So it was announced via Major Nelson’s blog today that Microsoft will be increasing the cost of Xbox Live Gold to $59.99 a year. The reason; “Since launching Xbox LIVE in 2002 we have continually added more content and entertainment experiences for our members, while keeping the price the same. We’re confident that when the new pricing takes effect, an Xbox LIVE Gold membership will continue to offer the best value in the industry.” One would think that in the current economy, and with Sony offering Netflix and Hulu Plus for FREE (you still have to pay Netflix and Hulu), that Microsoft would keep the prices we’re they are currently at. Logic would dictate that at least.
But the reason I canceled my Halo: Reach pre-order is because of the fact that I play maybe 2-3 games online on my Xbox 360 each year. Why should I have to pay to play online (let alone $60 a year to do so)? Again, Sony offers this same service for free. And with the rumored voice chat coming before the end of the year, what is my incentive to continue paying for Xbox Live Gold? To have little kids light up the mics because their parents are pathetic? Or perhaps it’s the access to Twitter and Facebook!? I’m already paying $50 a year for services I get free elsewhere. Yes, it’s only $0.83 more per month, but we’re not talking the same cost to playing online as we are to buy a brand new retail game.
Personally, I’ll be taking my $60+ for Halo: Reach and putting it towards Sony’s PlayStation Move. But enough about me, we here at WhenSpamAttacks would love to know if you, the readers, will continue to pay Microsoft in order to play games online…
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*UPDATE: Since I expected people to claim I never pre-ordered it, I took a screenshot before I canceled;
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um, its not $0.83 a month, nor is it that amount per day, what calculator were you using? lol
and yeah I have a PS3 and I get facebook free, and all that other crap free too, and I play 7 games online a year, who’s the sucker for paying all that money to microsoft? (the same people who complained about the PS3 being too expensive likely).
$10 divided by 12 months = $0.83 more per month
are you for real? no, this article is obviously just bait. good job.
its $10 dude. if you cant afford that, why the hell do you have an xbox to begin with? not to mention its so easy to go on amazon and get a years subscription for as low as $30 at times. but no, i get it, this is fanboy bait to get your website some traffic. good job with that.
journalism? lol.
It’s not about the $10, it’s the fact that we’re already paying $50 a year to play games online, and MS is now increasing that to $60. I can afford it, but just because I can doesn’t mean I’m going to pay it. Especially when PSN is free. And I canceled my pre-order because that’s one of the few games I know I would play and I refuse to pay $60 just to play that and maybe another game or two online for a year.
Lame excuses from an OBVIOUS PS3 fanboy. If you were a TRUE Halo fan…or even a 360 fan… you’d see the financial logic behind this move, and wouldn’t complain AT ALL, let alone cancel your pre-order on one of the most anticipated games of this generation. Not only is your reasoning complete bullsh*t, but you’ve also proven what an ignorant consumer you really are. SMART gamers have known how to get XBL Gold cards for sub-$40 for YEARS now, via Amazon and other online retailers. As soon as I saw the announcement today, I bought 2 more 12-month cards from Amazon for $39.00, so I’m set for the next 3 years (just renewed in July), AND I saved $40.
And acting like free PSN is a replacement for XBL…as well as a 360 exclusive that you SUPPOSEDLY had “pre-ordered” is beyond stupid.
I bought my 360 in 2007, my PS3 in 2009. I’ve put 400+ hours into Halo 3…PS3 fanboy? No. I’m just not a mindless drone that’ll throw away money. How is paying $60 to play a game online right? It’s not.
this guy is a joke, in your dreams you put 400 hours into halo 3, like above comments said if you were a true fan you wold never cancel because of 10 dollars, + the fact that amazon has it for $40, your a joke, your making this article just to get your website some traffic but really no body gonna take you seriously, play your free ps3 online and stop wining like a little baby…
I don’t know of any sites for tracking hours but I’m positive it’s over 400 hours. Hell, 300 of that was probably Grifball alone.
