Good article Josh. I often wondered why it was necessary to pay $50 per person per year for online support, and you know, it probably isn't necessary. The only reason as to why I think MS continues to keep Live subscription based is because $50 from 17 million people a year is like having 17 million people buy at least one Xbox 360 game a year, and 50 x 17,000,000 is a lot of money to be raking in.

I don't think Microsoft is ready to give up on that kind of profit just yet, especially right now seeing as how a near non-existent amount of people complain about it.

Gaming sure does have a lot of cancer.

You know what's funny? I actually have tracks from Age of Empires III on my iPod. I think the track "LastNameCraneIchabod" should have been on the Top 25 list, if they had done it correctly :P