On Xbox Live's Past, Present, Future

Posted by simoniker on Monday July 5, 2004 @06:06AM from the to-infinity-and-beyond dept.

Thanks to TeamXbox for its interview with Andre Vrignaud from Microsoft's Xbox Live Platform Strategy Team, in which he discusses topics including user numbers (they're "on track" for 1 million subscribers by now, and "on average people are playing three hours a day (which is up from the 2.5 hours we saw a year ago), and the average number of people on Friends lists continues to climb - it's a little over 13 right now."), as well as the Xbox Live alerts through MSN Messenger ("In fact, you can look at these as being the first pieces of Xbox Live on Windows. If anything, people are pushing us to release more of Live on Windows as quickly as possible - and we're working on it!")

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Best online strategy is a free one by superpulpsicle · 2004-07-05 16:37 · Score: -1, Flamebait

You people are all fooled by M$. They'd like you to believe that a monthly subscription is NECESSARY to maintain online gaming for any particular games. I am sorry but just cause Evercrack succeeded in the process, doesn't mean M$ has to follow it.

If you tell me $10 a month is needed so developers can maintain a server with new monsters monthly, then you're not giving me the option to play without paying. So many games like Enemy Territory has gone forever with hardly even a patch. Sports games especially. If I pay $10 a month, will M$ update my roster so I don't have to buy football games every year. Pffff... no.