Separate fee for each game? WTF

[Kortiz]

as long as i dont have to pay 10 bucks a month for each game i wanna play on xbox live, then i will be happy, 10 bucks a month for 12 months isnt a big deal if you ask me. i mean most games out there like EQ and DAOC and Anarchy Online and all them other MMORPGs they are like 12bucks a month now, i pay 12 for EQ, so 10 bucks for like 10 games that i wanna play online is nothing. i would consider that good for a monthly fee. of course it doesnt compare to playing online now on your Computer for free. my only prob will be getting cable. after that i will be set.

but man, i was worried i would have to pay 10 bucks a month for each game i wanna play online, that would have BEEN WHACK FOO!!!

[LynxFX]

Originally posted by Maximus


Dude...you know, I actually heard about that...but, I never heard that from a source from Microsoft. That would be bad ass...where did you get your info? Just curious

Max I posted that info a couple days ago and it was straight from Xbox.com. Can't get closer to the source than that. It is in the sticky thread at the top. "Official Xbox Live Discussion"

[Dre]

Originally posted by Maximus
Man, this is going to be the most impressive network in the world! It's going to cost Microsoft over $1 BILLION to create this thing and, arguably, Microsoft will be as large as the 3rd largest Telecom company in the world! That is just crazy!! All for their vision for XBox...this is going to be HUGE!!!!!

Didn't MS say the network is in place already?

[melon]

i'm gonna have to get broadband..so many awesome online games coming out

[UltraMuffin]

I was prepared to pay around $150 a year if I could find a few online games that I knew I would play the heazy out of all year long... I was a bit skeptical that I would be able to find a few games that would really interest me, since I'm pretty much burnt out on online PC gaming already. Now, for $50 for the headset and a year of Xbox Live... that's a no brainer, that's cheap enough to let me just try it out... But, after reading about MS's plans for this whole thing, I know I'm going to be a slave to this Xbox Live stuff...

Online PC gaming is basically FPS, strategy, and RPG games... that's about it. Sports games aren't really that popular on PCs (to the best of my knowledge)... and IMO they just don't feel right using a keyboard or mouse... and sitting a foot away from the screen. Xbox Live is going to introduce online play to all types of games... the tried and true FPSs and RPGs, and lots of sports games, with competitions and stats and all that good stuff that makes you wanna play til you become a god. I'm not really a fan of sports games, but the idea of playing golf or racing online (is racing a sport? hehe) sounds real appealing to me... I get the impression that MS wants to online-ify every genre of game they possibly can and make online play a lasting and rewarding experience... that's what I'm so excited about.

Oh and about the seperate prices for different games thing... the reason MMORPGs like Everquest have a monthly fee is because they have to provide massive servers to play on and pay lots of people to maintain it... An MMORPG for Xbox would be using MS's servers, but MMORPG servers aren't like the servers a game like Unreal would use, they have to be HUGE to allow thousands of people to connect to them simultaneously... and the maintenance would probably be significantly more work for a living, breathing world of that magnitude... So I wouldn't be suprised if MS figured out some way to make players of MMORPGs pay more money... I hope they don't though.

This post is longer than I intended it to be, and for that I apologize... I even half proof-read it! I sound so full of myself

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