Sliders, Avatars and Netflix Make Xbox Live Worth the Price?

Monchichi025 - 518 days 19 hours ago

Are you serious? Who can't afford $50 for the year?? That's like then $5 a month!!!

But of course it's worth it!! LIVE ROCKS!!!

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TheBrit - 518 days 18 hours ago

Make me purchase a netflix account this year and drop my game fly account from 4 rentals to 3 to offset it.

I cannot wait for the netflix addition.

The whole thing as a whole is Excellent.

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Guardian0fPeace - 518 days 17 hours ago

The addition of netflix, ability to install the full games to the hdd, etc, just totally made my day! My only beef with the update to LIVE is the stupid avatar system, looks so dumb, childish really, we were perfectly fine without it. Still, LIVE was already well worth the the price, now they're just giving us more bang for the buck, LIVE is still the best online service out there.

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TOSgamer - 518 days 17 hours ago

It will always be wrong and no amount of fluff added will make it right. It doesn't matter how much make-up and clothes you slap on a dog. At the end of the day its still a f-ing dog.

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DJ - 518 days 17 hours ago

But I still think online play should be made free. The $50 subscription fee makes more sense for high-end features.

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anzagi - 518 days 17 hours ago

It should be free, psn is free and offers just as much. Arguably better.

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AclayPS3 - 518 days 17 hours ago

Something that I just found out about the Netflix service on the 360 that I didn't previously know after listening to a podcast is that in order to use Netflix on the 360, you have to be subscribed to Netflix first, so basically that's an additional cost on top of Xbox Live.

I think that Xbox Live is coming closer to being worth $50 bucks a year, but it's not quite there yet. In my opinion, Xbox Live would be worth $50 bucks a year if there was no additional cost for Netflix on the Xbox 360. The way that I see it, the Netflix service on the 360 should be free for Xbox Live Gold Subscribers.

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dkp23 - 518 days 17 hours ago

Netflix looks like a good addition on paper, but I was browsing through the instant queue over the weekend, new releases are not on their so I am not sure how beneficial Netflix would be for me personally since i am only interested in watching new releases.

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panasonic23 - 518 days 17 hours ago

Don't forget about XNA

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SL1M DADDY - 518 days 17 hours ago

No matter how many frills you add, it is not worth the cash. I play online and could care less about the frills. That is why the PC and PSN are so good, they are free and offer up what I want, online play.

My question to the authors of these types of articles is this... If adding avatars and netflix to the service makes like worth the yearly fee, then what was live prior to the additions? Not worth it? Exactly...

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panasonic23 - 518 days 17 hours ago

damn 1 vs live is gonna be crazy

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Naism - 518 days 17 hours ago

Of coarse not, online gaming should be free, just like the PSN, and I'll leave it at that.

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ToastMan018 - 518 days 16 hours ago

i think all those features will make xbox live worth $50 but i think by the time those features are implemented xbox live wont be worth it because home will be right around the corner and they will basically be equal with psn being a little more superior for 2 reasons...number 1 psn is free and number 2 home is waaaay more complex than any avatar or mii

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Ashta - 518 days 16 hours ago

You all do realize that you have to purchase a Netflix account to be able to use it on Xbox Live right? That's a purchase on top of a purchase for XBL usage.

So, let see here....basic netflix plan is 4.99 a month, so let me add this up...

XBL = $50 per year
Netflix = $60 per year.

So, for only the low low cost of around $110 a year Microsoft is giving you unparalleld online service! Not to mention the $50 a month you already pay for your INTERNET SERVICE. Woo, that's only $710 dollars a year! (assuming that your internet service is cable and no DSL or whatever).

What's that? My PS3 allows me to play online using my already paid for monthly cable service? It also allows me the option to rent/buy movies and TV shows for low set prices while not forcing me to pay a membership fee for either the movie or online service in case I decide not to use them that month?

Oh...that's much better then.

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beavis4play - 518 days 16 hours ago

if ps3s home does turn out to be everything that it's advertised to be......and free........how can ms or it's customers continue to justify the 50$ cost?

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OOG - 518 days 16 hours ago

Thank you all you fanboys who are worried about my bank account thinking $50 will break me and fellow live members....but.... dont worry I can afford it and so can the rest of the people on it....

Its great to see your care about us tho!

...funny how the some of the same people that will pay $5000 for an entertainment system feel so strongly about paying $5 a month....must be rough....

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solidt12 - 518 days 16 hours ago

It may be worth it. It's a great feature but it all depends on the person if the 360 is worth buying. If you have a PC that is fast enough to game on I wouldn't buy a 360 since all the biggest game like Gears, Lost Planet, Bioshock, and Mass Effect ends up on the PC. I would get a PS3 because there Exclusives stay on the PS3 and don't come to PC. You can download movies on your PC already also via several movie services. Even the PS3 has a movie service now.

