Rumor: XBL Silver Now Allows Free Online Play?

Jackthepwnsaur - 468 days 22 hours ago

why poor PSN if the games that arent cross game multiplayer still needs a fee to be played on live? stop being ahead of yourself.

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AclayPS3 - 468 days 21 hours ago

NO, if this is true it's not the end of poor PSN, the people that have already paid $50 bucks for Xbox Live Gold have gotten ripped off, that's what.

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mikeslemonade - 468 days 21 hours ago

No, if true... microsoft gaming studios will go out of business because then everyone would cancel the $50 subscription which is a key driver for their profit. How else can they afford getting FFXIII and GTA4 exclusive content?

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Sayai jin - 468 days 20 hours ago

It will not end the PSN, but it will make XBL even more appealing and give 360 owners an excellent free service.

Yeah, I mean no! MS Game studios will not go out of business. MS has money to throw into this division.

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mfwahwah - 468 days 18 hours ago

it works for Lost Planet: Extreme Condition Colonies Edition and Universe at War: Earth Assault, too.

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jaysquared - 468 days 13 hours ago

Sony will probably go out of business before MGS(Microsoft Game Studio) goes out of business! C'mon Halo3 sold 1 million the first 10 minutes it came out. The biggest game on the PS3 which isn't even a 1st party game to come out (MGS4) only sold 700k the first month. The other BIG PS3 game FF13 is going multiplat.. When KZ2 flops it would only guarantee that Sony will be selling all of their first party studios. A game like KZ2 thats taking $50 million to develop and would probably sell only 1 million throughout its lifetime because of the bad reviews its going to get will just be icing on the cake!

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Jackthepwnsaur - 468 days 12 hours ago

"Sony will probably go out of business before MGS(Microsoft Game Studio) goes out of business! C'mon Halo3 sold 1 million the first 10 minutes it came out. The biggest game on the PS3 which isn't even a 1st party game to come out (MGS4) only sold 700k the first month. The other BIG PS3 game FF13 is going multiplat.. When KZ2 flops it would only guarantee that Sony will be selling all of their first party studios. A game like KZ2 thats taking $50 million to develop and would probably sell only 1 million throughout its lifetime because of the bad reviews its going to get will just be icing on the cake!"

How will sony go out of business if the sell TVs, Home theater systems, walkmans, have 2 movie studios(Columbia and MGM), sell BD players, burners etc.? did you forget this? did you also forget that the PS2 have sold over 140million consoles and counting? did you forget that the PS2 is helping Sony profit in its gaming division while the PS3 is attempting to become profitable, which it will by march 2009 since it doesnt have ridiculous defects that the 360 has with its RROD issue, in which Microsoft payed 2 billion dollars last year to attempt to fix the problem?

did you not see what KZ2 has going? look at the KZ2 fact sheet and come back to me when you talk about KZ2 flopping because theres no chance in hell that its not. Guerilla Games have smacked the doubters in the face by showing visuals that are only possible on the PS3, not to mention the gameplay and it multiplayer counterpart.

and before you talked about how they spent $50 million dollars on making Killzone 2, go look at Halo 3, a game that looks almost exactly like halo 2, with the only difference in lighting. not to mention they had to degrade the game's resoution because they wanted to make the lighting right. all that took 50 MILLION DOLLARS TO MAKE, and it was a very disapointing game and a very disapointing ending, with a multiplayer that actually played the sameway halo 2's multiplayer played, just with the differnce of adding new weapons.

and when you talk about FFXIII going multiplatform, just go back to all those articles and read on the PS3 version will sell more than the 360 version.

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GarandShooter - 468 days 9 hours ago

If this is true the X-onlys should be thanking PSN. The competition drives improvement.

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JoKeR - 468 days 21 hours ago

Shadowrun is actually a great competitive game... @people who disagree - Shadowrun was on the MLG pro circuit, its just too bad the game catered to the minority (competitive players). i doubt u ppl have even played the game. lol

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PirateThom - 468 days 21 hours ago

It's not, it's terrible.

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Wolfmoonstrike - 468 days 21 hours ago

I agree with and would like to add that a lot of people do the same thing w/ lair.

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TOSgamer - 468 days 21 hours ago

and compared to what it gave you at $60 and what Warhawk offers at $40 then and even now 1 year later as new modes were just release for Warhawk is a joke.

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kazuma - 468 days 19 hours ago

it was just an average game...move along

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Grassroots - 468 days 19 hours ago

It was a nice multiplayer game, it had content to entertain for a few months. Shame about the studio, they will be missed.

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1stKnighT - 468 days 18 hours ago

Yeah Shadowrun was a good competitive game with great balance. I can see why MLG added this game to their impressive competitive lineup. What sucks about the ratings of this game is that it got alot of points taken off because the lack of game types but it still had more game types than Warhawk. Just another game that sony fanboys bash and know nothing about.

