Microsoft: “Everybody Knows” PS3 “Isn’t as Good of an Entertainment Console” as Xbox 360

[Mr Puggsly]

Pemalite said:

 

Mr Puggsly said:

I've taken advantage of many Deal of Weeks that are exclusive to Gold members. I probably own about 100 LIve Arcade games. That too has justified the costs of Live Gold.

The "Deals of the week" are pathetic, Steam shows how it should really be done, some "deals" on arcade games when they are 50% off still cost about as much as an "Arcade" game on Steam at full price.

Besides, some games/DLC that are free on other platforms you actually have to pay for on Live!
You can try and sugar coat it all you want, but Micrososft hasn't exactly priced the content on Live competitively with other platforms.

With that said, I buy Live! to play with mates, it's really not that expensive considering the length of the subscription and Microsoft is a business after all, people are willing to pay for it so Microsoft would be stupid not charge money for it.

Great, here is an irrelevant argument.

Steam shows how its done on platform rampant with piracy and generally less profitable. Steam is great, but I like playing games on consoles. Also, lets take into consideration a lot of Live Arcade games I own aren't on Steam or I purchased many before they came to Steam.

What am I sugar coating? I just gave a few reasons I pay for Live. One reason was discounts. I didn't argue they're better discounts than the competition, I'm arguing the discounts add value to my Gold subscription. All the savings combined easily add up to more than I've paid for Gold subscriptions.