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Topic	Microsoft doubling the price of Xbox Live Gold
iiicon 01/23/21 12:06:38 PM #54:	CoolCly posted... this is probably an unpopular opinion but there probably is a significant cost to microsoft/sony/nintendo to maintain these online platforms for all games all the time for consoles( that is mitigated on PC since it's not all so centralized) that requires these annual fees, even though they feel really bad to pay. I'm not really sure I understand this post. The majority of publishers pay for their own networking infrastructure to support their games. Sometimes they even pay Microsoft for Azure and all that it entails. The cost to maintain XBL or PSN is quite trivial compared to the billions of dollars in revenue they bring in. These complaints also receive a significant portion of every sale generated on their platform. It feels bad to pay because it's a fee that doesn't need to exist, and doesn't on comparable platforms (Steam, Windows 10 Games, Origin, Bnet, Riot's platform, Uplay, etc, etc). --- ICON: Kiwami means extreme. <cite>iiicon posted [p:949827571] in Microsoft ... [t:79253584]...</cite> <quote>CoolCly posted... </cite> <quote>this is probably an unpopular opinion but there probably is a significant cost to microsoft/sony/nintendo to maintain these online platforms for all games all the time for consoles( that is mitigated on PC since it's not all so centralized) that requires these annual fees, even though they feel really bad to pay.</quote>I'm not really sure I understand this post. The majority of publishers pay for their own networking infrastructure to support their games. Sometimes they even pay Microsoft for Azure and all that it entails. The cost to maintain XBL or PSN is quite trivial compared to the billions of dollars in revenue they bring in. These complaints also receive a significant portion of every sale generated on their platform. It feels bad to pay because it's a fee that doesn't need to exist, and doesn't on comparable platforms (Steam, Windows 10 Games, Origin, Bnet, Riot's platform, Uplay, etc, etc). --- ICON: Kiwami means extreme.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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