Playing grifball for 300 hours is more than enough reason to consider your opinion on the matter null and void
I actually played in the Grifball league. But aside from that I often played with friends from the CheapAssGamer forums. Many a ‘lulz’ have been had. I’m sure there’s a site that can tell me exactly how many hours I’ve put into Halo 3…will try to find something.
Here use this:
http://www.forgehub.com/forum/halo-3-discussion/55452-how-many-hours-have-you-spent-playing-halo-3-simple-formula.html
Thanks. If I did the math right, I’ve played for roughly 598.67 hours.
Why not get Halo: Reach and order a $40 12 month card from Amazon.com before November? Either way I’m still bummed bout the price increase, but there are options out there.
I’m a huge Halo fan, and Halo 3 is the only online multiplayer game that has kept me playing it since its release. CoD, Gears of War etc. are games I can only play online for a couple months before I get bored and/ or frustrated and head back to Halo whenever I want to play some online deathmatch. The way I see it, I think of my Xbox Live subscription as my Halo subscription. Halo is the only reason I pay for Live every year; besides that, I just play single player games. So while I’m also outraged that M$ is raising the cost of Live, I’m not going to abandon it simply because I know Reach is going to give me years of play value. Plus, the franchise may be owned by M$, but the game was made by Bungie. They don’t deserve to have their game boycotted just because their publisher made a stupid decision (not saying you shouldn’t cancel your pre-order of it; if you don’t care that much about Halo, then you just simply don’t care that much about Halo).
ya if you pay 50 bucks for live or when it goes to 60 you are a sucker, because so many retailers have the 12 month live cards cheaper then through microsoft hell i just did my subscription again in July off a card form amazon and paid 30 bucks for it. You can always find a deal for xbox live cards whereas playstation plus you are stuck paying 50
You’re not stuck paying $50 for Playstation Plus, you don’t have to pay it to play games. It’s optional.
PS+ is OPTIONAL. You don’t have to pay that if you don’t want to. You can still play games online for free, use Netflix and Hulu Plus for free, as well as Twitter and Facebook should you use those sites. All FREE.
You still have to pay individually for netflix and Hulu though and i don’t see no free ESPN coming to the PS3 do you
Couldn’t care less about ESPN 3. And yes, you have to pay for Netflix and Hulu Plus, but why should I also pay MS in order to use those services which I’m already paying for?
your not there just there you are paying them for everything else you are just focusing on two small things in a big fishpond so to speak. Xbox live has better voice chat, community features, exclusives (excluding uncharted 2), deals, map pack exclusivity etc. the list is endless
I don’t understand how people say playing on line is free everywhere, I’ve played WOW for years and I pay the same with tons of MMO, and by the way service from XBL is way better than PSN, yes I own both consoles, actually all 3 plus gamming PC.
And Xbox live is waaaaayyyyy better than PSN
This just in!!
Soon, Microsoft will be charging $30 a year to users who use their Internet Explorer service! But don’t take it as complete scam to get more money from ignorant assholes, Microsoft says that with the new Internet Explorer 9 being released soon, it’s still a great deal even though all other internet browsers are free and all of us consumers still have to pay a monthly fee just to have internet services anyway. Thank god the all-mighty mother money is so good to all of us. Without her, we would be lost in this world.
Shit…If I had a dime for every time I’ve read some sad, bitching twats self-righteous “stand” I’d be a rich man. Here we go…yet another whining hypocrite who is trying to assert their stand against the big evil corporation by “sticking it to MS” by not purchasing their online service or games or what have you. I guarantee this loser will be 1st in line, eagerly awaiting purchasing their very own copy of Reach. Loser.
I can guarantee you I won’t
Pre-order = canceled. I’m just debating whether to put this towards the Move or Black Ops (both PS3).
To all those people out there saying PSN is better because its free are you stupid, it may be free but the quality is not as good, the voice chat is quite frankly shocking there are no xbox live parties, its laggy quite a lot of the time and it takes ages to download stuff off the PSN store.
