I say yes, but largely because I cant afford to spend money on a three month membership when im only going to be able to use it for a week. If they had a different plan, I wouldnt have a problem.
Poll: Should Xbox Silver have Multiplayer?
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Remember to read the post you are quoting, remember this:lostzombies.com said:
[/quote]lostzombies.com said:
But you fail to explain how psn is so terrible that you willfully WANT to pay to play on the 360. I used to have Live about 8 months ago for 3 months and I can say that the experience is basically the same. Live's menu looks better, but the PSN store isn't exactly terrible. Everything is organizd and user friendly. I've been gaming on my ps3 for about a year and a half and its the same shit. People overexaggerate the differences. They both offer full gams, arcade games, themes, avatars, PSn has Home. The only difference is that XBL has cross game voice chat and PSn has cross game text chat.
PSN also has video chat but not many people have the PSeye. Maybe with the release of the Move, more PSeyes will enter homes and it could be used to bring voice chat to the ps3. So yeah you're pretty bias in your opinion.
MS has you paying for a service. Sony has you paying for a similar service. Nintendo has you paying for that service again. The only difference is where they get you on it. MS charges you upfront and in the open. Sony has every customer pay a little more for product regardless of whether they'll be using PSN, and Nintendo likely has people paying for the right to publish the shovelware. There is no such thing as a free lunch. XBL Silver is like the internet: gives you an online profile and provides an easy and secure access point to the XBL/Zune marketplace. XBL Gold gives you everything else. The only reason to have the silver tier at all is to let you spend money directly from the Xbox 360 Dashboard. Occasionally they do let Silver members play online for free, as well. But I digress. There are no free rides. Somewhere, someone always pays. As long as I know what I'm paying for and I'm getting quality goods or services in return, it's okay.
Personally, I prefer my PCs internet gaming services to my Xboxes, and they're free. The connection itself is a bit dodgy, but it's the same connection on my PC, and at least I can fix it from my PC.lostzombies.com said:
Ah but it is 'special'. It constantly breaks down and gets all heated up. Then it asks for much more attention and ends up costing it's owners a lot more blood, sweat, tears and money if they want it to work properly. And meanwhile the other consoles look on and make mean jokes about it.WOPR said:
OT: Xbox Live should have been free in the first place. It is no different to PSN and they both get updates for games as it is the developer's that make the updates, not Microsoft. All Microsoft do is make the dashboard updates, and in case lostzombies.com didn't notice, PS3 gets them too. Except it is much more organised and clear cut. Minus those godawful avatars.
I'm sorry but you really don't get what you pay. I play multiplayer on PC and experience is far superior to the 360. I would not mind paying Gold membership if Microsoft ran a multitude of dedicated servers that were being policed/moderated but they don't. You are basically paying to use a service that should really be free. Ye some other deserves to be payed for but the pure privilege of playing online does not deserve to be payed for especially with what you get.lostzombies.com said:
Also on your latter comment about systems with higher specs really means f all. Just because consoles are standardised and run at a horrible 30fps constantly does not mean anyone has an advantage on PC. If your comp can't hack the higher graphics just turn it down a bit and you will still be fine. Your eye can only detect 60hz(as far as I remember but it is not far off that) and besides that ping plays a much bigger importance in online play which is all to do with internet speed. So overall given how console online works someone on that is actually having a bigger advantage than someone on PC with a slightly better rig.
Well, if I had a PS3 I would be paying for their elite membership thing as well so it doesn't really bother me what features are/aren't included in the price tag.
Money, money, money it's just a little money so who cares? Not me!
Money, money, money it's just a little money so who cares? Not me!
Yes. But only a limited number of hours a day. (4-5)
Its unfair they charge us 60 bucks for a game, and then reoccuring chunks of cash so we can enjoy it every year.
Its ok with most MMO's, because the game itself is free. You can download it straight from the site and enjoy the free trial for several hours or days before you accually spend even a dime.
But they charge us 200$ for they system, 60$ for the game, and soon to be 80$ to play said game and system online.
I think allowing us a certin number of free hours a day ((that do roll over at the end of said day)) would be the most fair solution. Or atleast drop the price of gold so its affordible for masses.
Its unfair they charge us 60 bucks for a game, and then reoccuring chunks of cash so we can enjoy it every year.
Its ok with most MMO's, because the game itself is free. You can download it straight from the site and enjoy the free trial for several hours or days before you accually spend even a dime.
But they charge us 200$ for they system, 60$ for the game, and soon to be 80$ to play said game and system online.
I think allowing us a certin number of free hours a day ((that do roll over at the end of said day)) would be the most fair solution. Or atleast drop the price of gold so its affordible for masses.
$80 for a year of Live?chronobreak said:
That's impressive.
Only ?45 or about $60 over in Ireland. (That was actually 14 months as well, I got two months free with my purchase)
In any case; it's the price of one game per year, which is a much better deal than one gets for playing WoW which is about ?120 I think?
Nobody is making you pay for it. If you want to play online, then pay, but if you don't, then you can always play games like Fallout New Vegas or Bioshock or one of the many, many other single player games that are available.
Yes. Why pay for a service cluttered with adverts and no dedicated servers. The thing is complete shit. Of course Xbox fanboys will defend it to the death, even though they're paying for no real reason other than Microsofts greed.
Absolutely. Far be it it from me if I'm going to keep paying for some crap I already bought (here's looking at you, World of Warcraft!)
Of course people are going to want something for nothing. It's a loaded question. Somehow, I think the logistics don't make it financially feasible. Given that I've had significantly less issues with the standard Microsoft LIVE servers when playing online than I've had with the handful of non-LIVE servers, I'm more than happy to support the effort with a little spare change each month. Seriously, I can afford LIVE just by going to Starbucks one less time per month. I'd hardly call that a taxing situation for my wallet.
WOPR said:
one word my good sir : Bill Gates! wait a minute... Bill? as in Bullet Bill? oh no...
OT i think it should be free to play Xbox live. PS3 got it PC got it. and plus who wanna pay for getting called a ****** by a 12 year old anyway? sick freaks...
Not unless they made gold free.
HAHAHAAHAHAHAHA fat chance.
But then again, gold isnt even that much. What like £40 a year? If you cant afford that, then you should sell your xbox and get a job.
HAHAHAAHAHAHAHA fat chance.
But then again, gold isnt even that much. What like £40 a year? If you cant afford that, then you should sell your xbox and get a job.
I've just got one question.
why did you buy an xbox if you didn't think about having to pay for the additional features? you knew when you got the console that it wasn't free to play online (or at least, you should have known beforehand). so if you've decided on purchasing it, why can't you make the small step forward to getting gold?
why did you buy an xbox if you didn't think about having to pay for the additional features? you knew when you got the console that it wasn't free to play online (or at least, you should have known beforehand). so if you've decided on purchasing it, why can't you make the small step forward to getting gold?
While I have PS3 and 360, and I find the PSN to be on par with Live for the most part, I think Silver/Free should TOTALLY have multiplayer. It's stupidly ridiculous to not have so, especially since Microsoft's gotta be making up a nice portion of the money that goes into multiplayer through all the friggin' ads I see every time I start up my 360.
