Microsoft to increase price of Xbox Live Gold

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Scoobes said:

slowmo said:

No Shio, I have never downloaded anything 5 times, why would I need to as this isn't a PC I own where I have to reinstall the OS every couple of years. 

Ok let me dumb this down for you, matchmaking was used in MW2 because there was no dedicated servers.  The lack of dedicated servers is one problem, the bigger issue is taking control of hosting abilities out of the hands of the gamer, that's matchmaking.

I look all the time at stuff on Steam, shame all thats ever available is overpriced.  Perhaps you should try moving to the UK, you might understand what a pile of turd the pricing is then.

Think longer term. With Steam all the games are tied to your account regardless of hardware and will always be accessible. With Live, you'll lose those games when you hit that limit, in particular on later hardware iterations... unless of course you call MS.

Also, what do you mean by taking the hosting abilities out of the players hands? Whilst the matchmaking system exists you can still host your own Left 4 Dead servers, browse and connect to your faves as far as I'm aware.

And yeah, it's the UK where developers, publishers and console manufacturers crap on us from a great height when it comes to pricing.

In Left 4 Dead you can load the server browser to pick a server, that was not an intended feature of the game though.

You would not "lose" your games when you hit a limit you would contact Microsoft and they'd remove any restriction, which once again I'll add I and none of my friends who frequently buy off Live have ever hit.  This might be more of a concern if you owned a Arcade skew and were deleting titles off your memory card and downloading again.  I have always owned a 360 with a harddrive in some shape or size.