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Xbox 360 Live 12 Month Gold Card plus 1 Month Bonus

Brand: Microsoft

Platform : Xbox One, Xbox 360

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Buy 12 months and receive an extra month free
Sign up with or without a credit card
Gold lets you experience all Live content the day that it is put up
Use Live Gold to play all of your multiplayer enabled games online
Voice and video chat enabled

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Microsoft Xbox LIVE 12 Month Gold Membership (Physical Card)
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Product information

ASIN

B000B9RI00

Release date

November 15, 2005

Customer Reviews

518 ratings

4.6 out of 5 stars

Best Sellers Rank

#92,280 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
#15 in Xbox Live Subscriptions
#1,579 in Xbox 360 Accessories

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The strikethrough price is the List Price. Savings represents a discount off the List Price.

Product Dimensions

7.5 x 5.25 x 1 inches; 3.2 Ounces

Binding

Video Game

Item model number

882224058650

Is Discontinued By Manufacturer

Yes

Item Weight

3.2 ounces

Manufacturer

Microsoft

Date First Available

October 2, 2001

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Product Description

With this Xbox 360 Live Gold Card you'll get a year's access to Xbox Live - the place where gaming, entertainment, and competition converge. With features like intelligent matchmaking, leagues, ladders and tournaments, you'll have an incredible online gaming experience. Best of all, you can renew at your pace, without charges to your credit card.

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5 star		76%
4 star		15%
3 star		4%
2 star		2%
1 star		3%

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Brian McCarthy

Xbox Live is a necessity for Xbox 360 owners

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 16, 2010

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Xbox Live is Microsoft's online service for the Xbox 360. While Sony provides this online servuce for free at the moment for the Playstation 3, Micorsoft has put a MSRP of $49.99 on their online service. Though recently, retialers have been discounting these cards $10-20 off so keep your eyes open for a good deal.

Xbox Live's main function is that it allows you to play the games you bought online, if the feature is included. For instance if you bought Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the single player campaign is only 6-8 hours long. Pretty short for a game that is costing you $60. With Xbox Live, you can now play that game against people all over the world for 100s of hours if you like. In essence, Live can extend the life of a game pretty dramatically.

Another cool feature is the access to Microsoft's Marketplace. Here you can buy Xbox Live Arcade games like Bejeweled, download demos of games released or soon to be released for free, rent/buy movies, buy DLC content for you games, etc.

Also Live has a ton of community features like Facebook, Last.fm, Twitter, friend list and voice chat. Voice chat is great because while playing a game, you can talk to your friend without having to use your cellphone minutes. You do not even need to be playing the same game to chat which is great. Just pick your friend out from friend list and start chatting.

While Live is great, there is a major problem that parents should know. Every game played online has voice chat enabled. This can lead to some players being complete jerks where they will use foul, vile language that is not suitable for kids. I guess some players find it funny to talk like sailors, but it can get very offensive. Now I play mostly Mature rated games so I assume this is not a problem for kid games, but it is an issue that parents need to know. Always be sure to check the ESRB ratings found in front of games before buying.

Live is a great feature that is definitely worth paying for so keep your eyes open for when retailers like Amazon have these cards on sale. See you online.

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Core

Awesome!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 11, 2008

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If your like me, and you get bored once you play through a game. Even if you can earn some special skills and re-use em through the game; You still get bored. You want something that is constantly different and changing.

Well Xboxlive is for you then. You get four zones to choose from. Recreation, Pro, Family, and Underground. So you can choose what type of player you want to be; and the category you will be in so your matched up against the same type player. It's all very user friendly.

It's very easy to setup up. All very straight forward, all you need is a broadband connection. I have a 3meg down and 384k up connection(Although I only seem to get 2 meg down). (Boo windstream j/k) anyways, seems to work fine for the most part. Of course latency can be an issue, but this all depends on your ISP.

Well worth the money. Also if your going to get this, you may as well get a router. Make sure you get one that is Xboxlive compliant, so you can plug and go, with no NAT problems.

I have a router that is not friendly toward my Xbox360/live and causes some difficulties with the NAT no matter what I do. so to keep from having to switch your broadband connection back and fourth between your PC and Xbox 360 (It gets old) and you have no NAT problems, get an xboxlive compliant router. (There seems to be a lot, probably find a good deal here on amazon)

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ps2goat

The best service out there for multiplayer

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 16, 2009

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Xbox Live has no real competitors for a complete, integrated gaming experience. While the Playstation 3 is catching up, it simply does not have the experience that the Xbox team had.

I originally started out as a Playstation fanboy, so don't assume that I have a preference simply based on brands. Ultimately, the price of the Xbox 360 versus the PS3 and the difference in release dates is what prompted me to get a 360.

In the previous console generation, I actually purchased my Playstation 2 when it first launched, then a Gamecube 3 years or so later, and then an Xbox about 4 years after it originally launched. Unfortunately, I found out that I missed out on the coolest experiences with better graphics and features.

I have been an Xbox Live member since the first year I had high speed Internet available (when I had the first Xbox) in my area. The capabilities have greatly expanded since then, as has the community. You can now have video chat, chat without video, play Xbox Live Arcade games (some with camera support), join "parties" with your friends in and out of games, or chat with other people who are playing the games with you.

Being a Gold Member to Xbox Live (which this product makes you) allows you to access free demos of upcoming games-- sometimes weeks before regular free members--, play online multiplayer, weekly discounts on downloadable content, and more.

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Malcolm

Solution!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 31, 2009

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I'm your average, lazy guy who doesn't want to go to the store to buy something when he can get it cheaper, and delivered to his door step, online. But I'm also very funny about customer service. I mean, they're working to please YOU and this is MY 50 dollars, so I should get exactly what I want, in a timely fasion. But, in reading the reviews, I noticed that it was taking some people a MONTH to recieve it with normal shipping.

Solution! Don't use normal shipping. I mean, wow. It's not that hard to figure out. I mean with the one day shipping (ironically it takes three) You have to pay roughly ten dollars, wait a second... How much does it cost at the store? Oh that's right! Ten dollars more! So I guess I'll buy it at Wal-Mart or Target right?

But wait! You get a FREE MONTH from Amazon! Which is eight dollars if you buy an extra one month card at the store. So technically, you're still saving money, AND you don't have to move from your computer screen/living room couch! (Eventually you'll have to eat, but that's not my problem.)

So basically what I'm saying is, choose a quicker shipping option and buy it from Amazon, THE best internet shopping center. I've never had any problems with this site, and you can find some great deals, like this one!

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