This an old topic, but it never ceases to amaze how microsoft can continue to charge for a free service. In a newly created forum on gamesonsmash.com I posed the topic "Who's Rich?" Do you have more of an opinion on this subject. Judging by the
comments a small number of you feel like its to expensive to pay for xbl, but the
majority of ppl don't. Why is that? I read excuses such as currency,
and employment, but no one ever broke it down for me how microsoft
justifies charging for a free service. Their not offering a better
stability or connections, just charging for them. I'm pretty sure of
the symbol one used in our forum to quote his currency is in pounds and the answer
to his question is," 40 pounds is equivalent to 70 dollars." Call me cheap, but you must be rich because everytime
you renew your membership you could be purchasing a new game. Even if
you have a job one shouldn't spend their money frivalously. Think of it
your getting charged DOUBLE. If you have already paid to have the
internet in your house, why should you have to pay again to use it?
What do you guys on N4G think. I think your getting bent over and f**** and having your wallets raped.
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Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
I value the features like voice chat across all games, cross game invites, working lobby systems etc. In my country we pay about $70 US as well for a new live kit and i still think its worth the price of admission.
When the competition steps up to match lives services for free that may change but doesnt look like its gonna happen anytime soon. You need only to look at Gt5p awful online system to see that.
worth the price when you look at what PSN will offer by the end of this year.
if you dont like it dont pay for it, simple really. Thats the only way it will ever change.
I love xbox live and will keep nenewing my subscription until the end of time. It sucks if you dont have money to pay the monthly fee but thats just life, you talked about a years subscription costs as much as a new game but Live enhances the games you already have via multiplayer gaming and DLC.
just the overall experience i guess. no searching for patches great comunication. It's like STEAM on steroids. I agree that it should be free, but every time I'm about to say "I wont pay anymore, It's basically the same as other offerings", they make it better. The moment they stop making it better I'll stop paying I guess. But this is MS's business model from the start, and it's very profitable so I doubt they'll stop making it better.
Heres an example. I'm in my PC playing and I also need to massege a couple people(canceling or making certain dates or job related). I hit the windows botton on my K/B to start massenger, my frame rate takes an instant hit. I want to listen to music cause most soundtracks suck, I start my mp3 player, another hit on my frames per second. If I want to have all that without taking a hit on performance I'll have to stick to servers with "radio" or whatever, but then I don't get to pick my music. With STEAM u can massage efortlessly, but only to STEAM clients. Running another program on top of STEAM is almost out of the cuestion cause STEAM is a resource hog by it's self already. I'm not going to mention PSN cause maybe I don't know how to work mine right or something, but I can't do any of that on my PS3.
I'm sure an amaizing expensive comp might handle all that, but not my "humble" $800 self made rig. My rig can run better grafics, but that doesn't mean it can run other programs while playing games, like it's nothing. The fact that a now $199 console can give you all those features and pack a(incredible in it's release debut) kick a$$ ATI card on top, shoot thats a deal right there. It's like paying a litle bit more for better(way better imho)cable tv.