"PSN is not an acceptable substitute for Xbox Live..."

What? With that reasoning and line of thinking, they might as well raise prices 10$ every year, since people easily burn through 10$. They may as well charge 10$+ for worthless DLC since people burn through that much extra a week, they might as well rasie game prices by 10$ since people burn through that much money in a week, furthermore, may as well increases prices of all XBLA games by 10$ since people have much spare money....

Do you honestly feel that the service that you are paying for now is worth paying 10$ more?
 
Starrynite said:
What? With that reasoning and line of thinking, they might as well raise prices 10$ every year, since people easily burn through 10$. They may as well charge 10$+ for worthless DLC since people burn through that much extra a week, they might as well rasie game prices by 10$ since people burn through that much money in a week, furthermore, may as well increases prices of all XBLA games by 10$ since people have much spare money....

Do you honestly feel that the service that you are paying for now is worth paying 10$ more?
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Not sure if you've been noticing comments on other forums and such, but one of the main reactions to the price increase was a sudden surge to purchase XBL cards that are usually found cheaper at places like Amazon. I've personally haven't paid the full $50 for this reason. I buy my XBL subscriptions off of Amazon because they're usually $20 cheaper, or up to.

So now there's quite a few 360 owners who are set for a few years because they stacked up. So Mega's logic isn't totally inaccurate.


In a perfect world, people would just stop subscribing to the service out of principle. Unfortunately, all it seems to have done is push the sales of the cheaper subscriptions. I'm personally not going to renew after my year is done (I purchased a subscription before this news hit.) That is unless they add features in the future that are worth the extra money.
 
I vehemently disagree with Tycho on this one.

For myself, there's no comparison. Most of my friends own PS3's. The ones that own a 360 don't pay to play online either. When I owned a 360 I never payed for XBL, so any online features were totally inaccessible to me. Also, the lack of a built in Wifi on every 360 except for the new ones that just came out a couple months ago made it so that I rarely, if ever, ran a 25 foot cable from my router to my living room to connect to my "silver" account, and when I did in order to get the Dashboard update, I got an E74 error. In that sentence alone lie three HUGE barriers to any 360 online service: Wifi, annual fee, hardware unreliability.

My PS3, with built in wifi, the free online gave me access to a feature set that I've taken advantage of on many occasion. So again, there's no comparison. It's not even an issue of value for me, it's the difference between an out of the box feature that just works and gives me access to whole new games and game modes, compared to something that is not only inconvenient for me to access, but will cost me annually to do so, and thus may as well be non-existent.

As far as my experience has proven, Xbox 360 owners don't have an acceptable substitute for PSN, or any substitute for that matter.
 
So I just signed up for PSN and one thing that did bother me was the fact that I had to place a "valid" address in order to sign up. I kept wondering what this was for since XBL does not require you to do this. Then on the next screen you get asked to opt in to offers from Sony and its partners.

Not cool Sony. You shouldn't have to make that as part of the registration process.
 
You just need to put in a valid address that can be any address, I made a Japanese PSN account and the address is totally bogus...You also dont need to opt in, were you signing up online...though you should have actually said to opt in because then you can get invited to betas and demos
 
CreepinDeth said:
So I just signed up for PSN and one thing that did bother me was the fact that I had to place a "valid" address in order to sign up. I kept wondering what this was for since XBL does not require you to do this. Then on the next screen you get asked to opt in to offers from Sony and its partners.

Not cool Sony. You shouldn't have to make that as part of the registration process.
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Yeah, they don't send you anything to your address or anything like that. You could put in any address really.
 
Starrynite said:
You just need to put in a valid address that can be any addressdemos[/b]
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Strubes said:
You could put in any address really.
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Yeah, I know. Which is why I put the word "valid" in quotation marks. I just don't think it's necessary as part of the registration process. We know that you can put a dummy address but what about the average player? Or younger children? Personal information shouldn't be a requirement. It should be an option through the PSN store or something.

Starrynite said:
though you should have actually said to opt in because then you can get invited to betas and demos
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I have about 25 games that I still need to get through. Not to mention I have access to betas through other means, so this is something I don't mind opting out on.
 
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