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Windows Live Free: Why Not Xbox Live?
DryvBy | 1:07 PM on 07.22.2008 41 comments


[insert picture of Anti-Christ...or Peter Moore since they look like brothers]


As I've been saying, XBox Live should be free. It's a generic service when compared to what's out there on the PC market, and I think Microsoft learned that the hard way. No one on a PC is going to pay to play a shooter. That's strictly talking non-console PC gamers. What Microsoft originally did was plaster all of the good features from PC gaming onto a console so non-PC gamers could go "whoa" and drool at such terrific features as voice chat with kids, friends list that doesn't suck as much as the Wii's, and up to 16 player multiplayer! Well, granted that hundreds of politicians use feature number 2 and the PC world has had the others for a while (aside form 16 player multiplayer... try thousands per game), this Windows Live feature didn't really work out like Microsoft bargained, so they did the best they could and made it free. So that means it's time for me to get my Gears of War back out and get those achievements.

Life's sort of like an RPG, and I'm just a crazy gold farmer. But my gold is Trophies and Achievements.

-dryvby



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the GAMEGOBLIN's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 13:18
the GAMEGOBLIN
!What++
DryvBy's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 13:23
DryvBy
A. No.
2. Math?
D. Under $4? What discounts?
5. Peter Moore is still the MS mascot to me. A tool.
623. Which games? Halawls?
DryvBy's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 13:27
DryvBy
Oh, buying a card for 12 months. Yeah, not so keen on that. Ya see, I'm about to start school again so if I have to pay for a service, I'll feel more obligated to use it. And I won't have the time.

Plus, pretty soon in the great US of freakin' A, Comcast, AT&T and the TimeWarner Nazis have a plan to ban the internet for gamers by charging us per GB used. So, nah, Xbox Live needs to be free. Quit being a tool.
DryvBy's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 13:30
DryvBy
Heretic, already got one and can you honestly see a real reason to pay for their crap if they made it free on Windows? I forgot: fanboys love to support their company, even if their wallet gets raped.
galagabug 's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 13:34
galagabug
b/c they can.

unless you know another way to play online with your 360?
Aertyr's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 13:46
Aertyr
Why would they charge money on a platform that has never had to pay money ever. It makes no sense business wise to make them do that to the PC. The 360 on the other hand has the best online of any console whether or not you believe it is a superior console (Which I don't believe it is). For the service you get from XBL the 50 a year is nothing. So stop complaining.
Crunshii's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 13:52
Crunshii
I knew it, heretic! your green fanboy colors are showing all over! oh wait... thats dtoid colors D:
free touch's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 13:55
free touch
I love you all.
JonDarkwood's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 13:55
JonDarkwood
Boo hoo, build a bridge and get over it. They pay people to maintain the service, and people pay for the service, they're going to charge for the service if they can make money off of it. They're not out to help us, they're out for profit.

And they don't give a flying fuck about people like you, because they're making their money.
The Duke's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 13:59
The Duke
Drvby do you download loads and loads of software and music for free by any chance? It seems to me you're one of those people that expects everything to be free as if you have a right to have it even though the people providing it need to make money to keep producing. We here in the UK pay more for everything on Xbox Live by the way, so you have nothing to whine about.
In summation shut the hell up and stop crying.
HarassmentPanda's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 14:02
HarassmentPanda
I heard this is where the dancing asian girls are hanging out.
AnTi PRO's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 14:10
AnTi PRO
It's 50 bucks a year...get over it.
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 14:12
king3vbo
I'm getting Deja Vu... again
free touch's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 14:16
free touch
Freedom isn't free
It costs folks like you and me
And if we don't all chip in
We'll never pay that bill
Freedom isn't free
No, there's a hefty fuckin' fee.
And if you don't throw in your buck 'o five
Who will?
ParaParaKing's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 14:24
ParaParaKing
The easy answer: Because 360 users are dumbasses.
adultswim810's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 14:25
adultswim810
when did gfw live become free
GuitarAtomik's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 14:39
GuitarAtomik
What Aertyr said. The main difference between XBL on Windows and XBL on the Xbox is that Windows already has competing services and options that do the same things (actually more things I think) all for free. It doesn't make sense for Microsoft to enter that market and charge you for it when there's that long history of free multiplayer and Steam already exists.

Console side, there is no competing service like that and there really shouldn't be because it would fracture the player base.
GuitarAtomik's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 15:03
GuitarAtomik
@brainderailment

No, but you can't and it's worth the money to me.
JamnOnTheOne's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 15:16
JamnOnTheOne
@Brainderailment

Do you subscribe to any MMORPGs? Do you feel that the same argument holds for those pay-to-play games as well?
DryvBy's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 15:17
DryvBy
@Aertyr
Can you explain that theory? How is it "the best"? Because it's a shopping mall? Please...
Danmartigan's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 15:19
Danmartigan
So wait, you're going to post something like this while proudly displaying a WoW badge in your profile? You pay $15/mo to play progress quest.

Umm, thread unofficially locked.
covah's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 15:42
covah
Why not Xbox Live? weeeeeeeeeell. More people use it, the end. Trying to put a paid unified service on a PC was a dumb move.
free touch's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 15:49
free touch
pwnbliterated.
sevink's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 16:00
sevink
Someone got OWNED.

See I pay for WoW and Xbox live but you don't see me complaining. :)
Jetsetlemming's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 16:27
Jetsetlemming
This post confuses and angers. Rawr!
Please reword your point in english.
And use paragraphs.
Dynamic Sheep's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 16:54
Dynamic Sheep
To answer the question posited in the title of the post: Why is Windows Live Free, when Xbox Live is not? That's got a simple answer... if the 360 didn't have Xbox Live, there would be no reason to buy one, however; there is more reason to buy Windows than to play games online. Not to mention the fact that there are a TON of PC games that have free online play on Windows whereas the 360s only competition online is Sony, and they have yet to be as strong as Xbox Live.
Aaron Mxy Yost's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 17:32
Aaron Mxy Yost
Different platforms, different standards.
Kyousuke Nanbu's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 17:35
Kyousuke Nanbu
Its cheap.
Its organized.
It rarely goes down.
I have many handy features to report and or shut someone up.
I like it.

And Heretic just owned you.
Brian Szabelski's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/22/2008 19:48
Brian Szabelski
Everything is free, including all your stuff. I'm taking it.
Too Much Coffee Man's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2008 03:11
Too Much Coffee Man
GFW = Free because PC gamers don't want it

XBL = Pay because xbox gamers do want it.

GFW = sucks

XBL = awesome

GFW != XBL

* "!=" means does not equal.
falinter's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2008 09:11
falinter
Hopefully this new Fall update will make the value of XBL worth it to drvvyby? or whatever your name is.

I on the other hand do not care.

Best Buy gives me 12+1 month cards for 35 bucks.
DryvBy's Avatar - Comment posted on 07/23/2008 15:23
DryvBy
Actually, fagwipes, WoW isn't really a burden since I only play when I get free time. Ya see, there's this thing where Blizzard gives you money to have someone sign up. If one of my friends (referring to the ones that I can physically hang out with) is going to buy a copy to play and hasn't yet, I just email them a guest thing and when they buy it, I get a month!

SHAZAM!

Shouldn't the internet have known that you can do that by now? Bunch of 2 year olds on this site.

BUT OMG PWND ON THE INETERNET! YOU BETTER GO TELL YOUR BLOW UP GIRLS YOU PWND SOMEONE. UBBER.
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