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Xbox live + halo 2 = fun
GebStar:
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You don't have to pay for online play with the DS, or the PS2- so why is one of the largest computer software groups in the world sending us a bill? They can fucking afford it if Nintendo or Sony can!
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X-box live offers so much more than PS-2 ( i dont know much about the DS) the whole real time voice communication, the friends options, being able to leave voice messages for your friends. So much better than PS-2 and im more than happy to pay 75 bucks a year, just so i can have the most awesome console gaming experience.
lord_modred:
Xbox live monthly fee... this is why i shall wait for halo 2 to be released on PC
Lauxman:
RvB makes me want to go out and buy an XBox and Halo 2.
kingfandango:
--- Quote from: Jiperly ---I still gotta pay for the damn thing. I've gotten 3 of those "2 months free" shit- its like Columbia House- they give you some free CD's, but then overcharge you hugely for the next required CD's.
You don't have to pay for online play with the DS, or the PS2- so why is one of the largest computer software groups in the world sending us a bill? They can fucking afford it if Nintendo or Sony can!
(and no, you cannot combine the 2 months free shit)
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You may not have to pay to connect online with a PS2, but some of the most popular games like FFXI have a monthly subscription fee around $13 so really $50 a year to play online with any game for the entire Xbox Live lineup really isn't that much when you factor that just playing FFXI for a year is $156, and part of the reason that you don't get charged a fee from individual games over Xbox live is because they were and still are dedicated to the service since day one and don't want gamers to shell out a lot of money to use it, unlike Sony who only added Online as an after thought and are not...there have even been games like SC: Pandora Tomorrow that came with a free years subscription to Xbox Live. If you really think that Microsoft should provide for free all the services they do with Xbox Live that is kept updated with none of it's games charging a seperate fee and most providing downloadable content, than don't play Xbox live. The fact is that when you connect to Sony's online system you are then being transported to a server that is independantly run by whatever game you are playing at the moment. Xbox live is a system inside it's self with many accesible features that you do not even need to put a game in for. So when you come down to it, it's Pay-Per-Game(which can become extremely costly) vs. Pay-Per-Year(the price of one new game)...I'd much rather do the later.
nihilist:
I haven't done Xbox live for one reason: I cannot play an FPS with a controller. It just feels alien and wrong. After I was up in Iqaluit (on Baffin Island), I got really good with Halo. Had to out of sheer necessity; there was just nothing else to do. Took two months just to get dialup (20k bounced off a satellite = 2s latence for .9k/s). Then I came home, and dug out my UT2k4 and SoF2. Follwed by Doom 3 and HL2. Now, I sit in front of Halo 2, and I find my gun goes nowhere I expect. Waaah.
Anybody know how to mod a keyboard and mouse so they can connect to the Xbox? :)
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