What makes it special? What makes Xbox Live worth it?

[Jay520]

Mr Puggsly said:

o_O.Q said:

"Providing these types of services isn't cheap and a few easily ignored ads can't possibly cover it."

thats your conjecture, but beyond that we can't say for certain as we don't know much details about the costs and the ad revenue

all i can say is that i'd think that ms is pulling in millions from ads alone and that should be enough to cover the costs but as i said before i may be wrong

They spend millions of dollars a lone into Xbox Live Arcade. As this articles states...

Ads probably couldn't support that a lone let a lone everything else Xbox Live offers. People just see Xbox Live as simple peer to peer online gaming, but its much more than that. The only thing people try to compare it to is PSN. Which is basically a store with few features and charges publishers for bandwidth.

sorry to butt in, but the word "alone" is one word.