Thread: Why should Xbox Live and DLC be free?
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Old 03-28-2008, 05:26 PM   #31
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Originally Posted by DS View Post
Granted, but here is what you're actually paying $50 a year for:
  • Play your Xbox 360 multiplayer games online with the premiere online gaming service.
  • Use the brand new TrueSkill™ Matchmaking system to play against opponents with similar skills, personalities, and gaming tastes.
  • Give player feedback to rate your teammates and opponents on their sportsmanship, abilities, and conduct to influence matchmaking.
  • Play select original Xbox® games online (the Xbox 360 Hard Drive is required).
  • Get access to exclusive Gold Member content.
  • Engage in video chat.
Comparing these features alone to what is available on the PS3, for free, there is barely no advantage at all. The PS3 lets you play against others for free. The TrueSkill system is so hidden in the system that it does nothing of value. If anyone would really want to pay $50 to rate other people, give me their names because I have some air in jars that I would love to sell to them. Only $20 a jar!

Everything offered there is available for free, same quality, on the PS3. Nintendo's online is laughable so I'm not even going to really mention it.

I understand the arguments and I pay the $50 a year to play with my friends. It's not a matter of not having the money or not being able to come up with it. That is a horrible argument. I would just much rather not have to pay for something that is given for free on other systems.
Same quality? I'm yet to see anything of the same quality on PSN. They're both online services, but in the same sense that a dialup connection and a broadband connection are. The way Live is set up sets it apart from the current setup for PSN. I agree, I'd rather not pay for it, but thething is, it's not the same service. Live is a single platform that they have integrated directly into the dashboard. PSN offers online. Rather large difference. Worth the money to play online? well, it's not completely up to me to say. I paid for it, and you did too. Obviously, we find some merit in it.
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