S.T.A.G.E. said:
Microsoft fucked over console gaming by forcing console gamers to pay for server coverage. Sony saw that they were paying and stayed away for as long as they could, but eventually while they were losing money they had to find a way. I'm not excusing it but I can understand their logic. I've Microsoft never came into the console business this never would've happened. We're paying for everything PC gamers get for free on both sides of the Sony/MS spectrum. |
I have a different point of view. What about Sony just waited until people got used to the online charge of Microsoft so they didn't get mad at them when they implement the same system? And to pretend the subject to be less "evil", years before that, they've been costumed their customers to pay for something really good monthley (PS Plus) to, in the end, claim that they were forced to do it and that online charge is just that same nice thing they've been paying with PS Plus when it's not?
Sony is no better than Microsoft. The difference between them is that one says what they wanna do without fear and without half lies even if they're doing something bad, and the other waits like a coward, letting others staining their hands and finally doinf the same thing claiming that "they didn't had a choice".
If Microsoft never came into console business, Sony would have no competitors and they would have become cocky (even more than now) and lazy, the online system would have taken more time to become what it is now and the 7th generation's first 2-3 years would have sucked so badly with PS3 alone...
