eBay selling 12 months of Xbox Live for $27.99

What do you mean guys? Retard don't reply when it was one kid whining about it and the obvious trolls.

Wouldn't it just be better to pay the $50?

$50 for 12 months = $50/yr
$20 for 3 months * 4 = $80/yr...

Oh, of course! It's just been tough times lately and $20 bucks in the short term has been easier to justify to the missus than $50! But clearly, that is the better choice!

i tried this but couldnt get it to work and i checked to see if ebay was listed as a supported store and its not there.

3 months for $20?? That's ALWAYS a ripoff. The full price for the 13 month card is $50, which is $3.85 per month. You paid twice that.

I didnt have 50 dollars, I only had 20, and I needed more gold.

@Brian

Yea. Obviously the 12 month is a better deal, but when it comes down to it, 50 > 20, and not everyone can make the most of all 12 months.

They give them back.

Incoming wall of text...

It depends on how you play your games. If you're just going it alone and jumping into random games then XBL doesn't really offer any advantages.

But, if you're going for social gaming or trying to play with friends, the lack of cross-game invites, voice messages, and a party system are utterly crippling on the PSN. XBL just makes it so dang convenient and a 2-second process to get into a game with all your friends without having to plan it through some other means ahead of time.

I guess I'm just still a bit bitter in knowing that I would have probably played a ton more KZ2 and MGS4 online if their online systems weren't so damned archaic. And of course the PSN was absolutely no help without cross-game invites or a party system or anything like that. It would be a huge PITA to get a room up and going with just a big group of friends, to the point where we'd actually have to plan out a time or something ahead of time and all try and work our schedules around it to get it to happen. On XBL, no pre-planning necessary, just boot up and within seconds you can have a room full of friends with a couple button clicks.

Let's say you could have a Ford Focus for free or a Porche 911 for $2000 per year. Someone that doesn't really care much about cars or driving fast can take the Ford Focus for free and be all the happier that they're saving an extra $2k per year. But for someone that does love cars and driving fast, a paultry $2k per year for a Porsche 911 is the best deal in the world for them.

That's why it's cool that we have a choice, and there isn't a right or wrong one, just one that better fits each individual. For me, with the way I play games online, $27 per year for XBL is a million times better deal than getting something that's 1000x more of a PITA for me for free. For others that aren't going to use those extra features, free is better.

If you already have a PS3 and you don't use any of the 360's extra features, then it makes sense for you to save the $28 bucks/year and just play on the PS3 instead unless you want to play any of the 360 exclusives online.

Live is only worth the money is you use all the extra features. It's sort of the same argument with the value of the PS3's hardware and the extra features you get. Blu-Ray, Wi-Fi, Free Online Play, Web Browser, Blue Tooth etc etc are only worth the extra coin if you use those features. Same argument goes for Live. If you just want to play online then paying that $50 bones a year is a probably a rip off. Likewise, if you don't care about all the bells and whistles why pay $400 bones for a PS3 when you can get an Arcade for half?

At their core they function exactly the same.

This is an admittedly inept comparison that doesn't account for all factors (certainly better than the car analogy - lol - that was way off)

Let's say you are attending a seminar and have the choice of upgrading your lunch or you can take the lunch included in the cost of the seminar -

One premium turkey sandwich meal has applewood bacon, stone ground mustard on ciabatta bread, evian water, bag of terra chips, toblerone for dessert and costs $8 while the other turkey sandwich has plain bacon, french's mustard on an all wheat hoagie, no bottled water (they have pitchers), plain bag of ruffles chips and a snickers bar for dessert at no additional charge.

At the end of the day they are both turkey lunches that will fill you up - one is included in the cost of the seminar (PSN) and one is an optional add on (360) that has higher quality ingredients. Those ingredients are only better to you if that stuff is important to you at the additional cost.

Oooh, Thriller. Thanks for that.

Oh, ass. This was supposed to be a response to my comment (and subsequent replies) before. I don't know why Joystiq and Engadget always mess that up.

Yes that could be a good offer to people as a back-up. It would be $58 plus tax if you get charged tax from Amazon in your area, so roughly $64 total shipped. But you then then resell the chat pad, the game, etc and recoup some of your money back if you didn't want those items.

Best Buy was running XBOX Live 12 month cards for $39.99 each last week, so keep an eye on them, they may run that again, which isn't $27.99 but still at least some type of savings.