Re: Why won't they make X-box Live free?
 

And here I was thinking that Microsoft had better online service than Sony..

Re: Why won't they make X-box Live free?
 

Actually, he is pretty generous and doesn't own Microsoft anymore. :lol:

Re: Why won't they make X-box Live free?
 

Microsoft wants money. It's the same reason that developers and publishers can't decide the costs of DLC and XBL Arcade games (from what I've heard, some of those developers and publishers want their DLC to not cost anything).

Microsoft even went as far as releasing the first next-gen console. Even though looking back it wasn't so bad, Microsoft wanted to make sure that gamers would buy Microsoft's console, so then the run out of money and can't buy another console.

I made Microsoft sound like a bunch of assholes, didn't I?

Re: Why won't they make X-box Live free?
 

thats sorta true. he is a
Philanthropist but he still is CEO of Microsoft, he just steped down from the day to day running of the company

Re: Why won't they make X-box Live free?
 

Cos it's Micro$oft that's why! :lol:

Re: Why won't they make X-box Live free?
 

That laughing smilie sure is easily amused.

Re: Why won't they make X-box Live free?
 

well tbf i like the xbox live service and £30 is not much for the whole year i get regular updates and some free things in regards to it crashing that was due to xmas and the large amout on users that joined in a few days. we got compensated for that by a few arcade game "undertow" was ok play it sometimes. they are a business you cant have everything free they still have to pay for the actual live service and are creating more of a community out of it now. so calm down and learn something bout business before you start moaning.

by the way your moaning but $50 but you have a ps3 and xbox 360 so why not just have the 360 and save the extra money that you payed for the ps3 on the xbox live subscription seems like your making excuses now

Re: Why won't they make X-box Live free?
 

They do. It's called the silver edition.

Re: Why won't they make X-box Live free?
 

silver edition doesn't allow you to play the games online, just brows the marketplace so that you can buy additional content

Re: Why won't they make X-box Live free?
 

You also get that with the PS3

Then why is the fail rate still so high? That Christmas was 2 years ago and yet the fail rate hasn't changed.

In regards to statement 2; The users had nothing else but PS2, which was ok but I never used it, so they went to 360 and Live for online multiplayer.


PS3 has arcade games. In fact, they have more free content than with the 360 store. Themes and gamerpics are absolutely free. Microsoft charges you for that, and almost everything else. Only demos and a few things here and there are free in XBL marketplace. Hell, Microsoft charges you to change your gamertag name. 800 MPs.

I took economics in tech college, and I know the tactics that Microsoft is pulling off, and I know that Microsoft is putting every little tentacle they can into electronics to make money. My phone runs Windows Moble.

Anyway, in order to stay on top of the Console market, which is an oligopoly (Which is one step below a monopoly), they threw their next-gen console out first. Other than some bugs, it was pretty and nice, but they force XBL on you because there was nothing else. At the same time, they were losing money on this. Fortunately, PS3 were overpriced and Wiis didn't were focused on the young audience, so the 360s did very well, and boy did Microsoft brag about it.

But 360s were the right price because Microsoft didn't take time to consider making a quality product. They cared only about making money, and now it's catching up to them. Their consoles have failure problems and continue to have them. Wiis outsold 360s for a while, and all Sony needs to do is lower the price of their console to increase sales. Note that 360 fail rates are 33%, and they charge you $100 per fix, and they usually send you a refurbished 360 and not a brand new one. That means that you're getting someone else's console with a new part to replace the damaged one (and you better hope they did a quality inspection). Overall, with the replacement fee, by your second console failure (RROD), your 360 just became as expensive as a PS3.

Imagine you never work and someone told you that you could play multiplayer games for $15.00 a month. You'd go for it because that's nothing. This is where you may be.

Imagine you work almost every day of the month and rarely play online and someone tole me that I could play multiplayer games for $15.00 a month. I'd tell him to kiss my ass. This is where I'm at.

Live is for people that play multiplayer causally and not for those that can only play it once in a while, and the fee excludes people like me from playing multiplayer. This is where I get pissed. This is where I end up buying a multi-platform game on the PS3 and circumventing the fee.

I don't know if I'll sell my 360 because I have some good games on it, but I know that I'll never get to play multiplayer on it.

Silver edition is shit. You get access to the arcade and store and that's it.

Silver is strictly a teaser.