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Euphoria14 on 18 December 2011
Jay520 said:
Slimebeast said:
Euphoria14 said:
Slimebeast said:
What exactly is party chat and cross game chat? I always wondered that.


I don't have LIVE and when I did I never used them, but if I were to have to guess I would say that Party Chat would be you and a bunch f your friends all being interconnected and talking to each other at the same time.

Cross Game chat is me being able to talk to you with a microphone while you play Skyrim and I play Castle Crashers.

Okay.

That's the big difference in my experience between XBL and PSN, that most people on XBL chat via microphones while most people on PSN send text messages.


Are you implying that Xbox users can't read?

Reported for trolling.

Hey hey, take a chill pill bro, that isn't what he was trying to say at all. Jeez...

 

 

He was just trying to imply that PS3 users are mutes.



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smroadkill15 on 18 December 2011
dahuman said:
yo_john117 said:
dahuman said:
yo_john117 said:
dahuman said:
Seece said:
Not like you have a choice if you have a 360 is it ... (in what OS you use I mean)

I think people here like to exaggerate, $60/£30 a year is nothing, especially when you can get it cheaper than that.


Money is still money man, it's always better to save if you have other cheaper alternative options unless you are a sports star or something.

Or unless you don't really care that your spending $5 a month (or in my case $2 and 8 cents a month) on a service that you use many hours a week.

Unless you don't have any sort of income coming in or you don't have any excess money whatsoever than paying for XBL is a non-issue.


I'm an individual driven by principles, and having money is exactly the reason why I'm driven by principles, because I have the power to make the choice on where my money should goto, look at the amount of money I tossed into my PC in my sig, and this was awhile ago too, money is not an issue, it's paying for anything I find lackluster or not worthwhile being the problem, XBL being one of those lackluster service I'd have to pay for, IMO of course.

Exactly. It's just fine that you don't want to pay for XBL and think it's not worth it but don't go telling other people they are wrong because they think it's worth it and pay for it because doing that just makes you come off as a bigot.

 

Just to let you know, this wasn't totally directed just at you it's for everyone in this thread that laughs or says people are getting ripped off by paying for XBL.

That's why in every post when I do mention XBL being a lackluster service I'd have to pay for, I say IMO lol. What it also is though, is a good way for parents to have easier lives once the kids get hooked, I know people that just buy 1 year for their kid as a christmas gift and be done with it, easy and brainless.

Then again, I don't ever understand why somebody would start a thread with shit like "What makes it special? What makes Xbox Live worth it?" when they already have it, there is no reason to try to justify or wonder about it, if you need a reason to back it up or feel good about it, chances are that you don't think it's worth it to start with. That's the type of question I'd ask if I didn't have XBL, the thread itself is trollish as hell.

Saving money is always good btw, there is no IMO about that part at all, if people are paying for shit they don't need, they are either too rich or too retarded. People who are the defenders and followers of XBL obviously need it, and they sure as hell don't need to justify it right?

It has nothing to do with him trying to justifying the price because if you can't tell he answered the question himself. This question is intended for people that already know the answer prior to the question. It's obviously you can't justify the price yourself, so I can't see a reason why your in this thread.  



Jay520 on 18 December 2011
Euphoria14 said:
Jay520 said:
Slimebeast said:
Euphoria14 said:
Slimebeast said:
What exactly is party chat and cross game chat? I always wondered that.


I don't have LIVE and when I did I never used them, but if I were to have to guess I would say that Party Chat would be you and a bunch f your friends all being interconnected and talking to each other at the same time.

Cross Game chat is me being able to talk to you with a microphone while you play Skyrim and I play Castle Crashers.

Okay.

That's the big difference in my experience between XBL and PSN, that most people on XBL chat via microphones while most people on PSN send text messages.


Are you implying that Xbox users can't read?

Reported for trolling.

Hey hey, take a chill pill bro, that isn't what he was trying to say at all. Jeez...

 

 

He was just trying to imply that PS3 users are mutes.



Ambigious trolling.. Nice

Khuutra on 18 December 2011

It lets me play Halo and Gears with my little brother even though I moved to a foreign land.



JOKA_ on 18 December 2011
smroadkill15 said:

Plenty of reasons behind why I pay for XBL.

