Comments on: Rumour : South Africa Getting Xbox Live?

By: Fear F

Fear F — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:19:42 +0000

As long as I can play online on Live, I don’t particularly care about local support. The removal of region locking would be nice, but aside from that I have no complaints to be honest.

tl;dr version: As long as they don’t ban me for playing, I’m perfectly happy.

By: mitas

mitas — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 09:38:06 +0000

true that ? would you waste r500 a year sub – or rather spend that r500 on fxing the RRoD???

By: Uncle

Uncle — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:51:46 +0000

Because the people that are currently paying are a very niche market. There are thousands of Xbox owners who have never been on Live in SA.

By: eltonriley

eltonriley — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:37:12 +0000

Come guys, this will never ever happen. And why should they come to the party when you already paying them quite happily for half a service. My subscription lapsed at the end of last year and I’m not giving them another blue penny, ever. I mean they don’t even recognise SA as a real country but on PSN I see that everything is in Rands. Please someone explain that to me (rhetorical) how the biggest and richest company in the world can provide such a service when Sony, which is much smaller and less financially capable, can do it. Thank god I’m not one of the paying suckers anymore. I’m with Sony now.

By: Worm

Worm — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:44:43 +0000

I completely disagree. There is no such thing as “local enough”. Sure it helps when its in rands and the downloads are local, there’s no denying that. But surely having your games hosted locally is what its all about. Games not running peer-to-peer escapes this, but isn’t that the point of having Live/PSN locally the point?

By: Poland's getting xbox live? - Xbox 360 South African Community

Poland's getting xbox live? - Xbox 360 South African Community — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:26:38 +0000

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By: LazySAGamer

LazySAGamer — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:48:01 +0000

More like ‘All countries in the world are now Live enabled’

That would make a lot of people very happy indeed and is simply a software change

By: WeRRieS ZA

WeRRieS ZA — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:56:52 +0000

lol this is a joke.

By: Flamebaitboy

Flamebaitboy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:19:35 +0000

Why would you buy from PSN? There is nothing on there…

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:10:37 +0000

You can buy OFFICIAL, LOCAL PSN cards from Zaps, CNA and BT games in RAND denominations.

http://btgames.co.za/btgames/gamepage.asp?C05973

That’s pretty good local support, if you ask me.