The news that Microsoft wasraising prices for a number of Xbox Live Gold subscriptionswas met with uniform negativity among gamers, but EEDAR analyst Jesse Divinch thinks otherwise. Defending the price raise, Divinch claims that the subscriptions are still “incredible value” for consumers.
The thing is, a lot of Xbox Live’s “value” can only be seen from one perspective — a perspective where none of Xbox Live’s offerings are available in a better form and/or free elsewhere. When you can play online for free on both the PS3 and PC, even a dollar a month for Xbox Live could be seen as no value for money at all, and as far as the other stuff goes — Twitter, Facebook, Netflix — when have they ever been exclusive to XBL?
At this point in time, Xbox Live doesn’t hold much value at all for me anymore, and unless you can’t live withoutHalo, there really isn’t that much incentive to pay outside of feeling like you have to.
