Xbox Live

I was just checking the xbox live website, seems there's all sorts of shit you can do with the newest installment of live!

One thing that caught my eye was you could download Contra and play online multiplayer with it. Now that would be cool. Team up with someone and tear through that game online! Anyone remember Contra from the original NES? Was one of my all time favs back in the day!

Also saw they have something called "Trueskill matchmaking" Apparently you can game with people that are at your own skill level. That's one thing that turned me off online gaming for quite awhile. I got sick of gettin my ass handed to me on EVERY single game I'd play online! I don't suck but those motherfuckers online are to damn good! Made me feel like a damn noob every time I'd play. Would be nice to play a FPS online and have a fuckin chance to get some kills once in awhile!

I was wondering if anyone used live and if so which membership option do you have, is it worth it, etc...
Just trying to get as much info as possible on it as I'm gonna be getting a 360 in the next couple months. I'd like to know if I should bother with spending the money on live or not.

I have Xbx Live. I don't use a credit card as of now because I don't have enough money on it. But if you don't game a whole lot, just get the free Silver account. You are able to DL demos and other options. You MAY have to buy Microsoft Points in order to get a lot of the good things, but oh well. Also you can talk with friends that have it, use the messages and other options. If you are a gamer and you want to play games with millions of other people, get XbxLive Gold. You can do everything that you are able to do with the Silver account, but also play games. I suggest you get the $50 a yr subscription. Especially if you don't want to continualy renew your account. Buying the 3 month subscription over and over will cost more than $50 a year.

You can get a trial membership for the gold? I'd probably do that to check it out. I don't game that much online, but like I said I was tired of gettin my ass destroyed every fuckin time. Maybe with the new match-up system, it'd be more fun and I'd play online alot more then! Do you have to use a credit card to get the gold membership or can you use electronic check?

I haven't heard much about that Trueskill matchmaking. I know that you can whether or not you are a casual gamer or some other options. I remember when playing Halo 2, you had this level that would go up or down when you won or lost games. In matchmaking games, you'd then go up against people somewhere around your own level. That was pretty nice, and with the many people constantly playing Halo 2, you could always find games with others of your level.

I'd say that Xbox Live is the best such online gaming network, but then again, I haven't tried all that many different ones. It's pretty user friendly, and it's easy to get in contact with others. There are the usual annoying people, but you can rate the people you meet, affecting your odds of meeting them in a game again some other time. So I'd definately recommend Live to anyone who wants to play more online.

I know that there used to be a 14 day trial membership, but I have no idea if that's still around.

Legzman said:

You can get a trial membership for the gold? I'd probably do that to check it out. I don't game that much online, but like I said I was tired of gettin my ass destroyed every fuckin time. Maybe with the new match-up system, it'd be more fun and I'd play online alot more then! Do you have to use a credit card to get the gold membership or can you use electronic check?

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Some games like Rainbow six vegas give you a 48 hour trial of a gold xbox live membership . There are two types of xbox live , silver ( the basic xbox live membership that gives you onoy the right to use xbox live market place ) and xbox live gold ( the best of the two membership that gives you all the options available on xbox live , like being able to play all your games with online modes + of course market place too .) I buy a prepaid 12 months membership and I don't have to use a credit card . The great thing about that is that the membership is non-recuring so you don't have to notify them when you decide to end your membership .

So with silver you can't play online, you can only play online if you pay? That sucks, like microsoft needs anymore fuckin money! Sounds like gold is the way to go. I saw the starter kit for the 360 on that website. Suggested retail is $60 bucks and comes with the headset and 12 month gold membership. I always thought it cost more than that. Didn't it used to be $100 for the year?

Legzman said:

So with silver you can't play online, you can only play online if you pay? That sucks, like microsoft needs anymore fuckin money! Sounds like gold is the way to go. I saw the starter kit for the 360 on that website. Suggested retail is $60 bucks and comes with the headset and 12 month gold membership. I always thought it cost more than that. Didn't it used to be $100 for the year?

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I never paid more than 80 $ can for the 12 month gold membership
You should get the starter kit that comes with the camera for pretty much the same price .

Won't Microsoft start doing free weekends (i'm not sure if it's a every week or once a Month) for Silver accounts or is that idea canned?

bendher said:

Won't Microsoft start doing free weekends (i'm not sure if it's a every week or once a Month) for Silver accounts or is that idea canned?

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They did it a few times but it's been a while the last time it happened .