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starcraft on 04 July 2008

Live capacity.

Seriously, it looked so bad that Live went down even for a short few days after Christmas.  I know they did their best to spin it with the "couldn't believe the take-up of Xbox 360's and Live ourselves" line, but seriously it just looked bad.

I'm not big on online gaming, but if people are going to pay for the extra features and smooter experience the 360's online offers then they deserve to have an always-on, always-active service.  Dont f*&k it up this time Microsoft, whatever the excuse

rant/



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blazinhead89 on 04 July 2008

Well if they use the money from Live Fees to expand capacity it should help. I Mean They'll b more playing on Live This xmas because of Userbase. If they don't Expand it'll b worse than last Christmas.



koopatrooper on 04 July 2008

well thats the same thing with ninty`s servers every time a game like mario kart or brawl comes out!



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starcraft on 04 July 2008
koopatrooper said:
well thats the same thing with ninty`s servers every time a game like mario kart or brawl comes out!

Ninty don't charge for online. 

I've got no problem with live costing money.  MS have the best service, so charge for it.  But if you are going to charge, MAKE IT WORK.

What happened last Christmas was unacceptable.

 



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flames_of on 04 July 2008

They must be putting all that revenue to some sort of use I would believe...



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blazinhead89 on 04 July 2008
starcraft said:
koopatrooper said:
well thats the same thing with ninty`s servers every time a game like mario kart or brawl comes out!

Ninty don't charge for online. 

I've got no problem with live costing money.  MS have the best service, so charge for it.  But if you are going to charge, MAKE IT WORK.

What happened last Christmas was unacceptable.

 


So your saying your not big into online gaming and your also saying MS has best service????

starcraft on 04 July 2008
blazinhead89 said:
starcraft said:
koopatrooper said:
well thats the same thing with ninty`s servers every time a game like mario kart or brawl comes out!

Ninty don't charge for online. 

I've got no problem with live costing money.  MS have the best service, so charge for it.  But if you are going to charge, MAKE IT WORK.

What happened last Christmas was unacceptable.

 
So your saying your not big into online gaming and your also saying MS has best service????

Yes?

 



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shanbcn on 04 July 2008

MS having best online service aurgment is old and wrong just like PS3 have no games.



Gotcha on 04 July 2008
shanbcn said:
MS having best online service aurgment is old and wrong just like PS3 have no games.

 

 It would be fair that you justify why is wrong.



dbot on 04 July 2008

The problem with live is the free 1 month membership. Since such a large number of 360 sales occur in the same month your have an incredible increase in the number of users. After the month trial is over the usage drops significantly. MS probably doesn't want to invest a lot of money for users that will ghost in a month.



Thanks for the input, Jeff.