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jaysquared - 468 days 13 hours ago

That's because PS3 owners don't know what a good game are.. Looking at their console. They have games like Lair with its crappy controls, Heavenly Sword with its repetitive gameplay that was three hours long, Uncharted a pretty game with no depth and no replay value, Motorstorm a so called racing game wih only 8 tracks, MGS4 that has a good story but is more of a movie than a game.. So PS3 fans dont' know what a good game really is!

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 468 days 13 hours ago

"Don't know what a good game are..."??? You're kidding me, right? Do you live in an English-speaking country, my friend?

Lair - Analog controls are available for download over the PSN.

Heavenly Sword - 8 Hours long...great game...great storyline...not the tightest controls in the world, but still incredible! Play it sometime!

Uncharted - How do you dis Uncharted? The game is a masterpiece! It told the story more fluidly than any game I've ever played! Most people actually played it through at least 3 or 4 times though...unlike what you posted. Ask anyone that's played it. The unlockables are SO worth it!

Motorstorm - Best Arcade racer I've ever played. It's always different because the AI is so amazing! If you can name another racing game with tracks as memorable as ONE of Motorstorm's, I will take back everything I've said here.

MGS4 - You're grabbing at straws here. MGS4 is possibly the greatest game this generation...but only according to about 99% of gamers. That other 1% must be the "right" ones then, huh? It's a game with amazing cutscenes. Can you not handle that or what, dude?

Get over yourself, dude.

Fanboy or no fanboy, you're a moron.

I'm pretty sure everybody knows that now.

You backed up 1stKnight. You should've known this would end badly.

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jaysquared - 468 days 12 hours ago

"Heavenly Sword - 8 Hours long...great game...great storyline...not the tightest controls in the world, but still incredible! Play it sometime!"

You must suck at games when everybody else took 3 hours to beat it!! LOL!

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Jinxstar - 468 days 7 hours ago

@ Jay

If make up a contract I will give you my entire paycheck for a year if you can beat it in 3 hours first time through. It is not possible to beat that fast. 5-6 Maybe on an extreme speed run. I took my time and it lasted me about 12 hours. Only cause I took everything in. You fail at posting. get over yourself. You are a moron.

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cmd5150 - 468 days 7 hours ago

based on what some posters have said about Windows Live, logically you would think you could. I'll try it out tonight.

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Altis1 - 468 days 6 hours ago

On the PC version of Gears of War, the superior version might I add, Silver members are able to play for free. This is great because the number of host with awesome connections has greatly increased.

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PirateThom - 468 days 20 hours ago

Shadowrun...

Universe at War: Earth Assault

That's it.

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Infernus - 468 days 20 hours ago

Wow, I can play online now (PC). Never played online with it because of the crappy Game for Windows thing resricting the good online game modes.

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Sitdown - 468 days 20 hours ago

Its pointless that individuals get to play a game without having to pay for a live gold subscription? Okay then...

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Robondacob - 468 days 14 hours ago

@Sitdown

I'm afraid you missed his point.

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LeonSKennedy4Life - 468 days 13 hours ago

Bubbles...

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jaja1434 - 468 days 13 hours ago

I'm actually more curious to see if Sony will start to charge for theirs.

The wallet in my jeans wants MS to copy Sony in having a free service, but the two(waste of a damn to much money and time) business courses tell me it's more likely Sony will charge for theirs sooner or later.

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Kleptic - 468 days 16 hours ago

yeah I thought MS stated that when the game released...would probably piss some 360 owners off that are paying to play PC gamers that are playing it for free...unless it required that joke Windows Live service too...

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Fernando8777 - 468 days 19 hours ago

with himself

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Shadow Flare - 468 days 5 hours ago

You have Banjo-Kazooie as your avatar??

MOVING ON.......

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Deadman64 - 468 days 5 hours ago

And your just now experiencing SOME of what we have been, in an online service, since before this generation.

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chrisnick - 468 days 1 hour ago

umm i owned 1 ps2 and 5 xboxes..the first 2 died for no reason, one i broke myself, and the other 2 i had to mod b4 it was useful to me, and still died even after i modded it...hated xbox online anyway...yeah its better now...but i have a bunch of xbox games i paid for on live that sucked ass all of which i dont' play now...put good games on the service instead of just puttin crap out and recallin it later and ill care..not to mention the 6 year olds who sit there and totally destroy the experience for me but hey...its better...today.

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princejb134 - 468 days 14 hours ago

honestly your right
free is always better in my point of view
ones xbl is free ill start playing my 360 online ones again but for now psn for me

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Jason 360 - 468 days 7 hours ago

I somehow get the feeling you don't own a 360.

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Jason 360 - 468 days 7 hours ago

Or 40hr movies pretending to be games

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Ali_The_Brit - 468 days 4 hours ago

yeh your right, theres no games at all...

/eye roll

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ELite_Ghost - 465 days 5 hours ago

ps3 has quality, 360 quantity. 360 is a slut bag console...

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Jason 360 - 468 days 4 hours ago

What is this now, your 30th account?

BTW your still in last place "in everything"

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butterfinger - 468 days 16 hours ago

You are still on N4G?! You would think that you would pick up a controller and play sometime since that is what you are always telling others to do. Nothing but another fanboy. You must feel right at home. lol.

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