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

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JaggedSac said:

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind paying for Live, but if it would stay exactly the same as it is now and be free, that would be wonderful.  I get an absolute ton of game time playing with friends in parties in CoD, Halo, etc.  Just a really nice system for getting into games with your buds with great ease and the communication capabilaties are top notch.  On the other hand, I can definitely see where gamers would be miffed about paying for this stuff.

As far as ads go, I really don't notice them to be honest, at least intrusive ones.  I don't consider panels letting people know what game content is available on their marketplace as intrusive advertisement.  I find them useful.

I like how PSN handles it, you idle for a second and content related to games you're playing pops up along with new content, probably the smartest ads I've seen on these services even Steam.  

I get sorta upset with this generation in general, I like online, but I don't like it being 80% of the reason you buy a game lol and it seems that just works into the formula, you buy a game with a weak singleplayer, so you want to play multiplayer, but guess what there's no local multiplayer it's all online, and with Xbox that means you got to pay more just to get it.  I just don't like that lol I already get irritated at the other things adding one more reason to be irritated at a game isn't on my list of things to do