Rumor: Xbox getting rid of Xbox Gold, online will be free (Update: Live is randomly currently free )

[SNYC]

nikkaz got amnesia breh....they started this bullshyt. DLC too.

And achievements. PlayStation players were jealous of the 'bloop'

 

[HiiiPower]

Xbox with a clear W with this one

Their the reason you’ve been paying for online lol

 

[Kamikaze Revy]

That’s a fantastic idea and they’ll get nothing but applause from me if they actually do it. I couldn’t care less who started what.

 

[Collateral]

You gonna have more 13 year old cacs calling you a nikka and threatening to rape your granny because they don’t have to steal their momma’s credit card to to play online anymore.

 

[DaSk8D00D]

But for PC gaming you don't have to pay to play online and there's literally a bunch of cross play games where I can play for free WITH people on Xbox or Playstation...

Nintendo's online service being $20 and garbage has no correlation to it's price. The freaking Playstation Vita had better online service and it was FREE. I know the longer answer but I don't think it's just "cuz they got good service". I think it's due to Xbox monopolizing online play since they can control it on their platform.

Like I said, PC online is totally different than any console ecosystem. Anybody making a console box pretty much has to have their own online infrastructure and proprietary software so everyone has a consistent experience. PC has always been much more flexible, and in turn, a lot less secure once you start talking mods,hacking,etc.. Yall seem to be totally overlooking the security factor here. Sony bolstered their online and started charging for it when the PS4 launched because they absolutely had to after the 2011 data breach. I had my PS3 at the time and experienced that shyt first hand. Free services on that scale is what will get your shyt shut down by "external intrusion" for 23 days and 77 million users data stolen. You have to constantly be upgrading your security practices in the back end (which is the stuff consumers dont see) for the entirely of the service's lifecycle which does have extensive costs for any company at that scale. XBL was able to get hacked as well but their data breach didn't have nearly as many affected users nor was the outage as long because they had resources in place to resolve it quickly

 

[Rekkapryde]

And achievements. PlayStation players were jealous of the 'bloop'

so that justifies the starting for paying for online multi.....no

 

[old pig]

That’s a fantastic idea and they’ll get nothing but applause from me if they actually do it. I couldn’t care less who started what.

ya I don’t get why ppl feel that is a “proper” retort

 

[Marci-Senpai]

i'll believe it when its announced

 

[ItWasWritten]

I didn’t know brothers were struggling for that yearly subscription.

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

Watch them remove xbox gold and place it with another service that you'll be required to pay for to play online

They need to remove barriers, that is the whole point on getting people to stream the games. I didn't think it would happen so soon though.

 

[Crude Abolitionist]

GAME CHANGER

MEGATON IF TRUE

 

[Red Shield]

fukkers are the reason we're paying to play online on consoles as it is

Only reason they would do this shyt is because their trying to sweeten the pot for the xbox next gen.

they need all the bullets they can get

 

[Red Shield]

You gonna have more 13 year old cacs calling you a nikka and threatening to rape your granny because they don’t have to steal their momma’s credit card to to play online anymore.

private party chat legit ended that shyt

everyone is in their own parties now

 

[Deep_Black_Conscious]

They started, Sony followed suit. Xbox live was worth paying for especially at the time.

The question is will Sony X-copy and do the same thing AGAIN?

as a consumer I don't care who copies who

 

[The Mad Titan]

as a consumer I don't care who copies who

As a gamer I don't care either

As a "fanboy" I have a point to prove lol