Quote Originally Posted by ArtistofWarfare
Once again, ALL of this over what amounts to a few pennies each day.

That's taking things to extreme...not my highlighting of it. If you just saved a soda can each day, you would be playing for "free".

Extortion? Over 8 cents a day? Give me a break...
Not a lot? Perhaps not for you, but what about the countries that are excluded? They don't even get the option to pay. It's a racket, but you're so obviously dead set on singing it's praises and labelling anyone that is in anyway against it as "miserable" or "enjoying this" that you can't see it. Your argument amounts to "pay it because it's so little anyway", this is not an argument in itself and schemes like this always start out cheap, then once they control the market, prices will start to go up. It's all about monopolising, something M$ have a bit of a track record of.