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Microsoft: no plans to drop Xbox Live Gold fees |
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Microsoft may be scrapping charges for Games for Windows Live, but the company will not be making its Xbox Live Gold services free.This was confirmed to MCV UK by a Microsoft spokesperson. An Xbox Live Gold membership currently cost GBP 39.99 (around US$ 80) a year in the UK. The twelve-month Premium Gold Pack in the U.S. goes for around US$ 60.
Microsoft announced at XNA Gamefest 08 last week that it will be scrapping the charges for Games for Windows Live in order to "improve Windows gaming". The announcement fueled some speculation that the same thing will happen to its Xbox Live counterpart.
The same spokesperson stressed that Microsoft plans to "give even more reasons why Xbox Live Gold is the best bargain in the industry" starting with the upcoming Xbox Live Experience dashboard update.
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Via MCVUK
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PC gaming should remain free, shame on M$ for charging.
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~$60 USD per year for online access to all online multiplayer games (except the MMOs), messaging, voice mail, video chat, unified system wide friends lists.
Compare it to PC games, no friends lists across games, messaging and voice chat typically aren't supported in-game so you have to use a third party software that not all players may use. A lot of games don't even have centralized servers, instead they rely on players to host games, which can result in vastly differing experiences and levels of fairness.
Compare it to MMOs, last time I checked it was at least $120/per year on most pay-to-play games and that only allows you to play ONE game. You'd have to pay even more for multiple games even if they're hosted by the same company.
Compare it to Nintendo's WiFi service... yeah, that one isn't even worth playing for free.
I don't have a PS3 so I really can't speak about their offering.
Sure Microsoft is making money on it, but they're also continuing to improve the service which takes money.
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i consider about a dollar a week a steal, i lose more change than that in a week.
i tried PSN for the weekend i owned a ps3, and it should be free... who paid the guy that thought a website like layout would be good for a console marketplace... oh yeah, no one.
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With Xbox Live, Its nice to have a clean community and its ability to keep in touch with friends and ability to store your hard work achievements.
50 bucks a year? If you cant afford that then you can't afford a 1 $60 dollar video game. Also all your money is going to the hard working team that's making the new experience.
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By the time you buy all the accesories like hardrives and wireless internet and then buy the online gaming its more expensive than a 40gb PS3
Not to mention they can't even pump out true 1080p on a 360!
The PS3's time is now
The 360's was when halo 3 came out
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did that ps3 come with an HD cable? didn't think so...
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In comparison, the much younger PS3 has around 30.
Just having 1080p on the back of the box doesn't make a game native 1080p. An example of this is GTA4 which we all know is 720p/630p, but it can be upscaled to 1080p.
Obviously don't just take my word for it, do a Google search.
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But what happens when people have/want to install games on the 360 to reduce the noise/heat of there disk drive and with the new dashboard update coming where it allows you to install the entire game to my hardrive i might be forced to upgrade my 20gb hardrive to the 120gb for a stupid amount of money.
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We're probably not going to see anything but MMOs and similar large scale multiplayer games have centralized servers simply due to the computational and bandwidth constraints. It's simply more efficient to have the players host the smaller games. That unfortunately opens games up to cheaters who will abuse server glitches.
I prefer the Halo 3 server model where the server is randomly selected and the players don't know who the server is.
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