gergroy said:
scat398 said:
I'm still amazed by gamers who believe they should get something for free. Of course if a company is foolish enough to give it to you for free "zynga" they'll pay for it in the end. You could say Sony is starting to see the negative effects for not charging for onlive service, increased debt, inability to compete on price, quality control. Unless you plan on PSN being one giant advertisment like google or facebook you need to charge. In the end MS is looking like the man among boys in this department. |
I agree to some extent here. I pay for live and dont have a problem doing so because it is a superior network. However, microsoft really does need to up their features to justify the cost if they want to stay competitive going forward. Microsoft basically already does the giant advertisement thing like facebook, and they are the ones charging for their service.
Microsoft cant keep withholding features given for free on other services and tout them as a reason for paying. They need to actually add some more differentiating features to justify the cost going forward...
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I actually think it is other companies that are going to have to start charging for services they currently offer for free. Let's look at Zynga, Sony, and to a larger extent facebook. Investors are waking up to the reality that unless you actually charge for your product you're not going to make money. And I do think MS will and continues to expand it services, smart glass is a pretty big leap and next gen I'm guessing will see some pretty big cloud based services.
