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> Xbox 360's Shane Kim: Half a Million New Members Every Month
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post Jul 10 2009, 09:49 PM
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Xbox 360's Shane Kim: Half a Million New Members Every Month
Posted by XanTium | July 10 16:49 EST | News Category: Xbox360
 
From spong.com:
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Microsoft's Shane Kim has been speaking in numbers, and they are huge numbers. In a recent interview he has stated that,"We knew the recession was coming, but we are now adding 500,000 new members to our online games service each month."

That's right, six million new members a year coming to Xbox Liv... oh, no; Shane never said 'to Xbox Live'. He is very careful to have said, "our online game servers".
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post Jul 10 2009, 10:20 PM
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Yeah doesn't say if they're silver or gold either.
500,000 if 90% of them are silver accounts who gives a toss.
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post Jul 11 2009, 12:16 AM
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so that's why they allow us to create three free gold accounts with every new Xbox dry.gif
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post Jul 11 2009, 12:18 AM
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WOW!
Those numbers are more inflated than Kim Kardashian's a**


What a load of....

yeah
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post Jul 11 2009, 02:26 AM
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Yeah doesn't say if they're silver or gold either.
500,000 if 90% of them are silver accounts who gives a toss.


You and I may not care but the media DOES care if they're silver members. Sony has always been quick to talk numbers of their online service (which is free just like silver members), so why not MS?
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post Jul 11 2009, 03:35 AM
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It specifically says "game servers"... I don't think silver users can access those....
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post Jul 11 2009, 04:39 AM
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No there is a typo in the second paragraph. The quote read 'online games service'.




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post Jul 11 2009, 12:07 PM
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M$ Hype....
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post Jul 11 2009, 05:33 PM
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Wow half a million! You'd think M$ could get more servers so we don't lag all the f*cking time!
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post Jul 11 2009, 06:29 PM
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Wow half a million! You'd think M$ could get more servers so we don't lag all the f*cking time!


Add all the servers you want; we're not using them, so lag results. They need to start providing dedicated servers. At present, there's a few games that *do* have dedicated servers (EA has their own, for example), but that's because the devs set it up that way; has nothign to do with the Live memberships (as in EA's case, they provide dedicated servers for both XBL and PSN).
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post Jul 11 2009, 08:34 PM
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Which EA games have these dedicated servers? If it happens to be Madden then I wish they'd go back to P2P because every time EAs servers went down I always got disconnected in the middle of a game.

This happened pretty often too.

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post Jul 13 2009, 03:33 AM
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He also didn't say "gold members"
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