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

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SvennoJ said:

Cj2i3 said:
The hate is justified if the users who are hating on it are people who have an Xbox and have paid for Xbox Live and just hate the service and feel it isn't worth a 60$ price tag. But I don't feel that's case here, though I may be wrong.

Hate is a strong word, but I do have a 360 and I had live gold for the first year. I Just don't game online that much so I didn't think it was worth keeping it. Escpecially since it didn't go all that well the first year. Headset quality was disappointing with everything I said echo'd back to me, bought a new headset, didn't help. I only played 4 games online that year. COD2, didn't really like the online. PGR3 for some reason I could only talk to one of my friends during the race while the rest were muted. TDU 4 out of 5 online races would disconnect when launching a race, incompatible NAT type. GeoW didn't like the people online, co-op with friends turned out to be quite boring when not playing local in the same room, not as much fun.

After that I slowly got back into online gaming on ps3, Burnout paradise, F1GP, Resistance 2 8 player Co-op, GT5, NFS hp and most wanted mainly. I try online for many more games but over the years those are the only games I've played online for more then a couple of sessions. So with a 95/5 split for local and online gaming I don't see the value in xbox live.

At least make it free to sample online games. For example I bought Forza Horizon, single player was good. But didn't feel like subscribing to gold just to try out a couple of online racers to find out if the online community was nice. Instead I traded it in afer completing the single player and got NFS most wnated on ps3 where the online turned out the be quite fun without any extra hassle.

microsoft does something like that, for example this weekend gold is free, they been doing this several times a years for a while now, there are also many deal on systems where you get xbox live gold free for a month giving you a sample to see if its worth it