1. Most of my friends have it.
2. Party Chat/cross game chat is huge
3. Best downloadable game selection of the big three.
4. Able to have more than one Gold account on an Xbox.
5. Voice messages
6. Netflix; able to use stuff like voice commands
7. Cloud service
8. Background downloads
9. Every arcade game has a trial demo
10. Beacons; tells you whos playing what when. 


Wait you can't do the bolded things if you don't pay for a gold account?



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NightDragon83 on 18 December 2011

It's a great service, and no worries about getting hacked by the collective mom's basement community at Anonymous.



On 2/24/13, MB1025 said:
You know I was always wondering why no one ever used the dollar sign for $ony, but then I realized they have no money so it would be pointless.

smroadkill15 on 18 December 2011
JOKA_ said:
smroadkill15 said:

Plenty of reasons behind why I pay for XBL.

1. Most of my friends have it.
2. Party Chat/cross game chat is huge
3. Best downloadable game selection of the big three.
4. Able to have more than one Gold account on an Xbox.
5. Voice messages
6. Netflix; able to use stuff like voice commands
7. Cloud service
8. Background downloads
9. Every arcade game has a trial demo
10. Beacons; tells you whos playing what when. 


Wait you can't do the bolded things if you don't pay for a gold account?

Most of the stuff I mentioned is free for xbox live members. These are just reasons why I perfer Xbox live and what it does better than it's competitors.   



Reasonable on 18 December 2011
dahuman said:
Reasonable said:
I wouldn't say it's special as such but what makes it good is the tight level of integration between community/games/content it offers. In truth cross game chat is the only real USP it has functionally vs PSN so far as I can tell - but the OS for the console and how it integrates is a bit better and slicker. Online play itself is identical. Downloads and patching is neater with Live though.

It's also not really that expensive - although I think Silver should get access to more than they do in terms of non-gaming non MS centric stuff.


I tempered with the Metro UI on my friend's 360, I really really don't like it, but some of you already know that I'm a hater of the Metro UI since it's super ugly, a fair comparison is the PS3 and XMB is much faster to get to things with and you don't have a box dedicated to ads, I just want something that's clean and fast. You can do background downloads on PS3 as well, and background patching with cloud storage with PSN+, not that I'd pay for that either since it's hardly worth it IMO as well, I generally just backup my saves elsewhere.


TBH I was speaking "pre Metro" as I've been so busy I've barely used my 360 much since the upgrade.  I have Gold/PSN Plus so I know the comparison pretty well I think - that's why I said the only really unique thing for Live is Cross-Game chat - everything else PSN does too really.  Like most 360 users (I think) I tend to use the simple pop-up main menu rather than the main menu.

I really must use the new UI I bit more to see how it really holds together.



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smroadkill15 on 18 December 2011
BasilZero said:
NightDragon83 said:
It's a great service, and no worries about getting hacked by the collective mom's basement community at Anonymous.


Anything can be hacked, the only reason why they didnt hack it was because they didnt have a reason unlike what happened with Sony and that one guy earlier in the year.

Agreed. Anyone can be hacked, Sony was just the unlucky one. It's hard to determine who has a safer online structure and saying obviously MS is just wrong because knowbody actually knows except the people that work on it.   



Euphoria14 on 18 December 2011
Jay520 said:
Euphoria14 said:
Jay520 said:
Slimebeast said:
Euphoria14 said:
Slimebeast said:
What exactly is party chat and cross game chat? I always wondered that.


I don't have LIVE and when I did I never used them, but if I were to have to guess I would say that Party Chat would be you and a bunch f your friends all being interconnected and talking to each other at the same time.

Cross Game chat is me being able to talk to you with a microphone while you play Skyrim and I play Castle Crashers.

Okay.

That's the big difference in my experience between XBL and PSN, that most people on XBL chat via microphones while most people on PSN send text messages.


Are you implying that Xbox users can't read?

Reported for trolling.

Hey hey, take a chill pill bro, that isn't what he was trying to say at all. Jeez...

 

 

He was just trying to imply that PS3 users are mutes.


Ambigious trolling.. Nice

I agree, Slimebeast has got skillz!



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