Poll: Should Xbox Silver have Multiplayer?

[Cowabungaa]

Sorry but I have both a PS3 and 360. XBox live is far, far better that PS online. There is simply no comparison in terms of quality of service.

I've used the PS3 for about a year now, and the 360 for about 5 years and I have yet to notice that apparently humongous difference in quality.

Anyway, that said, yes I do feel like multi-player gaming is the most important thing internet access on a console brings to the table, and yes I think that should be included in the basic, free package. Everything else are neat extras.

 

[dickseverywhere]

you'd have to be an idiot to say no to this.

Bias is a powerful thing.

Remember to read the post you are quoting, remember this:

Sorry but I have both a PS3 and 360.

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bias as in he's paying for XBL gold so he's going to think it's better in order to justify spending the money on it to himself.

 

[dickseverywhere]

double post, sorry.

 

[Shock and Awe]

No, the money keeps Xbox Live better than any other online service on any other console.

 

[Altorin]

it would be nice to have SOME multiplayer.. maybe 5 hours a week.. for silver (or "Free")

I don't expect them to, but it would certainly be nice.. get 20 hours of multiplayer free a month, and pay for gold if you want more then that.

 

[chronobreak]

You only have that choice if you don't want to play online on xbox. So either pay the money or stop whining about it.

Right, but I wasn't whining about it, so...

Either way, I don't mind being in the majority of people who agree they would like Silver to have free MP.

 

[AndyFromMonday]

No, the money keeps Xbox Live better than any other online service on any other console.

You mean all those extra features I don't want nor use? Yeah, I totally should pay for something I most likely will never use. To me, it's like buying a car but not being able to drive it until you buy a radio. It's just plain bullshit and nothing can justify it. I do not want those extra services and I don't care about them. This is why I've ignored my Xbox for quite a long time now. I want to play online, it's just that I see no reason why I should pay money to play online.

You only have that choice if you don't want to play online on xbox. So either pay the money or stop whining about it.

Why should I stop whining about it? It's a bullshit tactic to milk money out of customers who already forked out the money for their console. There's no way to justify this.

 

[The Cheezy One]

"Do you want free things rather than paying for them?"
I've never done this before, but
Pointless question is pointless
Unless you have actually researched this, it makes you sound incredibly naive. Support is not free, and 360 has some of the best support of any machine.

 

[Gunner 51]

I'm in two minds about this.

While I believe that multiplayer should be free to any and all who buy the console, but the grim reality of this is that servers cost money and someone's gotta pay for them. Gold Memberships pay for those servers, which isn't even your ISP's duty to provide.

Silver Members already have access to most of X-box Live, they get demos and game videos too and possibly those emo-haired berks on The Nexus as well. Albeit with a week's delay or so I'm told.

Dashboard updates, game updates, tech support, videos, servers and news - all of this costs money to put onto people's X-boxes. They all cost money, but Silver members don't truly get these things for free - they are being paid for by Gold Members.

If they want fresh news and multiplayer, they'll just have to stump up the funds.

 

[Cmichaels]

I was thinking about this the other day actually.

I doubt it will happen, but I think old titles should be made free for multiplayer, games like Shadowrun, Halo 3, etc.

This would allow people to enjoy titles that would encourage them to buy the updated titles of the series (Reach, Black Ops etc) and also to buy Gold so they can play the newer titles online.

It's not perfect but I like it.

One of the only people I've ever seen talk about shadowrun. That game was great.
I think online should be free, paid for the elite and a router a few years back, but now I don't even use it since I can get free online with the ps3.

 

[Wintermoot]

but what about the profit they make from sold systems and games? shouldnt that cover all those costs?

360's and PS3's are actually only just starting to turn a profit. The Wii is the only system that was being sold for more than it cost to produce.

As for games, the money goes to the publishers. The console maker won't make a profit from games sales, unless they're directly involved as the publisher or in-house developer (for example, Microsoft Game Studios and Sony Computer Entertainment America/Japan/Europe).

Microsoft and Sony make money from the dev kits they sell (so that a company or person can actually make a title for that platform). That's really the only time they make money.

And as for console exclusives, well, Microsoft and Sony pay the developer/publisher to keep it exclusive.

Now Nintendo is a different story. Most of the Wii games are made by Nintendo or use IPs that belong to Nintendo (e.g. Super Mario, Legend of Zelda, Metroid, et cetera). Therefore, Nintendo usually does make profits from Wii titles.

sorry fer the late response but ist it jut plain STUPID to sell something for LESS than the price to build something?

 

[ToxicPiranah]

It would be good to see silver have multiplayer, but it'll never happen, the moment they make it free for silver, every Gold member will cancel their subscription and drop to silver. They're not going to willingly give up that money when people are willing to pay. The only way to maybe do it is if you get every gold member to cancel in protest but thats a lot of people to get on board. At the end of the day I'm happy to pay for Gold and have the privileges that come with it.

 

[jackpipsam]

we pay we get.
if people can not pay for like $80 then they don't really need an xbox

 

[Wintermoot]

sorry fer the late response but ist it jut plain STUPID to sell something for LESS than the price to build something?

Tell that to Sony. The PS3 'supposedly' cost around $800 to produce, but they originally sold it for --
-- wait for it --

but why the hell would a company sell a product they LOSE money on?

 

[Jezzascmezza]

I guess we'll just have to accept the fact that Microsoft are greedy...
But I do think that Silver should have multiplayer, it seems unfair that all the other consoles have it (even the freaking iPhone!) but Xbox doesn't.