$99 Xbox Live Family Plan Coming in November
Half price Xbox Live Gold for the whole family!
Kinect isn't launching for a few more months and we have plenty of unanswered questions to last us through the summer. Like, with all those family-orientated games, the ability to play with others over Xbox Live and support for video chatting, does Microsoft plan on introducing new Xbox Live plans to accommodate the entire family's use of Xbox Live? Apparently the answer to that question is yes.
Microsoft has announced that this coming fall, it will launch a plan that offers four Live subscriptions for the price of two. With a launch that coincides with Kinect's debut in November, the Gold Family Pack will get you four Xbox Live Gold subscriptions for just $99 per year.
Redmond is also adding a new Family Center menu that allows for activity monitoring across the other three accounts from the primary account and the ability to purchase and dispense Microsoft Points to other Xbox LIVE Gold Family Pack members.
Ninety-nine bucks is a bargain and you're probably thinking the same thing as us: can I just pretend my mates are my family, split the cost with them and get a half price XBL sub? The answer is yes, but you probably won't be so eager to share that Family Pack with your fake family when you hear this next bit: That Family Center menu that allows the primary account to monitor the other three accounts and dispense points is also the billing account. So unless you're completely sure these three friends are exceptions to the 'friends and money don't mix' rule, then you'll want to think long and hard before sharing this membership with friends.
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god i love competition... where would i be without you psn PLUS
This is a good thing, knock on wood.
$99? over here in Australia, i think 1 years membership for ONE user is $120, well it is in EB games. I hope that this deal compensates for the price, and allows 4 memberships for $120 a year.
Ha. I had not even considered this aspect of Kinect. More people in 1 house playing on Live means more money to MS. I mean yeah its a good deal but I still haven't been able to justify the added cost of Live over the free PSN. And before everyone chimes in and says its just better, the free PSN serves my purposes just fine when I feel like playing MP I can, whereas I don't play enough MP to justify paying for it on Live and other than that I don't know that it does anything else over the free PSN.
This might be the worst form (after drinking a hard alcohol) of time waste for the family. I can't imagine that I'll spend an evening playing games with my father, mother, children or even wife... That must be the most stupid way to spend my time.
It should be (correction: should have been)) console membership rather than per user - enough said!
haha PC = free. 360/PS3 suckas!
Zingam- Wow, you must not like your family. I love playing games with my wife, but she is my best friend. And nothing is funnier than watching my mother-in-law play video games; getting a Wii was worth that alone.
Or you can just get a PS3 and play online for free. Crapbox 360 did not get that name for nothing.
Fucking ripoff. Just highlights what a disgusting ripoff Xbox Live is that their sale price is still way overpriced. I think I'm done with 360 now.
What I would Like to see is as you acumilate acheivment points, sa every 10,000 MS will award some MS points say 10 for 10,000 as loayalty points Gamers but enougth games and it takes a few games to build up theses points, the one you have played and acheived enougth points you eventually get some free DLC or a game on demand.
What I would Like to see is, as you accumilate acheivment points, say every 10,000 MS will award some MS points say 10 for 10,000 as loayalty points, Gamers buy enougth games and it takes a few games to build up theses points, then once you have played and acheived enougth points you eventually get some free DLC or a game on demand.
Thought I would Correct my mistakes, so it reads better