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Xbox Live Pricing To Go Up To $60 Per Year
donniebaseball23 writes "Microsoft has raised the annual price of Xbox Live Gold to $60, which is a price hike of $10. The new price goes into effect on November 1, but gamers can lock in the current Xbox Live price by renewing now. EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich is not surprised by the move, nor does he think it will really have much impact on the Xbox momentum."
Once again, users locked into proprietary, closed source software running on proprietary, closed source operating systems find themselves locked in and held at gunpoint by their corporate masters. In my life as a Linux user, using only open source software, I have never found myself in this position. Where the xbox to run on Linux, the games would run faster, due to Linux's enormously powerful graphics API's that put DirectX to shame, they would be more secure and cheat proof due to Linux's enormously superior security model, and the games would have less bugs as people would be able to inspect the source. Linux, victorious, once more. I can hear Redmond's boots quaking from miles away.
Hmm, the same company that produced Bill Gates somehow isn't making enough money, so it needs to raise its prices?
I guess they feel they've gotten enough people locked-in that they can start squeezing the juice out of them. It's why people like to choose an open internet over single vendor proprietary locked in platforms.
How dare Microsoft charge for hosting all those servers... they should do it for free!!! Profit? Expenses? Who care, they should make it free for me!!! If they don't make it free I wont give them my moneyz!!! **although if they make it free i sort of wont give them my money either**