MS changes the price of XBL Gold

[Gotmadskillzson]

It won't scare off people. I remember in Chicago they raised the tax on alcohol and cigerettes sky high, thinking it would scare off teens, college kids and people in general from smoking and drinking. It didn't scare off anybody.

Don't matter what the price is, if people like it, they still going to buy it. I mean hell the price of gas is a good, almost a full $2 higher now then it was in 2000, but yet people still driving SUV's.

[Phobia]

Quote: Originally Posted by Djwlfpack

Yes but you aren't paying an extra 3 cents a day to MS, you have to fork over the $10 right away. I think that total amount will scare off some people from renewing their membership, especially if they don't play online much or just don't have the flexibility in their finances to afford it at the new rate.

Yea but you make a certain amount of money per year so it does not matter which way you spend your money or how. If it is spent, it is spent. So if you spend 50 dollars for Live for 12 months that is paying roughly $4.25 a month for Live. Where if you go the monthly route you will be spending more per month. So you take 60 bucks over 12 months and it is roughly a 84 cent increase per month.

My point is yes it is still a increase but hell items such as MILK, EGGS, BEER, etc all have price increases and they do nothing different or more than they did the previous year. But we still have increases. I look at this the same way.

Cost Gallon Milk in 2000 roughly $2.75
Cost Gallon Milk in 2010 roughly $4.00

[Altimus]

Quote: Originally Posted by Phobia

Yea but you make a certain amount of money per year so it does not matter which way you spend your money or how. If it is spent, it is spent. So if you spend 50 dollars for Live for 12 months that is paying roughly $4.25 a month for Live. Where if you go the monthly route you will be spending more per month. So you take 60 bucks over 12 months and it is roughly a 84 cent increase per month. My point is yes it is still a increase but hell items such as MILK, EGGS, BEER, etc all have price increases and they do nothing different or more than they did the previous year. But we still have increases. I look at this the same way. Cost Gallon Milk in 2000 roughly $2.75 Cost Gallon Milk in 2010 roughly $4.00

That's some crazy milk. I pay $2.75 for a gallon right now.

[Gotmadskillzson]

Yeah basically that increase is nothing in the grand scheme of things. Considering your average person spends more then that on a Friday night going out with their wife or girlfriend.

[Gotmadskillzson]

Milk is always cheaper in the midwest. In the northeast, where I live it is $3.50 a gallon. Early in the summer it was $4.25

[Phobia]

Quote: Originally Posted by Altimus

That's some crazy milk. I pay $2.75 for a gallon right now.

Wow where the dollar store? I see it in the upper 4.80s and as high as 5 bucks a gallon

[Altimus]

Quote: Originally Posted by Phobia

Wow where the dollar store? I see it in the upper 4.80s and as high as 5 bucks a gallon

It's around $3 at Jewel and around $2.75 at places like Sam's Club.

[DickDalewood]

Yah, I pay about 2.75 down here in Dallas.