theprof00 said:
J_Allard said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
J_Allard said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
J_Allard said:
Depending entirely on your point of view. Many others might find it perfectly reasonable to view the XBL exclusive games as perks to using the service.
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Thats the point where the dangling carrot rule applies. They are smart and you've been had. Simple as that.
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Hey congrats, for once you're actually right about something. It is a dangling carrot and they are smart.
Of course, how that differs from anything Sony or any other business does, is beyond me. Sony also dangles carrots to PSN users to get them to sign up for PS+. HBO dangles carrots to people to both make them customers and to keep them as customers. Hey it even applies to games. The obvious example would be Call of Duty. The list goes on and on and on.
However, the comment about "being had" is nothing more than your biased opinion. Personally I don't mind spending a dime a day for superior online play and a more social/user friendly service and features slathered atop a great MP title. You're welcome to disagree. The difference is, you can find me a thread about whatever subscription type service you enjoy using, and I won't enter it trying to preach my opinion about its worth, or the mindset of the people who subscribe to the service, down onto the subscribers. You'd have to be pretty emotionally invested into services you don't even use to do something like that.
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They aren't dangling a carrot. They aren't locking you out of anything, but rather adding to your experience by adding more gaming for a low yearly cost. Big difference. You paid for a full game and only get to experience half of it without Live. See where I am getting?
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It's the same thing, regardless of what qualifier you want to try to slap on to make it MS-specific.MS will promote and put the new Gears of War on a pedestal because it's a great incentive to get Gold. Sony will put Darksiders or Infamous 2 on a pedestal because it's a great incentive to get PS+. Again, it's how businesses work. You can try to make it different for MS but sorry, most of us know better.
Put it another way. If I am in the store and want to buy a MP title, I can buy it on PS3 or 360. I'm going 360 nine times out of ten because I know what Live brings. And if my subscription runs out, I know I will find a sale and renew it because I sure as hell won't be playing Gears or Trials on PS3.
It's not hard. Quit trying to make it hard :)
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'because I sure as hell won't be playing gears or trials on ps3'
Isn't that why you invested in a 360? You already paid for a console to play those games.
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You can play those games. However did you buy the server? No I didn't think so. The on going service cost money and PS4 is rumored to up their pay to play. If you to broke for 6 dollars a month, for better service. I don't know what to tell ya. Oh sony lost 5 billion Dollars. how much was that from PSN? So your free is costing some one. So why should they pay for you?
Why sony sells less games than xbox 360. I support my system, i don't live off it. LOLOLOLOLO
