Well put. Microsoft is a business afterall and if people are paying, they won't object to that. However if a lot of people stop paying, they'll make it free to get them back.

As you said, it's the same for pretty much any business - aka Lower Customers = Lower prices/prices that match or beat competitors to draw them back in.

If you've got over 40 million users paying, as a business why would you suddenly make it free ? Now if people dont like it there's an alternative in the PS3 yet to my knowledge the 360 is still drawing in the customers, & that's with a paying online service. So I can't ever see it changing. As for big companies coming against them, they are more likely to side with them especially if the used game rumour is true.

IMO, subscriptions should be on a game-to-game basis. I forget the exact number, but Activision said last year that somewhere around 80% of Xbox Live subscriptions are used to play one of the Call of Duty games online. Okay, so just have a "premium" online subscription for that game series, Microsoft can take a bit of extra cash off the top, and other online games can be played for free.

That's how PC is. Most every PC game is free to play online, but you pay a subscription for those few games (mostly MMOs) that require extra features (servers) to maintain the online community.

Your right live is limited in this way i think if they relaxed the dlc charges alittle there would be alot more free dlc from publishers, and the only way we could get an mmo would be from ms themselves.

Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.