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Darkshader - 518 days 16 hours ago

To all the people who tried to justify the $50/yr or 4.16/month need to see beyond this price. I know i can afford it...but not everybody can pay (kids, students, no job) or needs to pay if the customer/gamer can play online for free when they purchase a PS3/PC.

When XBOX 360 came out, you all xbox fanboys said...XBOX 360 is cheap, blah blah blah, PS3 is expensive. If its cheap then you guys should have purchase the PS3 in the first place because you knew that you can save more in the long run. So that excuse is non-sense.

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Wow disagree already! Just a gamer's advise, you guys should demand that XBL should be free, don't allow them to rip you off. And another dilema, what will you guys do once the 3 yrs warranty is over? Pray and ponder it...think beyond. PEACE!

$200 difference before and now its $100, i think the $50/yr XBL justification won't be applicable now. XBOX 360 is turning 3 yrs and you guys have spent $150 already, while PS3/PC didn't spent any centavo playing online. Now if you add up every thing.

XBOX 5 yrs = $250
XBOX 360 = $150 (3 yrs)
XBOX 720 = ?

PS2 = $0
PS3 = $0
PS4 = $0

So who is the cheapest next gen console now? No lag playing exclusive games, updated firmware, XMB, HOME, in-game chat soon. What can you ask for as a potential PS3 buyer.

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Darkshader - 518 days 15 hours ago

You don't care? Then why promote gamers to pay $50 then if you really care? I care because i want them to experience online game w/o limitations.

Are you trying to discriminate kids or people who doesn't have a job? Why? you're a kid once so stop discriminating people! And if you really hate listening to them then turn off you head set or play with your fellow claN members only...easy solution right? 5 yrs from now, this kids that you are talking about will be the potential buyer of next gen console, either you like it or not they will have a place in the gaming community as they are the reason and driving force that makes the videogames industry alive.

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911 Gaming - 518 days 15 hours ago

When PSN is free, and has virtually everything Live does (Netflix is extra, people), including not less lagged servers owned by multiple devs, it makes me wonder, why pay for something that you get can get for free? And the cost of Live on the 360 for wifi is even more expensive than a PS3. A bluetooth mic is cheaper than a 360 mic. Wifi comes with the PS3, but is an extra $100 on MS's system. I ended up paying $650 in order to pay for everything Xbox 360 offers that the PS3 already has. And that's NOT including LIVE. LIVE is $50 a year, which means that I've officially now spent $750 on a console that was supposed to be the cheapest. And that's not even including the games. Actually, PS3 has only costed me $630, because I bought it at launch, and Verizon Fios gives away HDMIs and Digital Optical cords for free if you need them (if you have their Cable Service).
So really, if I had bought PS3 last year, I would have spent $530 on it. Instead of $630. But you actually save money buying a PS3. Sadly, Microsoft doesn't want you to know that.

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princejb134 - 518 days 18 hours ago

give me free online play, and we could pay for netflix
then ill be worth it
already have enough trouble paying bills, and i dont like paying for online twice(my internet provider + xbl)

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Tmac - 518 days 18 hours ago

But the competitors are doing this for free.. lmfao.

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Overr8ed - 518 days 18 hours ago

Free is better than Fee.

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eagle21 - 518 days 17 hours ago

Get some Blu-ray in your life. Stop living in the past. :)

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power of Green - 518 days 17 hours ago

It was worth $50 just renting the server space for my universal account and identity.

Hell MSFT gives gamers so many deals we get XBL gold one month free cards all the time. I don't even keep track of the cards I just pay the "$50". If I kept them I would have an eztra years worth of cards.

Only haters and lemming media outlets have ever made a big deal out of this.

That Tmac troll is getting out of hand makes you wonder if that POS is Nasim.

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power of Green - 518 days 16 hours ago

My favorite new thing that is worth $50 is the theater party system. I feel the Netfix Party system makes XBL worth much more than $50 bucks hence why the 360 sales jumped 110% last week, this will sell the console alone.

XNA and the new Youtube games feature will also be hits folks forgot about those features.

Nasim made a new account already the username is *Naism*, He's smarter than the MODs and he is laughing at them.

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panasonic23 - 518 days 16 hours ago

Go sell some drugs man or put your b@tch on the street

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Isaac - 518 days 16 hours ago

Sony has a better XMB, they have Home, and they have a Video Store, so no, XBL for 50 a year is still a rip off, especially considering the life of the 360 will be at least 4 years, i.e. 200 bucks which is 3 disc games and 2 XBLA games.

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militant07 - 518 days 15 hours ago

paying for better was allways my choise

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