| BenVTrigger said: So even though this current generation of consoles is dieing Xbox Live certainly isn't. In fact in their Earnings Report today it was confirmed that Live memberships were up by 18% and added 6 million new members in a year. Now Ive seen many on this and other forums bashing Live and saying it has nothing on Playstation Plus but subscriptions and userbase certainly say otherwise. So whats your opinion? Is the hate Live gets from some people unjustified? |
Will people -in their desperate attempt to defend their favourite brand- stop calling solid arguments "hate" ?
There is no way to sugar coat or justify MS making people pay for essentially part of a game they have bought. Here's what all the xbox "soldiers" do: they want to turn the discussion into a matter of services, justifying the cost. But that's is the thing, it's not a about the better value for money. It's about the very basic access to the online part of a game you own. With this generation online gaming being fundamental, MS invented a whole new market by charging people for something they already bought. If a game has a built in online component and you bought the damn thing you are entitled to play it. What MS did is sell you half a console.
When people start comparing services between psn or psn+ to Live, they consciously mislead the consumer. It's not about services but the game itself. It's not about paying for a better network or demos or dlc or access to an eshop or voice chat. It's about cutting you out from a core part of a game you own and divert the attention with other stuff you may or may not even want.
