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<RANT> Can you believe you cant get the roster updates (to include Favre) without a Gold Membership. I don't ever play online so all I have is the Silver account so I can get Console updates and crap. I paid $60 for this damn game, now I gotta pay even more to get Favre? Had I known he wasn't in the game I might not have bought the damn thing! </RANT>
I will admit that customer service at XBOX Live is absolute shit, I was appalled when I called them about it. I did, however, get my updated rosters (thanks to a certain person for helping) so all is well now.
I do believe eventually I'm going to shell out the $50 for a years subscription because playing online is a lot more fun than I thought lol
I can see why they charge subscription fees though. Maintaining that network ain't cheap I imagine. (They do need to work on their customer service though)
I am quite satisfied with the Microsoft's customer service. I had to call them several times and everytime I got a real solution for my problem.
Speaking about Xbox LIVE, $50 is definitely worth paying for a Gold subscription. It is much more fun to play online (especially after Microsoft introduced the Party feature with the NXE, so you can talk with your friends even if you are playing different games).
Then you've somehow miraculously managed to ignore every sly move they make to attempt to gain more money and marketshare. Take the XNA framework for example. They made deploying windows games made with the framework a bitch and deploying it to Xbox Live impossible without payment. Seriously, how fucking stupid is Microsoft?
Most of the people that would be interested in coding games for their XNA platform would be students / young programmers like myself. I don't have that much money to poke around getting some fucking retarded membership, they should be interested in luring me into actually programming for them, not paying them to program for them.
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