These problems aren’t there on the 360 cause you pay for it.
As well as this we in England are already paying £40 for 12 month xbox live which in american terms is $60 anyway so it doesn’t affect us.
Plus this Fall xbox are bringing full ESPN support to all xbox live gold members where you can watch live shows or a back catalog of lots of matches etc. which i doubt is free for microsoft.
Yes i do agree you shouldn’t pay just to play online but the quality and the amount of content that comes with a gold subscription is well worth the price.
Yer I agree and disagree with a lot of your points. To anyone who says PSN in any shape is poor PSN has a lot of exclusives I would miss and Vice versa. People same Home, Vidzone and the web browser is barley used but they are used as much as any of the Xbox exclusives such as ESPN. I guess people have to decide which they would rather Facebook, Last fm,Sky, Espn, Twitter or Home which their is no equivalent a browser which to me is amazing and vidzone which is exactly the same as Last fm but has the music video as well. And to the other issues downloads times and lag downloads time is faster on my PS3 than xbox if their the same MB and lag is either a rumour or you are unlucky as have never really lagged on my ps3 apart from a few occasions usually when I am downloading movie in which my Xbox acts the same. I guess it depends on your bespoke situation for me the extra 40 pound a year hasnt yet maded me glad I payed it maybe it because I already got sky but to me £40 is a lot it works out cheap but it certainly makes your wallet a lot lighter over years an original xbox live account would now cost you £240 which could get you a PS3 and a free PSN account anyway.
But this article is purely flame bait just saying
Live is often laggy too. Sometimes it takes 5 seconds or more for a claymore to actually go off after it clicks in MW2. Or you can shoot off 4 or 5 rounds (with a slow gun, like the SCAR), or even a whole clip (from a faster gun) but you were actually already dead. And it takes about 5 times longer to download something off Xbox Live than it would to get the file through a PC download. Streaming 360 videos (like Inside Xbox) take forever to start, then they play for a few seconds and have to buffer again for quite a while. I don’t know how PSN download and streaming speed is, but I know MS is throttling the bandwidth hard.
I want to hear the author of this title have a reason for why he won’t go on amazon and pay only $30 for a year of Live…
That is exactly what I was thinking. I do it all the time. Saves a load in the long run.
Even at $60, I still find value in the Xbox Live service. I play fairly often with my local friends and friends from the website, so I still have a really good “dollars per hours of entertainment” ratio. While it’s true that Sony offers a similar service, it is definitely not the same. Besides, most everyone I know has a 360 and only a few own PS3s. There is not a chance that I would switch over. I am a social gamer!
Try living in Australia you whiny article poster, everything is over priced here, we don’t quit however we soldier on.
well in other adam
Its 10 more dollars, STOP BITCHING. and if u only play 3 games online Why the fuk r paying in the first place?
Because maybe there are only 3 online games he likes? I will have to say i only play about that many games online too, fifa 10 (xbox), modern warfare (ps3) and at a push sometimes mag (ps3). So to be fair i only really play 1 game online on the xbox but i will happily pay the price as i like to play with my friends.
I dont see what the big argument is about. He can probably pay for the service but just doesnt want to which is his opinion. Also what is the problem if he did cancel his preorder, i call myself a halo fan as i love the games, but i will have to say i think the best one is halo 2 and from the videos i have seen so far, no fps element of halo reach looks better. But all the other features they have added will make the game epic in my eyes which is why i will be picking it up day one…hopefully!
Also i have both consoles and i feel neither service is superior to either, the advantage of psn is obvious that its free, but as stated it can get quite laggy and it takes a while to download. On the other hand xbox live has its advantages of having a fully intergrated service into every game, while the disadvantage is obvious again that you have to pay what some seem to be a “riddiculous” amount of money. Personally i feel the price is fair as the content you get is rather good, but i still dont feel that you need to pay a sum of money to play games online.
