Finally got my 50.

Keep dreaming. If you somehow get your hands on Live + Halo 3, hit me up

I've got a buddy with it that plays all the time, one of these weekends we'll set a match up. I've been considering getting a 360.. honestly. Xbox live is like $60 a year right?..

Not really. There are different payment plans you can do. You can buy a 1 month subscription to Live for $7.99, or a 3 month for $19.99, or a 12 month for like $50 or so

Yeah, it's pretty damn cheap, as long as you can find the time to actually use it. I got PLENTY of use out of mine over the years. Not lately, but I shall again eventually, probably when the new Halo comes out.

People actually BUY a level 50? What reason? If you can't represent in a game, who cares? You're just setting yourself up with impossible matchups and won't progress in the game at all and just get frustrated.... I mean, in Diablo II, buying high levels was different, because you were gaining all the spells, equipments, etc. so it made the game easier to play and probably more enjoyable depending on how you liked to play.

I honestly don't know what the point is of buying a 50. The only thing I can think of is to look cool among your peers. You'd be surprised at how rampant buying/selling level 50s is. Like I go to this Halo 3 message board sometimes (halo3forum.com), and there's a forum there designed to add people as friends so you can gain people to play with, right? Well I'll make a thread like "Need 3 good teammates for Team Slayer to get to 50." and most of the responses are, "I'll get your 50 for a 1 month code" or "You can add me and I'll play with you but you have to give me 1600 Microsoft points." - it's fucking retarded.

Wow, that is pretty fucking retarded.