Xbox Live adds 6 Million members in a single Year, is the hate unjustified?

[Mr Puggsly]

VGKing said:

NotStan said:

Note the words "from my experience" I have had PS3 for about 3 months, other than the single player games, there really was nothing there. The multiplayer games that I have sampled were either desolate or took about 4 hours to patch, just to be put on the supposedly dedicated servers that Sony offer which still provided me with consistent DC's and lag. The UC2 multiplayer completely refused to start (Not even sure why), I found XBM clunky and annoying to use, god the worst bit probably had to be the patches, I must have burned through about 6GB worth of patches in 4 games. There is no cross-game chat, the store took a decade to load, all small quips but everything that I have noticed was a drastic comparison to something that Live offered at the time, in a much better fashion.

Granted the new dash is a pile of shit on Xbox, and the focus on the entertainment rather than gaming is lacksture, but end of the day, if I want to play FC3 while my friend plays Skyrim and another plays Minecraft, and we can still talk about the different elements/storyline/plot/events seeing as we do have similar gaming taste, I would much prefer that, and considering it only costs 10p a day just for that small luxury I don't mind paying it at all, I think you greatly underestimate the social element that Live provides, and without being a consistent user that has a significant amount of friends that play daily on there, you will continue to do so. Of course it's easier to judge something that you haven't used consistently or probably even experienced that much, just because it's easy to do so.

Really, majority of the people that seem to be anti-live are those who don't even have it, or even experienced it for a prolonged period of time.

I don't like the new direction Xbox is going in, but all I do is put the disk in, join a party with friends and chat, or go on cod, or some other multiplayer/single game that we can work on, so the "ads" which everyone keeps joking about have no significant effect on me whatsoever, or the supposedly wide range of entertainment apps on offer.

So basically cross game chat is the only reason you pay for Xbox Live. That's what I got from your post. Let me ask you this, when PS4 offers free online service, faster PSN Store and OPTIONAL premium features such as Cloud Services and best of all for you.......cross game chat....would you buy a PS4? 

(LOL at your 6GB of patches complaint though. Such an exagerration. If you bought some 360 games that are years old, I'm sure you'll encounter similar problems there as well. In the future, when comparing XBL to PSN, try using the same game and see if you notice any difference, because I don't)

$60 for 365 days of cross game chat. That's only about 17 cents a day plus he gets to play online games on his prefered platform! I wish my phone bill was that cheap!

No Xbox game has patches that big so quit making presumptions on things you don't know shit about. The patches are usually under 5-10MB. Sometimes they get near a 100MB. Borderlands 2 has one of the biggest patches I've ever seen at 250MB but that is just multiplayer compatibility content. When I played Resistance 3 around launch there was a 4GB patch. So there is no comparison.