Finally, some common sense. Thank you
Wow only 3 games a year and a 10$ price increase and you are a videogame journalist? Wow you need a new line of work buddy.
I play games consistently throughout the year. That doesn’t mean I play the same game for 400+ hours such as Halo 3. I can usually get by with a 48 hour code if need be. It just so happens my subscription is running out soon and if I don’t see myself playing many games online OFTEN, then I don’t see the point in paying $60.
Not to mention I can get most games these days on the PS3 and/or PC, both of which are free to play online.
Seriously, just go through Amazon. While I expect a price-hike on their site as well, I got a subscription last year for something like $38. They’re constantly selling it at a lower price, so you’ll still probably be able to get it for $50 or less. You just got to know where to look.
I get it, I get it. It’s on principle, right? I wouldn’t be too happy paying $60 either, and I think it really is kind of low for MS to do this. I would be fine with the extra money they want if they added some new stuff that mattered, like, say, give achievement points an actual reason for existing other than being a reason to indulge our very OCD-like gaming nature (for some of us, anyway) and offer us more rewards and deals. Hopefully they’ll do something like. We all know they probably won’t. In the meantime, do what you can… and me? I’ll be going through Amazon. And if you want Halo: Reach, you should get that through Amazon as well, as I’m sure you could get the best deal there, too.
Dustin, I agree. I don’t like paying for internet and Xbox Live. I’m saving money for a PS3 and PC because you get what XBL offers, Steamworks(from Valve), a web browser, and more for free. I’m not a fanboy of any console but I’m a fanboy of what offers me the most benefits for the least amount of US dollars. The PC I’m saving to make cost me $2000, yet I’ll use it for other things beside gaming and the PS3 is for the games I can’t play on PC. If the next generation of consoles arrive and XBL still cost money and PSN is free, I’ll stick to the free PSN. I’m cheap and I shouldn’t pay for features like Twitter & Facebook that I don’t use and are useless on XBL. I believe in that.
People will pay more because they are comfortable with X-Box Live and $10 isn’t that much money when you consider how expensive the video game hobby is for everyone. I suspect the people who voted no in the poll are having a knee-jerk response and will eventually pay the amount if not right away. Even with all the Playstation network has added and it being for free I still find it easier to use X-Box Live.
I locked in at 39.99 rate for a year but subscription is set to expire 2013 and then I get 39.99 for the next year. But I can assure you if Xbox still wants 59.99 when my subscription expires in Feb 2014 they are SOL.
The OP is right, there is no value in Xbox Live anymore. Facebook, Twitter, and Netflix streaming are all free on other platforms. MS announced no more 1 vs 100, and Joy Ride, which was supposed to come out as a “Free-for-Gold” game last December, was stolen to be sold as a full Kinect game.
The only benefits Live has is Red vs. Blue on Halo Waypoint, and the occasional decent Deal of the Week (which there hasn’t been a good one of since E3).
well i don’t like that their increasing the price but i will still pay for it just because i do the majority of my gaming on the 360 but a smart choice would be to do what sony did make silver playable online and the gold subscription like the plus service
Dustin are you the type of person who doesn’t pay for their own internet and just mooches of the elderly neighbours unencrypted wireless?
No, I’m the type of person who pays for my internet and has it locked down by MAC address to keep my neighbors out
U are just a cry baby it’s only a measly 10 dollars more well i guess u need to to go play the free crappy service of psn because obviously u dont get paid well with these crappy articles i have both systems and psn is horrid downloads take hours no cross chat(which will be added but to plus only which cost 60)xmb is the stupidest menu system a console has ever had why u gonna still the psp menu for the ps3 which is suppose to be the king of the consoles wow and what does xbl upping it’s price $10 have to do with reach the campaign is going to be incredible and forge world alone is worth 60 and u don’t have to play neither one of them online so take your 10 dollars to sony because they deserve bias trolls like you u just proved u ain’t a gamer because the service doesn’t make the game the game makes the service and u can play the game without the service
OK fangirl, now run along home
who the fuck are you again? and why should i care if you cancel your reach order? please. maybe i can write a post about changing my underwear because of gt5 release date and see if i can get hits on n4g. yay
No one forced you to read this article (and if they did, shame on them!)
