Games4Guys writes: As you may or may not know, Microsoft recently announced a price increase effective November 1, 2010, for Xbox Live Gold subscriptions from $49.99 to $59.99 a year, a whopping 20%! When you break it down per month, it comes to about 83 cents. That doesn’t sound like much, but imagine if every company in the world decided, rather arbitrarily, to increase prices by that same amount. Suddenly, you would require 20% more income to support the exact same existence.
Paul Thurrott in a recent episode commented on the on-going Microsoft fiasco hinting at more job losses and that "there's more to come".
There won't be no more acquiring game publishers from Microsoft in the future . Xbox has to pay Microsoft back. It might take two decades to do that.
There really needs to be a class action lawsuit here. You buy these companies just to put people out of jobs. And it’s not like something happened to derail their plans this WAS the plan. Microsoft has no business in this space at all.
Ninja Theory, Perfect Dark, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Wolfenstein 3, Dishonored, Prey, Doom, Quake... something tells me that bad things are going to happen to these entities under Microsoft.
The Xbox brand is expanding, as an Xbox mobile game store is opening this coming July where Microsoft will brings its "first-party portfolio."
“Bond adds that they will start on the web”
This will go nowhere.
Nice knowing you Xbox. This is what happens when the house never gets cleaned.
The only this MS is expanding is the amount of feculence it sprays on everyone who just want to enjoy gaming and make games.
The best thing MS can do for the gaming industry is leave and never return.
It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...
They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
Gotta love the Microsoft Logo with the $.
I think there should be tier plans. Maybe Gold should stay the same and they make a Platinum service with ESPN, Twitter, Facebook and what ever else they add. It keeps gold members happy to an extent and people that like all the new features only see it as a $10 fee. Also if you have almost any major carrier you get ESPN. I checked the list cablevision has it, verizon and a hundred or so companies I'm not familiar with. I'm sure 90% of americans are covered at least. for those who don't believe me. http://espn.go.com/espn3/af...
i figured with all the ads theyve been running on xbox live since the release of the 60 they wouldve more than subsidized the cost of any new features.
i am actually second guessing my renewal in november. I like the service but was mostly using it for the netflix. I would play a few games online but nothing to the point of it being a needed thing.
I just got an LG bluray BD570 and it has netflix and youtube and pandora in it. I has the same interface as the ps3 and wii as far as netflix goes. I have both the wii and ps3 versions of netflix and could have used them instead but something about that slick 360 interface I really liked.
I may actually cancel my renewal this time around. 6 years of gold membership is a tough thing to walk away from.
IS it really tht hard to pay 60$ a year? u guys ought to spend more than 60$ a year and u guys hav no prob of tht.
anyway...i reckon MS should let ppl choose what they want and what they want to pay more...but tht prob be hard...