| rocketpig said: $288 over 6 years? OH NOES!!!! Seriously, I agree that the service needs upgrading but losing a $4/month fee (which can be purchased on eBay for less than $3/month) is not the most important part of it. |
But it is the easiest to fix and it would increase their userbase.
I'm not going to change my Xbox Live handle every month to save $4. It's not that big of a deal to me -- as Rocket says, it's only $288 for the life of the console. But, of course, you'll often be paying for service you don't use as my 360 gets a tiny fraction of the usage my Wii does, and only a subset of *that* is online play. Whereas my Wii gets quite a bit of online play: Smash with friends (which is a freakin' blast) and Mario Kart world wide (also a blast).
It's the hassle of having another monthly fee. Seriously, most of us are probably paying about 2 grand per month for a mortgage, so $4 clearly pales in comparison. But why the hassle of another monthly fee?
The next thing to fix would be for MS to put a little money down and actually have dedicated central servers. If they want their online functionality to be a first class service, they need to offer dedicated central servers rather than simply allowing people to be the server for a game.
