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.
my xbox has just gone back to microsoft free of charge
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.
i didnt pay for my fix i sent it off and it was free why did you have to pay?
I had to send my bro's 360 in when they first came out, and they had a fix-it charge. I was reimbursed for it since they actually their first batch was defective (and it looks like that ever batch afterwards ). I think I had to pay for the second time, but not after that since Microsoft has renewed warranties due to its console high failure rate.
Yeah, I figured that, and if you can get enough people to stop then they will free it up, but that is a very hard thing to do because you would have to get hundreds of thousands or even millions to sign a petition and simultaneously cancel their subscriptions and/or not renew them. It wouldn't be worth it, even with the fee.
Microsoft will never drop the fee. Nintendo dropped their online fee, but Microsoft won't because too many people don't care about paying for the fee and thus they will continue to make money off of it. They don't give a shit about the people that can't make it worth their time. They just want another source of income (or a way to pay for their servers, which I question).
In the beginning of this thread, I was just ranting about how their fee wasn't worth my time because of my lifestyle, but I'm glad to have a fan base that believes in the same thing. I wish we could get enough people together to start something, but if we succeed, there is not telling what Microsoft would do to replace their lost revenue for their Live fees.
Success would be great, but at what cost? Sorry to be this way, but I'm but I'm just trying to be a realist.
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Re: Why won't they make X-box Live free? 
why did you have to pay?
). I think I had to pay for the second time, but not after that since Microsoft has renewed warranties due to its console high failure rate. 
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