Just a heads-up for U.S. residents: Buy.com is currently offering the 13 month Live Gold Subscription card for $29.99 a pop. Free shipping, too.
That's an amazing price. And I thought I was getting a deal when I ordered one from Amazon for $38.99 just a week ago.
**EDIT: Sold out already. Damn, that was fast. Sorry guys. :/
Don't give up hope just yet--when I first clicked your link, it did appear to be sold out, but a few minutes later I was able to snag it. Thanks a lot! I myself was cursing missing out on the 39.99 deal...
Just a quick question for those with Live Gold experience. If you used a prepaid card, does your subscription end on exactly so-and-so-months to the date? Say a card was redeemed on 11/13/2008 - would that mean a three month subscription would end on 2/13/2009, or would it expire on the last day of February?
Just a quick question for those with Live Gold experience. If you used a prepaid card, does your subscription end on exactly so-and-so-months to the date? Say a card was redeemed on 11/13/2008 - would that mean a three month subscription would end on 2/13/2009, or would it expire on the last day of February?
It would expire on the date exactly one month later.
This is obvious, because otherwise people would be getting their monthly subscriptions on january 1st to expire on february 28th and basically using it for 2 months.
It would expire on the date exactly one month later.
This is obvious, because otherwise people would be getting their monthly subscriptions on january 1st to expire on february 28th and basically using it for 2 months.
Ah, good point. Just wanted to make sure, since the Manage Your Subscriptions part of my account simply labels expiration as 2/2009. Guess they don't follow the credit card expiration line of thinking. :p Thanks!
Just a heads-up for U.S. residents: Buy.com is currently offering the 13 month Live Gold Subscription card for $29.99 a pop. Free shipping, too.
That's an amazing price. And I thought I was getting a deal when I ordered one from Amazon for $38.99 just a week ago.
**EDIT: Sold out already. Damn, that was fast. Sorry guys. :/
The sale's back up! Go baby, go!
EDIT: Aaaaand..... sold out again.
So, it looks like the next NXE Dashboard update is on the way. Should be available to everyone on August 11th, but those who got in on the preview beta are already reporting notable performance boosts. First, the dashboard itself is speedier to navigate through; the Friends list, for example, doesn't take nearly as long to load up as before. Second, the complete installs for a number of games actually take up LESS HDD space, and several games have shown even greater improvement in load times as a result:
http://kotaku.com/5328027/xbox-live-pre … tall-sizes
CAG has an excellent work-in-progress chart of games that have seen said improvements in the installation due to the new update. Definitely worth keeping an eye on: