Last night, Microsoft proudly gloated to the masses that they've reached another Xbox Live milestone a full six months prior to their forcast by telling everyone that Xbox Live now has 10 million subscribers. 10 million! The total amount of subscribers does take into account both Gold and Silver accounts and is a worldwide total.Now, if we were to do a little "how much money does Microsoft make off of Xbox Live subscriptions" calculation and say that if (theoretically) only 40% of all Live accounts are Gold and are subscribing at $50 a year, then Microsoft is making roughly ... $200 million. And that's if only 4 out of 10 million subscribers pay. With all that money one would think Xbox Live would be up and running normally 99% of the time, but as you can tell, it's still semi-borked. Oh well, at least we're 10 million strong and have the capability of starting the world's largest riot if necessary. And that's a comforting thought.
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1-07-2008 @ 11:52AM
Louis said...
They must be making a killing 10 millions subscribers and two servers from 1998 running the whole thing.
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1-07-2008 @ 11:59AM
Boff said...
Ha ha don't you mean running Windows98?
So there must be around 4-5 million of us wondering what exactly our annual Gold subscription pays for.
1-07-2008 @ 9:56PM
bob said...
oh well doesn't really matter to me since i'm just using those 48 hour codes, so i lost nothing
1-07-2008 @ 11:55AM
TechVidiot said...
I can't believe that they are releasing facts like this in the midst of such a horrible time for the LIVE service.
I have been a rememeber of the service since back on the original Xbox and I can't remember a time when it has been down for such a long period of time.
Compensation or not, this is unacceptable!
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1-07-2008 @ 11:57AM
Stephen said...
My Live is still broken. :(
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1-07-2008 @ 12:00PM
Boff said...
Does feel a bit like rubbing salt in the wounds.
Fix Live you cunts!
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1-07-2008 @ 12:04PM
Intentless said...
Yeah I'm upset that I can't play live on occasion but I have plenty of other things to attend to... And am actually glad for the time to do many other necessary things... Not to mention happy to know that the Xbox 360 is doing as well as it is...
Why can't people remember that to er is to be human... Make sure everything you do is to absolute par and beyond and then maybe be upset something isn't working... They predicted what they thought would be increase in activity and they were wrong... Which is actually good news... In my worthless opinion... It cost pennies a day to you... Its not like cable where it is 5 to 10 bux a day...
Play something single player... Bioshock Assassin's creed. Something on the Wii... Read a book watch some tv... A week isn't exactly a long time...
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1-07-2008 @ 12:23PM
Chris said...
Or they could just fix Live.
1-07-2008 @ 12:30PM
Chuckles said...
See I know where you are coming from and have to agree with you at some level. The problem is that I wouldn't be to upset if this was something like a day or two of bad service and then they get it working again. This has now been a problem for about 3 weeks and is therefore very unacceptable.
I am also very glad that the service is doing good, but how do you think all those new members felt on Christmas and for the weeks after when they can't even play the games they've been craving for a long time. See this is not only a problem for us wanting to play, but it has now become a horrible marketing bomb. "Yeah man, I was all pumped to get my 360, but after getting it for Christmas I've had nothing but problems with online play. I would recommend you not get one."
Somehow I don't think this bodes well for us current customers wanting to play and the possible customers hearing about how bad the service is.
In conclusion service this bad for this long at this point in a year is just unacceptable and stupid.
1-07-2008 @ 12:36PM
Larry *not allowed to say cheevo* said...
If it was your electricity, telephone, or internet service would that be ok? Would you just, "do something else"? I can manage, and so can everyone else, but come on... this is ridiculous.
They have people that do this for a living, it's there one purpose... to keep the service up and to fix problems. They should have the resources and knowledge to be able to resolve this issue in a timely fashion.
1-07-2008 @ 12:23PM
David W. said...
I have Blue Dragon to keep me entertained :)
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1-07-2008 @ 1:46PM
flameofdoom666 said...
Blue Dragon's boring story can keep you entertained? You must be 5 or stupid. Sorry, but thats the truth; the game is awful.
1-07-2008 @ 4:04PM
David W. said...
@ Flame
or just easily entertained :) but who's to say, I'll probably get sick of it before I get anywhere near beating it...but as of 7 hours in it's alright to me.
1-07-2008 @ 12:24PM
Corleone said...
Not to mention HD-DVD is on it's way out, thanks to MS basically......
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1-07-2008 @ 12:36PM
Clarkiey said...
not forgetting that us in the UK pay the equivalent of $80 a year, or $120 if paying monthly...
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1-07-2008 @ 2:43PM
Neeko said...
OUCH that hurts...Atleast your getting IPTV....lmao.
1-08-2008 @ 1:10PM
Clarkiey said...
you could say that, but i doubt it where i live....my internet jumps between 19mbps and 500kbps...but it is mostly down towards the 500kbps! ahh well ill stop complaining, i have my xbox and live is nearly working again! sort of...
1-07-2008 @ 12:42PM
Jon said...
It has bugged out on me for the past couple weeks as well. I understand all these pleas for us gamers to go and do something more productive. But I do. And when I come back to play COD4 for an hour, or Gheylo 3 for an hour ... I CANT. And that pisses me off. When it has been an issue for so many days, I want more compensation than a stupid arcade game, and I want more of an explanation than there are a lot of people on the servers. Fess up Microsoft. This is crap. I told someone, jokingly, the other day that Id rather sell my xbox, get a PS3 and play games on their free network... now I'm not so sure if that was a joke.
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1-07-2008 @ 1:09PM
JwEagle said...
Xbox Live is offering a free Arcade game
[url="http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/live/serviceissue.htm"]here[/url]
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1-07-2008 @ 1:14PM
Kyle said...
is it just me or has xboxlive had zero problems? i live in the UK is it just america that is having these issues? wb
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