Xbox Live Hits One Million Users

Thanks to Reuters for its news story revealing Microsoft's Xbox Live online service has reached one million users, additionally noting that "...more than 100 game titles can be played over Xbox Live, and it expects to see about 150 titles by the end of this year." The story also reports on some comparisons: "Microsoft said in a statement that it reached the 1 million mark for Xbox Live users three times faster than other subscription services, such as Time Warner Inc.'s AOL and TiVo Inc." This impending milestone was previously mentioned in an interview with Microsoft's Andre Vrignaud last month.

Comments

Goals?

[KDR_11k]

I'm not sure, but weren't they supposed to have reached that goal half a year (or something like that) ago already?

Re:I wonder

[chrismcdirty]

Probably for the same reason I didn't renew my free "subscription" to MSN -- because the store would not let me walk out with my laptop without it.

Re:I wonder

[AuMatar]

I've played MMOs where changing your name requires months of work to get back to where you were. Changing an xbox tag would most likely just be a new subscription. And the MMO asshole percentage was no lower than in other games. And most PC games allow the game's host to kick an asshole.

For the 9 year olds- I don't care about age, I do care about maturity. If you're mature,at any age, cool. If you aren't, I don't want to be around you in real life, I sure as hell don't want to be around you in a game. And unfortunately, the maturity level of online players is damn low.

The fact is MS can try whatever they want to make it better, but people are people. They can't change the human demographics of their players. And a minor decrease in the number of annoyances isn't enough to make it worth it. Besides which- while I don't own Live myself (I do NOT give money to Microsoft, I do not own an Xbox), I have played it at friend's places, and if anything the moron percentage was higher. My guess is its due to the younger average age of console gamers vs PC gamers.