Why do people pay for Xbox Live?

I'm an idiot. xxunnecessaryxs

I'm sorry did you just have a stroke or something, i'm genuinely worried here, maybe someone should call the emergency services to get xxxunecessaryxxxxxxxssxxssxxssx out of the basement and to the hospital.

P.S whats really funny is that i don't subscribe to XBLG but do subscribe to PS+ :lol:

Snugenz

IS*xxunnecessaryxs

Stop spamming.

[QUOTE="xxunnecessaryxs"] I'm an idiot. clone01

Do you mean rest? :lol: :lol:

[QUOTE="clone01"][QUOTE="xxunnecessaryxs"] I'm an idiot. monkeytoes61

Do you mean rest? :lol: :lol:

[QUOTE="monkeytoes61"]

[QUOTE="clone01"] Yeah, I'd agree. Do you arrest your case?clone01

Do you mean rest? :lol: :lol:

[QUOTE="monkeytoes61"]

[QUOTE="clone01"] Yeah, I'd agree. Do you arrest your case?clone01

Do you mean rest? :lol: :lol:

One of the most LOL-worthy SW moments this year! :lol:

[QUOTE="monkeytoes61"]

[QUOTE="clone01"] Yeah, I'd agree. Do you arrest your case?clone01

Do you mean rest? :lol: :lol:

[QUOTE="clone01"][QUOTE="monkeytoes61"]

Do you mean rest? :lol: :lol:

Rocker6

One of the most LOL-worthy SW moments this year! :lol:

[QUOTE="Rocker6"]

[QUOTE="clone01"] Not according to xxunnecessaryxs/wasted_wisdom/suddenlysudden: Tessellation

One of the most LOL-worthy SW moments this year! :lol:

[QUOTE="jimmypsn"][QUOTE="xxunnecessaryxs"] Uhhh you think it okay to just throw away billions just to make your fans happy. What the.....Glad you don't run any businesses. On the other hand you probably couldn't do worse than Sony. Sony isn't even looking at the big picture. They are offering all these services, taking huge losses on PSN for free online. Lost money in the Epic PSN hack and had to spend nearly a quarter of a billion repairing it all for the sake of their fans who want free stuff. If Sony does want to charge, they are gonna come across their fans who are expecting free stuff. The fallout will be epic. xxunnecessaryxs

You can pick your preference between PlayStation and Xbox. You can argue that Halo is better than KillZone or that Uncharted tops Gears of War. But it is becoming increasingly hard to argue that the Xbox 360's online subscription service is superior to the PlayStation 3's. This is what competition does, and, today, the long-running $60-a-year Xbox Live Gold just doesn't seem to offer as much value as the newer, upstart, the $50 PlayStation Plus. Let's break this down. Xbox Live Gold costs about $5 a month for individual plan. The paid plan gives Xbox 360 gamers an extra suite of features atop basic gamer-to-gamer text-messaging, cross-game-chat and access to an online marketplace, all of which are free as part of Xbox Live Silver . Gold members also get the following features: Xbox Live Gold Features Multiplayer Gaming Early Access to Some Demos Beta Access Game Discounts (40-50% off, often) Hulu Plus Netflix Amazon Instant Video Party Chat Video Kinect Zune Music Streaming Halo Waypoint Avatar Kinect Internet Explorer Cloud Storage Facebook Skype Twitter YouTube last.fm MLB.tv HBO Go ESPN Forthcoming: Free-to-Play Gaming Those are the major perks and features available in the U.S. There are several more entertainment services available in other regions. (Wikipedia has a good chart for this; Microsoft offers their own less-detailed chart.) Some of the services here, including HBO Go and Netflix require their own paid memberships with those services. And some, such as YouTube and Twitter, are free on just about any device other than an Xbox 360. Originally, Xbox Live Gold's main advertised feature was access to multiplayer gaming. With the launch of the PlayStation 3, Sony countered that by refusing to charge for online gaming. Sony's PlayStation Network was, initially, free to anyone who bought the console. There was no paid service, no PSN Gold. The PS3 couldn't do cross-game chat. That was the biggest knock. But it also didn't charge gamers. To this day, Xbox 360 owners pay for things on their console that PlayStation owners don't. Let's strike through all of the services on Gold that PlayStation 3 owners get at no extra charge from Sony. Xbox Live Gold minus Free PSN Features Multiplayer Gaming Early Access to Some Demos Beta Access Game Discounts (40-50% off, often) Hulu Plus Netflix Amazon Instant Video Party Chat Video Kinect Zune Music Store Access Halo Waypoint Avatar Kinect Internet Explorer Cloud Storage Facebook Skype Twitter YouTube last.fm MLB.tv HBO Go ESPN Forthcoming: Free-to-Play Gaming There's one cheat there. Sony owners don't actually get Internet Explorer, but they can browse the web for free. It also does offer free-to-play games in its free PlayStation Home avatar hangout/whatever-it-is as well as with games such as Free Realms and DC Universe Online. Several of Gold's features aren't available on PlayStation. There's no Halo Waypoint access, no ESPN, no HBO Go. But Netflix is there, Hulu Plus is there, still requiring outside subscriptions but no added payment to Sony. This is how it's been for a while, but, last year in 2010, Sony introduced PlayStation Plus and started giving its customers the chance to pay for more services. Players got discounts in the PSN store, beta access, but nothing amazing. Then, this past June, Sony added one more key perk, the perk that makes a mockery out of Xbox Live Gold: free games. Here's what PlayStation 3 owners get for Plus: PlayStation Plus Features Instant Game Collection (Free Games) Game Discounts (40-50% off, often) Early Access to Some Demos Beta Access Cloud Storage Automatic Patching/Firmware-Updates 1-Hour Free Access to Full Games Note the length of that list. It's short. Microsoft's Gold list is longer. But Sony's has a bullet point that it's hard for Xbox Live to top, the Instant Game Collection. That's a bundle of games that a Plus subscriber can download and that remain accessible for as long as the subscriber's account lasts. In the few months the service has been live, Sony has removed some games from the offer and added new ones. The removed games are still available to legacy subscribers; they're just not available for free to new ones. For this to be a good deal, the games better be good, right? Here's what you'd have in your Instant Game Collection through early September, if you were a Plus subscriber since the free game offers started in June (games no longer offered to new subscribers have an asterisk): Free Games Available Through PlayStation Plus The Walking Dead Episodes 1 & 2 Bloodrayne Betrayal Outland Infamous 2 Little Big Planet 2 Ratchet & Clank All 4 One Space Marine Saints Row 2 Renegade Ops Pac-Man Championship Edition DX Choplifter Sideway Just Cause 2* Lara Croft & The Guardian of Light* Gotham City Impostors* Hard Corps Uprising* Zombie Apocalypse* Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown* (Borderlands will be added in September) Pretty good list, no? Well, some people don't like it: specifically, U.S. Plus subscribers have started complaining that Europe gets an even better batch, which includes Dead Space 2 and will soon include Red Dead Redemption . The grass is indeed always greener somewhere else. Xbox Live is much more widely-discussed than PlayStation Network. Microsoft has been noisier about their online service. They've been more aggressive, standardizing online console multiplayer gaming, striking first with Netflix streaming and just boasting more about their pay service. The company reports that it has 40 million Xbox Live subscribers, though it won't say how many are paying Gold members (one Microsoft estimate from two years ago put it at about half that count). Competition, however, causes the other party to do amazing things and that appears to be what's happening with PlayStation Plus, a service whichsurpriseSony doesn't share subscriber stats for either. It's a safe bet that Sony has fewer Plus people than Microsoft has Golds. It's also a safe bet that Sony reacts awfully well to competition, as they've been showing throughout the summer. It's Time for Xbox Live Gold to Be Free Our colleagues at Gizmodo recently argued that Xbox Live Gold should be free. (Microsoft might counter that their services cost money to maintain; we might counter that that's why they're running ads on Xbox Live.) Let's pile on a new argument: Gold should be as impressive as PlayStation Plus. For consumers, it sure looks like Sony is offering the better deal. KOTAKU

