Not that I pay for XBL Gold service anyway I always pick buying a new game over paying for Gold, but now it costs the same as a new game : inflation might be the reason but online services started out as free on PC with many of the features in the 90s that PS3, Wii, and 360 are just now getting.
Dunno why people are fighting so hard to justify their buying of the service, if you want to pay for it that's your prerogative, but it doesn't make much sense from many standpoints, peer to peer is cheaper than running servers, the servers there also work for people with silver for free, paying doesn't take away the ads from the dashboard, plus there are some additional features you're technically paying to have on 360 (Netflix, Facebook, etc) on the other consoles and even have things like a web browser which is a nifty feature when you want to watch you tube/flash videos on your TV, the advantages of Gold boils down to wanting cross game chat and parties, with fewer exclusives I want on my 360 I have little reason to justify my own personal purchase of Gold and even less so with the price going up.
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