If MP was free, would anyone pay for LIVE for the other features, and would 360s sell more?

[yo_john117]

KylieDog said:

yo_john117 said:

KylieDog said:
Maybe about 5% of people who pay for it now would. If MS thought LIVE was worth it alone they would have made MP free years ago just to put it on par with PSN.

They haven't, because they know they'd lose nearly all their subs.

That is mostly incorrect. While the value of Xbox Live Gold would be diminished and there would certainly be plenty of people not buying Gold, there would still be one key feature that a surprising (not to me surprising, but to others) amount of people will pay to use; and that is party chat. It's one of those things that I could simply not do without. I would pay the same amount as I'm paying now just to use that feature and I know plenty of other people that would too.

Most users on LIVE would just use a games own party chat.  Most do already.

Sure a lot of them do. Game chat is not the same as party chat though and the point still stands that a greater amount than you say would be willing to pay for that feature alone. Certainly more than around 5%