[l3lueMage]

does msn really think people will pay $13.00 to chat in their chatrooms? its sad how people do when u can just goto yahoo free....why is it they make u pay?

[musicman2059]

True, but Yahoo Chat is filled with all those dumb spambots.

And nowadays AIM chat is laggy as hell half the time.

Then again, why go to some huge chat site when you can go IRC?

[Nobody]

Uh, Musicman, not everyone has IRC, and not all IRC clinents are free either.
Plus, there are certain commands in mIRC that send viruses. There are things like that too on MSNM, but IRC is more easily exploited (I think...)

[musicman2059]

There are certain commands in mIRC that can allow someone to send viruses, and most of the clients have the same commands. The best way to deal with it is to know what they are.

[Nick Presta]

Why is MSN charging 13 dollars? Is this for their MSN Messenger service?

Link? Article?

[musicman2059]

No, they've been charging for MSN Chat for quite some time now. It's not really anything new.

[l3lueMage]

its just I wanna know why, they have nothing special about them, its just a normal MSNM window(just in a browser window) with all the normal Emoticons, you can just make a huge convo in msnm free...o.o

[Omega]

In conclusion: MSN has gone retarded.

I wonder if they will start charging us to use the Messenger service...O.o

[l3lueMage]

thats when we switch to yahoo or aim, and once they charge we switch to ICQ, Mirc, Xfire << maybe google will come out with a messenger o.o

[Omega]

Yeah Google's working on a messenger...

[musicman2059]

Just remember; This is Microsoft we're talking about here. Of course they're going to money whore us.

And the day they start charging for AIM, is the day that ICQ becomes paid-only too, because both are run by AOL believe it or not.

[l3lueMage]

google has come out with a messenger sort of system, at least I think it has, its called "hello" its meant to send images to each other super fast but i think you can chat with eachother also, thats what it says.

[Nobody]

Ugh...what people do for money...><
I don't really understand the need of a "chatroom" thing either. There are many chat programs out there, and most are free. As long as they don't charge for MSN Messenger, I'm okay with it.

[Sea of Time]

The MSN Chat system is worth paying for because it's head and shoulders above anything anyone else has to offer right now.

[Elliott]

Chatrooms are for people who are desperate for friends >_> .

[Ravenblade]

Thats true. I got dragged into a yahoo one once by FGX and it wasnt a pleasant experience. I dont think MSN's chatrooms are ever going to interest me to be honest, even if they were free.

[Doom Fox]

Agatio, on Apr 16 2005, 11:41 PM, said:

Chatrooms are for people who are desperate for friends >_> .

Agreed.

On topic: I know, MSN is wanting to make profit from it's supposedly "Free" products, just look at MSN Messenger, they are planning to make it a paid messenger, which that would totally suck.

[Elliott]

Paid messengers would never take off.
Far too many people who use MSN are below 18, and couldn't pay. It would destroy the program.

[Baer]

I never go into chatrooms; because of security, viruses etc. Even if I did I wouldn't pay for it. There are too many free chatrooms for people to actually bother paying to go in it.

[musicman2059]

Doom Fox, on Apr 19 2005, 09:50 PM, said:

Agreed.

On topic: I know, MSN is wanting to make profit from it's supposedly "Free" products, just look at MSN Messenger, they are planning to make it a paid messenger, which that would totally suck.

I wouldn't be surprised. When I firsted used MSN7 I noticed a few things that looked "paid-only", and "Billing Information" in the Help menu is a big "hint hint" to me.

[Elliott]

There are pay things like emoticon packs and meego's, but honeslty, what regular joe would do that?