yeah cause getting hacked and being down for a month is the better way. not to mention inferior everything online. la time i checked there are many psn games that still dont have any voice chat even though they have online component. also some games like mortal kombat 2 dont allow you to have a private match with people on your friends list... random matchmaking only. this kind of stuff is rediculous for an xbox live user

i like the fact xbox live costs money. people are less likely to screw around' cheat, hack and team kill when they are paying money to have an account. also skill based matchmaking doesnt work if accounts are free...

look at me, im level gazillion in this fps game and i feel like killing some newbs for a day, ill just open a free account and demolish everyone i get paired up and then go to my regular account tommorow... no thanks

What are you talking about? You are basically going LALALA to these glaring issues that I have pointed out. I just would like to know how something like this is so easily dissmissed when so many other companies get blasted for far less.

Agreed, MS has done much to shake my condifence in them. Even though I have owned a 360 since 2005, I was never really crazy about the hardware. To me, the 360 was more of a means to simply play the third party games I could not get on Nintendo platforms.

That ends up pretty easy to do, when a partisan talks trolling smack.  It is pretty sad to try to do that, because one can google, and within a minute or two end up finding stuff to refute nonsense, if you look.

I will say that the RROD issue should make one take pause to think about buying another Microsoft console.  It would likely be best to wait to see if they repeat again.  Other issues are secondary, and Sony has its own issues.  As of now, the fact that you can't play PS3 games you own on the PS4 (anyone SERIOUSLY think Sony is keeping track of what games you own so you don't need to rebuy them, after they pulled backwards compatibility of the PS2 on the PS3?) has caused me to take pause and wonder if I should even bother getting a PS3 again at this point.

I had some Raisin Bran Crunch for the first time a few weeks ago, and it was surprisingly good.  Didn't taste like cardboard the way plain old Raisin Bran does.

Also a huge fan of Trix, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, and Fruity Pebbles.

I don't know, the XBL Gold issue is pretty huge to me. In the 360's case, they straight up lock you out of most features the other consoles have, like Internet browsing, or Netflix. As if it wasn't bad enough you couldn't game online without it. I've also had a terrible experience trying to cancel my service - forcing people to call to cancel when using a CC, even though they'll take money online no problem, is fucking ridiculous. Ended up having to pay an extra month because their service was temporarly down, and that long, 30m+ wait on the phone...

Bit off topic, but yeah, makes me wonder if the amount of money they make from trapping people is worth the number of customers they (permenantly) lose.

so your xbox must have gotten a lot of use if thats the case.