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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: AdmiralViscen on April 09, 2008, 10:29:08 AM

Title: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 09, 2008, 10:29:08 AM
I know a guy and he says this will be the case by Summer.

Anyone here heard this?
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: Rman on April 09, 2008, 10:35:25 AM
XBL Silver FTW.  I'm going to start a Spring of FPSes--playing my FPS backlog which includes Resistance, Halo 3, The Orange Box, and COD4--soon and I'll probably get a Gold Account.  This will be a bad move on MS part.  If true the news for MS is just getting worse and worse.  Year of PS3 continues?
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 09, 2008, 10:37:07 AM
They should be reducing Gold's price, especially if Sony fixes their service and has some games in the next year or two. They keep stripping shit from Silver users instead.

I'm paid through 2010, we'll see what happens after that.
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: Mupepe on April 09, 2008, 10:41:30 AM
I haven't bought a subscription since my first year with the 360.  Free month cards FTW.  I only use them when I get a game I really feel like playing online.  I wasted so much with my 1 year sub by hardly ever playing online.
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: muckson on April 09, 2008, 11:04:38 AM
i barely used my xboxlive subscription, which means i will never pay for it again.  i've learned my lesson by falling for it once. 

don't get me wrong, lost planet online was awesome.  however, after the novelty wore off i was bored with online as a whole and never played any of the games beyond the 1p mode.
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 09, 2008, 11:12:06 AM
I play a ton, but if I didn't have IRL friends doing it I probably wouldn't at all.
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: Hitler Stole My Potato on April 09, 2008, 11:38:37 AM
MS can fuck right off.  They should be lowering the price or working out a way to make it free not raising it.

Between all the shitty hardware fuck ups and their price gouging, I'm going to think long and hard before I consider picking up MS's next console.
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: CajoleJuice on April 09, 2008, 11:39:55 AM
I play a ton, but if I didn't have IRL friends doing it I probably wouldn't at all.

Ditto. Fuck this if they pull this shit. Especially once I buy a decent PC.
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: Mupepe on April 09, 2008, 11:40:27 AM
MS is full of stupid fucking decisions ever since Sony started fucking up.  And it's not like they're even winning this generation.  WTF, MS?
I play a ton, but if I didn't have IRL friends doing it I probably wouldn't at all.

Ditto. Fuck this if they pull this shit. Especially once I buy a decent PC.
Fuck you guys, not everyone is lucky enough to have RL friends
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: MCD on April 09, 2008, 11:42:00 AM
ok...
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: MCD on April 09, 2008, 11:46:52 AM
it's not a rumor till it hit the internet.

one guy is not enough.

and note: if they are really going to do this, pretty sure they will add something then like home or whatever, raising the price just like that won't do.
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: Mupepe on April 09, 2008, 11:51:36 AM
Inflation, my boy.
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: MCD on April 09, 2008, 11:56:59 AM
AM MS BOYCOTT TOTAL PAPANGUS
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: y2kev on April 09, 2008, 12:36:51 PM
Microsoft's loltastical 2008 continues

year of ps3 :bow2
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: drohne on April 09, 2008, 01:12:24 PM
$10 mii surcharge
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: Eel O'Brian on April 09, 2008, 01:35:00 PM
if they add dedicated servers for all games, maybe

but that won't happen
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on April 09, 2008, 01:38:15 PM
I meant to downgrade my gold account but it autorenewed and I'm lazy :(
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 09, 2008, 02:38:02 PM
I'm not trying to propogate a rumor, just telling you what I heard. This guy's given me the scoop on the live updates too. If they introduce a $120 points pack (which he said is part of the Spring update) then I guess he's right. He says they're talking about it as a when, not an if.

MS can fuck right off.  They should be lowering the price or working out a way to make it free not raising it.

Between all the shitty hardware fuck ups and their price gouging, I'm going to think long and hard before I consider picking up MS's next console.

Bu bu bubu bu you're an Xfag lol
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: demi on April 09, 2008, 02:52:38 PM
You dont know anyone

FAKE, lock this thread
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 09, 2008, 03:03:34 PM
Yea, it's unthinkable that I might know a QA guy. Very high position there ::)
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: demi on April 09, 2008, 03:07:56 PM
QA doesnt know anything

FAKE, lock this thread
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: AdmiralViscen on April 09, 2008, 03:09:36 PM
Did I post a :drudge in this thread and forget about it? This thread is conversational, not the ultimate leak
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: demi on April 09, 2008, 03:09:59 PM
FUD is FUD

FAKE, lock this thread
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: Rman on April 09, 2008, 05:27:10 PM
I meant to downgrade my gold account but it autorenewed and I'm lazy :(

It's so stupid that you have call customer service to cancel gold if you used a credit card.  smh @ M$.
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: Bloodwake on April 09, 2008, 06:46:49 PM
Year of ps3 continues, seriously.

Microsoft evidently doesn't know what the fuck they are doing anymore.
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: Joe Molotov on April 09, 2008, 07:16:01 PM
I've noticed that they already seem to be phasing out those 13 month cards in favor of 12 month cards in stores.
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: FatalT on April 09, 2008, 07:56:28 PM
Oh no, $10 extra! Whatever am I going to do now that I'm losing an extra $10 a year! I need that money to pay child support! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: pilonv1 on April 09, 2008, 08:23:03 PM
AU$

AUS$60 is almost US$60 now anyway.
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: MCD on April 10, 2008, 12:07:57 PM
Get Moore back.

MS is fucking it all up.
let me ask you a simple question:

why all the worry and OMG MS AM DOOMED, is this your joke side?
Title: Re: XBox Live to be $60/yr?
Post by: ToxicAdam on April 10, 2008, 12:38:32 PM
True or untrue, is it really a surprise? I love when people get shocked when MS makes horrible customer relations decisions.