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Xbox Live Goes Online

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the but-what-are-the-games dept.

abhikhurana writes " Internetnews is reporting that Microsoft has launched Xbox Live broadband gaming service. To access Microsoft's service, Xbox gamers have to buy a $49.99 starter kit, which includes 12 month's worth of access to the Xbox Live service and a headset kit for voice communications. Microsoft said that about 16 games with online play capabilities will be available by the end of the year. So has anyone already tried it? If so, what do you think about it?"

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  1. Re:I dunno... by Pros_n_Cons · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wait till a bug is found, i'll be cooking hamburgers in your toaster.

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  2. Re:not bad... by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Troll

    Not really funny. First off who would buy an Xbox for the sole reason of installing some half-backwards OS like Linux? Personally if I chucked out a couple 100 $ I'd want to "play" with it.

    Tom

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  3. Re:Too bad... by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 0, Troll
    If users attempt to access Xbox Live with an Xbox installed with modified hardware or unapproved software, yadda yadda...

    Unapproved software? let me get this straight, people buy a hideously expensive though souped-up PC in a horrid black box which the MS marketing department calls an "Xbox" and people can't even decide what to put on their own PC/Xbox? Anyone got a slight idea that this is specifically aimed at those people who put Linux on their very own Xbox?

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  4. Re:To Tom by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Troll

    Which clue would that be? How l33t it is to h4x0r a b0x0r and put linux on it?

    Here's a tip. Just because you can put linux on it doesn't make it cool. More often than not these "toys" have fairly complicated processors that are well suited for it. Putting Linux on an original Gameboy, now thats a feat.

    Eitherway, if I chucked out the money for a console I wouldn't risk breaking it so I can tell my l33t h4x0r storiez to my possy.

    tom

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  5. It will be $13/Mo after 1st year. XBox Live = DEAD by Viewsonic · · Score: 1, Troll

    And that doesn't even include the MONTHLY fee's to play games like Phantasy Star online, or any other large RPGs that will be charging a monthly fee! Talk about a great way to lose money and kill your console!

  6. You paid to play PC games on your TV on a PC... by Viewsonic · · Score: 1, Troll

    You sir are hilarious.. Just play these on your home PC instead of your slow Celeron PC called the XBox.. Next year the service is going to cost $13/month... Have fun.. PC games are free unless yer playing RPGs.