I pay for live and think its worth it, how ever I know live is just another expense to throw on the pile. If you have bills to pay and live month to month.
Im just saying that I have never had an incident like that on the 360. I bought my ps3 during the psn outage unknowingly. so I was a little pissed about it at the time.
I can understand that, the ability to pay for separate subscriptions should not be linked by the subscription of another service. I personally find XBL superior mainly for the arty system. If find conference calls inconvenient on At and Ts network. but you shouldn't have to subscribe to subscribe to another service.
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