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c0rd on 24 February 2013
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Mummelmann said:
c0rd said:

I wouldn't go that far - XBLG isn't exactly a small sum. For only 4 years I paid the same amount for XBLG as I did for the console itself. And that's only for myself - I have a brother that I shared the console with, and we'd need to pay double that if we wanted to use our own user names.

Maybe others aren't as tight on money as I am, but assuming they stay with this model, it's bad enough that I'm probably done with Microsoft, for good.

Not being able to have more than one user on one subscription is ridiculous for sure. And annoying, like when you're playing Resident Evil 5 or 6 splitscreen, one has to play a default player even if you have more users available on the xbox dashboard, you need two separate subscriptions to use two "proper" players. That's really stupid and ruins the experience for me.

As I've been saying earlier though, for me its not a problem since I never play console games online (and only rarely play console games at all). I can see that it probably annoys a lot of people but I can't imagine that its the deciding factor for most people who choose not to buy an xbox.

I don't know - the 360's biggest exclusives, Gears of War and Halo, lose a lot of their appeal without online multiplayer (not just deathmatch, but co-op as well). I did buy the console partially for some Japanese games, but for the shooters, without XBLG they're almost useless to me now. Leaves me with a bad taste. Whatever, consoles in general have been disappointing me lately, I'll probably skip this gen till they're super cheap (though I always buy Nintendo for local multi)

Anyway, I think it influences more purchases than you might be letting on, though I know the money they make off of it is easily worth for them in the end.