Job posting hints at new Xbox Live

Agreed.

Exactly the first thought that crossed my mind.

Stability.

I meant that to be a reply to Cryo.

I can play online on PS3 even during christmas unlike the crippled live which even brings the blade interface down with it

Nice Radiohead image by the way

PSN doesnt have ads, granted LIVE has more stuff but the PSN runs just fine. Microsoft could do LIVE without ads and dedicated servers, they just want to squeeze every penny out of you. i hope they do make LIVE free though since everyone should be able to share in the free online glory!

Perhaps we should be demanding dedicated servers from the game publishers? Or perhaps we should have the option to host matches as a dedicated server on our internet connection without having our Xbox 360 online. Perhaps companies could host xbox live servers in exchange for a little "this online match brought to you by..." logo before or after a match.

Battle.net has also managed to run fine without any payments, though they do have ads (for Blizzard-related products and are about as intrusive as the ads currently on Live).

PSN: KillaKornbread Keep saying that about PSN, now but wait untill it gets the user base size of XBL now, if its still free the servers will probably fail often, be laggy, not well kept up. Sony will implement ads and possibly a price to use the service. You act as if the PSN is the light at the end of the Tunnel, its not as time goes on the light will fade and be replaced by the dispair of a cruddy unkempt service due to not having enough money to upkeep it. Sony already is at a large loss on each PS3 sold, so they get no money from the PS3 to help aid the costs of the PSN.

Once PSN gets ya know.... like 10 million members, you're going to see a fuck load of ads

PSN has a million less users than Live.

And all PSN users can play online unlike Live.

So yea, stop with the "wait till PSN has so many users" bs.

no.

I second that emotion.

Agreed.

Concur'd.

@netgem21

Im sure this from a guy who has never played a PS3. I own all 3 consoles and the PS3 does the same thing the 360 does. It allows me to play my games online except its for free. I have never cared for a gamer score, chatting with random people or anything else people trash Sony about. I am sure Home will be o.k. but I will probably use that feature seldom as well. I think if Sony gave people free tickets for massages, a free airplane ticket or filet mignon people would still bitch that the massage didn't have a happy ending, flight wasn't first class and the steak didn't have peppered bacon around it. People are always looking for a way to trash something. Anyone who thinks that Live has to cost money to be good is crazy. Sony will never charge for PSN regardless of the amount of users because it doesn't have to. For that matter Microsoft doesn't have to either but is squeezing every buck out of the gamer it can. Kind of like charging for a Wi-Fi adapter, HD movie player, DRM issues with LIVE, Region locked games, screwing early adopter by not giving HDMI, LIVE service and making us use a crappy proprietary hard drive in 2 sizes and not to mention they only fix RROD for free but that is only 1/3 fatal problems the 360 has due to overheating. I am on my 6th repaired console (had to force 3 to RROD because they would no longer read disc but Microsoft wanted to charge me $99.00 to fix it!!!) and I have taken perfect care of this thing (the system is just trash).

The only thing LIVE has over PSN in my mind is more users and thus a better chance of matchmaking in games. But in terms f comparing it to PSN they are essentially the same thing at their core. And the PSN has not crashed for an entire month due to bad network infrastructure.

You people need to quit hating just for the sake of justifying your purchase and having a virtual pissing contest with your E-Dicks.

amen. i hear the N-word so much online that i dont even use the headset anymore. CoD4 is terrible for that ive discovered.

agreed. Hearing that rubbish doesn't make you respected by any means.

"...and bleeps them..."

You're too kind, sir.

I would suggest immediately dropping that player from the match. Bleep out someone like that, they'll just think it's funny and your entire game will be a series of beeps. Assholes still like to play, so after the third or fourth time that they're kicked from a game, they'll realize that they have no choice but to stop saying those things that they are too cowardly to say IRL.

Um...there's a mute button for a reason, once more games implement the button that was once known as the A-hole button from Halo3 muting people will be easy, there's your bleeping right there. To bleep people automaticly is censorship and would violate the 1st most likely.

@Sky Shark
The first amendment is not all-encompassing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_words nor is XBL commonly the forum for political critique. There are terms of service and were a voice-bleeping system to be implemented, it would probably be covered there.

The first amendment is not to protect people that want to (much to my surprise, being neither) inform me I am black and homosexual.

Good try Sky - Live is not a place for free speech; it isn't the government's communication line. It is a private pay service owned by a company and there is no 1st amendment right to be protected. Such rights are to protect you from the government – not the private sector.

On Wednesday, the Microsoft Keynote will happen. That's when it all kicks off. Blu-Ray Add-on, Halo 4, Call of Duty 5, Gears of War 2, Alan Wake - all possible...

I seem to remember J Allard saying that the Xbox 360's Marketplace Points system would - quote unquote:

'Allow a user to, for example, design a skateboard for Tony Hawk's American Wasteland. He could then sell it on the marketplace for points and use the points to buy other items.'

This has not happened.

Almost all the cool stuff at GDC happens at the tail end of the week. Microsoft's keynote isn't until Wednesday (for instance).

GDC is also not E3. I don't think there'll be any REALLY big news coming out of this except maybe Gears of War 2 being officially announced.

I'm not expecting anything really from Sony and Nintendo, though.

I second that sentiment, Anticrawl. At LEAST 4-way Private Chat.

Yeah Ill take a web-browser. How can a Microsoft system not have web browser? I dont NEED it but I would like it. With flash of course =)

Also multiple private chat. I dont think that they will EVER make Live *free* so I dont get my hopes up for that. I just want them to make it even sweeter than it already is.

Also, dont do anything like Home please. You dont know if Home will work out or not. Right now my thoughts are kinda meh about it. Id rather be gaming than walking around from place to place to see Trailers and Trophies and such. People in the Beta were already complaining about this.

Aahh, but flash = free casual games.

free casual games = less people buying XBLA games.
(or in the case of Wii: free casual games = less people buying Wii games.)

Well then BLOCK those free casual game websites. Would it be difficult to block say, yahoogames.com or msngames.com? No.

I use flash on my PS3 and PSP web browsers.

Over 10 million people on Live dont care about what you just said.



But I do, promise. =P

But i thought the 10 million stat was all LIVE accounts, not just those who are paying?