The rise in price will more than pay for those that leave (like yourself I don't believe any significant number will)

There is nothing for me to explain to you. Your own comment tells me more than enough.

This wont hurt MSFT at all this gen. No one who plays Halo or games enough will not renew or buy a subscription if they already paid for the ocnsole/games/accessories.....however, as the next gen begins with the improvements PSN has made over time the line will surely blur and this WILL be an issue unless MSFT can offer something unforeseen at this time, which they may be able to do, who knows.

As of right now not a big deal, but strictly as a gamer this whole scenerio is lose/lose imo for the future. Either next gen since XBLive is so successful Nintendo or Sony will begin charging and welcome the extra cash and even playing field making online play an added cost. Or next gen Xbox continues charging and Sony/Nintendo dont and we see a backlash amongst gamers which may hurt the competition between my two favorite consoles who continue to push each other.

Umm, married man here with 4 kids (2 play live atm) :)

There is no problem here for me. I'm actually surprised that it took this long. Of course I'm a full grown adult that can afford such luxuries. I imagine some young broke cats are gonna bitch about this but I've always said that if you can afford video games and internet and all kinds of other gadgets, junk food, weed, beer, and this list goes on.....then you can afford Live IF you really want it. There is no right or wrong in this it's just as simple as anything else. You want it? Then pay up bitches! If not then hit the bricks on over to PSN or wherever else you'd like.

 I'm certain that a large percentage of the people that are going to have a "problem" with this are the people that like talking shit about MS and Xbox and Live. It's business as usual on this site already. Call these kids out and they don't respond with anything legit....fucking WEAK!

Paying 60$ per year for P2P online gaming.. No thanks. Host advantage in Gears 2 stays in my memories forever.

Happy the prices for the rest of Europe stay the same..

I don't get this. MS said they had more than 25 million members back in April I think. Might be some more today.

And sources said more than 50% are gold members. So we have about 14 million paying users. So XBL fee revenue should be about 700 million USD every freaking year. That is money Sony or even Nintendo wished they had.

And to expand XBL to mobile phones you thought they would like to give it a broader appeal with prices for everyone. Sure they added content like ESPN, Netflix, Facebook, Twitter, Party chat etc etc. But 700 million USD should be enough money for these apps.

The ESPN deal might be pretty huge, but they need to expand the service even more.

And I am not even affected by this.

lol,  i wont pay xbox live ever,    online gaming should be free ,  all those extra features xbox live have should be payable , not online gaming

Free is not always better, as a linux and windows user I know this for a fact.

can M$ be more greedy?

I don't understand how some X360 fans can defend Micro$oft kn this one.