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Geek Culture / Cancelling an XBox Live Account

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Chris Tate
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Posted: 23rd Mar 2013 13:04
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A busine$$ that is trying to earn more money? A busine$$ that is trying to earn even more money? Trying to get more money?... Now that is what I call absolutely atrocious!

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Quik
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Posted: 23rd Mar 2013 13:17
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a buisness trying to get money is definitly not right, and most likely downright evil!!



Whose eyes are those eyes?
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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 24th Mar 2013 09:46
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Pfffft Apple.

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Libervurto
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Posted: 24th Mar 2013 21:40 Edited at: 24th Mar 2013 21:41
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Quote: "A busine$$ that is trying to earn more money? A busine$$ that is trying to earn even more money? Trying to get more money?... Now that is what I call absolutely atrocious!"

So if you call yourself a business then you can do whatever you like without consequence?

"My Gran got mugged the other day."
"Really! Did you call the police?"
"Oh no it was done by Muggers Inc."
"Oh that's okay then, they ARE a business after all."

MS haven't mugged me yet but they might well do, I've heard of them continuing to charge for Gold Membership even with the auto-renew disabled. At the moment they are being the kid in the playground who is refusing to give me my ball back. Is it illegal? No. Are they being a-holes? YES!


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Posted: 24th Mar 2013 21:49
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nobody said it wasnt wrong for them to CONTINUE to charge even though youve said NO

but what's being said is that its completly fine to charge money for the service.



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Airslide
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Posted: 24th Mar 2013 23:31
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Quote: "That guy can't understand why you ever need to cancel credit card. Selling console! But M$ don't like reselling, they (rumour) want to make some game reselling protection in future, so they make selling protection by... fixing your credit card in system. Smartly done"


Not entirely sure what you mean by that. The credit card is attached to an Xbox Live account, not a console. As long as the account is removed from the Xbox (preferably through a factory reset) you can resell your Xbox with no issue. If you are reselling your account, you are probably a moron.

Quote: "Wikipedia says that it does."


I've used cloud saves on my Xbox. I have not been charged for doing so, unless you count the XBL subscription itself (which I *assume* you need for the cloud save option).
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Chris Tate
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Posted: 25th Mar 2013 00:54
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Quote: "So if you call yourself a business then you can do whatever you like without consequence?"


Absolutely, I can call myself a business and do what I want... so as long as most customers continue to pay... If they really hate being made frustrated by me then why are they paying for my service? Heck I'll set up a horse burger restaurant if people want to pay for it; football players earn more money than the prime minister because people want to pay to see them run and kick.

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Posted: 26th Mar 2013 02:26
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@Chris Tate - You're being facetious. I am obviously talking about malpractice but you're trying to twist that into an argument against free enterprise.


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Chris Tate
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Posted: 26th Mar 2013 20:23 Edited at: 26th Mar 2013 20:49
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Facetious, realistic.

That's just the way it is.

If a company were to loose a significant amount of sales due to complaints over policies; it would be wise for them to change the rules. But if the consensus is that the service is a good service, it makes no real sense to pay a group of people to spend time researching and changing policies all over a couple 100 emailed complaints; when over 40 million people are quite happy with things.

With the P$4 to be 'worrying' about, I think that the emphasis of is on their Xbox 720 solution.

With malpractice, it depends how you define it. I'm thinking along the lines of the thread topic related to credit card details which I don't see as being malicious.

That's just my mindset, please forgive me.

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