40 million was the last number I saw. That is over half their user base paying for the service. Until that number falls to around 30 percent MS has nothing to worry about.

 How a company makes you pay so that you can communicate with your friends just seems down right disgusting to me.

I haven't made any other threads regarding the issues with xbox live. And as I said (if you even read what I wrote) go ahead and make threads bashing psn or psn+ or even nintendo. But you didn't read that part did you? This is from a gamers perspective, because as a gamer the type of services microsoft is offering are simply not worth my money. Of course people who pay for xbox live are happy with it, as was I when I had it in 07. I'm sure it's definitly improved, but once I found out I could have online for free on a different platform...I was gone.

I stopped reading here.

Once again this is not from gamers perspectives, this is from your perspective......And no there is no need on bashing any of the online services.  Play your games and have fun with them.  For some reason I as well as many people don't even believe you had XBL, not that you need to prove that because I dont care.  I still stand behind Steam as being the best online service while I see PSN being 3rd.  Not because PSN is bad but because it has no games I care about for multiplayer. I love there exclusives for storyline but they just dont seem to make compelling multiplayer games.  I had fun with KZ2 but that was it.  The lack of party chat is also irritating because then you have to listen to kids with there bluetooth headsets listening to music, babies in the background, or just plain annoying.  Sure there is occasions where someone is cool on there but its just the same on XBL.  You have those annoying kids that you just dont want to listen to so you go to party chat and you can avoid them.  There is other features that PSN is missing to this day but by next gen PSN has a real chance of catching back up to XBL.  For this gen it is lacking many features.  Did I say that any of this makes XBL worth it?  No i did not but Im willing to pay because I find it a good service.  If it was bad then Id be complaining.  If it was free then Id be even happier, but Im not going to bitch about paying 5 dollars a month for it either.

If everyone thought like you then I wouldn't be surprised if companies somehow started charging us for talking to our friends face to face. How you find paying to talk to your friends normal is odd to me. You pay for the xbox, then you pay for a headset thinking that you can use party chat. But then you have to pay every month for it.

If everyone thought like you then I wouldn't be surprised if companies somehow started charging us for talking to our friends face to face. How you find paying to talk to your friends normal is odd to me. You pay for the xbox, then you pay for a headset thinking that you can use party chat. But then you have to pay every month for it.

Eveyone does think like me!!! You pay for goods and services!!! Hell, I don't even kow you and you pay to use your internet to communicate wit me right now!! Do you pay for a phone? Mobile and landline? Foolish statement.

I paid for a cell phone/house phone thinking that I could just talk to people with it for free after the initial purchase.  Then, they made me pay every month for it.

I paid for a TV thinking that I could just watch TV for free but instead, they make me pay for cable AND electricity.

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I paid for a cell phone/house phone thinking that I could just talk to people with it for free after the initial purchase.  Then, they made me pay every month for it.

I paid for a TV thinking that I could just watch TV for free but instead, they make me pay for cable AND electricity.

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