For a limited time, all Xbox Live Silver members will be able to get a month of Gold for just a $1. Once the month is up though, your subscription will be automatically renewed, but you can cancel the service before that happens. If you don't opt-out, you'll be charged $7.99 a month. That's a horrible rate, as you'll end up paying $96 for 12 months when you can just buy the 12 month subscription to Gold for $50.
You can also just create a new fresh Gamertag and get one month of Xbox Live Gold for free that way. You can do that up to five times last I checked.
[via Joystiq]
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4:00 AM on 06.18.2009
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Or just not get XBL coz' I've barely found any use for it so far...
As for this story, $1 for a trial - good, the cost of subsequent months - bad. I don't know what 96 dollars is to pounds at the moment but either way it seems like a blatant rip-off.
GET OUT OF MY HEAD, MICROSOFT!
It's about as simple as that Microsoft.
They've got more money than Sony probably ever will. And it'd negate the whole "PSN is free" argument.
This is coming from a Sony fan too.
You in the UK or not? I cancelled mine when they wouldn't repair my last 360, going through this number - 0800 587 1102.
Not sure if your not UK though
2 reason why that won't happen
1 they aren't as rich as people believe.
Ms was sitting at 160th place of the top richest companies but being in the center of the ressesion things have gone downhill, add in the value of a sunken dollar and I wouldn't. Be surprised if they were knoked back to around 200, sony however is still in the top 100 (85th I believe).
2 a lot of the 360 profits are from xbl fees.
Their hardware is barely profitable, and thanks to the rrod free repairs (around 10 mil I believe) and the debt from the old xbox (around 5 mil) most profits from hardware are negated.xbl fees are the lifeblood of the 360, getting rid of them would cripple most of the 360s finacial resources, and sony would surely take advantage of that should they ever be given the opportunity.
Also I cancelled my subscription yesterday ; why the hell do we need to call those fucks for that; Stupid.
But I did get an acceptable service in french which is pretty unusual coming from Microsoft.
Seriously I'd think that would be the best option. Then if I wanted that cool stuff (which I might or might not), I could buy it. If I didn't, I could stick with Silver and still play Crackdown co-op.
Also,
"you're subscription will be automatically renewed"
should be
"your subscription will be automatically renewed"
Instead of just canceling, you have to call customer service, wait on hold for a half-hour, give them all of your account information over the phone, and give a legitimate explanation for canceling. I think the main reason so many people have Xbox Live is because getting rid of the damn this is such a pain in the ass.
Give me a nice easy way to cancel it from the account management page and I'll join your service, until then... I'll enjoy free-to-play multiplayer on the PC and PS3.
"how many people will buy this then forget to cancel?" - "We could make a few extra million before people have even realised!"
Nice to be treated like a brainless cash cow by the company you keep paying for console after RRoD'd console after E74'd console.
But why did you bring up the RROD and E74 issue into this. This post is about Live, not the console.
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