I know what you're saying and can see your side of it, I just don't personally see it as that big of a deal. The cost for them to have an account was minimal.

As far as purchasing things goes, they couldn't do that anyway if it's set up correctly. I had my little ones set up with a "childs" profile. Their profile didn't have any CC#'s, etc set up for them to purchase. They could purchase things if they wanted to through my account, but they had to have my email/password in order to complete the purchase - which they didn't have.

I know they can't purchase on their own child accounts but for them to watch netflix they had to be on my account. Because they litter that dashboard will loads of ads for games and such, that is what happened. This was about a year ago. MS reversed the charge thankfully but it took a lot of back and forth with them to get it done.

It is complete bullshit that people have to pay twice to use Netflix. I am sort of surprised Netflix hasn't tried to get MS to change this policy.

If you're paying for multiplayer, then it technically costs you nothing. If you're a single player only person who doesn't use Xbox Live then yeah, you can have an argument.

Ahh, I see what you're saying. Purchasing on YOUR acct, not theirs. Makes sense.

Meh. No need to force them to change. It's not like people are buying these machines to watch Netflix. If they are, there are cheaper alternatives out there.

Stupid move on my part- visiting family until late Sunday night, and should have packed up the One to come along. I rarely have good chunks of free time to just play games, but this week I've got tons of time and a bit bored as all **** that I could have used to waste plenty of time amusing myself with a few xbone sessions.

Rookie mistake. Hate to see it.

Ha ha. Yes, mea culpa, and I take full responsibility.

This. I don't get the complaints either.

A lot more of us would be USING them to play games AND watch Netflix.

Microsoft's double-dipping policies made me a PS user. Plain and simple.

So you bought a PS simply because you don't have to have a PS+ acct to access Netflix?



EDIT: Just remembered you are the offline only player. I understand your view on it then.

M$ has changed things this generation by creating a Family Pass gold account but one of the other big reasons I switched from 360 to PS3 is because to play couch coop games like Diablo3 and Sacred with my daughter, on the same console, M$ wanted us BOTH to pony up for Gold.

The old version of the Family Pass for the 360 was that they gave you 4 live profiles for $100/year - what is the difference for the new ones (cost/# of people allowed, etc)? They did away with my version awhile ago. But, they gave like 6 months free Live so I'm good until I get the next system (PS4/Xbone).

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