I've had a 360 since 2006 and loved it. Never bought so many games for a console before. I listen to Major Nelson and his podcast, needless to say I was a MS defender.

Then I decided that I wanted to play some games online so I upgraded my silver sccount to gold for one month. BIG MISTAKE! I've done it before using pre paid cards, but this time it was through XBOX Live and now there is no way to cancel short of calling them (only during business hours) and wait in line for 30min to cancel it and I've read stories from some people that they canceled the entire account instead of reverting to silver aking you loose all your points and stuff.

Some might say that it's common practise, but I've been subscribing to gamespot and other online websites over the years and all of them had an easy way to cancel online. I mean even porn sites are easy to unsubscribe to compared to this.

I know this is old news for most of you and many will probably defend M$, but I can't anymore. They are supposed to be about choices right? That's what they say on press conferences. Well then Mr. Microsoft TEAR DOWN THIS WALL...um I mean LET ME CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTION!

I suggest to anyone who is only planning on using gold every now and then to buy pre-paid cards instead. If you don't want them to take $10 every month (yes that's what it costs where I live i.e not in the US)