fangirl my ass u sissy i have bith system and alot of game for both
Psn = IKIRYIPT
Xbl = IK IR Y IP T
im a gamer u ain’t sh!t but a turd who does horriable articles
SynGamer for both.
uh yea i keep the same tag for both systems is that hard to believe
What a terrible article. The price goes up in November so why not buy a card now or before then on E-Bay for like $35? Halo Reach is out in a couple of weeks, DUH!
Dude plz, GTFOH you know damn well your getting halo reach and your gonna pay the $60 for online play don’t write and article fronting because your upset…same with the rest of you people, yeah it sucks and we will all be mad for a sec but get real we all are going to pay the $60 and continue to play or fav xbox game online with or friends
I sent you a vogue magazine and a box of tampons for you while you cry and shave your legs over the whopping 10 dollar increase.
Love,
ME
It’s only 10 more dollars! We are lucky it’s not 100 dollars. If you or anyone stops playing the 360 b/c they raised the cost of live 10 dollars, than get ready to stop playing everything. This is just the start, everything is going to cost more Live, Multi player on games like COD, and BFBC. EA already has games with micro transactions. Go ahead pack up all your games, and go outside and kick a rock around. That is the only thing you can do that you don’t have to play to pay. Plus I don’t want to get teamed up with you moanoing about how much it costs to play on live. Either it’s worth it and you pay, or or it’s not and you don’t pay. I for one think it is worth every penny and I will pay 10 more dollars.
ive been paying $60 this whole time big fucking deal its only $10 more
This is probably and most likely the last time I pay for Live, prices of games are to high if u take in account downloadable content and quality (some games give u a basic taste so u have to pay for the extra stuff) particularly on Xbox, besides I get more juice out of my Ps3 with less cheaters.
u all must b poor if u cant afford 60 buck for a YEAR as in one payment for a YEAR. dont worry no one will miss u on live
The fact that $60 a year being affordable isn’t the issue, for some it is, for some $50 was already too much. And I agree, they should have went down in price, they make ridiculous amounts of money as it is, they don’t need more, its Microsoft seriously. There is absolutely no reason to make it more, especially when the competition, which by the isn’t far off from live, is FREE, and they still manage to not only afford it, but keep delivering new and fresh games, not rehashed stuff to make money off of. Xbox live relies on Halo and Call of Duty, and thats it. My live subscription ends in 8 days, and even finding $50 to renew it is hard enough with bills to pay for, so yeh perhaps to some people other than yourself raising the price, regardless if said people even use any of the features that come with live other than the multiplayer, is a huge slap in the face.
god damn ! you guys suck
the title should have been wrote like this : WHY DO I SUCK FOR A BUCK ?
Good, i hope you don’t ever play on Xbox Live again you whiny douche.
Please, your probably one of the sheep that keep buying ever single knew apple Iphone that gets released.
HA! Far from it. I despise Apple and their minions. I’m actually picking up my first smartphone, the Samsung Captivate, this Saturday. And I built my own PC, no way I would pay Apples ridiculous prices.
Dustin has every right to his opinion.
If I only played 2 games on a system that required me to pay to play online I may not either.
The thing is the price has gone from being $4.15 a month to a whole $5 a month if you buy a year subscription.
So I may understand his reasoning, I still think it’s stupid to stop paying such a low and reasonable price.
I bought two 1 year subscription from Amazon.com when it was on sale and I pay $2.50 a month.
Sale are always happening, and they will continue to happen.
So have fun on whatever you play alone Dustin.
I’m still waiting to hear the author of this article have a reason for why he won’t go on amazon and pay only $30 for a year of Live…
Why should I continue to pay for XBL when I play literally two games right now Halo 3 and Left 4 Dead 2, both of which I barely play these days?
