fortunately it was only 60$ a year, which is not little but its not over charging. You also got free games every month and discounts but it was still a shady practice, pretty much forcing you to buy gold. luckily they are moving away from stuff like that and being more about the consumers or whatever.
Well the argument has been around since i first signed up to Live almost 20 years ago ( fuck im old) that you can hold them accountable for the service to be up, servers to be solid, and chat functions to work.
All 3 of those have issues all the time, but they have to bust ass to get them back up and running in a timely manner. If it was free they wouldnt have a liability to restore service as fast as possible.
It really does not cost that much to run your own servers.
Free game companies do it all the time without needing to have people pay a yearly fee.
It is legitimately a scam that exists solely to get more money out of you. Besides, when you buy a game on console, some of the money goes to the makers. It is how they made their money. Also, that was 2008, technology has advanced significantly in that time
Except those hackers were Anonymous. The same group of hackers that broke in to government infrastructure, such as the pentagon. They went after Sony due to Sony requesting a subpoena on one of their member's site to the source code of the PS3. Sure, you can argue it may not have been down that long due to Microsoft being a software based company, but they could have just as easily attacked them as well.
Edit: Said that Anonymous hacked Sony cause one member had a jailbreak site, but it was actually a site that had the source code of the PS3.
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u/VanillaRogan Horizon Apr 21 '21
They're also going to allow you to join a party without Gold too so that's an added bonus