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riderz13371 said:
It doesn't annoy me that you use your own money to pay for something. It annoys me that Microsoft is getting away in making you pay for features that should be accessible for free.
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You can't say over and over that you're looking at this from "a gamers perspective" and then throw a fit about a feature that is entirely unrelated to gaming. Furthermore it's a misleading argument to make because I honestly don't know a single person who pays for XBL Gold just so they can watch Netflix. That would be like saying someone pays $80 a month for their cable package so they can watch the weather channel. In reality they probably love ESPN or HBO or Comedy Central and these other channels are just a bonus. You can say they should be accessible for free but MS says otherwise. I believe that given how painfully slow download times are on PSN and how long some installs take, Sony should make automatic updates free for everyone. But they put it behind a subscription to PS+.
I don't mind paying for Live because the infrastructure is far superior to PSN, games have more people online playing them, voice quality is better and more people use headsets. Those are things an actual gamer thinks about. And to me those things are worth a few bucks a month. A gamer doesn't think about having to pay to access Netflix.
