Rumor: xbox live dropping costs

this is kind of an inferred rumor, but if you've been reading the ads in the past month or so, xbox live gold 12 month cards have been dropping in price from $50 to $30 in stores such as-toys r us, best buy, amazon.com.

I don't see a reason why they would be doing this other than to see how many new members they can get, so it might eventually happen universally.

proportionally, this would be- 12 month- $30, 3 month- $12, 1 month- $4

it's still not free, but much better than nothing.

this is kind of an inferred rumor, but if you've been reading the ads in the past month or so, xbox live gold 12 month cards have been dropping in price from $50 to $30 in stores such as-toys r us, best buy, amazon.com.

I don't see a reason why they would be doing this other than to see how many new members they can get, so it might eventually happen universally.

proportionally, this would be- 12 month- $30, 3 month- $12, 1 month- $4

it's still not free, but much better than nothing.

2-10-08

Best Buy - $49.99

ToysRus - $29.99

Sold out though at ToysRus.

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/?f=765

this is the toys r us one, which just came out today.

the other ones were for a limited time only

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this is kind of an inferred rumor, but if you've been reading the ads in the past month or so, xbox live gold 12 month cards have been dropping in price from $50 to $30 in stores such as-toys r us, best buy, amazon.com.

I don't see a reason why they would be doing this other than to see how many new members they can get, so it might eventually happen universally.

proportionally, this would be- 12 month- $30, 3 month- $12, 1 month- $4

it's still not free, but much better than nothing.

dotWithShoes

deals on xbox gold cards are incredibly rare, and have been occuring frequently in the past months

it's still not free, but much better than nothing.

If it was free in the first place I would have a 360 right now. hip-hop-cola2

it's still not free, but much better than nothing.

[QUOTE="hip-hop-cola2"]If it was free in the first place I would have a 360 right now. Stevo_the_gamer

link?dthach614

[QUOTE="hip-hop-cola2"]If it was free in the first place I would have a 360 right now. Stevo_the_gamer

I'd love for them to drop the costs completely, but 30 dollars is better than 50.

Sadly though, these are just sales. If you're smart you'd buy a few of those cards while they're so cheap!

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/?f=765

this is the toys r us one, which just came out today.

the other ones were for a limited time only

2-10-08

[QUOTE="dotWithShoes"][QUOTE="2-10-08"]

this is kind of an inferred rumor, but if you've been reading the ads in the past month or so, xbox live gold 12 month cards have been dropping in price from $50 to $30 in stores such as-toys r us, best buy, amazon.com.

I don't see a reason why they would be doing this other than to see how many new members they can get, so it might eventually happen universally.

proportionally, this would be- 12 month- $30, 3 month- $12, 1 month- $4

it's still not free, but much better than nothing.

2-10-08

deals on xbox gold cards are incredibly rare, and have been occuring frequently in the past months

Incredibily rare?:?

Its happened before. I got a one year card from Best Buy about a year ago for $30. Also got a one year card from Circuit City back in 2006 for $20 because of a ad error.

Also I doubt they're dropping prices. Retailers have dropped the price for XBL prepaid cards before. However MS have never dropped the price for XBL, ever.

[QUOTE="Stevo_the_gamer"][QUOTE="hip-hop-cola2"]If it was free in the first place I would have a 360 right now. BuryMe

That would be cool.

I picked up two 13 month Live cards for 29.99 each from Best Buy. Awesome deal.

Then you can kiss Voice chat on all games goodbye. :o

Then you can kiss Voice chat on all games goodbye. :o

PS3_3DO

Well if Live fees go down future features will be less and less right? We keep getting told that Live fees are in direct relation to what features Live gets. That paying for the service gets everyone the great features. Live downgrade confirmed. :roll:PoppaGamer

do you really think those "features" require continuous funds? smh

[QUOTE="PoppaGamer"]Well if Live fees go down future features will be less and less right? We keep getting told that Live fees are in direct relation to what features Live gets. That paying for the service gets everyone the great features. Live downgrade confirmed. :roll:dthach614

do you really think those "features" require continuous funds? smh

[QUOTE="PoppaGamer"]Well if Live fees go down future features will be less and less right? We keep getting told that Live fees are in direct relation to what features Live gets. That paying for the service gets everyone the great features. Live downgrade confirmed. :roll:dthach614

do you really think those "features" require continuous funds? smh

You know of course that the PSN isn't really free, they've created Home so that they can subsidise the costs of running PSN. Advertising and Micropayment revenue will hopefully be a cashcow for them.