Because this article is about you not paying for Live because of the increase……..People are saying there are many many ways to get Live for very cheap and you just keep saying “why should I have to pay”. You always DID pay until it went up TEN WHOLE DOLLARS and NOW you decide to cancel it…I don’t understand you.
I respect the decision of the writer. You made a good & wise decision. $50 a year to play online & Chat with kids => EPIC FAIL. I don’t even want to pay for it. I do not own a Xbox 360, I own a PS3. There have been nearly hundred times I have wanted to buy an Xbox 360 but when I check on the internet about Xbox 360′s Disadvantages, I stopped.
+ $50 a year to play online (going to be $60), I can use that $50 to buy a game.
+ The new Xbox 360 can get overheat too. This is truly WHAT THE F_CK? Both the old model & new model get overheat, this is a FAILURE.
+ Mass Effect 2 is coming to PS3
+ PS3 get more & more Exclusive contents for Multi-platform games: Batman, Medal of Honor, Dead Space 2,….
=> Microsoft is losing this Console war & with this decision of raising the fees, the end of Xbox 360 is coming very near.
=> For the fanboys who are calling stupid/pathetic/sucks…..Just don’t give a shit about them. They are children with pathetic parents + a pathetic gay Xbox 360 so we don’t need to care about what they say. We make decisions that are best for our life.
If you have a PSN ID, you can add me. My ID is Haseo106.
MS is simply being inconsiderate to those who may not be gettin on every 2 hours to play. MS should seriously follow the PSN model, silver membership should give you access to only online gaming, i dont even care if you get access to the live marketplace or any other feature. Its not about paying ONLY 60 BUCKs its how the same service is being offered free.
Live: LegendSnake08
PSN: iNMyFin4LH0ur
What gets me so upset about Xbox live is that i have no clue why i have to pay for such dumb services. It makes no sense that i have to pay money to have Micrsoft use mine ,or any of the other players in the game, to host a game. Why the heck am i paying Microsoft to use me as a server? P2P,or peer-to-peer. Seriously thats a load of crap. I shouldn’t be paying Live so they can use my console and connection as a server. Don’t please don’t come back at me saying “Your paying for other services too etc. etc.” because lets be honest you get on Live to….. PLAY MULTIPLAYER. At the moment I’m soooooooo close to canceling my Live account thats been active fore 5 years almost, if it weren’t for Halo Reach( oh God i hope its good, 3 sucked) and others such as Gears and ME I would have canceled a long time ago. And btw im paying money too to have 1 week early access to Demos…. really? Do i really care about that? Am i that much of a child that i can’t wait an extra week? Party chat… do i really need to speak to my friends when im playing a single player game? (I don’t care if this comes to PSN or not) And last but not least, Facebook and all that crap. I can use my computer that is much faster and easier (keyboard FTW?).
I think PSN is better not just because its free but because in most of their games… they use dedicated servers. Need I say more.
P.S. I’m a Telecommunication major, I may not know everything about Networking (the internet) but I can say that I understand more then the average joe that thinks “360 iz l33t and PS3 sucks it costs 600 dollars”. My spelling and grammer sucks by the way.
There’s a way to make your subcription 40 bucks. 10 less than the current cost and 20 less than what will be the new cost. http://kotaku.com/5625516/xbox-live-price-increase-coming-november-1?skyline=true&s=i
Here the thing people. NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO PAY FOR XBOX LIVE. MS is a business to make money. If you can’t afford to pay then don’t. If you own MS you would do the same and don’t give me that BS that you would not. This is a business people. It about making profit.
It been 50 bucks since 2002. And Xbox Live has added a lot of content so 10 extra bucks is not much. So if you don’t like it, don’t pay and stop bitching. This has been getting old
No offense dude, but I’ve never even paid 50 for live. Websites like Amazon (which you are apparently familiar with) constantly have 1 year of Xbox live for as low as $25 bucks. Just saying.
