Poll: Honestly, was Xbox Live worth it this gen? Will you pay for it next gen?

[spartan231490]

$@#&*#. I never said xbox live was a better service, I never used false analogy. I said that xbox live gold is the only way to play xbox online multiplayer. i said it explicitly. right there. in text. How do people on this site continue to put words in my fucking mouth. I can't make myself more clear. Am I going to have to start putting a 5 page fucking analysis for every 2 sentences I post on this fucking site. "online 360 multiplayer" not online multiplayer. Online multiplayer, for the fucking, xbox 360. How can that be any more fucking clear? People don't buy gold for netflix, they buy gold to play multiplayer online, and put netflix on it cuz they have netflix and why the fuck not. I did not once say anything about steam or other services. Fuck.

This is your reply to my post about how Xbox Live was charging you for a service others give us for free.

Except online play. You can't play your online 360 multiplayer without it. That's what most of us do with our xbox live, far more than the other stuff

Let me explain why this is isn't a valid point rather than point fingers.
Steam offers online play, just not for Xbox 360. PSN offers online play, just not for the 360. Nintendo offers online play just not for the 360.


It doesn't offer anything the others don't except for which system it works on. Your first post was wrong. Your second post was off topic defending consoles. You're jumping around so much that I can't tell what the next post will say, but I am guessing you're going to explain to me why Hitler's choice to invade Poland put him in a dangerous position with Russia who were in liege with aliens. Whatever you see fit to discuss, please don't bother. I don't like discussing things with someone who can't stick to the topic so consider yourself the winner if that makes you feel any better. Consider yourself right. Consider me a coward.

Right there, in the post you have now read 3 times, it says "360 online play." If you have a 360, and you want to get the most out of your games and play multiplayer, gold is worth it. If all your friends play xbox live, no other live service will be as fun. Nothing I have said has been off-topic, you have simply chosen to misinterpret everything I've said to fit your agenda. Why I am surprised by this occurring on this site, I truly don't know. Have a good day, and I'll Pray For You.

 

[Deathlyphil]

I've completed The Witcher 2 3 times in 2 different years. Fable roughly 10 times since it came out for the original Xbox. Mass Effect 2 twice, once in 2011 or so and once recently. Just to name a few.

These last few weeks I've been playing AoE3 single player, a game released in 2005, Dungeon Keeper 2, a game released back in 1997, Shogun 2, released in 2010 (I think?) and Oblivion, released in 2006.

Does that answer your question? Not all of us throw games into a corner never to play them again once we've beaten them or reached the max level.

Assuming you got all those games at time of release, you are talking about 16 years worth of games. I'm willing to bet that you have bought/rented/borrowed a lot more than the seven you have mentioned directly here. How many of those games do you still play? I've been gaming since the days of the NES, but the oldest game that I still have is probably Red Alert or Tomb Raider 2. Not sure about TR2, but I know that RA is unplayable, unless you are willing to get DOS emulators.

The games released on PS+ are generally older games. If you were a fan of the series, then there's a good chance that you would have bought it at or near launch. This is a useful service for those that wouldn't have bought or played the games at all. InFamous 1 was fun, but I didn't feel that 2 was worth the money. Now that I've played it, I can see it was a great game and I'm sorry I overlooked it.

TL;DR If you are playing games that have lots of replayability, then it's better to buy it. If it's a game you would otherwise have played, or are only going to play it once, then this is a great service.

 

[natster43]

It was worth it when my friends actually played games on it ever. Now I use it for Battlefield 3 every few months, but I use my PS3 for everything instead. Unless there is a drop in price of the service or a massive overhaul of it's services I won't be paying for it.

 

[OldNewNewOld]

People supporting XBL are worse than people supporting always online DRM and on disk DLC combined.
You are paying to be able to use the internet you already payed for. You're paying to be able to view ads. You're paying from something that is free on the PS3 and the WiiU. I don't like to use this word, but XBL is a cancer that needs to be dealt with.

EDIT: one more note, nobody who uses the escapist allot can ever complain about Xlive ad's this site at times feel's like a site full of add's, 30 second ad's before videos that are only 60 seconds long?

The Escapist is a free service and needs a way to earn money and pay for the people working and servers. If you buy the premium membership, there are no ads.

However, you pay for XBL gold and you still have to view those ads.

 

[Festus Moonbear]

Yes I'll be getting it, XBL gold is very cheap (less than 10p a day if you get a year's sub) and I've had a lot of fun with it, and I actually appreciate getting ads because without them I wouldn't have noticed the sale last week and gotten Max Payne 3 for £4. The thing about ads is that you can just ignore them if you don't like them, and get useful information from your content providers if you don't mind them - and hey, if you're a whiner, they give you something to masturba-whine about, so you should be thankful.

 

[RicoADF]

*snip*

First I'd like to say, if your happy with x-box live then good. I'm only saying how I feel about it, others have different views on what they expect. However just to address a few points.

I don't understand why people have such a problem with paying for Live, shop around and your paying a massive 8p (12 us cents, 8 euro cents) a day, WOW that's going to break the bank, play for just 2 hours a day an it's an insignificant cost. In exchange there are regular updates to the dashboard, I've never experienced the service going down, an I use it fairly regularly.

It's the principle of the matter, on PC and PS3 you can play all your games for free (and most don't have servers that can go down, thats a relatively new thing one that even xbox suffers (HALO 2). Even if a game does lose the net play on PC you can work around it.

A lot of pc games don't even incorporate voice chat an you have to look for another program to sort that out for you.

The thing is with a PC that is an option, and multiple ones too. I like having the consistancy with using teamspeak with whatever I do.

An I would say I'm a fairly unbiased gamer, I play on PC, Xbox, PS3 an PSP, out of all of them it's the online service I rate the most.

I have them all (2 computers, PS3, 360, PSP, PSVITA)and as I said before, to me their all the same, I have yet to see anything special about the live service. That's not a bad thing, its a good service like PSN etc, but the price isn't worth it. If they had it so you could use it for free with adds or pay to be add free I'd be fine with that, but paying to play games online in this day and age is a rip off to me, weather it's $1 or $100, no amount is worth it.