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DirtyP2002 on 16 September 2009

The only ones critcising the fee for Xbox Live are PS3 users. This alone shows how stupid this whole debate is.

Even on the internetz you can hardly find a Xbox360 owner who played some good games like Halo, Madden, CoD4 or Left 4 Dead on Xbox Live and saying that this was not worth it.

about 12 million Xbox Live Users are paying for it! 12 million people would be an insane number for a overpriced service, right?

I finish this post woth a quote. I heard this is so cool these days.


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heruamon on 16 September 2009

I think PS3 owners are scared...and a little jealous. 360 gamers LOVE XBL..whereas PS3 owners rave about how psn is free...but home is a wasteland, as many have reported...and they don't have usage comparable to XBL...the shit is free...and they STILL can't beat a paid service for usage. I think Sony is going to bleed hard over the next 2 quarters, and they will start to look to squeeze more efficiencies out of the console topography...look out for nickel and dime charges on psn!



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Pyramid Head on 16 September 2009
Words Of Wisdom said:
KylieDog said:

No, his first example was better.  The meal is the game, if you want to eat (play) it alone it is free, if you want to sit (play) with friends you need to pay extra, despite you getting a seat already (paying ISP bill).

No, restaraunts aren't busy running around putting back massagers in seats.  It would be fitting if Microsoft had left their service at the level it was in the Xbox era but they've enhanced it considerably since then.


'back massagers'?

the common theme throughout your posts is such a high level of undying love for ms, youreally should give interviews and testimonials on their website or soemthing

i love em too, but i dont love the years of money ive given em



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Cypher1980 on 16 September 2009

It is what it is. Its nice to have the option to upgrade to GOLD for sporadic amounts of time.

Also the LIVE GOLD service is the best I have ever come across.

However I have had little time to see the PS3 version and so cannot make a fair comparison.

Although if you have never experienced GOLD how would you know what you're missing.



Words Of Wisdom on 16 September 2009
d21lewis said:
See you guys when we have this exact same debate, next week!!

I think I'll take a pro-Wii position, next time. Should be fun!

Next week we're doing the "PS3 Exclusive > 360 Exclusive" debate. 

I can pencil you in for the next PSN vs Live debate on the week of the 27th though.



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Magnific0 on 16 September 2009
Goodfella said:
KylieDog said:
To some no-lifer who sits around playing video games all day it may not seem much but for someone who has a busy life and might only play online an hour a week that is a lot of cost for so little.


For all the kids (and anyone who has played on XBL knows there are millions of them) that have mommy and daddy pay the XBL bills it could also mean the difference between either getting a new game or being able to play online.


Cross game chat is vastly overated anyway, more often than not it is a negative more than a positive as far as online team games (most games) go. If you playing CoD4 and chatting to a friend in Halo neither of you are going to hear the teams requests for assistance and you aren't going to be helping them much either. Makes you even more useless than the people without mics, at least they can hear help requests.

Precisely.


This owned the thread, and should be the final word on this topic. QFT, OWNED, KAPUT!



MonstaMack on 16 September 2009

Been paying for over 7 years and don't plan on stop paying (ie if they go free and do VIP memberships I will still pay.)

Why?

Seameless intergration, demos, cheaper DLC, all my friends in real life have a XBox and pay for Live, Halo and other MS exclusives only available to play online if your a paying member, less cheating then what happens on other systems *cough The Conduit cough* when theres no one footing the bill, party chat... plenty of other crap to mention to.



It's just that simple.

account2099 on 16 September 2009

$50..........per year. do u gusy have any idea how idiotic that soudns to call it overpriced???

ask a WOW player and hell laugh at you, they pay $15-20 per MONTH to play ONE game.

people spends hundreds of dollars every year on junkfood, fast food, and vending machine snacks. cut out some junk food in your diet........there u go, 50 dollars for the year lol.



JaggedSac on 16 September 2009
Magnific0 said:
Goodfella said:
KylieDog said:
To some no-lifer who sits around playing video games all day it may not seem much but for someone who has a busy life and might only play online an hour a week that is a lot of cost for so little.


For all the kids (and anyone who has played on XBL knows there are millions of them) that have mommy and daddy pay the XBL bills it could also mean the difference between either getting a new game or being able to play online.


Cross game chat is vastly overated anyway, more often than not it is a negative more than a positive as far as online team games (most games) go. If you playing CoD4 and chatting to a friend in Halo neither of you are going to hear the teams requests for assistance and you aren't going to be helping them much either. Makes you even more useless than the people without mics, at least they can hear help requests.

Precisely.


This owned the thread, and should be the final word on this topic. QFT, OWNED, KAPUT!

ZOMG



Feylic on 16 September 2009
ironman said:
Feylic said:
ironman said:
Feylic said:
ironman said:
The restaurant analogy is complete fail. Lets try this one. The Anitvirus program market.
Now, PSN is like the free version of PC tools Spyware doctor. It works pretty good, but it doesn't have all the bells and whistles. XBL is like the paid version of Spyware doctor. It has realtime protection and a deeper scan setting. For some people, the free version is all they need, others want more, so they pay for the enhanced version.

This analogy works better if you say that Live and PSN have the same antivirus capabilities, but you pay for live because it came in a shiny box with a bell.... and whistle.


You are absolutely correct. I went about my analogy wrong. Let me put it this way. PSN is like Free antivirus software programs, they work fine, but do not catch everything, and the realtime protection is limited. XBL is like the Antivirus programs you pay for, they are rock solid, have full realtime protection, and do full sweeps. Now, both work, one just works better and is worth the money you put into it. PSN and XBL do NOT have the same capabilities. They both do what they are supposed to. One just does a better job, and it should because people have to pay for it.

Well you got one thing right, one should do a better job because you have to pay for it, unfortunately it doesn't.

Actually, I got more than one thing right. Try getting out of your shell and actually using XBL...I'm talking the entire experiance. You will then see that it is far superior to PSN. And quite frankly, it had better be since you have to pay for it. Trust me, it is well worth the money. If it wasn't, very few people would actually be paying for it, and it would fail. Nuff said! Pass the dip!

I have used XBL, and I found it no better than PSN. I found it more annoying actually, because when I take the 360 to the cabin, I can't play most of the downloadable content that has been purchased, and paid for, because the thing wants to connect to live first.