@d21lewis, I got the same deal thankfully, but I'm farily positive it was "33 percent off"  not 33 dollars, it told me it would be 39.99.  Before that they had where you could get a month for a $1.  Kinda funny to be hiking up the price amidst all these promotions to lower it.

So looks like they are giving me more reason to either get PC/PS3 games over XB360 games. 

For all those complaining - look for deals online. I've never *Chris Jericho* EVVVVVVVVVVEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRR spent more then $30 a year for Live because of deals.

Though I am surprised prices are going up. One would think bandwith would be getting cheaper not more expensive.

Tell that to those posting on Major Nelson's blog. I'm more exasperated than pissed.

Seriosuly if you have ever paid full price for live, your not looking for deals. They are always out there.

No. because it's inflation, whether or not you think it's worth it is irrelevent, keep your trolling to yourself.

How can they justify this price hike?  PSN still free and it is extremely similar to live.

Taking inflation into account, the new price of Live costs the same as when it was first released.

Seems in line with inflation, still going to get booed though I suspect.  I'm more interested, if this gen does last longer, how people might view the higher Live vs ever cheaper console prices and whether Live might start to seem expensive in ratio to the initial console investment as a result.

I doubt it'll see more than a few actually quit the sevice myself.

LOL

 even with psn plus XBL is still tons better.