Xbox Live subscription going up to 60 dollars a year.

[Qalbert]

http://majornelson.com/archive/2010/...scription.aspx

I wanted to let you know that as of November 1, 2010 we are increasing the price of an Xbox LIVE for some members. This price increase only affects Xbox LIVE Members in Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom or the United States.

US
Current
1M Gold: $7.99
3M Gold: $19.99
12M Gold: $49.99
Starting Nov 1, 2010
1M Gold: $9.99
3M Gold: $24.99
12M Gold: $59.99

UK
Current
1M Gold: 4.99 GBP
Starting Nov 1, 2010
1M Gold: 5.99 GBP

Canada
Current
1M Gold: $8.99 CAD
Starting Nov 1, 2010
1M Gold: $9.99 CAD

Mexico
Current
12M Gold: 499 Pesos
Starting Nov 1, 2010
12M Gold: 599 Pesos

Unless listed above, there is no change in any other subscription packages.

Since launching Xbox LIVE in 2002 we have continually added more content and entertainment experiences for our members, while keeping the price the same. We’re confident that when the new pricing takes effect, an Xbox LIVE Gold membership will continue to offer the best value in the industry.

However, we do want to thank our loyal members and give you the opportunity to lock in your current price with an additional discount, so now would be a good time to renew your subscription.

Link to lock in a year at 39.99: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/pricelock/default.htm (giving server errors at the moment =/)

[Insanecyclone]

M$ really fits for them now.

Increase is probably because of useless shit we don't even care about. Holy shit FREE ESPN STREAMING FROM MY 360? THAT'S SO AWESOME

[Qalbert]

yeah, I would much prefer an "À la carte" style ordering system for the different services.

[Arnwulf]

M$ really fits for them now.

Increase is probably because of useless shit we don't even care about. Holy shit FREE ESPN STREAMING FROM MY 360? THAT'S SO AWESOME

It's not free if it requires a gold subscription.....just sayin'

But yeah, this sucks, why the hell are they raising the price now? I'd be willing to bet it's because of Kinect and some stupid bandwidth thing.

[Doombear]

It's not free if it requires a gold subscription.....just sayin'

But yeah, this sucks, why the hell are they raising the price now? I'd be willing to bet it's because of Kinect and some stupid bandwidth thing.

Partly Kinect yes, well Video Kinect anyway. I am actually hopeful for the ESPN addition, as long as they continue the coverage of soccer that they do with ESPN3, and the quality is as good as Netflix is. I would much rather watch La Liga games on my HDTV than on my Laptop monitor. Video Kinect... absolute pass though. Hulu... we will see.

[Norellicus]

If Hulu+ via PSN+ is any indication, Hulu on 360 will be a steaming pile of shit, as you'll be paying a monthly fee for the privilege of having your video content interrupted by 30~90 second ads every 6 minutes or so.

(In b4 "but you already get that with live loolollolololollol")

This isn't really that big a deal. Nobody I know has ever paid the full $50 pricetag for a year of XBL service thanks to places like Amazon, buy.com, etc offering the 12+1 cards at a sometimes extremely heavy discount (talking sub $30).

[Katlan]

M$ really fits for them now.

Increase is probably because of useless shit we don't even care about. Holy shit FREE ESPN STREAMING FROM MY 360? THAT'S SO AWESOME

Its BS, they charging more just to add more add's into the service

[Mjd]

Oh Microsoft!

[Kaisha]

Microsoft really rethink their subscription model.

One idea I had a year ago was going with a Bronze, Silver, and Gold subscription. Bronze would obviously be the current Silver as it has no fucking right being called Silver. Silver would be just the usual online-play access and party chat. Gold would be all the extra video shit most gamers don't care about, and the '1 week before everyone else' deal.

Granted Microsoft will never do it as they make more money charging everyone the premium which helps offset the cost of deploying some of their services for the 10% of the community that'll even make use of it.


inb4 Microsoft charging more because of their plan to use a higher bitrate for VoIP.

[Mjd]

"We charge more, so it's better."

[Kyo]

lol

[BadKarma]

I honestly dont mind. It's still a decent deal. Oh noes it 5 bucks a month instead of 4.25! SHIT! /sarcasm


Also if you renew before November 1st you get the year for $39.99, which works out in my favor since my subscription is up on the 26th of October :3

[Mjd]

That 100 pesos is going to break my bank.

Edit:

But ur right. It's $5 a month. It's just funny how Microsoft is doing this right before Black Ops is released.

[Selamis]

Displeasing news but meh, it's only a yearly charge so I guess it's not too terrible. Still bogus though, half the crap they've added to XBL I don't even use, like Last.FM, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix.

[Atreides]

Theyve probably wanted to charge 60 bucks for a long time now, and now that Sony is charging 50 for PSN Plus they probably feel like people might be willing to spend a little more on whatever extra xbox live offers.

[Norellicus]

Oh, a helpful fact you can share with friends who may be worried about this change:

You can 'preload' three years worth of subscription to your account. I'm not sure if that will be possible with that $40 deal they're offering right now, but it works with the code cards and the usual subscription process. So if you want to stave off this problem at least for a while you can do it that way.

[Mjd]

From the greatest news source ever, 4chan /v/

There is no logical reason to play games on an Xbox 360.

>>Oh, but all my retarded friends have 360s

Good job being a sheep and getting raped in the ass just so you can play Madden with your brosephs

>>PS3 has nogames

Sorry, but that's the 360's niche now. Halo and Gears are the only remaining 360 exclusives with anything resembling quality, especially now that ME2 is coming to the PS3 (IGN's #1 best 360 game on their top 25 list isn't even exclusive anymore). Meanwhile, the PS3 will continue to get the best Japanese games since no one buys a 360 in glorious Nippon.

>>XBL is better than PSN because

Stopping you there. You get to pay for a service that still bombards your ass with advertisements, uses a pain-in-ass points system for online currency, has BY A WIDE FUCKING MARGIN the most retarded userbase of 12-year-olds THAT ALL HAVE MICS, and also manage to shit up the dashboard with useless shit like Twitter and Facebook. All of that, with no reasonable difference in actual online play performance (if you think differently, find evidence that's not anecdotal). On top of that, the PS3 browser can already do all that shit, if you're so inclined. Discless Netflix is coming in only a couple months, so that's another reason down.

>>TEN DOLLARS IS NOTHING, LOL GET A JOB POORFAG

This is the most retarded logic possible. You're already paying for a service that every other platform offers for free. The whole "inflation" argument is bogus since the advertisements only recently became part of XBL, meaning that between their advertising gains, their outrageous pricing on shit that should be free, and their demands that publishers charge for DLC, they should be dropping prices, not raising them. How many fucking services do you know that raise prices the longer they're in business?

tl;dr- If you accept this bullshit cost increase, you are the cancer killing gaming.

[Qalbert]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-129-_-Product
apparently can order multiple cards there if you want to stock up a couple years

[Kaisha]

Any idea if those work for Canadian accounts also?

I know the price isnt getting jacked up here, but that's because we're already paying $10 over the US to begin with (and get next to none of the frills). My bro's account is getting low on time though, figured I'd order him a card if that does work.

[Qalbert]

idk bout the cards, when mine get here ill see if it says