Microsoft Raising Gold Subscription Prices

[Dublin Solo]

It's kinda fun to see some of the people that come in late to the topic and just completly ignore the posts that blow their arguments apart.

You were noticing that too, hmm?

Seriously, I have absolutely no problem with Xbox Live increasing in price. Given how successful its been and the fact they haven't adjusted for inflation or all the services they added until nearly a decade later is nothing short of astounding.

And here I thought I was alone thinking the same exact thing! Looks like the most basic things of life and economics aren't lost to everyone.

 

[Sephychu]

Half the people complaining about it will still pay for it. More than half.

People will keep buying it, Microsoft won't see a reason not to do it again down the line, nothing will change.

 

[etherlance]

Is this just in the USA because over here in england the one year subscription is about £40

But I swear if I have to pay more than that i may just sell the thing for a PS3 even though i want to play fallout vegas and fable 3

 

[Hashime]

more reason for me to not get gold, hell I have a gaming pc, paying to play multi is stupid to me

Multi on the Xbox is unbearable, my buddy has one and if he isn't lagging due to another player's bad connection, he is listening to an angry 12 year old, or getting spammed with spam.
I can stand multi on the PS3 and PC because on the PS3 no one has mics, and on the PC if you act like a tool you are gone faster than logic at a tea party meeting.

 

[Anton P. Nym]

An increase of two and a half cents per day. Oh my gawd, now I'll have to mortage the house and raid the kids' college fund.

*shakes head* Wow, some folks have way too little going in in their lives if this is what sparks anger in them.

-- Steve

 

[N7 Ruiz]

Microsoft is adding more features granted Im not going to use them but some people will that we can be assured another reason is because of Inflation.

 

[omega 616]

I have a PS3 and a 360, and I can honestly say the Xbox servers are so much better than PS servers. I would gladly pay £40PY for PSN to be better, IMO I think its shite, 80% of games have terrible connections.

What games are you playing on PS3? 'cos I have no complaints about connections.

CoD:WaW

NFS: Undercover

Killzone 2

They just dont tend to be very stable connections.

Played KZ2 a fair amount, never experienced lag or timing out.

What you experienced might be down to what coldstorage was telling me, Japanese players playing on European servers 'cos FPS games aren't big over there, so the connection takes a speed hit.

I can't comment on the others but that is far from 80% of games.

 

[King Toasty]

"PS3 LOWERS PRICES ON MEMBERSHIPS, THEY GIVE YOU MONEY NOW"

 

[xxcloud417xx]

more reason for me to not get gold, hell I have a gaming pc, paying to play multi is stupid to me

I know right?

This is retarded, it would be like us having to pay for our Steam account. Sounds pretty retarded doesn't it? Having to pay for a program that also makes us pay for games?

For those who don't have steam and have no idea what I mean, imagine paying for iTunes and ALSO paying for the music you download. Or even better, imagine paying to enter a store that sells the same shit as any other store? (Non-Wholesale I mean)

How does that encourage people to buy shit from LIVE?

This is really showing how Microsoft is fucking abusing it's consumer. PC gamers would not stand for this shit and they know it. We have too many options open to us for online game purchasing (Steam, Direct2Drive being the more popular ones) so they know that if they start charging subscription fees for access to their store they would get no fucking business, we'd move on to another supplier.

The issue that I see is that Microsoft has 360 gamers by the balls, they monopolize the Xbox 360's online gaming capabilities, and when Microsoft has a monopoly on something, they will fucking get abusive about it. The Xbox 360 would need another "service provider" for online usage, but since it's a Microsoft Device, Microsoft will retain all rights to that. So all in all, this means that Xbox 360 owners pretty much handed their balls over to Microsoft by getting a 360.

 

[TwitchierGuitar]

I've got like two year membership cards from friends for christmas last year. So, All i've got to do is enter one And I'm set for the next year, and the year after. But hey, by then, XBL will run us about $15-$20 a month. Oh, I do loves me some inflation...

 

[ThatOneFoxShane]

Is this just in the USA because over here in england the one year subscription is about £40

But I swear if I have to pay more than that i may just sell the thing for a PS3 even though i want to play fallout vegas and fable 3

I thought Fallout: New Vegas was coming to the PlayStation 3 as well. Is it not?