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Post by hollywoodscene on Aug 30, 2010 11:33:38 GMT -5
REALLY!? Shouldnt they decrease it as there competition is ya know, FREE? This pisses me off.
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Post by alexgg on Aug 30, 2010 11:36:21 GMT -5
REALLY!? Shouldnt they decrease it as there competition is ya know, FREE? This pisses me off. Exactly, I should try to get XBL back before it goes up then.
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Post by bad guy™ on Aug 30, 2010 11:56:43 GMT -5
Just got the email. Are you freaking serious? A ten dollar jump? Really? Ugh!
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Post by Double J on Aug 30, 2010 13:02:11 GMT -5
I'm not angry so much as the increase, since it is just business, but the price increase REALLY made me realize that I am no longer getting my 50 bucks a year of value out of the service. When my Gold expires....I'm gonna really reconsider even upgrading unless something really special happens. I don't play games online as much as I used to and Netflix is free everywhere else.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 30, 2010 13:25:32 GMT -5
Wow, that is ridiculous and if I didn't just renew my subscription for only $20 because of a deal I got from Amazon, I'd be even more pissed off.
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Post by Mole on Aug 30, 2010 14:04:04 GMT -5
I'm not as pissed now as I was before, but it's just incredibly stupid for them to do this. I understand that perhaps they had to financially, but, if that was the case, they should have said that. Sure, there would have been tons of people saying, "Bull shit," but at least it's not as offensive as "We’re confident that when the new pricing takes effect, an Xbox LIVE Gold membership will continue to offer the best value in the industry," especially when most of the "features" of Xbox LIVE require you to pay more money to other customers.
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Post by bad guy™ on Aug 30, 2010 14:49:35 GMT -5
Yeah. I mean...I use a vast majority of the features already and will be using ESPN, but still. As someone who only makes around $230 a month and is saving for college on that little bit, every dollar counts.
Meh.
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Post by nhwawrestling on Aug 30, 2010 14:50:37 GMT -5
Microsoft Just Loves the money they dont Give a crapabout anyone but themselves I will give you another example : i have a child account cause im only 15 and they wont let me download a M rated free DLC for RDR but i can Buy Legends and Killers for 800 and play it. If theyre gonna do that why not just let me have the goddamn free DLC
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Post by Chip on Aug 30, 2010 14:53:37 GMT -5
finally found my way into this thread...haha. what's the general idea here? just Xbox chatter...info, etc?
The price increase is absolute BS. They aren't getting enough money from us? Added to that Kinect which I will NEVER own...and ESPN which I already pay for with my ridiculously high cable bill? PS3 is looking better & better...for real.
My Xbox is paid up until March next year...it might not get re-newed.
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Post by tonylentelli on Aug 30, 2010 15:14:10 GMT -5
With the economy so bad that price increase will lose them subscribers but it won't hurt because the extra $10 they get off the people that stay will probably more than pay for it. Just a guess.
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Post by hollywoodscene on Aug 30, 2010 16:13:15 GMT -5
They dont need the extra money dont play dumb and act like MS really needs to charge $10 more. PSN has just as much features if not more(free browsing internet) and its free.
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Post by Mole on Aug 30, 2010 18:45:51 GMT -5
In less terrible news, I've finally cracked the 50,000 point mark. Of course, it's tarnished by the 7 at the end. I don't even remember what game ed that up, it might have been Viking.
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Post by hollywoodscene on Aug 30, 2010 22:44:37 GMT -5
I know a few games that can even out those odd scores if ya need one. Half Life can. Diner Dash and Crash of the Titans.
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Post by sullygrunt on Aug 31, 2010 0:46:46 GMT -5
Dont see the big deal... Not like its 59.99 a month...
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Post by Dexter Morgan on Aug 31, 2010 2:58:11 GMT -5
Is $10 that big of a deal? PSN is completely inferior to XBL and will continue to be unless they drastically update it. People are acting as if they are asking $365 for a year subscription.
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Post by Double J on Aug 31, 2010 11:24:37 GMT -5
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Post by moocow on Aug 31, 2010 14:08:57 GMT -5
The D-Pad looks cool but that's about it. I'm not a fan of it being grey, white and black, and I don't like how the buttons aren't colored
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Post by "The Visionary" Eldniw on Aug 31, 2010 16:17:15 GMT -5
Well.....after almost 3 years, my days of owning a 360 will *very sadly* come to an end. Today has just been a horrible day for me, with getting bitched at for making a payment on my overdue cell phone bill instead of paying the payment on a car that I can no longer drive due to the accident I got into over a month ago. So I'm planning on taking my 360 into GameStop for a cash trade and making that payment on a car that I can no longer drive. I will be without gaming for a little more than 2 weeks, as I AM getting he 320GB PS3 Move bundle when that releases on Sept. 17.
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Post by moocow on Aug 31, 2010 16:48:22 GMT -5
So Xbox is doing another "Summer of Arcade" type thing but for the fall called "Game Feast."
The games in "Game Feast" will be:
Hydrophobia on Sept. 29th Comic Jumper on Oct. 6th Pinball FX 2 on Oct. 13th and finally Super Meat Boy on Oct. 20th.
I cannot wait for Comic Jumper and Super Meat Boy, I have not idea what Hydrophobia is and I can't say I care that much about playing Pinball on my Xbox.
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Post by Double J on Aug 31, 2010 17:30:45 GMT -5
Oh, you need to TOTALLY read up on Hydrophobia. That game looks incredible. It started off as a disc game, but they ended up on going with the episodic platform instead. Just watch videos of it, the water effects are second to none.
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