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"When Xbox goes online?"

I was wondering when the Xbox goes online for everyone in UK. It will be excellent to play Halo and other online games.

I think PSO may have a seperate subsription fee on all formats. As far as I know though, all the other online games so far will be free to play once you done the overall subsription fee to X-Box Live.

savatt1668 wrote:
> Me too. One thing I hated about playing online on the Dreamcast was
> the hidden surprises you'd end up getting on the phonebill. With a
> subsribtion fee, at least you know what your paying out. And for the
> amount of time I'll want to play online, no doubt it'll work out a
> hell of a lot cheaper too. :-) And because its broadband, there
> won't be anyone moaning that I'm blocking up the phoneline. ;-)

Im just wondering about the games, will they come with a subscription fee aswell like so many pc games and even psov2 in the states, think about it you'll be paying three sets of subcrition fees, 1)broadband provider. 2)the xbox live service. 3) the games.
Then what if you want more then 1 "xbox live" game??, maybe im uninformed and am way off track as Ive heard nothing about the games "fees", but if that was the case I would prefer the dcs "pay as you play", someone please prove me wrong!!!.
I am well looking forward to unreal champianship online or not!!

unless you disconnect the adaptor thing in the phone socket :P

Me too. One thing I hated about playing online on the Dreamcast was the hidden surprises you'd end up getting on the phonebill. With a subsribtion fee, at least you know what your paying out. And for the amount of time I'll want to play online, no doubt it'll work out a hell of a lot cheaper too. :-) And because its broadband, there won't be anyone moaning that I'm blocking up the phoneline. ;-)

I am glad about the year in advance subscription fee thats how I like to pay.

Yeah I'll be playing online a lot when X-Box Live comes along. :-) I really enjoy mech games so the months upto Christmas will keep my happy in that area - especially with Mech Assault having online play. :-) Dunno bout anyone else but I'm a fan of the Mechwarrior games on PC. I don't play the table top version or anything, but I like the ongoing story and it was fun to take part in some of the battles in past games. So I'm really looking forward to playing the X-Box game. :-) Hope its the first of numerous games based on the BattleTech universe. :-)

It looks good but subscribing doesnt sound inviting...

Xbox is meant to be going Live worldwide it think by the end of the year. The whole idea of what MS have planned and the games and voice communicator all sound cool, the only yhtink that will determine its sucess is the pricing.

In the US, $50 will get you an xbox live game, the software to turn your xbox online, the voice communicator and a years subscription to the survice. It sounds too good to be true, and looks set to be a huge sucess in the US at least.

Thats it u've come to your senses! XBOX has great potential and has excellent games at the moment, with many more mouth watering ones to come like
Commandos 2
Medal of Honour
True Crime Streets of LA
Unreal Championship
Black & White Next Genaration
Colin Macrae Rally 3
Turok Evolution
Halo 2

And Many Many More to come, with 150 games by xmas

With the prospect of XBOX online, xbox has to be the best console to choose in my opinion.

i made my mind up that im keeping Xbox and it bit silly to get rid of it! I agree that games coming out soon and look at commandos 2a nd it look great!