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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
Not meaningless, on the 360 microsoft are simply a middleman for online play, a mere portal for services such as netflix yet have the nerve to charge a monthly fee to be that portal.
I dont have to pay a monthly fee to watch iplayer on my ps3 or pc, no monthly fee to microsoft to run netflix on my pc. The word to sum it up is people who think its good value on the 360 are simply gullible. To top it off for this monthly fee multiplayer games use a p2p system where a player is a host.
Its got so silly to the point people like youself think microsoft have 300k dedicated servers for console gaming 
Most of the live resources will be in hosting files,, game patches, marketplace, dashboard updates and so on. Those will be where most of their investment is gone, and they are all things that are supplied to xbox silver members who pay no subs. |
First you say you don't understand why people pay a fee to play on XBL.
Then you say you don't play online.
Meaningless, yes.
I pay for gold to pay MP, not pay £6 a month to stream poor quality video and sound from Netflix.
You can't understand the whole XBL community situation.
People that connect their Box to the net and will have gold and so will have access to those "features" that are everywhere anyway, iPhone, iPad, laptop, PC etc.
So people aren't gullible, the know what they are paying for and if it wasn't good, they wouldn't carry on paying :/
I have met many new real life people from all over the country because of Live and also made friends around the world. Something other networks wouldn't allow.
And the Xbox 360 does feature dedicated servers too. It's not all p2p.
Finally I never said 300,000 Dedi servers, they will also use them for other reasons too.
I shall end it here as per the request of the mod.