Microsoft Preparing to Go on the Offensive with Free Xbox Live?

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Viltsu300 on 24 June 2013

I hope Microsoft doesnt do this

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Nsanity on 24 June 2013

I thought the Xbox One Day One Edition comes with a free year?

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ironmanDX on 24 June 2013

ChristianTheAtheist said:
I believe Microsoft is just too arrogant and selfish to do such a thing.

A 2013 Bloomberg report stated that, as of May 16, 2013, Bill Gates had donated US$28 billion to the foundation.

What has Sony donated? Kaz? Your response is poorly thought out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation

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ironmanDX on 24 June 2013

Nsanity said:
I thought the Xbox One Day One Edition comes with a free year?

I've been told the same thing by an employee of EB Games.

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Zappykins on 24 June 2013

Just_Rocco said:

Console Wars: Is Microsoft Preparing to Go on the Offensive with Free Xbox Live?

Time, as it always does, will tell if this new approach yields the results that Microsoft originally hoped for with the Xbox One and their broader strategies.

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/console-wars-is-microsoft-preparing-to-go-on-the-offensive-with-free-xbox-live/

I remember reading somewhere they already confirmed Xbox Live Gold free for one year for all Xbox One's purchaces before 12-31-2013. Perhapse it was specualation, there has been so much of that.

I can't seem to find it, anyone else see that?

Really not sure I see any point of Consol over PC's since Kinect, Wii and other alternative ways to play have been abandoned.

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Conegamer on 24 June 2013

Giving Xbox Live for free? It'd be nice to see, but with the amount of cash which the service has produced I sincerely doubt it.

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TheSting on 24 June 2013

Why would they? Even Sony wanted some of that pie lol. Isn't the objective to make money?

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ironmanDX said:

ChristianTheAtheist said:
I believe Microsoft is just too arrogant and selfish to do such a thing.

A 2013 Bloomberg report stated that, as of May 16, 2013, Bill Gates had donated US$28 billion to the foundation.

What has Sony donated? Kaz? Your response is poorly thought out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation

Bill Gates is not MS, Bill Gates does great things with his personal wealth. If profits were never a concern for MS they would have never charged for XBLive in the first place.

Hmm, pie.

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ViktorBKK on 24 June 2013

ironmanDX said:

ChristianTheAtheist said:
I believe Microsoft is just too arrogant and selfish to do such a thing.

A 2013 Bloomberg report stated that, as of May 16, 2013, Bill Gates had donated US$28 billion to the foundation.

What has Sony donated? Kaz? Your response is poorly thought out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation

The Microsoft of today is a corporate mess without identity. It has absolutely nothing in common with the company that Bill Gates made.

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Locknuts on 24 June 2013

If it was permanent, I'd buy an X1 for sure. I'm opposed in principle to paying for online play.

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