Paying for online gaming, THE OUTRAGE!

[OdinHades]

kain_kusanagi said:

OdinHades said:

DarthVolod said:

It seems like everyone is ignoring a part of an Xbox Live Gold sub that Sony does not offer, cross game voice chat. Only Xbox offers this service.

The closest comparision I can think of is a Ventrilo server. A 10 slot server goes for about $2 to $3 per month. An Xbox live party can hold 8 players and, as someone pointed out earlier in this thread, you can get your Xbox live Gold sub for as low as $2 a month.

Whether or not you agree that $2 a month for cross game chat is worth it is irrelevant. I believe it is, and that is why I pay to keep it. Sony doesn't offer it, and neither does Nintendo.

As soon as a different company offers the same service for less we can talk.

Vita does it. For free.

But does it have Halo games?

Because I'm pretty sure the only way to play Halo 4 online is with XBL Gold. That's the price of admission. I wish it was free, but it's not and it costs less a month than a burger so I don't even notice it when I balance my check book.

Yeah, if you need Halo that bad, I guess you don't have a choice. But that doesn't mean it's a good thing to charge for online gaming. And as I said, the cost sums up. You're payin about 399 € for Hardware for a whole generation. Over the years, you're payin' about the same for Gold. If it's no big deal for you, that's perfectly fine. But there are some people who like to keep their money if they can. Especially when there's a competitor who's offering the exact same service for free. 

 

Sure, infrastructure costs money and stuff, but come on. Are you payin a fee to visit amazon? Youtube? Google? wth, there are even ads on XBox Live Gold. They don't need that money to stay profitable. They really really don't.