Live Streaming ESPN Coming to Xbox 360? | PCWorld
That's the earliest mention of espn coming to xbox live
Xbox Live's Major Nelson » Price change for Xbox LIVE Gold subscription :
That's the official price change announcement
again the bolded is subjective because if someone only wants to play games online and does not care about the bells and whistles then obviously they(the bells and whistles) have no value to the user.
my 4 year old daughter could connect the big ass dots here breh. were there improvements to xbox live, sure. those improvements were mostly cosmetic though and wouldn't justify a price change unlike the additional content(rights and licenses) they acquired. more content = price increase....simple.
the only montly activity i found for xbl is for the most active games being played on xbl. there is no comparison for monthly game activity vs monthly nongaming activity. the only thing i found is that in 2011 40% of xbox activity were nongame related, but 50% > 40% which means there were more people playing games online or offline then there was people using apps. i don't know nor do i care about sony releasing their numbers. i also don't care about who has the most users online. this isn't a psn vs xbl argument to me. if you feel the need to champion xbl you're doing it against the wrong person. i literally don't get how this is hard for you. if someone owns an xbox and wants to play games online they(the average person) have no choice but to pay. if someone likes playing games online on xbl over psn they have to pay. the coli does not represent the average person so bringing up what the coli does is irrelevant. once again i'm not arguing with the value of xbl because value is purely subjective. the point still stands the price did go up due to new services(apps) being implemented. 2010(price increase)------>2011(espn is released on xbl)
if you paid less then $9.99, $24.99, or $59.99 you got it on sale because the average cost even on amazon are $9.99, $24.99, and $59.99. can it be found cheaper on amazon and google?......duh.
why are you still replying to me? You said there is no point in arguing value yet you keep quoting me about value. Again all I said is that features have gone up while the price has remained the same for 3 years. Any way you cut it, that's value going up, or at least it's not value going down. You could say it was never a good deal to begin with but saying "it's getting ridiculous" is totaly off base.As for your rant about the prices. ALL items have a higher msrp than what they are actually sold for. If you can ALWAYS find a discount for XBL, wouldn't that be added value as well?
so you'll report the peak of usership when talking about a Sony title, but you wanna look for the lowest usership when talking about a Microsoft title.
You'll see. When that price raise again and PS4 offer a better service that don't for you to pay premium to play online, you'll see. Looseanus.
just imagine Sony forcing us to pay just for for the "privilege" to access thoses apps through psn..
at that still being the justification they have almost the same amount with install base. its pathetic.
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wouldn't that mean the value went up if you purchased a XBL gold subscription in dec 2010 just cause you wanted to play games. Wouldn't any features added after that fact be increasing value? Even if you don't see the value of those things, you can't say the value is going down.