But, since many of us are paying for the privilege, there's a growing sense that we deserve some sort of compensation. While we at Joystiq won't be satisfied until Bill Gates himself writes us each a check for $1, TheBitbag.com claims that an Xbox insider told them: "we will definitely be doing something for our Gold members that weren't able to get online over the last week." Though we can't be certain precisely what that is, our inside sources are telling us "footrubs."
[Via Xbox Scene]
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I can understand that stuff breaks sometimes, but a paid service should be reliable, and this has been about a week for me...all I want is for this to be fixed and some sort of explanation for what is going on. Come on, can they just tell us that a server went down, or they were putting new code, or something? I can't stand the "We're working on it" deal when they won't even say what "it" is...
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If you want to sell a premium service, you have to make it worth the premium. MS isn't doing a great job of this lately, instead of adding more to the premium service, they're instead taking stuff away from the free service (delaying downloads a week). This is roughly equivalent to a father saying to his child "stop crying or I'll give you something to cry about".
More carrot and less stick, please.
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Yeah XBL users are a great bunch arn't they?
I am currently buying all games that are equally good on both on the PS3 instead of the 360 because the PS3 is more reliable (my 360 died in November 2006 and again in November 2007 each time being away for a month), I don't like paying for games and then not being able to play them because my console is broken. Also, the PS3 is a lot quieter, the 360 helicopter noise drives me nuts. Additionally, I polled all my friends who had consoles and most of my PS3 friends planned on buying Rock Band, so I bought Rock Band so I could play with them. Later one of my friends with both consoles decided to get Rock Band too and I convinced him to buy it for PS3 also since he already knew 3 people who had it for PS3 and none on 360.
I'm currently trying to buy all games that are equally good on PS3 instead of 360 (due to the reliability and noise), but honestly, this hasn't come into play in many games yet! Most aren't as good on PS3 as on 360, and I didn't buy Assassin's Creed or COD4, nor do I expect to get Burnout Paradise (in a rare case, the demo convinced me not to buy a game I was sure to buy before). I kinda think I'll get DMC4, that'll probably be on PS3.
Oh, one more. I bought DiRT on PS3 instead of 360 because the 360 only has one driving wheel of note and it is crap, while on the PS3 I can use my GT4 wheel or my (awesome) G25. DiRT isn't the best example of this, since it isn't much of a huge wheel game. But I'll prefer to buy driving games on PS3 over 360 because of this. MS is driving me up a wall with their proprietary controller strategy lately, kinda ironic they ended up in the better position on Rock Band vis-a-vis controllers.
I have a friend who happened upon a high end gaming PC, someone needed some money I guess, so instead of a 360 he opted for the PS3 and recently got a Wii so he has all his bases covered.
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And gimme a free XBL game bitches! I am suffering here! (heh heh)
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As such, you can guess that MS perhaps fixed the problem even on the later 90nm models, perhaps they only fixed it with the 65nm chips or perhaps they still can't find their ass with two hands and a map. Take your pick.
Sadly, having had a 360 since day one, and having MS said in fall 2006 that they had fixed the problem, then watching them ship at least 5M more with the same problem after that I can't believe a word they say. My latest replacement model is noisier than either of my previous two and has a messed up optical drive, so I don't place a lot of stock in MS' competence right now.
BTW, my Uncle used to work with the Robinson brother's Dad. He says to me one day "Do you know of some band by the name of something to do with Crows?". I say "Do you mean Counting Crows?" and he's all "No, No...something else" and I say "The Black Crows?" and he goes "Yeah, I think that is it". He worked with the guy for years and never told me until after they broke up. He could have gotten me free tickets that bastard.
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You can buy XBL straight off the 360 right?
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Have some cake.....
(Even more fitting since I just beat Portal)
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Personally... Free subscription to XNA would do me. =P
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Damn you XBL! I just hope it all works again when my XBOX 360 gets back from Microsoft. I was just about to get COD4 too, as well as The Orange Box, both are on sale as of now for being really great games. I'll still buy them anyways.
I choose choice b.
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they did it with the crackdown/halo 3 beta.
so they'll prolly do something here too.
but seriously..a free month of live? for a week of on/off, janky service?
thats like what? $4 worth or service time?
get real people.
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MS will just add a week of service, a free 400 MS points or something comparable to the time lost and everyone will forget this all happend...we gamers have the same disposable attention spans that 14 yr old teenage girls have for pop music. for better or worse.
look at the halo 3 beta...look how quickly people stopped caring about the 1-day lag for crackdown players when MS/bungie added a week to the beta.
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0h, w41t...
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God is punishing everyone of you for pretending that the FREE playstation network is garbage (which it's not) and continuing to vocally support and proudly pay for something that should be free.
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