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Cheaper than buying directly from the Xbox homepage and be warned - your Xbox saves your credit card details and you need to *PHONE* Xbox in order to stop them automatically redeeming your membership and just taking 40 pounds off you each year.
Xbox live is the best online experience you can get, Playstation Network can't compare with this community. However, microsoft are not addressing properly the issue of lag. On an online game like Gears of War with only 8 players you can see some of the worst lag in online gaming, and as people already complain a lot on these things with the host of the server having a distinct advantage, you can imagine how much more annoyed people get when the game plays as awful as it all-too-often does. The fact we should have to pay £35 a year for playing on a network that can lag with 8 players while PS3 owners get a free nework that can hold more than 40 players online with NO LAG, is beyond me. Believe me i've had a lot of fun on xbox live but its getting rediculous now and we the consumer are getting short-changed.
in my opinion its the best way to topup your membership due to the good price and safe transaction so there is no need to put your details into your xbox.
You're right at first glance it seems that you are getting ripped off by having to pay for a service that you can get free on other consoles. However, had you done further/any research into it you would have found that while the ps3 online service is free for the customer it means that game developers have to pick up the bill meaning they will not keep servers online for older games. This means that the only games playable online will be the developers latest release. Unlike the Xbox live service which you can still play release games on.
If you cba ordering from this site, or you don't order off this and just look at hmm what can i buy next time im in the shops, you will loose out.
In the shops its 35pound. (30 If you go to a specialist gaming shop or a market stall)
If you order online with your card directly from microsoft its 35 or even 40.
So you save about 10 - 15 by ordering this on playtrade. Pluss they email the code directly to you.
And what it actually gives you might be asking?????
Xboxlive gold gives you the opportunity to play xbox live games online. You just plug your wireless adapter into the back of your xbox or ethernet (internet) cable, and there you go your away and can play happily with yanks on xbox live. Cool.
Xbox live silver does not let you play games online. Xbox live silver is free and when your gold subscription runs out it turns to silver.
The other differences between gold and silver are that in the xbox live marketplace you can download free demo's as you'll already know if you have an xbox plugged into the internet. But with silver you have to wait extra time to download some demos. On silver you can still talk to your friends on your friends list, but you wont be able to play games with them.
To fully enjoy the xbox live experience gold is needed. That's what this is.
When you get your code you go into your xbox and go to the part where it says renew your subscription or something like that, enter the code and bang you have xbox live gold and can now play online.
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