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I love the Halo multiplayer but the reason I love the Halo Saga is still because of the rich story so the Campaign will suffice for me.
I love the games not the consoles.
Personally I thought that $50 a year was equivalent of getting raped.
Now it’s getting raped and getting AIDS!
Too bad…
oh well, I gets this is for people who like AIDS.
Does this make any sense?
Besides the point Lavagasm rose (you can always buy games for a price much lower then the official price), Halo Reach is coming out now, while the live price only goes up in November. You can even buy 2-3 years for the current price tag right now if you want to and think that 50$ is fair while 60$ is not.
The second comment which you made is the one that makes this entire post seems bogus: You’re dedicated enough to pre-order Halo Reach over a month in advance and your main interest is multiplayer, but you’re canceling it and using the money to buy a Playstation MOVE? Move of all things? You could have come with a better excuse which would have made this post seem more reasonable.
- “I play maybe 2-3 games online on my Xbox 360 each year. Why should I have to pay to play online”
So based on this argument, someone that plays a whole host of online games should pay, whereas a low end online gamer should pay nothing at all?
If you really are that bothered about a price hike of less than $0.20 per week, then there’s something extremely wrong with your finances.
May I suggest looking down the side of the couch?
As I’ve stated before, it’s not the $10 increase itself, I can afford it, it’s the fact that I’m going to be paying $60 a month to play games online on my 360, while playing games online is free on the PC, PS3, and Wii. And the DS, and the PSP, etc. I see no justification to continue paying, especially with the price increase.
@Matty Boosh – I never understand why people constantly break down the price into smaller increments to make it sound trivial. Does Microsoft allow you to pay in $0.20 installments per week? No. Therefore that argument is invalid. The point is we are going to be charged the price of a full retail game for one year of live. That’s a lot of money to dish out at once especially with the lineup of games hitting stores over the next few months (and well into next year).
He also makes a point about the PS3 and how it offers the same content and continues to provide more for those who enjoy the free service.
@New_Breed: It is technically still viable to break down the price, consider it as saving that much ($0.20) every week towards a purchase. Now if someone can’t save that much, they shouldn’t be gamers. True that one game is equal to one year of Live, but the first poster did say that Amazon offers them ridiculously cheap. Besides, the PS3 has no games (in general nor one) that can satisfy my creativity and my imagination thumbs like Halo: Reach will or Halo 3 did.
I understand if Halo is your ultimate game as I have alot of friends that absolutely love it and I just couldn’t get into it, but to say that “PS3 has no games (in general nor one) that can satisfy my creativity and my imagination” is ludicrous. That is a comment made from someone who has only owned a 360 and somehow makes himself feel better by saying that the other system is just garbage and that he made the right decision. I have owned both and while I did enjoy the 360 for 3 years, there is a reason why the ps3 still sits below my tv and that reason is the games.
Xbox live has never been worth paying for..
i sold my 360 an all my games and bought a PS3, free online gaming and beter excl. games…FUCK YOU MICRO$$$OFT!!!!!
LMAO!!! In Europe it’s always been 60 euros, meaning 76 dollars. Besides, we don’t have Hulu plus, Netflix or Last.fm! You’re complaining about it to the point of missing on one of the best games coming out this year? Shame on you kid, seriously…
So, you’re saying that you cancelled Halo reach simple because you won’t pay less than a dollar a month to play on Xbox Live?
Well I can tell one thing from this article. The author has a good point, Micro$oft is making you pay for everything on Xbox live. This whole argue about price is why Valve stopped exclusivly making games for the Xbox, as for the updates (which mind you were free on steam) were to be sold on the marketplace and Valve really didn’t want that to happen. They then saw the PS3 which allowed updates to appear magically free of charge and thought “hmm give another shot at the black megalith or be moneywhores for Micro$oft…” and as such they begin developing Portal 2 for the PS3 which will allow then to stretch even further their source engine thanks to the PS3′s Cpu and Gpu.
