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    Re: News! Xbox Live Shutdown for Original Xbox

    so where are these improvements to the service? the idea was to shutdown for the specific reason of adding/making improvements... as usual, probably was just to save some $$$ (ea style)
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    Re: News! Xbox Live Shutdown for Original Xbox

    Originally Posted by heetsauce
    so where are these improvements to the service? the idea was to shutdown for the specific reason of adding/making improvements... as usual, probably was just to save some $$$ (ea style)
    I would guess that too.
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    Re: News! Xbox Live Shutdown for Original Xbox

    or they just ran out of memory and have to wait for everything to be cached to the local HDD
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    Re: News! Xbox Live Shutdown for Original Xbox

    Originally Posted by xIronWarlordx
    Plus the cost for a gold subscription has stayed the same despite all the 'gold required' features they've added.
    Looks like I spoke too soon. The price of xbox live gold will be increased on November 1st. I'm sure everyone got the same email I did but here are the new prices:

    1-Month | $7.99 --> $9.99
    3-Month | $19.99 --> $24.99
    12-Month | $49.99 --> $59.99

    I really pissed about this. I love the new features they're adding like Hulu and ESPN (soccer ftw), but now we gotta pay more if all we want is multiplayer. They should really add an intermediate subscription.

    I think a gold membership should be just silver with multiplayer, and a platinum membership could be the whole package.

    ...btw, I think other upgrades to the service might be on the way. From what I saw at E3, they're revamping the dashboard for use with kinect so we could possibly get a friends list increase then. If we don't get it by the end of the year tho, it definitely won't happen.


    EDIT: I found something interesting when looking for details on the update. http://www.joystiq.com/2010/08/26/re...nect-with-you/
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    Re: News! Xbox Live Shutdown for Original Xbox

    Originally Posted by xIronWarlordx
    Originally Posted by xIronWarlordx
    Plus the cost for a gold subscription has stayed the same despite all the 'gold required' features they've added.
    Looks like I spoke too soon. The price of xbox live gold will be increased on November 1st. I'm sure everyone got the same email I did but here are the new prices:

    1-Month | $7.99 --> $9.99
    3-Month | $19.99 --> $24.99
    12-Month | $49.99 --> $59.99

    I really pissed about this. I love the new features they're adding like Hulu and ESPN (soccer ftw), but now we gotta pay more if all we want is multiplayer. They should really add an intermediate subscription.

    I think a gold membership should be just silver with multiplayer, and a platinum membership could be the whole package.

    ...btw, I think other upgrades to the service might be on the way. From what I saw at E3, they're revamping the dashboard for use with kinect so we could possibly get a friends list increase then. If we don't get it by the end of the year tho, it definitely won't happen.
    SUX buit will do anything to keep playing trials!
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    Re: News! Microsoft will jack up the price for Xbox Live Gold :(

    I didn't get that email so hopefully they wont change it in the UK.
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    Re: News! Xbox Live Shutdown for Original Xbox

    Originally Posted by Zoidberg747
    SUX buit will do anything to keep playing trials!
    You do know you don't need gold XBL to play Trials HD?
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    Re: News! Xbox Live Shutdown for Original Xbox

    Originally Posted by Jarr3tt88
    Originally Posted by Zoidberg747
    SUX buit will do anything to keep playing trials!
    You do know you don't need gold XBL to play Trials HD?
    I thought you neede gold to share tracks, but then I remembered you don't my bad, but ill still pay for gold to play multiplayer in other games
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    Re: News! Microsoft will jack up the price for Xbox Live Gold :(

    Trials HD doesn't need a gold account. All the game features are available with a silver account.
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    Re: News! Xbox Live Shutdown for Original Xbox

    Originally Posted by xIronWarlordx

    1-Month | $7.99 --> $9.99
    3-Month | $19.99 --> $24.99
    12-Month | $49.99 --> $59.99

    I look at it like this:

    My 2 vices are weed & xbox live.

    My "subscription" to the kush -

    1-month | $240
    3-month | $720
    12-month | $2880 damn habits...

    A couple of bucks more per month for access to a plethora of goodies shouldn't break too many banks. Sixty bucks for a whole year of access?! I spend that much per week on grass and I get the same amount of time consuming enjoyment from both.

    I sound like a Microsoft ad.... umm, except for the whole marijuana references.
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