ConvenientTruth
Shared on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 18:10 I keep thinking about Xbox live Gold and I wonder…”what am I paying for”
Playstation Network offers pretty much the same services, but they are free so what am I paying for (You could say I’m paying for security with the recent failure of PSN, but countless individual live accounts have been hacked)
It seems like I’m paying for a lot of things that Microsoft doesn’t provide.
Netflix – How many of us use the Xbox for Netflix? It a service you pay for separately from Xbox Live, but you still need a Gold Membership to access it... I’m already paying 8.95 a month for Netflix, $15 a Month for internet and yet I still need to pay $60 a year just to have access to it. Now I’m paying three times for the same service…that in my book is a rip off.
Online Gaming – This is another service that has to have an xbox live Gold account, but Microsoft does not control or do any work to provide. Most of the online games will do one of two things. (1) Have their own dedicated servers to host games on. These are run by the gaming companies or the developers, not Microsoft. (2) Peer 2 Peer hosting, code written into the game that allows the game to select on person to "host" the game (this is where the infamous hast advantage come into play). This is yet something else that is not provided by Microsoft yet we are charged for access to it. Both of these things go through the internet or the individual game companies, not Xbox Live, and what does Microsoft do? Charge You! They make you pay to access a service (internet) you already pay for!
My problem isn’t necessarily paying for Xbox Gold, if it is for a service that Microsoft provides such as the ESPN package, Hulu Plus and party chat, but requiring the “Gold” package for services I am already paying for (internet, Netflix). The Gold package should be an upgrade and not a requirement to enjoy all aspects of a game you have already spent $60 on or a service you spend $9 a month on. Make it an option, if you want to access Facebook, ESPN and Party chat then buy a gold subscription, but for people who want to just game online or watch Netflix it is a rip off. It’s almost like they are simply charging gamers “because they can”.
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