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Rainbird on 05 December 2010
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Alby_da_Wolf said:
Rainbird said:
Alby_da_Wolf said:

Well, this without any doubt. The share of 360 users that subscribe to Gold is really huge. But the fact that it's necessary even for just playing online multiplayer obviously helps it a lot.

Of course, but if it was such a bad thing, people wouldn't be doing it regardless.

If they like to play online XB exclusives, have they any choice? But yes, the whole package, XB360 plus its multiplayer best seller exclusives plus XBL Gold, is obviously liked a lot by a lot of people. I'd say, though, that multiplayer exclusives are the key factor of this success, not additional premium services. Halo did for MS what even Windows couldn't.

Agreed. But I think the additional services are definitely sweetening the package for those who cannot justify buying it for gaming alone. If there wasn't anything but gaming in it, I certainly wouldn't be praising it as much, but I think Microsoft has done a great job of making it a service that is easy to and has many perks, and I don't mind telling them that with my wallet, even if others do some of the same things for free.