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[the nightman cometh]

I'm sure there will still be times you can find $35 deals on a year Xbox Live, I think this is just aimed at the masses who just keep their credit card attached to their account and auto reup without even thinking about it.

I don't enjoy paying $35-$50 for a year of live but will a $10 a year increase make a difference to me, not really.

 

[ampere]

True. I think I have enough 3 month free subscription cards laying around to get me through until next console cycle. Looks like I better start saving money.

Not to criticize or lecture you but I remember in that possum-gaf thread you seemed to have money troubles.

I would highly recommend being more prudent in situations such as this, if you cancel your XBL subscription and get your credit card removed you can buy the 12 month cards for much cheaper:

$40 right now on Amazon vs the $7.99 * 12 = $95.88 you are paying per year now if you use the monthly renewal.

But yeah if you have 3 month cards just cancel and keep making new accounts

 

[Adamm]

Hmm, I expected it to go down :lol

 

[Quixzlizx]

As said above, inflation accounts precisely for this price hike.


http://www.westegg.com/inflation/


http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

It's a good thing inflation on $0 is still $0.

 

[soco]

i was always curious why it was cheaper in the US than in Europe. i was paying like 60Euro when i first got my 360.

 

[FrankT]

As said above, inflation accounts precisely for this price hike.


http://www.westegg.com/inflation/


http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl

http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/

Perhaps, ready for a price decrease when real deflation starts setting in heh. Also in before Kotick wants a piece of the price hike haha.

 

[H_Prestige]

I wish Microsoft would bring out a different tier of pricing for those of us who don't use all the guff that Gold 'enables'. I mean I use Gold purely for MP, not any of this last.fm/twitter/facebook shit. Raising the price just means I will cancel it, sick of being ripped off. Time to cancel my subscription me thinks.

What do you think 99% of Gold members are paying for? Multiplayer. That's the trick. MS allows that for Silver, and suddenly they aren't getting obscene amounts of cash each year for running some matchmaking servers.

If you want online for Silver, you got to vote with your wallet. But XBL Gold subscribers are only increasing, so fat chance of that ever happening :lol

 

[StealthGoblin]

So Sony give a service where you could potentially get £200 of savings a year. . .and Microsoft put their prices up for the same service. Interesting. Sony won't like this. Sony will put their prices up. :lol

 

[Xater]

:lol :lol :lol

 

[AceBandage]

As said above, inflation accounts precisely for this price hike.

I'm sorry, but they couldn't even justify $50 in 2002, considering it's P2P and has advertising...
This isn't inflation, it's pure money grubbing.
And sadly, people are falling for it.

 

[jmd494]

Oh come on! The increase is only $10 A YEAR...as in, about the price of a Snickers bar once a month.

But I do agree in principle...How do you have the balls to announce a price increase when you're #1 competitor is still free?

 

[Gravijah]

It's a good thing inflation on $0 is still $0.

actually it's not and here's my proof:

 

[MirageDwarf]

This. The codes won't expire anytime soon, so all I need to do is redeem one once a month.

Fuck. Why didn't I think of this? I stopped getting new codes after I had enough for three yrs.

So, who's going to be the first to defend this?

Didn't you read posts claiming how people always buy it on sale so it's not a real issue?

 

[Meier]

I like how people thought the price would eventually go away. Hey, maybe they'll get rid of the ads now!

In all honesty, I bet the $10 is going to ESPN for licensing ESPN360 access.

 

[Drkirby]

So, who's going to be the first to defend this?

Its adjusting based on the rise of inflation as caluclated by the CPI.

Spoiler

$60 today really is worth just as much as $50 in 2002 based on inflation rates, give or take $1

 

[Hixx]

the reason for them not to do it is pretty obvious: for the vast majority of the userbase, xbox live gold is paid to play multiplayer. the end.

the other features are just bullet points. if they had you pay, say, 5 bucks a year to play online and 60 to use all the BLING BLING, 99% of the gold subscribers would switch to the cheaper plan and they'd lose a lot of their revenue

Hence the 'I wish'

I also wish SAFC would win the league annually, never comes true :lol

 

[Safe Bet]

As said above, inflation accounts precisely for this price hike.

Too bad unemployment has risen and wages decreased in that same period fuckwad.

Hint: inflation is a "bad thing" and you don't justify doing it (in a down turning economy) because everyone else is. It makes the problem worse.

 

[Definity]

Now I see how they plan on paying for the failure that will soon be Kinect.

 

[Synless]

Good thing I own a PS3.

 

[Alucrid]

Oh come on! The increase is only $10 A YEAR...as in, about the price of a Snickers bar once a month.

But I do agree in principle...How do you have the balls to announce a price increase when you're #1 competitor is still free?

But I don't buy a snicker's bar once a month.

 

[Brazil]

:lol

I'll go hug my PS3 now.

 

[desa]

I wish Microsoft would bring out a different tier of pricing for those of us who don't use all the guff that Gold 'enables'. I mean I use Gold purely for MP, not any of this last.fm/twitter/facebook shit. Raising the price just means I will cancel it, sick of being ripped off. Time to cancel my subscription me thinks.

Agreed. I don't use any of that other shit that's unrelated to gaming. I got a PC to do it for free. I've paid $30 for my subscriptions and still feel ripped off. No more taking it up the ass. Take that dick back and eat it microsoft!

 

[D4Danger]

Oh come on! The increase is only $10 A YEAR...as in, about the price of a Snickers bar once a month.

