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Amerika | reply to ptrowski
Re: And from what I've read, no dumb fee Don't care about PSN, or XBL.
But Ballmer I'm sure appreciates your business. |
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| said by Z80:Don't care about PSN, or XBL. But Ballmer I'm sure appreciates your business. Then why make such a fuss?
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Amerika | Because Microsoft insisted on $50 per year for me to use Netflix on my XBL even if I didn't want to use any online gaming features. That additional fee equates to a 46% increase in monthly Netflix cost.
No fuss now that Sony will allow me to use Netflix over a console without paying $50 per year extra. |
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| said by Z80:Because Microsoft insisted on $50 per year for me to use Netflix on my XBL even if I didn't want to use any online gaming features. That additional fee equates to a 46% increase in monthly Netflix cost. No fuss now that Sony will allow me to use Netflix over a console without paying $50 per year extra. Right....and XBL is just for gaming. Free content, map packs etc. Being able to watch other videos, rent movies and TV programs. I have some friends that don't use XBL for gaming online at all but use it more for a media center to rent movies.
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1 edit | You don't have to have a Gold account to rent movies. You don't have to have a Gold account to get demos. You don't have to have a Gold account to rent TV shows. You don't have to have a Gold account to get map packs.
Gold gets you video chat, online play (obviously) and Netflix, that's about it. The free Silver account gets you everything else. Netflix should be a Silver (Free) feature as it will soon be with the PS3.
The $50 is for the Gold account, not "XBL". You can get most XBL features without forking over $50 every year. Everything you mention (rentals, map packs etc) can be had using a Silver account. |
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kudos:4 | That's good to know then. I never bothered with a silver account as I play with friends online. |
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