Would The Xbox Brand Be More Successful Without The Live Fee..

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MonstaMack said:

o_O.Q said:

MonstaMack said:

o_O.Q said:

MonstaMack said:
No thanks. I don't want my service to be hacked, plus gold subscriptions are a huge revenue for MS to offset hardware costs (Imagine how much longer it would have taken MS to get of the RROD hole without Xbox Live subscriptions, and of course the over priced accessories).

yeah because xbl can't be hacked right?

Microsoft wouldn't let their system be down that long. 3 days tops. I bet my VGChartz career on it.

that wasn't the question this was "xbl can't be hacked right?"

Anything can be hacked. The problem is Sony did very little to prevent it and Microsoft wouldn't be down for as long, if it ends up being down more then 2 days then call me out it and I won't show my face around here ever again.

"Anything can be hacked"

ok

"The problem is Sony did very little to prevent it"

personally i don't know but regardless in terms of xbl what does this mean? you just said anything can be hacked so regardless of what measures they have in place it can be hacked anyway if you really believe what you said

"Microsoft wouldn't be down for as long, if it ends up being down more then 2 days"

xbl live was down for almost 2 weeks in some areas in 2007 the cause wasn't hacking ( which happens on xbl a lot regardless of what you believe but obviously on a much lesser scale than the psn hack ), it was apparently caused by server strain... which xbl fees are supposed to alleviate

http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/22/xbox-live-suffering-from-major-outage-on-christmas-weekend-ouc/

http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/31/xbox-live-still-up-and-down-ten-days-later/