But I do agree in principle...How do you have the balls to announce a price increase when you're #1 competitor is still free?

because the business have proven itself against the free option (on other consoles, pc gamers were having none of it)

Microsoft make billions from this stuff and crap like avatar items. If Sony could turn the clock back I bet they would.

 

[alr1ght]

Oh come on! The increase is only $10 A YEAR...as in, about the price of a Snickers bar once a month.

But I do agree in principle...How do you have the balls to announce a price increase when you're #1 competitor is still free?

Yeah bro, I wish all of my real bills went up $10 a year. It's only chump change.

 

[V_Ben]

Say what? :lol

If people continue to subscribe on the price goes up, then prices will continue to go up

 

[ClovingWestbrook]

So $40= the new $30?

 

[Zaraki_Kenpachi]

What do you think 99% of Gold members are paying for? Multiplayer. That's the trick. MS allows that for Silver, and suddenly they aren't getting obscene amounts of cash each year for running some matchmaking servers.

If you want online for Silver, you got to vote with your wallet. But XBL Gold subscribers are only increasing, so fat chance of that ever happening :lol

:lol Paying for matchmaking servers? That's a good one.

 

[Wario64]

Oh come on! The increase is only $10 A YEAR...as in, about the price of a Snickers bar once a month.

But I do agree in principle...How do you have the balls to announce a price increase when you're #1 competitor is still free?

So is this the new defense now? You're only paying 1 Snickers bar a month? :lol

 

[clav]

it all started with the horse armor

you shouldn't have bought that fucking horse armor

:lol :lol :lol

 

[Slayer-33]

So $40= the new $30?

$40 for live is the new $60 on gaf.

 

[lowrider007]

Ridiculous. Sony should start an ad campaign and mock the everliving shit out of this.

Which would come back and bite them in the ass when they do the same next gen, Sony didn't charge for online just to one-up MS in advertisement bullet points, if they had the same features at launch as live then we'd be paying for PSN also, it's a smart business model and one that MS is proving is successful and very profitable.

 

[spats]

That's a pretty fucked up thing to do.

 

[H_Prestige]

:lol

I'll go hug my PS3s now.

Enjoy free online multiplayer for at least a couple of years more. Sony isn't going to ignore this easy source of income, and current management has shown several times they don't care about removing past features of the console.

 

[Neuromancer]

Guys, MS is doing you a favor by locking in your XBL Gold for $39.99!!!!!

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/pricelock/default.htm

WOO!

It's like rent control in NYC

 

[dreamer3kx]

 

[GillianSeed79]

But I don't buy a snicker's bar once a month.

Who buys $10 Snickers bars? Did they start adding crack to Snickers bars when I wasn't looking? (kidding)

The worst thing is there are even more ads now on NXE than before, so how can they justify a $10 price hike.

 

[cuevas. PhD.]

Yeah fuck this, I won't be buying any MP games for 360.

until all your friends do

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

Wait, so if you use the link in his post and get Live at $40, you get it at $40 from now on?

 

[Talamius]

It's really hard to get angry over this. If you're content with getting charged for a service when everyone else is getting similar services for free, that's on you.

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Too bad unemployment has risen and wages decreased in that same period fuckwad.

Hint: inflation is a "bad thing" and you don't justify doing it (in a down turning economy) because everyone else is. It makes the problem worse.

Can this be auto-replied to every post that contains the word "inflation" on the gaming forum?

 

[Definity]

Does this mean we get 10$ more worth of ads when we start up the xbox dashboard now?

 

[Shig]

Protip: Turn off auto-subscribe and let your sub expire, and a good deal will magically be placed in your 360 dashboard ads to try and woo you back.

I got 3 1-month renewals for $1 each this way earlier this year, and $10 for 3 months more recently. So I've paid only $13 for half a year.

 

[elrechazado]

Which would come back and bite them in the ass when they do the same next gen, Sony didn't charge for online just to one-up MS in advertisement bullet points, if they had the same features at launch as live then we'd be paying for PSN also, it's a smart business model and one that MS is proving is successful and very profitable.

It's all about now. Take advantage. We all know sony takes away features, but short term boost to rake in pissed off customers? why not.

 

[thehillissilent]

You know, paying for online gaming is fundamentally fucked up to start with.

Pretty much, that's why I refuse to buy any multiplayer games for 360. I'd rather play them for free on the ps3 and, of course, the pc.

 

[see5harp]

Which would come back and bite them in the ass when they do the same next gen, Sony didn't charge for online just to one-up MS in advertisement bullet points, if they had the same features at launch as live then we'd be paying for PSN also, it's a smart business model and one that MS is proving is successful and very profitable.

Sad but true. Hopefully next time around Sony stays free and can take more of the market and provide some competition.

 

[ClovingWestbrook]

Hate to say it but PC wins again.

 

[Gravijah]

until all your friends do

That hasn't caused me to actually buy a year of XBL yet.

 

[FHIZ]

The fuck?

Wellt that's pretty annoying.

 

[Pancakes R Us]

My decision to wait for Lara Croft on Steam completely redeemed!

PS

FUCK YOU MICROSOFT

You want me to pay to play online?

Offer me a service worth paying for fuck twats.

I don't use XBL or have a 360 or anything, but I though XBL offered the best console online service? Why is there such a crazy reaction over $10?

 

[FrankT]

So $40= the new $30?

Probably, but most of the time $49 I would guess. The $30 deals happen they just don't happen enough.