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Comment by: DXR88 (Aug 07, 2008 04:25)

No, Sh*t really wow thats Amazing, Kevin man your a genius. i kinda think that was the big plan when they made live Kevin, to create revenue. /sarcasm

its good to see that MS is going through with there plans for and Xbox digital distribution, i really am looking forward to seeing what they come up with, i am more interested in the way they will handle server loading.

Comment by: fgamer (Aug 07, 2008 04:30)

This keeps them more interested in the gaming industry with the Xbox brand than to ditch it like Sega ditched the hardware business.

Comment by: ZippyDSM (Aug 07, 2008 04:35)

can we make live free now plz?

Comment by: DXR88 (Aug 07, 2008 05:02)

Originally posted by ZippyDSM:

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can we make live free now plz?

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Kevin, frowns upon your non-money generating remark. shame on you.

Comment by: ZippyDSM (Aug 07, 2008 05:04)

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Originally posted by ZippyDSM:

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can we make live free now plz?

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Kevin, frowns upon your non-money generating remark. shame on you.

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money will be made from downloads silly, ALL downloads....yyeeesssssss.

Comment by: DXR88 (Aug 07, 2008 05:07)

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Originally posted by ZippyDSM:

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can we make live free now plz?

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Kevin, frowns upon your non-money generating remark. shame on you.

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money will be made from downloads silly, ALL downloads....yyeeesssssss.

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Never that would Reduce the all mighty Kevin number crunching skills from 240 million to about 130 million.

Comment by: DXR88 (Aug 07, 2008 05:08)

you should be praising the almighty Kevin, has he has yet to charge us for turning on the console.

Comment by: C4RN1 (Aug 07, 2008 11:53)

Really that's a hell of a lot of money from just extra content. MS should take that money and put it back in their product or (lack of) customer support. I've heard people complaining about paying for live and paying for all the extra things and it's like a slap in the face.

Others get suckered into the whole "xbox live experience", and just think it's going to be even worse. The new update is going to blow those numbers out of the water. Just wait in 6 months those numbers will be doubled.

Comment by: AntSpliff (Aug 07, 2008 13:52)

If 49.99/yr (just a bit over $4/mo) is too much for an excellent gaming experience is too much then you should probably be doing something other than gaming like working more. I like the fact that XBL is not down for more than two hrs if anything goes wrong. When its free it takes a little longer for things to be fixed.

Comment by: Hunt720 (Aug 07, 2008 16:33)

Originally posted by AntSpliff:

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I like the fact that XBL is not down for more than two hrs if anything goes wrong. When its free it takes a little longer for things to be fixed.

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Unless you mean last Christmas...

But we were compensated with Undertow.. Does anyone even play that game? Its like they couldn't figure out how to fix a system that people pay for by anticipating large amounts of Xbox Live subscribers signing up and loggin in around the time they got their new consoles... so to make up for their lack of foresight they handed out Bioshocks retarded little brother.. to SOME accounts.

Comment by: ikari (Aug 07, 2008 16:43)

Now maybe it is just the games I play, but I purchased more arcade games than content for 360 games. I was really hoping more devs would jump on the board and make more levels, weapons, etc. for their games.

Although, I am excited for GTA IV's Fall episode release!!! Did they ever say how much they were going to charge for it?

Comment by: DXR88 (Aug 07, 2008 16:51)

Actualy i liked Mass-Effect, bring down the sky on Xbox-live, it was my first game add on download, it was good for $5 USD

but it really should be expanded, i agree that money generated should be poured back into whatever generated it. i don't see MS game and development division losing any-profits soon.

Comment by: mspurloc (Aug 07, 2008 20:02)

Live Silver IS free.

But I have to agree that $50 a year is too much for Gold.
There should be more to it.

Unless you're a full-time lamer and want to be playing other people all the time, there's no incentive to join.
Now, if joining Gold included access to ALL content for no additional cost, then it would be worth it.
Of course, "all content" would NOT include the eventual Netflix movies or Marketplace's own GROSSLY overpriced and outdated offerings. Personally, I'd like to see that stuff go away in favor of Netflix, along with Marketplace's stupid points system.

Comment by: ZippyDSM (Aug 07, 2008 20:48)

Originally posted by mspurloc:

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Live Silver IS free.

But I have to agree that $50 a year is too much for Gold.
There should be more to it.

Unless you're a full-time lamer and want to be playing other people all the time, there's no incentive to join.
Now, if joining Gold included access to ALL content for no additional cost, then it would be worth it.
Of course, "all content" would NOT include the eventual Netflix movies or Marketplace's own GROSSLY overpriced and outdated offerings. Personally, I'd like to see that stuff go away in favor of Netflix, along with Marketplace's stupid points system.

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your still charged for most downlaods and only get a free demos and such gold should be free so one can have all the features of live, and then would mean more money for MS because they can charge for all downloads and to give a hand out run promos of free stuff to build up interest, its win for all.

Comment by: drach (Aug 08, 2008 05:03)

Don't forget the exorbitant prices you will pay for an upgraded hard drive to hold all of your downloaded stuff.

Comment by: DXR88 (Aug 08, 2008 05:23)

Originally posted by drach:

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Don't forget the exorbitant prices you will pay for an upgraded hard drive to hold all of your downloaded stuff.

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all you have to do is buy a 120 gig harddrive Open the harddrive case pull out your old 20 gig plug your new 120 in close the external case and your good to go the xbox does the formating for you. takes a hell of a long time six hours some times but it does format it.

Comment by: DXR88 (Aug 08, 2008 05:37)

BTW if your going to upgrade you HDD for the love of god unplug your console from the net, while its formatting. MS has but rarely does pull the live support when they see an sudden increase of HDD space. and yes they can your xbox records every little hardware change in an internal ram logspace, when this log space fills up your Xbox sends a code through live then your at the mercy of MS.

Comment by: AntSpliff (Aug 08, 2008 14:50)

Hunt: I did hear that it was messed up on Christmas for a couple of hours which i said. If it was free how much longer do you suppose it would've been down? I wasn't on during Christmas but the 26th was just fine.


Again as I read the posts and people complain about $50yr it means they should be earning more money. I'm not wealthy but that doesn't even put a dent into my finances. I don't even think about it when they deduct it from my credit card and I was a beta tester for XBL when it first started with that animal shooting game and NFL fever. I guess you can't please everyone. Why buy the system if it's too much to join?

Comment by: AntSpliff (Aug 08, 2008 14:50)

Hunt: I did hear that it was messed up on Christmas for a couple of hours which i said. If it was free how much longer do you suppose it would've been down? I wasn't on during Christmas but the 26th was just fine.


Again as I read the posts and people complain about $50yr it means they should be earning more money. I'm not wealthy but that doesn't even put a dent into my finances. I don't even think about it when they deduct it from my credit card and I was a beta tester for XBL when it first started with that animal shooting game and NFL fever. I guess you can't please everyone. Why buy the system if it's too much to join?