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"What are you waiting for?"

Back end of this month will see the release of new BroadBand adapters. I'm going to get one for my PSO I & II and for warppipe - and probably PSO 3.

If you guys got one too, we could have some really interesting Mario Kart races; for 30 coins for an Adapter you can't go wrong!

Will anybody consider buying one for warpipe? And would anybody consider the PSO(S)?

[I] What are you waiting for?

Ashman wrote:
> Koopa Troopa wrote:
> I dont look at Live as a subscription, Its only £30 a year.
>
> The headset is about £25.00 by itself so your actually only
> paying £5 for the Years Subscription.
>
> ...that makes no sense...

I'll try again then...just for you, Ashman.

What im trying to get at is : If you wanted to buy the Official Xbox Headset it is £25, so when you pay £30 every year your actually paying £25.00 for the Headset and £5 for the Years Subscription.
Ya' get me?

Xbox LIVE is the only service worth playing online. Superior to any other online service and as much as I didn't oiginally think so I do believe it is probably the best thing that has hit next generation consoles.

Koopa Troopa wrote:
> I dont look at Live as a subscription, Its only £30 a year.
>
> The headset is about £25.00 by itself so your actually only
> paying £5 for the Years Subscription.

...that makes no sense...

I dont look at Live as a subscription, Its only £30 a year.

The headset is about £25.00 by itself so your actually only paying £5 for the Years Subscription.

As for PSO, i've never played it and I dont really want to.

Im sure Everquest is better.

Ashman wrote:
> Oh, and when you consider Live competition at £30/40 a year for
> ANY game, its going to be a mighty job to compete with Microsoft,
> unfotunately.

If you want to play PSO on LIVE you have to pay LIVE and PSO Fee...

Mariokart, 1080 and Kirby Air-ride are all free to play on warppipe - all PSO's are all classed as one free, 6 quid a month for 3 pretty good games...
Not to mention the offline LAN features. All in all it warrents 30 pound, even just for Mariokart.

gerrid wrote:
> After that I believe it's either £6 for 3 months or 10 for 3 months.

Is this an error?

Oh, and when you consider Live competition at £30/40 a year for ANY game, its going to be a mighty job to compete with Microsoft, unfotunately.

I don't know, 9 months of online play (at £10 per 3 months) on a decent game would be better than buying one average game (bought somewhere cheap).
You probably wouldn't strech 9 months of play out of another game, but maybe with an online feature on a good title you could.

You do have to pay to use PSO online, you pay a monthly or tri-monthly subscription for your Guild Card (I think that's what it's called), but you get 1-3 months (I'm not sure which) free online play when you buy the game, which is nice. After that I believe it's either £6 for 3 months or 10 for 3 months (more likely the latter).

In other news, I'd rather buy a new game (Splinter Cell: PT, or save up for Madden 2005, or Pikmin 2), than add a little bit of replayablity to games that I've played to death anyway.

No broadband yet, but a few months down the line I might get it.

Doubt I'd sign up for something with a pay-monthly bill though, I'll be too cheap when I'm back at uni.

LAN gaming could be good mind...

Dringo wrote:
> X-box live would rule if it had 1080 online, Mario Kart Online,
> Pokemon online, Smash Brothers online and Mario PArty online.
>
> But it doesn't.

But it rules.

Hmmm....