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The new pricing for Xbox Live Gold membership hit the internet yesterday, and immediately a wall of grumbling went up from Camp Green. In the US, the new pricing shows an across the board increase; up $10 on the annual option.
Before you join the grousing too heartily, consider a few things.

1) Its still the best service available.

The most common complaint seen so far is that the PS3 offers online gaming for FREE, so where does Microsoft get off charging at all, let alone charging more for their service? But theres a reason were not all switching en masse to playing multiplayer primarily on the PSN. On XBL it is just easier to navigate, easier to communicate, easier to organize a group. Even Playstations paid option (PSN+) doesnt offer the most needed features like cross game voice chat and static parties that makes Live the best.

2) Nobody pays full price.

With all the promotional offers and near constant discounts at Walmart or Amazon, almost no one currently pays the full $50 a year for Live. Sure this price increase will mean those discounted prices will rise some as well, but not for a long time. Theres already a sale on cards for $40 right now. Known price increases like this result in arbitrage in the marketplace, with patient opportunists snatching up product at a low price, and reselling for a slight profit once the prices are raised. We should continue to see significant discounts on XBL cards well into the new year.

3) This is good business.

Its tough to separate our hobby from the business behind it. I know I often argue for how the artistic and creative aspects of this industry should outweigh the dollars and cents. But in this instance, were talking about the price of a service. Well find out soon if the market will bear this price increase, but my educated guess is that it absolutely will.

4) This is a preemptive move.

Theres extra subscription budget out there, but for how long? With more and more gamers paying for subscription services, it will get harder to make a price change like this in the future. Activision has been quite verbal in recent months about its desire to generate subscription revenue from its titles and their online play. No doubt this entered into Microsofts decision to try to capture some more of this revenue before gamers had one more subscription in their budget.
Im not telling you not to complain thats 100% your right as a consumer. Just remember, if Microsoft has to choose between listening to your mouths or your wallets, theyll choose wallet every time.


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another nice find and post, telf you should have your own badge saying, i find stuff lol
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xSASUKE wrote another nice find and post, telf you should have your own badge saying, i find stuff lol


i know lolz, thanks
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I Dont Have To Worry About Because I Hacked So I Do Not Have To Pay ANymore
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Agreed. its not like 4 dollars more will kill anyone
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MoDzY wrote I Dont Have To Worry About Because I Hacked So I Do Not Have To Pay ANymore


Cool story bro....

Anyway, i don't care i'd still pay it, because Xbox live is better than PS3, hence why they don't pay and we do
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nice post dude.

keep it up.
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Nice dude second good one!
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COOL NICE FIND!!!!!!!
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The new pricing for Xbox Live Gold membership hit the internet yesterday, and immediately a wall of grumbling went up from Camp Green. In the US, the new pricing shows an across the board increase; up $10 on the annual option.
Before you join the grousing too heartily, consider a few things.

1) Its still the best service available.

The most common complaint seen so far is that the PS3 offers online gaming for FREE, so where does Microsoft get off charging at all, let alone charging more for their service? But theres a reason were not all switching en masse to playing multiplayer primarily on the PSN. On XBL it is just easier to navigate, easier to communicate, easier to organize a group. Even Playstations paid option (PSN+) doesnt offer the most needed features like cross game voice chat and static parties that makes Live the best.

2) Nobody pays full price.

With all the promotional offers and near constant discounts at Walmart or Amazon, almost no one currently pays the full $50 a year for Live. Sure this price increase will mean those discounted prices will rise some as well, but not for a long time. Theres already a sale on cards for $40 right now. Known price increases like this result in arbitrage in the marketplace, with patient opportunists snatching up product at a low price, and reselling for a slight profit once the prices are raised. We should continue to see significant discounts on XBL cards well into the new year.

3) This is good business.

Its tough to separate our hobby from the business behind it. I know I often argue for how the artistic and creative aspects of this industry should outweigh the dollars and cents. But in this instance, were talking about the price of a service. Well find out soon if the market will bear this price increase, but my educated guess is that it absolutely will.

4) This is a preemptive move.

Theres extra subscription budget out there, but for how long? With more and more gamers paying for subscription services, it will get harder to make a price change like this in the future. Activision has been quite verbal in recent months about its desire to generate subscription revenue from its titles and their online play. No doubt this entered into Microsofts decision to try to capture some more of this revenue before gamers had one more subscription in their budget.
Im not telling you not to complain thats 100% your right as a consumer. Just remember, if Microsoft has to choose between listening to your mouths or your wallets, theyll choose wallet every time.


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good post t3lf
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