Microsoft raising Xbox Live subscription prices

dash4rabbit wrote:there is a very easy way around this buy a shit loed of 12 month subscriptions b4 november 1st and add them to your account and your set for a long time thats what im doing today

cards have expiration dates though....
don't they???

Say you put 5 cards on at the same time your set for five years so if he puts them all on at once it won't matter. The only problem is if you buy a load of them you may not have your 360 the year after you might buy a new console then you could have wasted a lot of money.

Das boo schitt

Wait T Redd Do You Play Dead Frontier?Im Pretty Sure That is one of the avatar pics.

Omg I'm not paying $10 more to get a year card. These are the kind of business ideas that, depending on how people think, instead of making more money it pushes enough people away to probably make 5% less income. Shame on you Microsoft.

I mean, it's only ten bucks more. Not that big a deal, what's pissing me off that they had the balls to even do this on top of bringing out shovelware this holiday (Kinect). It's shit and gimmicky and if you plan on buying it, you're part of the problem. Sure it could be great but name one title that looks like an actual game and not something they threw together for the sake of having a pool of games at launch.

The only game that actually looked like a decent game to me for Kinect was the Star Wars game I mean the gameplay looked terrible but it seems like it would be fun using the lightsabre.

Ehh not a big deal. Buy a 1 year for $60 then save $5 a month until you renew it

higher price are for loser mice

The pic

@slackerhero
yeah I mean really "oh I always wanted a tiger I'll go buy kinectimals and pet air while watch the screen OH this is so like petting a real animal" come on who ever buys that needs to change their views in life. rare how could you wasn't making crappy sequels enough for you

New game from a shop = 70€
12 month Live from a shop = 70€
12 month Live when you know your shit = 20€

Spoiler:

joecruely wrote:@slackerhero
"oh I always wanted a tiger I'll go buy kinectimals and pet air while watch the screen OH this is so like petting a real animal"

when you could just go to the local SPCA and get a REAL animal for free

(not including food and vet visits of course)

Guys, apparently the yearly subscription is only going up for the States. I dunno whether it's partly due to compensate for dollar value or anything, but I read that while the monthly fee for Xbox Live in Canada, Mexico and the UK will go up, all other subscription packages will stay the same price, meaning that we won't have to pay anymore for a yearly subscription.
But eventhough the price change wont affect me, it still pisses me off that Microsoft would make such a move and try to justify it by saying that it's because of the new features they added. It's complete bullshit because hardly anybody even wanted those features to begin with, all people want to do is play online with their friends, fuck Facebook and Twitter. But apparently Microsoft thinks adding pointless features is a worthwhile excuse to force everyone to pay more. Also, I didn't think they'd dare raise the price when PSN should be keeping them competitive as their service is free.

Dude. This is just another reason for people to get a PS3.