Honestly, buying textbooks has got to be some huge scam. A quick Google search is most of the time going to yield countless great sources completely free. Or you could pay up to $200 for a textbook which is limited in that its only one source. Not to mention that if you really need a textbook you can generally just borrow it from a library.C F said:I've spent money on worse things. Like college textbooks. When I can rent one class's textbook for two year's worth of live membership, and when the price/use ratio for the two is so skewed it's not even funny, I decided I'm just not going to get textbooks for my two classes this semester. I'm passing them on the lectures alone, so in a couple months I just fiscally balanced out the entire four years I've played the Xbox.
Totally worth it.
Or they could clog it with ads and charge 60 dollars a year, the current model.Arakasi said:I get the feeling that Xbox live is restricting a large amount of people from coming online, whereas they could merely clog the thing with ads and make it free.
The fact that they're there at all is the problem.It would be excusable if XBL was a free service or if the ads were limited to silver accounts but to pay a subscription and still have the dashboard covered in ads is a bit dickish.I mean it's not like MS aren't already making plenty of money from XBL so having subscription + ads is a bit like having your cake and eating it too.Trippy Turtle said:EDIT: Whats the problem with the adds? I barely even notice them and I am never on the dashboard anyway. The odd times that I do notice them I am normally glad I did because they can be advertising a free or cheap game/DLC that I want.