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Offline fastson
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« on: June 27, 2002, 05:18:31 AM »
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Chalk this one up under the "WTF" category. Either that, or I was just totally misunderstanding the point of Xbox Live all along. According to Sonic Team\'s web site, the Xbox PSO will have its own monthly fee (Hunter\'s License) separate from the Xbox Live fee. This means in addition to paying for Xbox Live (which I thought was supposed to be one monthly fee for all online games?), if you want to play PSO online, you\'ll have to pay for that as well.

http://www.sonicteam.com/pso/index2.html

I was totally planning on at least trying the Xbox PSO, but if I\'m gonna have to pay both MS -and- Sega to play it, then uh, I think I\'m gonna pass and just stick with the Cube version. :/

BTW, I apologize if this was posted already. It\'s news to me...

PS - They say they haven\'t determined what the fee will be yet. Just says there will be one.


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you are correct

""A minute of 12-month the charge of on-line service use" included in a "starter kit" is not applied to the fee collection (hunter ZURAI sense) of "PSO." Although a charge is needed for the on-line play of "PSO" separately, now, the amount of money is undecided. "

but that is in Japan for the xbox starter kit.... so probably going to happen here.


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« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2002, 05:33:59 AM »
Hey Fasty.. go post it over at TXB (or at least link me to where it has been posted already)

Other than that, i dont really care :)  It\'s nothing big, and its not unexpected (to me)

I\'ll be paying for Final Fantasy XI anyway :evil:
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« Reply #2 on: June 27, 2002, 05:42:36 AM »
/me hugs every xbox fan we have here

it\'s ok guys, we knew all along.


nothing big?  this is a direct slap in the face of every xbox zealot who claims xbox live is the "be all - end all" of online gaming.  how many times were we subjected to reading about "m$ superior plan cause its only one payment and it covers all games"

pfffffft.



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« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2002, 06:27:43 AM »
If I wasn\'t so blindly in love with Sega, I would be upset right now!!

The reason I wanted PSO on Xbox was to avoid the montly fee from Sega...I will not be paying monthly fees for FFXI and PSO.
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« Reply #4 on: June 27, 2002, 07:54:14 AM »
from the sounds of every PSO interview, the XBox version is going to offer something that the GC won\'t be able to...tons of downloadable content. and this is just for Japan, who is used to paying for Dreamcast games online, FFXI, etc. Who knows if the fee is for America, too?

Not to say I am not mad about this, but how about we get all the facts before we make any assumptions about this.


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« Reply #5 on: June 27, 2002, 08:50:40 AM »
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from the sounds of every PSO interview, the XBox version is going to offer something that the GC won\'t be able to...tons of downloadable content. and this is just for Japan, who is used to paying for Dreamcast games online, FFXI, etc. Who knows if the fee is for America, too?

Not to say I am not mad about this, but how about we get all the facts before we make any assumptions about this.


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LOL. No offence AB, but I expected no less from someone like you to beginn a reply with how much better the Xbox version will be (despite the cost of course) in this thread. :rolleyes:

* me thinks how this topic was argued in the other debate about Xbox live...
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« Reply #6 on: June 27, 2002, 09:16:53 AM »
shut the fuck up. You probably know that PSo for gamecube (as it stands now) is going to come bundled with a modem and keyboard/controller costing 140 bucks. Then the monthly fee it will have. XBox will require the 50 dollar fee for Xbox live for the first year, then the fee for the game for Japan (but the game is being given away free in Japan). What sounds like the better deal to you, jackass? Nevermind that we know nothing on the content that the XBox version will contain, only that they are giving it away free, with only broadband connection (no more strange lag) and there will be much more downloadable content than possible on GC.

You were saying, jackass?


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« Reply #7 on: June 27, 2002, 09:33:45 AM »
haha, obviously mad cause xbox live doesnt seem so  "live" anymore

i await rast\'s and pstwo\'s spin doctoring on this one also
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« Reply #8 on: June 27, 2002, 09:50:05 AM »
Just wait til the rainbow express(aka pstwo and rastalant) gets a load of this.  Oh well, it\'s not suprising, now the playing feild is level, everyone is paying to play online no matter what system you have, well for now, people will start to get around it soon enough.
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« Reply #9 on: June 27, 2002, 10:17:15 AM »
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haha, obviously mad cause xbox live doesnt seem so  "live" anymore

i await rast\'s and pstwo\'s spin doctoring on this one also
:)


yeah tell me about it, i mean even tough i have been away doing REAL LIFE stuff.. even i knew that MicroFlops Online plans looked as promising as WorldCom’s Financial Future ;)
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« Reply #10 on: June 27, 2002, 11:11:35 AM »
Someone in here should be placed under the banstick..:cool:

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« Reply #11 on: June 27, 2002, 11:28:02 AM »
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www.gamers.com/news/1185101
Xbox Phantasy Star Online To Carry Monthly Fee

By: Nich Maragos June 27, 2002 9:18 AM PDT
Gamers who rankled at paying for Phantasy Star Online v.2 on Dreamcast might bridle even more at the planned pay structure for the Xbox version of the game in Japan. In addition to the game, ISP payment, and Xbox Live subscription ($50 for the first year, probably $10 a month after that) players of PSO for Xbox will need to cough up around $20 per month for the Hunter\'s License. Offline play will, of course, still be free of charge.

There\'s no word yet on whether the US pricing structure will be similar, so keep your fingers crossed.


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« Reply #12 on: June 27, 2002, 11:50:56 AM »
It was always assumed that MMOGs would not be included in the charge unless produced by MS themselves.

Also, you guys seem to forget that you don\'t have to pay for MSlive and PSO.  You can just be a PSO player, and not have access to MSLIVE because PSO is carried on Sega\'s servers.

So really, it\'s the same on xbox as any other console except that you don\'t have to buy a modem, keyboard, mouse, harddirve (not to mention put up with lag).

So again, what\'s the difference?

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Also, you guy aren\'t looking at it from the right perspective.

Let\'s pretend that there are no MMOGs.

PS2 online: free
XboxLive: 50/yr; 10/month

Now let\'s add MMOGs:

PS2 online: Unknown Fee
XboxLive: Unknown Fee

There is no difference.  With both consoles you will have to pay to play MMOGs, so that\'s a wash (unless you count MS MMOGs and then advantage MSLive).

Most xbox live subscribers are willing to pay $150 bucks a year for a superier online experience.  I could pay 10 bucks a month for dialup, but I pay 50 buck for cable.  Why?  Because you get what you pay for.

If you guys are seriously put out by $150 a year for an online service, then you have my pity.  That\'s not even a day\'s work.  I nearly spend more when I go out for diner for the night.

But of course, you clowns will jump at anything in order to get a shot off at MS/xbox.

It\'s pathetic really.
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« Reply #13 on: June 27, 2002, 05:15:34 PM »
lol watch, put that spin on it baby

dig deep for that silver lining

:)

whats pathetic watch, is xbox zealots claiming xbox live is the shiznet cause its one fee AND ONE DAMN FEE ONLY, and then when reality rears its fugly head, they go into self defense mode and get hostile

now, either m$ made a fools out of these guys, or they did it to themselves, whos to guess?
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« Reply #14 on: June 27, 2002, 05:20:11 PM »
Watch...

You must eat at some expensive places.
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