These thing aren't certainly going to happen. Frequent lag yes, but it also depends on the games. Playing GRAW you can lag out playing with someone living in the same city as you do and yet in Halo 2/Halo 3 Beta sometimes playing with Americans you can get a Yellow Bar, meaning a slight lag but not until you can't play. The community here's big enough for Xbox Live to be worth the price anyway. The trash-talkers here and Singapore are somehow a lot less than those Americans who claims he's lagging as the host.

Well..I buy this console coz of Live,not the games though..

Still GOW is god..!! Although i sucked at it...

It's not going to be an xbox if it doesnt have Live..

The whole concept of Xbox360 is clearly rest on its LIVE feature which in my opinoin is far superior than other consoles. I never thought playing online can be so much fun. I especially enjoy GOW Co-op online which is absolutely awesome.

Without LIVE, gaming life is definitely boring!

Get unmodded box and I know you will not regret it.

Without Xbox Live we don't have this community where local players can play together, trash talk & laugh till their pants dropped. You get to mixed along with new friends through Live. It's useless to get a modded console where you play alone by yourself (where got syok!). That's why 6 million players around the world subscribed to Xbox Live and still growing. Peace!!!