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RuskiSnajper on 18 October 2010
PizzaFaceGamer said:

 To some extent, the wii is being backhand by Balmer and Co as well. First of all Microsoft has more money than nintendo and sony. MS DOES NOT NEED to charge for online, but they do. I once asked my uncle why a dog licks his balls, his response "because he can." Same thing goes for MS. Yes, xbox live offers unparralleled, unmatched, and unrivaled features. But is it really worth $50-60 a year? Well, it doesn't matter what I think because MS IS GONNA DO WHAT THEY WANT. And let me tell you right now, MS is NOT scared of sony or nintendo. PROOF: They have the balls to INCREASE the price of something their competition is GIVING AWAY FOR FREE. Brazenly, MS rolls ahead with price increases in an economic depression. Patcher said a few years back that if the PSN takes off, xbox live will go free. Faced with increased competition, the opposite has happened. Microsoft is saying to ninty and sony, we don't care what you give away or do with your online networks, we aren't scared of losing customers to you, and we will do what we want. Why??? Because they can

Before anyone tries to get cute and say "well actually it's a slap in the face to xbox owners" I will politely tell you that you are wrong.  Why??  Because xbox liver is the best, most integrated online COMMUNITY!!  And the enormous amount of people playing online prove this beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Features on consoles are not to speak of what PC has , mostly , xlive is laggy , crappy flash software , it's not any big achievement either , nobody at microsoft got any criticaly awards for it.

Xbox live community is a community of noobs and teen kids, who don't know the tricks of media and marketing microsoft makes to sell it's crappy low quality software, and extremely bad quality and reliability of hardware.

NiKKoM said:

I think Sony and Nintendo are hitting their heads for making it free... they could have earned so much more money..

for whom do you work for , a capitalist company ?

trunkswd said:

It is a smart move by Microsoft as the price increase will bring in well over $100 million per year. Live has been the same price since 2002 and with all the new features added I am surprised they didn't do it sooner.

Will you be more happy if microsoft brings in 100 million more , be happy that they didn't raised it until now.

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems



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Shadowblind on 18 October 2010
RuskiSnajper said:
PizzaFaceGamer said:

 To some extent, the wii is being backhand by Balmer and Co as well. First of all Microsoft has more money than nintendo and sony. MS DOES NOT NEED to charge for online, but they do. I once asked my uncle why a dog licks his balls, his response "because he can." Same thing goes for MS. Yes, xbox live offers unparralleled, unmatched, and unrivaled features. But is it really worth $50-60 a year? Well, it doesn't matter what I think because MS IS GONNA DO WHAT THEY WANT. And let me tell you right now, MS is NOT scared of sony or nintendo. PROOF: They have the balls to INCREASE the price of something their competition is GIVING AWAY FOR FREE. Brazenly, MS rolls ahead with price increases in an economic depression. Patcher said a few years back that if the PSN takes off, xbox live will go free. Faced with increased competition, the opposite has happened. Microsoft is saying to ninty and sony, we don't care what you give away or do with your online networks, we aren't scared of losing customers to you, and we will do what we want. Why??? Because they can

Before anyone tries to get cute and say "well actually it's a slap in the face to xbox owners" I will politely tell you that you are wrong.  Why??  Because xbox liver is the best, most integrated online COMMUNITY!!  And the enormous amount of people playing online prove this beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Features on consoles are not to speak of what PC has , mostly , xlive is laggy , crappy flash software , it's not any big achievement either , nobody at microsoft got any criticaly awards for it.

Xbox live community is a community of noobs and teen kids, who don't know the tricks of media and marketing microsoft makes to sell it's crappy low quality software, and extremely bad quality and reliability of hardware.

NiKKoM said:

I think Sony and Nintendo are hitting their heads for making it free... they could have earned so much more money..

for whom do you work for , a capitalist company ?

trunkswd said:

It is a smart move by Microsoft as the price increase will bring in well over $100 million per year. Live has been the same price since 2002 and with all the new features added I am surprised they didn't do it sooner.

Will you be more happy if microsoft brings in 100 million more , be happy that they didn't raised it until now.

 

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox_360_technical_problems

Oh gawd. Crappy Flash software.

Noobs and Teens.

Xlive: http://xlivecd.indiana.edu/

Bad Quality Hardware.

Laggy(?)

BRB, cancelling subscription ASAP.



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MARCUSDJACKSON on 18 October 2010
4k1x3r said:

It only proves that there's still people that love having huge things shoved up their.... That's all, I'm happy with PS3's and Wii's online, go back to your uselessly expensive feature and don't bother people down here.



i'll second that!

i dissagree with the OP's last statment. it is a slap in the face to Xbox live costomers. we arn't talking about consoles here? where talking about economics 101, so this was bound to happen, and PC will always have the best online not rivaled by MS!



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Darth Tigris on 18 October 2010

For something that was completely in their control to either do or not do, SCE's biggest mistake was not charging for PSN AT THE START.  It would've helped the division make more profits and improved the features of the service to where it could TRULY compete with XBL.

As has been reported to some extent, though, blame SCEJ, as they still don't have the online vision that the West has embraced ...



Red4ADevil on 18 October 2010

I had liver and onions before but not xbox liver.

Joking aside, since Im not an Xbox owner, I cant really say how I feel about this; but judging from past complaints it bound to bite them ass if it doesnt turn out well.



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endimion on 19 October 2010

lol I said it at least 3 or 4 years ago... XBL is never gonna be free... XBL is always gonna be the best online experience in game out there beating even PC ( which by the way is far from free when it comes to quality service beside steam, which I can argue the quality too, had many problems with some laptop configuration in the past) until next gen

XBL is the best designed gaming network for the mass market... and that makes it a solid enough reason to be a charged service....

 

BTW to all the haters, I haven't seen one of my prediction turned out radically wrong on that forum in the past 5 years... especially when it comes to oblivious day dreaming from the PS3 hate squad.... so on a side note when is PS3 suppose to pass XBox total world sale again ????



endimion on 19 October 2010

*thinks really hard* oh yeah most PC gaming run under an MS OS oh yeah they are probably not banking on that... we all know MS is the biggest charity on earth....

please give me a break they make more money a year on PC software sales than XBox live... you do pay MS more for your PC experience (even if you hack your soft) through royalties every hardware and software dev pay to MS than we do with XBL trust me



nightsurge on 19 October 2010

Just want to expand on one thing.  The opposite of what Pachter had thought would happen is going to happen.  We have started seeing it now with PSN Plus.  Rather than XBL going free because of PSN and Wii Online, PSN has begun offering a for pay service.  I expect next Gen that all 3 will be offering extensive online services and all three will be for pay for even online play.  Sony found out the hard way that trying to support such an extensive network is way too costly.  It's because of PSN that the Networked Devices devision has seen such huge losses the last few quarters even with PS3 sales up so much and costs of production down so much.