Microsoft to increase price of Xbox Live Gold

[shio]

greenmedic88 said:

thranx said:

shio said:

I've visited other forums like Neogaf and such, and it seems there's quite a few people switching from X360 to PC now. Seems for many of them the price increase was the last drop.

How they going to play their halo?

Seriously, though, over $10 a year?

Personally, I can't imagine anyone "quitting" XBL over that unless they're either A) taking a high moral ground against MS profits out of some sort of imagined general principle, or B) realizing that they hardly use XBL anyway and that the $10 increase is a reminder that they don't need to be paying money to play on their Xbox anymore for something they weren't getting use out even at $50 (or $40 or whatever they paid) a year. 

Most of the latter simply won't renew their subscriptions when they expire, but that's hardly what anyone could consider to be some sort of mass exodus from XBL. Those who are already fully invested in the service will either shrug it off, or bite the (cheap if you use it regularly) bullet.

It may also be because PC Gaming is now cheaper than Xbox 360, and some people are reminding themselves that due to the fact that most Xbox 360 games are on PC, they might as well jump to PC.