Except it doesn't really cost that. It's more like 5 € per month (or less if you buy the cards at a discount with one of many existing promotions). Currently you can buy a 12 month card for £31 at amazon UK, which is $62 (or £35 if you don't trust the marketplace).

I really don't know where the OP got the £5 per month price from.

PS: These days, anything in Europe will look pretty expensive if you convert it to the currently very weak US dollar.

Live is definitely worth it. I actually only use it occasionally for games, but still I'm paying about 4500 yen for my 12+1 month card(13 months total ;-p), so it comes out to $3.XX/month which is pretty cheap.

It is a great experience with all the features which makes gaming with friends enjoyable. If you do not have a ps3 and want to get online then I would suggest getting it. Once PSN gets a couple minor chat/ buddy join tweaks I do not plan on renewing my live subscription.

If I did get a 360, I doubt I would pay for the whole year of Live, the easiest thing to do is to get a 3 month card, though that is £15, and the whole year is £32, (amazon prices), though the price is much more appealing as a year deal

Am usually a single player gamer so no not worth it for me at the moment, although I do have the odd Halo 3/GOW itch once in a while. But if they step up the cross platform to PC then it will be much more painful to forgo. There are only 3 games you can play with PC players, Halo 2, Shadowrun and Uno. Not really impressive.

On a business sense, this generates lots of revenue, so if this means more excusitivity and ups production values of MGS games, I cant complain.

well i play cod4, unreal, warhawk and a few others. they work perfectly especially burnout. why would i pay £39.99 a year just to play my games online when i can do it for free.

live is better in some regards ie, more games have voice chat and in game messeging plus i like the msn messenger built in, but everyone to thier own.

i have never since i got my 360 on launch actually paid for the online service, sure ive used a load of trail cards when some mates want me to join in over weekends, and i subscribed to phantasy star universe for 5 months, but thats it.

games like cod4 and burnout work exactly the same as they do on live so why pay?

Is a 99.9% cheat free multiplayer environment worth $5/month?

Sure it would be great if it was free.


Here's the thing, I'm a pretty cheap player, I sold my Halo 3 copy has soon as they announced the price for the three new maps.... I thought it was a ripoff. I didn't purchase Katamary because I heard the new DLC was already in the game and you just had to download a "code" to unlock it. I'm not purchasing the new Battlefield game because of the so called "Purchasing guns fiasco".

But yet, I have no issues paying $5/month for Xbox Live.

I guess it just comes down to value. Cheaters/hackers have ruined the online PC gaming world for me, I choose to play somewhere else.