XBox Live users are seriously getting a little ridiculus
In case you have not heard, there have been some problems with the XBox Live gaming service as of late, most notably over the Christmas holiday. The service was down for periods of time, people were losing their account settings, and many people could not connect or play games online.
First of all, no service is perfect and it is going to go down from time to time. I do agree that Microsoft should have been better prepared for this, as they knew that the holiday season was going to bring a massive mount of new gamers connecting to the service. On top of it being a holiday week, and the new influx of gamers, the service just simply couldn’t handle the traffic and got severely bogged down for periods of time. Now, I agree that I was pretty irritated with Live for a while there as I was wanting to play my fair share of games along with everyone else.
But, here is the part that I can’t understand………..
Is it really that big of a deal? I mean come on, surely people have other things they can be doing with their time right? Well, apparently not. The problems with the service have caused quite a reaction in the Live arena, so much so that people have actually filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft. This just seems totally stupid to me, as I don’t see the value in doing something like that. In the long run, it won’t make the service better, and it won’t bring anymore value to the service than what is currently there. Now granted, I pay my XBox Live subscription fees just like everyone else does, but really, a class-action lawsuit for what averages out to be about $.15 per day? No thanks, I’ll pass. Microsoft has already spoken up about the issue and said there were some major problems that they are working on, and have even offered a free arcade game to all subscribers for the trouble. Now, I agree that this was not the best idea in my opinion, and I would have rather had a free month of service or something along those lines.
Anyway, my point is this…..people are blowing this whole thing way out of proportion. It is not the end of the world here people, and Live will continue on just as it always has. MS will fix the problems and you will be back to gaming bliss soon, just sit back and give it a little time.
Ya know, nobody forces you to pay for the service, and nobody is keeping you from buying a different console and playing something else. If you don’t like the service or the way MS is handling the situation, don’t pay for it. That seems fairly logical to me, so I can’t figure out why it does not to everyone else. You have a choice here, and no one is forcing you to choose Live. Besides, we are talking about $50 for an entire year, so we are not exactly breaking the piggy bank here.
I would like to hear everyone else’s thoughts on this, I mean maybe I am just missing something here, and if so, I would like to hear about it. For me, I don’t see the big deal in all of this. I know that the service is going to have problems from time to time, and I expect it. I just don’t see the need in getting in an uproar, when you know the probability for it is there.
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