I need more names to irritate.
they gotta be making a fuckin killing on this.
There is plenty of free shit to justify the miniscule subscription charge.
Mooj fucked around with this message on 10-01-2006 at 02:56 AM.
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Mooj painfully thought these words up:
Sakkra just got a new 360, and I'll have live set up as soon as he gets his new router.
Wait, what?
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x--Ask Me About IFramesO-('-'Q) :
M$!!oneoneThere is plenty of free shit to justify the miniscule subscription charge.
Far be it from me to criticize a company for having the gall to demand they be paid for their product, but so far all I've gotten for free for my $9/mo subscription is some chromehounds weapons and a sponsored Nacho Libre theme.
On the other hand, there's no way to sort downloads by cost so I may very well have missed some free goodies.
Free for $9/mo.
Inclement Karma, BTW.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Verily, the chocolate bunny rabbits doth run and play while Maradon! gently hums:
Some of you may have started receiving my irritating and frequently silly friend requests.I need more names to irritate.
What's your Live! screen name?
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Maradon! had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
Far be it from me to criticize a company for having the gall to demand they be paid for their product, but so far all I've gotten for free for my $9/mo subscription is some chromehounds weapons and a sponsored Nacho Libre theme.On the other hand, there's no way to sort downloads by cost so I may very well have missed some free goodies.
Free for $9/mo.
Almost every game has a free demo available, there are a massive amount of trailers and promo videos, and every once in a while you can get XBLA games entirely free by downloading them within a certain time after they're released.
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Bloodsageing:
Are you sure you're not a closet commie? You sure do seem to take offense at a lot of free market things lately!
Inclement Karma, BTW.
Chackly is me. Maradon was taken.
Value judgements are an integral part of the free market, not criticism of it.
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Peanut butter ass Shaq Ask Me About IFrames booooze lime pole over bench lick:
Almost every game has a free demo available, there are a massive amount of trailers and promo videos, and every once in a while you can get XBLA games entirely free by downloading them within a certain time after they're released.
Are demos worth $9/mo? I don't know, I usually get demos for free everywhere else. That's why they have demos: they're not a game, they're advertising.
Hopefully they'll add enough "non-premium" content to justify the subscription fee, but right now it's pretty much a more expensive fileplanet subscription with less content and no fancy beta access.
It'd be nice if I got my 9/mo back in MS Points.
Now that I know who you are, I'll accept the friend thingy. 
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into Bloodsage who doth quote:
Where does $9/month come from? A 12-month subscription is $50.
Some of us don't have yet another fifty bucks to drop on this thing in the span of a week.
For what it's worth though, I don't see anything that would justify $4.10/mo either.
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Maradon! wrote this stupid crap:
For what it's worth though, I don't see anything that would justify $4.10/mo either.
The ability to play games online? No Gold means no online play.
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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into Talonus who doth quote:
The ability to play games online? No Gold means no online play.
Wow I thought that was available in silver.
I wondered why Sega was able to run all thier own servers for chromehounds.
I guess it's not TOO bad then, but I still wish you got some kinda monthly allotment of MS points.
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Maradon! said:
Wow I thought that was available in silver.I wondered why Sega was able to run all thier own servers for chromehounds.
I guess it's not TOO bad then, but I still wish you got some kinda monthly allotment of MS points.
if you are a really cheap bastard, i think you can technicly keep making new screennames for a month free trial
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Channeling the spirit of Sherlock Holmes, Maradon! absently fondled Watson and proclaimed:
Some of us don't have yet another fifty bucks to drop on this thing in the span of a week.For what it's worth though, I don't see anything that would justify $4.10/mo either.
So. . .you can't afford $50 for a year's subscription, but you can afford $100+?
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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Maradon! had this to say about Knight Rider:
Wow I thought that was available in silver.I wondered why Sega was able to run all thier own servers for chromehounds.
I guess it's not TOO bad then, but I still wish you got some kinda monthly allotment of MS points.
Silver is gamer tag, gamer card, friends list, and some marketplace stuff basically. Gold gives you everything that isn't extra monthly charges (FFXI) or based on a microtransaction. It would be nice to get some MS points for free, but its understandable why they don't give you any. There are free Gold weekends though, which extend your subscription (I think).
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So quoth diadem:
if you are a really cheap bastard, i think you can technicly keep making new screennames for a month free trial
Yes, it's possible to abuse free trials with different screen names. It's more of a hassle than it's worth though.
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Peanut butter ass Shaq Bloodsage booooze lime pole over bench lick:
So. . .you can't afford $50 for a year's subscription, but you can afford $100+?
I can't afford $50 for a year's subscription right now, but I can afford $9 for a month's.
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Over the mountain, in between the ups and downs, I ran into Talonus who doth quote:
Silver is gamer tag, gamer card, friends list, and some marketplace stuff basically. Gold gives you everything that isn't extra monthly charges (FFXI) or based on a microtransaction. It would be nice to get some MS points for free, but its understandable why they don't give you any. There are free Gold weekends though, which extend your subscription (I think).
I suppose silver members can't play FFXI-360 even if they're paying the FFXI monthly fee, eh?
Multiple monthly subscriptions for the same game = HIGHLY NEGATIVE VALUE JUDGEMENT FROM THIS CORNER, THX.
And as far as microtransactios are concerned, ~$2 for a theme (or a new chromehounds gun with a reused model) doesn't seem very micro to me.
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Maradon! wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
I suppose silver members can't play FFXI-360 even if they're paying the FFXI monthly fee, eh?Multiple monthly subscriptions for the same game = HIGHLY NEGATIVE VALUE JUDGEMENT FROM THIS CORNER, THX.
And as far as microtransactios are concerned, ~$2 for a theme (or a new chromehounds gun with a reused model) doesn't seem very micro to me.
I wasn't really clear about FFXI, it's silver + monthly fee. I believe MMORPGs in general won't require gold if they have a monthly fee.
I agree about microtransactions; most of them are too expensive. MS doesn't handle the microtransaction cost though. Actually, I can't stand microtransactions at all, but that's another discussion.
