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Xbox Live Pricing Revealed
Xs writes "For those of you wondering how much it will cost to play online when your year of free Xbox Live runs out, listen up. Microsoft has just unveiled their pricing plan for Xbox Live. Pretty cheap, too! You will be given two options: one is to pay for a full year of service, that will cost you $49.99. Second option is to pay by the month, that will set you back $5.99 a month. The Xbox Live starter kit is also getting a new price of $69.99. Plus, MS will also start selling the voice communicators by themselves - they'll retail for $29.99." Sounds like a pretty good deal.
"Sounds like a pretty good deal."
Why the fruck do You not feel like You're being screwed with XBox Live? Why are You paying for a service which should be included with the $50 You spent on the game in the first place.
Anybody who feels that $50/year (on top of broadband and game purchase costs) is acceptable for playing games online NEEDS to spend some time playing online PC games. For a taste, download America's Army (for free) and see what it's like to play against 32 people at once, without any stupid annual or monthly fee.
The only games I'd be willing to pay annual fees for are MMORPGs, and even then only if they were using those fees to create new and valuable content. XBox Live seems like nothing more than an unnecessary obstacle to online gaming with the XBox.