Why Steam is Awesome, and How You Can Make Live Free

[MaxwellGT2000]

richardhutnik said:

Wow, I wish free services like what the PS3 and Wii have had nearly the same level of demos that XBox does.  Because people pay for online play, everything from Game Room to Indie games, gets demos.  Demos on the Playstation 3?  Well, mostly the major disk based released.  Playstation store distributed exclusives don't get any.  As far as the Wii goes, that is NONE available online.

Now, back to the original premise.  Somehow, this premise is that large numbers of gamers will magically organize themselves and decide not to pay for Live, thus Microsoft would be forced to discontinue charging for online play... well, based on my first-hand experience, that wish is one that won't happen, no matter how much people wish it be so.  No guarantee Microsoft would end up dropping the fee if membership went down.  Shoot, they might even decide to INCREASE prices.  So, you then get lots of people without XBox Live, and playing online.

Want to get organized for something?  How about getting organized for something more important, like helping people find work, or helping the poor?  Or, something even more simple, which is gaming related: Ignore Pachter to the place where VGChartz will stop dedicating articles to his predictions?  I am yet again graced with a Pachter article once more when I pop on here, this time declaring the PSP2 dead before it is even released.

Uhm you realize you listed everything you can do with the free section of Xbox Live right?  I refuse to pay and I still get to play the arcade room, buy indie games, download demos, and buy my XBLA games... I just don't play them online  

Also in general this threads topic is talking about Steams services it provides for free and how things like that lead to GFWL going free and hoping the same could happen on 360 if people decided not to pay for it, not exactly sure where Nintendo and Sony get wrapped up in this, it's not like they can provide a free service on another platform like valve did in counter to GFWL, thus the only logical way to force MS to stop charges is for people to start refusing to pay in mass, or a boycott essentially.  Though I find it laughable since that'll never happen.