Should Microsoft’s Xbox 360 charge for Live per games console and not by user?
Filed under: Gaming, Xbox 360 | By: Daniel
Posted on: October 2, 2007 | 20 Comments
First up I must admit that the Xbox 360 Live online service is much better than the Sony PS3 online service, owning both consoles I can give a first hand account of this and the much better parts of Xbox Live are the chat and the dashboard.
Although the biggest problem I have with Xbox Live is the fact that they wish to charge you for gold service per user and not games console.
This is a joke and it really got to me the other day when I wanted to play a game of Halo 3 in split screen co-op mode, the other player could not go online as I would need two gold accounts.
This is very bad especially because my Sony PS3 gets online for free, I am happy to pay for Xbox Live but only once on my games console.
Do you agree with me, that Xbox Live gold should be charged by games console and not user?
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I’ve got no problem with the pricing as it is, I think it’s fair. If it was per console, if you went to your mate’s house and they hadn’t signed up, you wouldn’t be able to play online. Swings and roundabouts really.
Gold membership only works out at about 10p per day. If you want to play online co-op, get the other person to stump up the cash. If they’re a really infrequent user, just get a few of those 48 hour passes from ebay a quid.
But why should you pay to play games online when you’ve already forked out for the console and for your broadband service? Fair enough if the games companies themselves are charging you but in the case of Xbox 360 its Microsoft who are taking more money from you
Also on Halo 3 and most other xbox games the other person can sign in as a guest to the person with the gold account.
Granted you cant play ranked Halo 3 games with a guest but all the social playlists are open to you which still gives a very good Halo 3 online experience
Live should be free.
Heck they charge you for jpegs and free to air tv.
I know it’s all about the money,wish it could be about the consumer too.
Charging for a guest to play co-op is stupid…..
i think they are pushing it as it is…i pay for it but if they pull anything else, i wont. but i think they know their games well & know just how far to push it. i thik as Sony picks up with more games, and online co-op, Microsoft might drop the price a bit on their live services, or counter it somehow. just my 2 cents. so yes i agree but again, i’d pay to play online also if i must.
I would just like to add a few words, I agree it is not nice to have to pay to play online but I have been gaming online with the PC for years and I have has some very bad experiances with slow game play with the PC. Also some times there are no servers avalable. But with XBL this is not the problem so I think the saying is you get what you pay for. But i would like it to be free
It should be per console. One 360 with three siblings shouldn’t have to pay for three online accounts. Each person wants there own name and should be able to split screen it online without having to pay for an additional gold. I don’t think you should have to pay for online at all but having to pay for separate users on one console is just robbery.
If you don’t want to have to pay to play a game online then don’t. Personally i have no issue NOT paying for games that require payment to play… in my opinion that is just bad business… why should i pay 5-30 a month after i have already paid 50-70 for a game that is now mine to play…? So i just don’t buy the games that i would have to pay to play.
Are you sure. Don’t you just bring them in as a guest on Live. You can in the multiplayer so why not the campain. Well I’ll find out today when I get Home because my friend is coming over And I was planing to get into the compain with him and some buddis online. I’ll see if what your saying is true. I’ll be back.
My bud also had this problem with gears and he even created another account to get a second person. Then I showed him how to bring people in as a guest and it was all good after that and a waste of money for him.