Sometime you get what you pay for, and if you get Xbox Live Gold you get so many features it's seems odd not to have it. You get plenty of free apps, music, movies, TV shows, search, and for the X1 you will need it for game capture and much more.
You can find it online for less than $40.00 a year. I totally understand not wanting to pay for it. But when you pay for a service, you expect it to provide you things. One pays for Netflix, gets movies/TV shows commercial free.
As I said, I can understand not wanting to pay for it. And yes the WiiU has it for free, but that's the new models that Sony and Microsoft are going to follow.







