Xbox LIVE subscriptions will rise this November

Price change to affect LIVE members in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Mexico

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Microsoft has recently announced that membership fees for Xbox LIVE will be raised on November 1, 2010. The increase will affect LIVE members in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Mexico. Xbox LIVE members in the United States will see an increase for the Gold one-month, three- month and twelve-month plans. Under the new pricing scheme, a one-month membership will cost $9.99 (previously $7.99). A three-month plan will cost $24.99 (previously $19.99). And a twelve-month plan will cost $59.99 (previously $49.99).



For Xbox LIVE members in the UK, the subscription increase will only affect the one-month Gold membership plan, which will cost 5.99 GBP (previously 4.99 GBP). Membership costs for a one-month Gold plan in Canada will rise to $9.99 CAD (previously $8.99 CAD). Meanwhile, the cost of a twelve-month Gold membership for Xbox LIVE in Mexico will cost 599 Pesos (previously 499 Pesos).

“We’re confident that when the new pricing takes effect, an Xbox LIVE Gold membership will continue to offer the best value in the industry,” says Lawrence Hyrb (aka Major Nelson), the director of programming for Xbox LIVE.

Microsoft is offering a limited-time deal for customers who want to renew their subscription before the price change on November 1. The sale gives you a 12-month Gold membership for $39.99, which is $10 less than the current cost of a one-year membership.

Aug 30, 2010

Source: Major Nelson blog

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  • Raiden145

    Raiden145  - 1 year, 3 months ago  - Report

    @elpurplemonkey --- very true men DIS IS AN ADVICE TO ALL X-BOX USER
    LEAVE YUR X-BOX BUY A PS3 AND HERE'S WHAT U GET
    1. FREE ONLINE "ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD" - not like x-box some regions are fucking blocked
    2. FREE APLLICATIONS AND SERVICES! -"like the world news" "photo's services" , video services , fast online services like psn and playstation store, FREE themes and oetc.
    3. EVERY LITTLE THING IS NOT OBLIGED YUR FREE TO BUY OR NOT , YOUR FREE TO NEGLECT OR ACCEPT - like the protection plans and ps plus!
    4. PLAYSTATION HOME IS A GREAT COMMUNITY AND YOUR LITERALLY FREE TO DO ANYTHING EXCEPT HARASS OR DO SOMTHING DISTURBING
    5. THERE NO FUCKING FEES IN THEIR SERVICES!!!!!!!!
    & lastly ps has a great game lineups! unlike x-box REPEATATIVE games (FUCKING HALO! 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 INFINITE always repeating the same franchise!)EWWW unlyke psn they finish a great game in only 1 or 3 sequels like GOW 1 2 3 finished! uncharted 1&2 FINISHED!
    I"M NOT A FANBOY I:"M JUST FEELING AND SEEING THE TRUTH PSN ROCKS X_BOX SUCKS DICK!
    Reply
  • Raiden145

    Raiden145  - 1 year, 3 months ago  - Report

    BOOOOOO!!! good thing i got 2 months left i'm just hangin on my x-box because of it now that i have pa ps3 and have a ton of games I"M NOT GOING BACK TO X-BOX FOREVER DIE MICROSOFT DIE now you'll surely lost a lot of costumers and potential costumers ahhahahah gud luck with the price hike
    Reply
  • PolarBearsInHeat

    PolarBearsInHeat  - 1 year, 4 months ago  - Report

    It's been the same price for 7 years. US is getting ESPN on demand in the subscription too. I'd pay ten bucks for that
    Reply
  • GioAllDay

    GioAllDay  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    @D0CCON u got a point man and for batman57 something u cant super size any more not every since the documentary about it
    Reply
  • thefallenoneoneseven

    thefallenoneoneseven  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    For all of those saying "oh its only $10 a month" its not the fact that its going up by $10 its the fact that most people (including me)dont even use half of the features xbox is bringing. It is disturbing that I am now going to be paying for someone else's enjoyment rather than my own. I will continue to pay for my subscription, but i would like to see some more features that We as a community will use and not a couple of hundred of people will use.
    Reply
  • avantguardian

    avantguardian  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    i just want to add that $10 is the cost of ONE pair of drumsticks at my local music store...it's about what things are worth to YOU...
    Reply
  • avantguardian

    avantguardian  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    like many have said,there are multitudes of ways to get it cheaper, but aside from that, playstation plus isn't that different, free psn SUCKS BALLS...i find it to be unusable...xbox live is just a much better service...i gladly pay for that...
    shit goes up in price - deal with it...you live in capitalist society - deal with it...
    the price of gas goes up, the price of food goes up...the dollar sucks...etc...
    do you like it? of course not...do you still buy all this shit? of course you do...
    it's less than a dollar more a month...deal with it...
    Reply
  • xpert434

    xpert434  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    what about an extra 1 month or 3 month card you havent used yet
    Reply
  • Jbo87

    Jbo87  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    Abe504 has said all that needs saying really. I don't know who buys their Xbox live subscriptions direct from Microsoft but I never have and never will as its cheaper to get them from, literally, anywhere else.
    Reply
  • elpurplemonkey

    elpurplemonkey  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    Batman5273, I couldn't disagree with you more. The fact that we spend money on other products without thinking twice has nothing to do with being charged $10 more for Live. This is about being charged extra, without being given anything extra. A better comparison would be being charged $10 a month more for your cable or internet. Yes you'd still pay it- but if nothing new was given to you, or nothing was being improved, then you'd have every right to be pissed.

    Some of the other comments here have said that Live has gotten improvements like NXE, Netflix and ESPN that justify the increase. I thought we already paid for those with our subscription fees? And you have to pay for Netflix apart from Live, so that hardly counts. Our subscriptions combined with all those ads were supposed to be paying for the improvements we've gotten. And now they turn around and tell us that we have to give them more- a 20% increase to be exact- for more improvements (kinect, espn) that no one wants? Are you fucking kidding me Microsoft? It is taxation without representation- and it's not even so much about the money as it is about the principal of the thing. You are getting screwed.
    Reply
  • TheIronMaiden

    TheIronMaiden  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    o well I cancelled my live account anyway. psn is free.
    Reply
  • TheSugarRay

    TheSugarRay  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    I got an email from Microsoft this morning about this. Playing PC until Halo comes out anyway.
    Reply
  • BlackElement17

    BlackElement17  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    I can't say I'm happy about this.
    Reply
  • electricsheep

    electricsheep  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    The extra money is going to activision.
    Reply
  • Xelus

    Xelus  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    I hope someone hacks major nelsons bank account next instead of his xbox live account, fuck microsoft the greedy cunts!
    Reply
  • TheCakeIsaPie

    TheCakeIsaPie  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    @Foxden:
    You, sir, are a scholar and gentlemen.
    Reply
  • Abe504

    Abe504  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    my question is what moron actually pays retail price for xbox live? With hardly any effort you can get a 12 month for $30 bucks, this is a non issue. Even if you pay retailm, its only a dollar more, not much money at all.
    Reply
  • SausageLozenge

    SausageLozenge  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    11 million people pay 15 bucks a month to play WoW.
    Reply
  • D0CCON

    D0CCON  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    I buy live 12 months at a time. For me, this means I have to pay an extra $0.83 every month. I use Last FM enough to justify that cost and that doesn't include the free ESPN I'll be getting access to. If I watcn 2 games a month with ESPN, I'd consider that worth 83 cents as well.
    Reply
  • blocpartier

    blocpartier  - 1 year, 5 months ago  - Report

    Fuck that. I'm not paying that much more just to get pissed off at retards on MW2.
    Reply
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