Another thing I noticed is that the comments are filled with 2 kinds of people. Normal people and Xbots…
Xbox live is bad enough already with charging to play online. I shouldn’t have to pay for internet TWICE to get online gameplay, Which is why along with my xbox i own a PS3 slim, which has already paid for itself with the free online. I will never again pay for xbox live, Screw microsoft. And sure with XBOX kinect you dont need a controller, but can you play your FPS games online with that? NO. But with playstation move, it will be available to most FPS games that are coming out, and the Playstation move has buttons on a hand held device. Therefore letting you play regular games supporting Move as well. I.e/ SOCOM4
My question is why don’t you buy some xbox live gold cards now while they are still $50? If you stock up now the price raise will have no effect on you.
i know right its only ten dollars and thats because there adding espn hulu in the future and all the kinect features for the dashboard this kid is a lamo
WOAH WOAH WOAH!
I’m paying $79.99 already…
For me, I don’t mind the price jump for a few reasons.
1) ESPN. I watch only a few things on my TV. All of the shows I like to watch are available online, streamed for free by FOX/USA Network. With my Xbox, I don’t really even need to pay for a cable service at all now that all the sports games are available. $10 < the cost of my digital cable.
2) Amazon. Amazon is currently selling 12 month Live cards for $45. That is $5 below the current subscription fee, and $15 below the new subscription fee. I've bought 2 of these cards, so I'll be getting a DISCOUNT from the CURRENT price for the next 2 years of Live.
3) Multiplayer experience. The amount of online stuff they put into Reach is amazing. I can't wait to mess around with Forge and play in the Arena playlist. I really have no problem at all with paying $60 per year for multiplayer in Halo: Reach alone, not even counting all of the other games I plan to play online this year (Black Ops, Medal of Honor, etc). Think of World of Warcraft. People pay $78 every six months (this is the most economical plan) to play World of Warcraft. That's $156 every year. FOR ONE GAME! Oh the calamity! Call the media! I'm going to join the protesters right now! Wait…where's the protesters? Oh, there are none? Hmm. Weird. No one complains about the World of Warcraft prices. The problem with gamers today is that they expect everything for free, except MMOs. Xbox Live gives you MUCH more value for much LESS money than most online MMO games.
I just don't see a $10 increase as a legitimate reason to stop using Xbox LIVE. People are just pissed at the ida of a price increase, because they don't care about the company actually needing money to function and provide new content in the future.
Time Warner doesn’t support ESPN 3 right now. So why should I have to pay extra for something I can’t use? It’s all about me paying $50-60 for a year of gaming online on my 360…that’s all I do. I shouldn’t have to pay $50-60 for that when the service is no better than PSN or PC. There are still cheaters, hackers, and advertisements…
I just saw the poll. This is funny. 1200 people voted that they would quit Xbox LIVE. Do you know how many people actually will? 12. Maybe. I love when gamers “boycott” things. I still have a screenshot of the Steam Left 4 Dead 2 boycott group, and what games they were playing the afternoon of the L4D2 release. All but one member on the first page was playing L4D2.
That’s funnny.
They say they put the price at 60$,actually it always have been like that when buying it on xbox live so where did it cost more ?
I’m living in canada where it should pass from 50$ to 60$,but it always as been 60$…
Just useless news…
I know, whats the big deal, Ive always payed 60$ for my live, whats wrong with people, its always been like that.
We knew PS3′s online was free even when we had an 360, but im one of many who still plays the 360 even knowing that we have another (free) option. If we dont have one now, we are not getting one. PS3 and the 360 both have their ups and downs which balance themselves out. People can fight all they want but its still gonna be a win/win, people will still play xbox, and people will still play PS3. Another $10 wont piss us xbox players off. We will still play it. And even when/if the PS3 decides to make people pay too, you PS3 players will complain BUT you will end up doing it anyways, thats all im saying. Stop complaining its not worth it. Choose a console, and just play it.