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susymar on 27 August 2009

In my country people can pay an yearly fee. Don't need to be paying every month.



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Infinity on 27 August 2009
MAFKKA said:
When you say MS throwing developers a bone, you mean us gamers are throwing them a bone, right?

When is someone going to throw us gamers a bone?



hanafuda on 27 August 2009

They need to fund RROD repairs somehow...

Seriously - MS's business model would collapse without it. Why do people pay it? Search me. I sure don't...



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Skeeuk on 27 August 2009

im off to play resident evil 5 with voice chat and game invites for free.

cya soon



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BladeOfGod on 27 August 2009
yo_john117 said:
Infinity said:
OK, so far the only valid reason I have read on this thread is being able to play Halo 3 online (360 exclusive). Everything else mentioned can be done on other platforms for free if you were not aware. As far as people claiming XBL has a better service in general to justify the cost, that is not factual. I have used it and it is not better than Windows, Linux, PSN, etc. online services.

Well there goes all your credibility.  (but to be fair your credibility disappeared about 451 posts ago)

why? because he said his opinnion? XBL being better than PSN is an opinnion, not the fact.



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welshbloke on 27 August 2009

Is it free though? Obviously gold members effectively subsidise the Silver only members who subsidises the PSN users? Is it the developers, Sony, gamers or all three?

Whatever the reason the cost remains invisible to most PSN users and they are happy on the other hand most Gold members do not consider the cost onerous and they too appear happy.

Like I said how can you win.



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heruamon on 27 August 2009

It cost money, because the best don't come for free!



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Sardauk on 27 August 2009
FaRmLaNd said:
Microsoft pay to host a games servers on xbl whereas with psn the servers are run by the respective games developers correct?

That would be a reason for live to cost as microsoft are essentially throwing developers a bone.

No. XBL mostly push dynamic matchmaking with a peer-to peer system.

If developers want to host games on dedicated servers, it is up to them to organize it.

But XBL doesn't stop...while publishers can decide anytime that it is not profitable and close the system.



 

Evan Wells (Uncharted 2): I think the differences that you see between any two games has much more to do with the developer than whether it’s on the Xbox or PS3.

Sardauk on 27 August 2009
BladeOfGod said:
yo_john117 said:
Infinity said:
OK, so far the only valid reason I have read on this thread is being able to play Halo 3 online (360 exclusive). Everything else mentioned can be done on other platforms for free if you were not aware. As far as people claiming XBL has a better service in general to justify the cost, that is not factual. I have used it and it is not better than Windows, Linux, PSN, etc. online services.

Well there goes all your credibility.  (but to be fair your credibility disappeared about 451 posts ago)

why? because he said his opinnion? XBL being better than PSN is an opinnion, not the fact.

What does Linux has to do in this discussion ?

This is all wrong -> comparing open system and owned system.

 



 

Evan Wells (Uncharted 2): I think the differences that you see between any two games has much more to do with the developer than whether it’s on the Xbox or PS3.

yo_john117 on 27 August 2009
BladeOfGod said:
yo_john117 said:
Infinity said:
OK, so far the only valid reason I have read on this thread is being able to play Halo 3 online (360 exclusive). Everything else mentioned can be done on other platforms for free if you were not aware. As far as people claiming XBL has a better service in general to justify the cost, that is not factual. I have used it and it is not better than Windows, Linux, PSN, etc. online services.

Well there goes all your credibility.  (but to be fair your credibility disappeared about 451 posts ago)

why? because he said his opinnion? XBL being better than PSN is an opinnion, not the fact.

Some things can be opinions, but some things are facts...kinda like this.

PSN doesn't have all/as many of the features as XBL does...thats a fact, so how can PSN possibly be better than Live?  The answer is its not.  Its good, but quite up to XBL standard.