As an owner of all consoles and a gaming PC, I believe Xbox Live Gold is an absolute ripoff and a joke service that people are fooled into thinking requires pay for, and I am not going to give Microsoft any cash until the day they actually provide something worth paying for.
From what I've seen, dick moves by publishers to gain more and more money has been pushing the traditional gamers away from the industry - and I'm not the only one in the industry who sees the trend.
EDIT: Are gamers some amazing species of humans who are the only ones to feel "entitlement"? Or... is the video game industry one of the few industries that is constantly pushing at and annoying its consumer base? No, you're right, gamers must be a special species of humans who are magically different from everyone else. =)
