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[FrankT]

http://majornelson.com/archive/2010/08/30/price-change-for-xbox-live-gold-subscription.aspx

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Weird how they're only really changing the US prices.

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Pachter redeemed just not crazy like?

 

[CrunchinJelly]

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Weird how they're only really changing the US prices.

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[Threi]

:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

 

[Stumpokapow]

thank god i've got free live until the end of 2013.

 

[goldenpp72]

That... sucks? Come on now.

 

[Mad_Ban]

Praise be prophet Pachter!

 

[cw_sasuke]

They are only increasing the price where the 360 actually sells well in relation xD

 

[Speevy]

Well I'll have to jump on board then.


I hear you can play games online!

 

[Owzers]

Fantastic, as someone who stopped paying for Live because I think online p2p gaming should be free, it brings great lawls to see Microsoft raise price, and inevitable tears when Sony decides to start charging for p2p online gaming.

 

[Fantastical]

Wow, fuck you Microsoft.

 

[Mr. Lemming]

Glad I grabbed 2 cards for $30 a pop from Dell a week ago.

 

[Gravijah]

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

 

[DuckRacer]

thank god i've got free live until the end of 2013.

End of 2015 for me.

Quit being a bunch of greedy bastards, Microsoft.

 

[Net_Wrecker]

SMH, this is getting ridiculous.

 

[Genesis Knight]

Thankfully I just bought 2 1-year-long subs.

 

[Wario64]

AHUAHAUHUAUAHAUHUAHUA :LOL

Paying for online gaming is a joke

 

[Princess Skittles]

Wow. :lol

 

[viewtiful_dru]

time to stack those free Gold sub cards again

 

[rvy]

:lol :lol :lol :lol

I'm in tears.

 

[GitarooMan]

Lol, as if anyone who pays attention even pays 50 dollars a year now anyway....

 

[Shadow780]

Time to hoard some subscrip. cards!

 

[Fantastical]

The only reason I have Xbox Live Gold is because of Netflix.

Isn't this basically pure profit anyways?

 

[kaskade]

Guess I'll stock up on cards from amazon or something. Dick move though. They better give us more stuff. Like that will happen.

 

[FrankT]

thank god i've got free live until the end of 2013.

This will force my hand to re-up before Christmas since I was good until Feb 2011. I guess this also means the new deal price on Amazon will be $49. Crappy. $30 before then I think will be rare with this move however.

 

[Drkirby]

:lol :lol :lol

Though knowing my luck, all my expired 1 month codes will now acctaully stop working.

 

[DaBuddaDa]

"Xbox 720, launching Fall of 2013! Featuring XBOX LIVE 720, available for a year at the low low price of $99.99!"

 

[burgerdog]

The fuck?

 

[Treo360]

glad I jumped ship a year ago

 

[Sho_Nuff82]

Yeah, I'm never going to pay more than $35 for a year.

Fuck off MS.

 

[Guevara]

WTF - thought this was a joke thread

 

[Vinterbird]

thank god i've got free live until the end of 2013.

How the hell did you manage that?

And Microsoft better be announcing some amazing features soon to justify this.

 

[Nelo Ice]

well looks like im not going to give out any of my extra live subs since im currently set till somewhere in 2013 :lol

 

[OldJadedGamer]

I've gotten all my subscriptions for $30 so that means $40 now? I am good till 2012 but will pick up one more the next time a sale comes around.

 

[Quixzlizx]

They should just stuff the NXE with advertisements instead of raising the price for XBLG. Oh.

 

[Neil]

I feel a sort of smug happiness that US will have to start paying similar rates to the rest of the world!

 

[Stumpokapow]

End of 2015 for me.

Quit being a bunch of greedy bastards, Microsoft.

how's that even possible? mine wouldn't let me redeem past 3 years, so i ended up giving my girlfriend's gamertag 3 years instead of stacking on mine.

 

[Repgnar]

With so many retailers offering sales on 12 month cards every other month, I haven't paid full price for quite some time now. Hopefully they don't try increasing the cost of microsoft points.

 

[Archie]

Hahahahahahaha

 

[oneHeero]

So wait its $50(for me) to have internet with my ISP monthly and now MS wants to charger $60/yearly to use that service?(P2P)?

10 bucks isnt a huge change since most ppl get it discounted anyways. Although I assume the discounted live cards will be @ 49.99 now :lol

 

[Gravijah]

Lol, as if anyone who pays attention even pays 50 dollars a year now anyway....

I'm sure this price increase will influence the sale prices, too, so... you'll be feeling it.

 

[MotorbreathX]

I guess it's time to find some cheap. Of course, now everybody will push their prices up. Bastards.

 

[Bread]

...seriously? If anything the price needs to go down, come on MS

 

[Owzers]

The only reason I have Xbox Live Gold is because of Netflix.

Isn't this basically pure profit anyways?

I'm watching Netflix streaming on ps3 right now, helped me break off from Gold.

 

[Killer]

Just when you thought it will get cheaper... Well done MS.

 

[Mad_Ban]

How the hell did you manage that?

And Microsoft better be announcing some amazing features soon to justify this.

Clearer headset quality dood. Quality doesn't come cheap.

 

[RdN]

When I saw the tweet from Major Nelson I thought: "Finally, they're dropping the price!".. and then I read the blog post and was like "WTF?!".. :lol

Sure, Xbox Live is a great service.. I'm a subscriber since 2003, but I just get past the fact that we still get P2P only games.

 

[Nelo Ice]

how's that even possible? mine wouldn't let me redeem past 3 years, so i ended up giving my girlfriend's gamertag 3 years instead of stacking on mine.

im guessing he means he has codes unredeemed like i do

since yeah it wont let u stack past 3 years on one account

 

[Green Biker Dude]

it all started with the horse armor

you shouldn't have bought that fucking horse armor

 

[Diablohead]

My account right now has about 8 months left on it and would have expired in june if not for some free month codes, unless I am totaly hooked on reach and some other titles i'll be taking a lenghy break from live I think.

I feel a sort of smug happiness that US will have to start paying similar rates to the rest of the world!

Yes, £40 was not $50 any way you cut it, more like $60 eh? eh? eh???

I live in the UK btw.

 

[TheSeks]

Well, looks my decision of stopping being an X-box Live subscriber now that they dropped OG X-box support (which I was a member of since launch, so that's 7 years of "Gold?") ironically ending in November this year is being more and more justified.

Thanks, MS!