Is it worth switching to Live Gold?

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I've been playing around with the idea of moving to a XBOX Live Gold account so that I can play online a bit more with some friends. Is the online LIVE culture in South Africa big enough to justify the R600 expense? Also, I'm on a 4mb shaped ADSL line, will I have decent latencies or are they still pretty crappy?
 
First, you shouldn't pay more than R450 for a subscription. Try www.gamepointsnow.com or www.mspoints.co.za.

Live uses p2p connections for online gaming, so if you're playing with locals, you're playing with local pings. And if you have a 4mb line, you'll be much loved because you can host large games too. :P
 
The local online multiplayer experience is awesome. If you think about it, your Live subs is something like R40/month, so it's not that bad compared to how much fun you're gonna have ;)
 
Yes. :)

You can also try :
http://www.live-codes.com

Given that shaped bandwidth is not ideal, but it should not really affect you, especially since most, if not all games are P2P based multiplayer, so if you're playing with friends it's most likely local.
 
Ps3

So does anybody know wot PS3 online play is like? Its free at least, besides getting the PS3 of course!
 
Thanks for all the feedback guys!!! I'm going to give mspoints.co.za a go. Are the legit? Any issues with them that you know of?

I'm actually looking forward to playing some online games with you lot!!! :)
 
Hi guys!

I just went GOLD. I am super impressed with the service from mspoints.co.za and will be joining you all for some EPIC multiplayer soon. Just for information, what are the hottest Multiplayer games on Live in South Africa at the moment? I hope Forza 3 is one of them :)
 
Call of Duty 4, Modern Warfare 2, and Gears of War 2 are all huge locally. I think Forza's taking off well too.
 
yea... I went as I got my xbox!
Next year this time will need to buy gold again!
I really like it got plenty hours online already!
 
You will find alot of Forza 3 lobbies on a friday night :D

I play about 5 hours of Multiplayer on Xbox Live a day and the biggest games must be Modern Warfare 2 and Gears of War 2. The COD4 community was huge until the release of MW2 :D
 
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