To make XBox live free you'd have to refund all those people who still had time left on their accounts.

A better idea for MS would be to make the live fee $30 but include 1000 XBox live points as part of the subscription.

In fact better than that is a monthly rolling subscription that gets you live Gold + points for a slightly reduced cost. That would then mean you had points to spend every month which would be a great sales pitch to devs to produce DLC and XBLA games.

If it was free in the first place I would have a 360 right now. hip-hop-cola2

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[QUOTE="PoppaGamer"]Well if Live fees go down future features will be less and less right? We keep getting told that Live fees are in direct relation to what features Live gets. That paying for the service gets everyone the great features. Live downgrade confirmed. :roll:Andrew_Xavier

do you really think those "features" require continuous funds? smh

"Servers aren't free." We don't have servers, but we are still paying. xbl is peer to peer so what are we paying for?

XBL is not fast enough

I dont want new features that dont work or work half ass.

You know of course that the PSN isn't really free, they've created Home so that they can subsidise the costs of running PSN. Advertising and Micropayment revenue will hopefully be a cashcow for them.

To make XBox live free you'd have to refund all those people who still had time left on their accounts.

A better idea for MS would be to make the live fee $30 but include 1000 XBox live points as part of the subscription.

In fact better than that is a monthly rolling subscription that gets you live Gold + points for a slightly reduced cost. That would then mean you had points to spend every month which would be a great sales pitch to devs to produce DLC and XBLA games.

Nomad0404

You can play multiplayers online for free on PSN. You don't have to go to home nor do you have to buy anything off the psn store.

Personally I don't mind pay $50. But I want something in return. I want dedicated servers for all big titles, atleast for Halo 3 and Gears of War. I want to be able to search for custom games in Halo 3. I want Halo 3 to no be a lag fest. I want Matchmaking to cease to exist. I want a system that truely reduce lag.

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[QUOTE="Andrew_Xavier"][QUOTE="dthach614"]

do you really think those "features" require continuous funds? smh

dthach614

"Servers aren't free." We don't have servers, but we are still paying. xbl is peer to peer so what are we paying for?

XBL is not fast enough

I dont want new features that dont work or work half ass.

[QUOTE="dthach614"][QUOTE="Andrew_Xavier"] Servers aren't free. XBL isn't slow. Continuous funds are required to pay for development and hosting of said new features, and current features.Andrew_Xavier

"Servers aren't free." We don't have servers, but we are still paying. xbl is peer to peer so what are we paying for?

XBL is not fast enough

I dont want new features that dont work or work half ass.

you talking about the dashboard? cause silver members have access to that too. the reputation system is half ass. I still get match up with players that i avoid.

you think psn host itself on air? psn is free.

Personally I don't mind pay $50. But I want something in return.

dthach614

Guess who makes that code? It ain't the keebler elves. If Sony laid out the cost of developing PSN's online multiplayer component, they would probably charge a fee also.

[QUOTE="hip-hop-cola2"]If it was free in the first place I would have a 360 right now. Stevo_the_gamer

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Personally I don't mind pay $50. But I want something in return.

heretrix

Guess who makes that code? It ain't the keebler elves. If Sony laid out the cost of developing PSN's online multiplayer component, they would probably charge a fee also.

why do we got to paid a yearly subscription? does M$ develop a new infrastructure every year? why is xbox live games mostly p2p? do they give us dedicated servers? why is psn and pc free?

That large XBL network doesn't host itself on air, it's all on servers, I don't know of any feature that doesn't work or is half assed.Andrew_Xavier