beenz
Rap Guerilla
sony needs to take notes and follow suit 
they pulled that bullshyt with the PS4 when PSN had been free prior.
they pulled that bullshyt with the PS4 when PSN had been free prior.
Rumor: Xbox getting rid of Xbox Gold, online will be free (Update: Live is randomly currently free )
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Black Nate Grey
The God Emperor of Mankind
Good, because they started this bullshyt.
Sony are cheap fukks they are not going to follow suit.
Sony are cheap fukks they are not going to follow suit.
Jonah
XBOT Suicide Prevention Squad
did yall have the BBA or was yall using dialupI owned a PS2 and used internet “features“ on a friends Dreamcast those services were not as good as nostalgia would have you believe
The Dreamcast going the way of the dinosaur despite being a pioneer in the field only further proves my point. For them to not monetize those services wasn’t going to be sustainable from a business sense
dial up was ass compared to the BBA
Mr Hate Coffee
Veteran
so yall mad because I said you get what you pay for. We just gonna totally ignore the 2011 PSN hack (one of the largest data breaches in history w/ 77million users info being stolen and the network being down for 23 days) or how shoddy $20/year Nintendo Online is?
I work in tech so I have a pretty solid understanding of how these decisions are made at a corporate level and what it takes to keep such services running properly over an extended period of time. Of course as a consumer I'm down for paying as little as possible, but I'm not gonna expect any platform that has to host millions of users across the globe concurrently to not be monetized somehow. Customer experience is definitely important and there are right and wrong ways about doing it, but at the same time I think it's crazy to expect a Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, etc to just be willing to eat the costs of maintaining a fast, massive, and secure online platform because that shyt is not cheap.
So overall, I think it's great that Microsoft is willing to do this, but I'm not gonna necessarily hold the other companies to it because I truly don't think they can from a business perspective. Like, they could maybe do it but good luck telling that to shareholders next quarter without a Gamepass or Azure cloud in your back pocket
Yup. Regular brehs don't know this shyt goes down on the business side. I'm literally working on a financial model to justify 5G and edge compute deployments. That shyt is EXPENSIVE. The upfront capital to create these next gen streaming and gaming networks is crazy.
We bout to have truly lag free online gaming...
But somebody gotta pay for that shyt or else it's gonna be a pipe dream for a minute.
Tenchi Ryu
Ashtray B!tch
Tenchi Ryu
Ashtray B!tch
Exactly...so yall mad because I said you get what you pay for
I work in tech so I have a pretty solid understanding of how these decisions are made at a corporate level and what it takes to keep such services running properly over an extended period of time. Of course as a consumer I'm down for paying as little as possible, but I'm not gonna expect any platform that has to host millions of users across the globe concurrently to not be monetized somehow. Customer experience is definitely important and there are right and wrong ways about doing it, but at the same time I think it's crazy to expect a Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, etc to just be willing to eat the costs of maintaining a fast, massive, and secure online platform because that shyt is not cheap.
So overall, I think it's great that Microsoft is willing to do this, but I'm not gonna necessarily hold the other companies to it because I truly don't think they can from a business perspective. Like, they could maybe do it but good luck telling that to shareholders next quarter without a Gamepass or Azure cloud in your back pocket
Microsoft isn’t renaming Xbox Live and has "no plans" to discontinue Xbox Live Gold
Recent rumors have also speculated that Xbox Live Gold is going away or perhaps even being made free. I asked Microsoft to comment on the rumors, and the company said: “We have no plans to discontinue Xbox Live Gold at this time. It is an important part of gaming on Xbox today, and will continue to be in the future.”
Recent rumors have also speculated that Xbox Live Gold is going away or perhaps even being made free. I asked Microsoft to comment on the rumors, and the company said: “We have no plans to discontinue Xbox Live Gold at this time. It is an important part of gaming on Xbox today, and will continue to be in the future.”
That’s exactly why I don’t fukk with rumors if it ain’t official. 
Nikkas really thought MS was about to get rid of billions in easy revenue just like that
you were right
can’t lie...I held out hope that the rumors were true
I can’t believe people were really vested in this. That Live Gold revenue stream has been too good to Xbox for damn year 15plus years.Nikkas really thought MS was about to get rid of billions in easy revenue just like that
They always give the "no plans at this time" statement. I say we know when we get price and pre order info