Sony to start charging for PSN? Pachter says...

[VGKing]

Capulous said:

VGKing said:

Online Gaming should always be free. Ever played a PC game?
There is nothing "premiium" about online gaming on XBox Live. Those games like COD use the same kind of servers as on PSN, which is Peer to Peer.

Free Online gaming is a RIGHT. Do you know how many people would protest if PC games started charging for online? You know I thinkg Microsoft tried doing that with Games For Windows.. but it got trounced by Steam which was FREE.

Sure I have, plenty. Have you? There are games that are free to play online, and there are those that cost money. Games for Windows never had any cost associate with it when I started using it. It may have at one point. It is all in the preceived value of what each person is willing to pay for. If they think it is worth it, who are you to tell them they are wrong?

Free online gaming is not a right. That is ridiculous.

It is a right unless we're talking MMOs which cost so much to maintain the servers.
I"m talking $60 FPS here like Halo or COD. These games should have everything unlocked when you buy it. On 360, if you don't pay for Live, you can't play the online portion which I belive is worse than an online pass. NO, $60 A YEAR IS NOT A LOT BUT GAMERS ARE STILL GETTING TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF.