With the Aussie dollar performing so well of late the question has to be asked, why do we pay so much for Xbox LIVE?
DarkArmada writes: "It's a fairly straight forward concept, one that is utilized by sales people the world over and is a common explanation for "is this really worth the money" type questions. In Australia we pay $AUD79.95 per year (RRP) for access to Xbox LIVE. For reference, that is about $6.66 per month (spooky) and just under $1.54 per week. This year, we'll have paid just 0.22 per day to access Xbox LIVE. Why does this matter? For starters, let's remember that Xbox LIVE is not considered an "item" or a real-world-goods we can hold in our hands, it is simply a service. Secondly, we do not have local access to Xbox LIVE, we run off of the US Marketplace servers."
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
Very interesting read. Can't wait to see part 2.
I feel the same, It is quite disheartening to hear about all these great new additions coming to Xboxlive yet we in Aus still haven't got the features that have been enjoyed by our American friends for years.
Strong reason why I didn't get a 360. I can understand that the LIVE feature is worth every penny in the US. But here in Australia. It doesn't take you very far past what the PS3 does already without that surcharge.
It does make you wonder why we pay more for less....
I'm not sure that it is good value for just the online gaming aspect. I think the price needs to come down or services need to jump up.
Sony will keep bashing the 360 with the free online aspect too. Since they want people more involved online then perhaps dropping the price would be wise, despite the costs involved?
Basically, you pay MS for letting you use your internet connection, which you are already paying on a monthly or yearly basis, to play online games. It would be understandable if MS offered dedicated servers however, this isn't the case.
Then again, there are far more worse problems with MS than Live.