pay for those that leave (like yourself I don't believe any significant number will)

Yup.  I don't get the UK rise, though, looking at it more closely.  Why just raise the monthly fee?  The only reason I can imagine is if in the UK more people buy monthly vs longer subscriptions than MS would like and they're trying to nudge people towards the longer commitment.

Strange one, though.  Unless it turns out UK is a rise across the board and it just hasn't been released right.