Lems destroyed-

Maybe he's a cop?heeweesRus

Why do so many people who don't have XboxLive care so much about it.

I don't have an Xbox360 therefore do not care about the XboxLive service........easy.I suppose they must be jealous or something,don't know why though,seems like an absolute rip off to me.

Oh god, this thread... :lol:

Why you ask......... It's simple to get the best you have to pay for the best! :cool:

[QUOTE="mems_1224"][QUOTE="clone01"] Don't sorry?xxunnecessaryxs

Oh god, this thread... :lol:

Michael0134567

[QUOTE="xxunnecessaryxs"][QUOTE="mems_1224"] IT WAS HIS PHONE!!! :lol: Smart phones are only as smart as the people using them. His must be in a special classmems_1224

You're so mean, mems...

[QUOTE="Michael0134567"]

Oh god, this thread... :lol:

xxunnecessaryxs

When are you getting banned?

[QUOTE="Michael0134567"]

Oh god, this thread... :lol:

xxunnecessaryxs

[QUOTE="xxunnecessaryxs"][QUOTE="Michael0134567"]

Oh god, this thread... :lol:

Michael0134567

When are you getting banned?

You're is english, you dumb shit. Obviously another stupid phone error like always. xxunnecessaryxs

Lol.

You're is english, you dumb shit. Obviously another stupid phone error like always. xxunnecessaryxs

You're is english, you dumb shit. Obviously another stupid phone error like always. xxunnecessaryxs

[QUOTE="Michael0134567"]

[QUOTE="xxunnecessaryxs"] shut up, useless. You have 22784 posts of less than 5 word paragraphs. You're only function on system wars is to give us colored texts to look at and pictures of mediocre nickelodeon celebrities to look at. That being said, please take my fiance out of your sig. clone01

When are you getting banned?

I thought he said he was never coming back. What a lie.

[QUOTE="xxunnecessaryxs"][QUOTE="Michael0134567"]

Oh god, this thread... :lol:

Michael0134567

When are you getting banned?

[QUOTE="xxunnecessaryxs"]You're is english, you dumb shit. Obviously another stupid phone error like always. mems_1224

[QUOTE="Michael0134567"]

[QUOTE="xxunnecessaryxs"] shut up, useless. You have 22784 posts of less than 5 word paragraphs. You're only function on system wars is to give us colored texts to look at and pictures of mediocre nickelodeon celebrities to look at. That being said, please take my fiance out of your sig. xxunnecessaryxs

When are you getting banned?

You really have no idea what you're talking about.

[QUOTE="xxunnecessaryxs"]You're is english, you dumb shit. Obviously another stupid phone error like always. mems_1224