spaceguy said:
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Care to answer the question?
Are you getting your money's worth? Do you know? I know $60 isn't all that much but that is every year. That's $60 you could spend on a game or several, it could be money that Microsoft had to compete to attract. Others have had their info stolen or their accounts hacked, XBL was even taken down for a month a few years back. Are those apps on XBL first because of the service fee? How do you know? Perhaps it could be part of the contracts that Microsoft has them sign? Maybe they are there because 360 is easier to develop for than PS3, so it is part of the system and not the fee. It could be unrelated.
How much have you used PSN? Have you seen all of the games it has, the exclusives, the PSone and PS2 titles, the Netflix app that is better than the one on 360? Perhaps you haven't tried PS Home, the free games they offer on there or the giveaways? PS3 has had an internet browser from day 1 despite its shortcommings, shall I include that even if it isn't part of PSN? Maybe I should use the exclusive games as the justification for using PSN, afterall there are more of them.
The more you examine XBL the more you should question what exactly is the money being used for? For all we know it is pure profit which means that they are charging solely for exclusivity, extortion is a harsher sense. If I owned a 360 I would probably pay it out of neccessity. That's why I've avoided buying one despite countless friends pressuring me to and my brother (the person I played games with my whole life) buying one despite my reservations on the practices of Microsoft.
What I want to know is whether or not XBL would suffer or flourish by eliminating the fee? Where does your money actually go?
Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(