It's interesting that despite fairly comparable features between the two services.  Many people would 'never' pay for PSN but 'gladly' will pay for XBL.   Me personally,  I think Xbox Live is a complete rip off.  People claiming Sony is stupid for not capitalizing on a revenue stream, just aren't getting the point.   It's about providing a similar online experience at no additional cost to the consumer (Which apparently is going over peoples heads).

Considering PC gaming has had free online gaming for years in everything outside of the MMO realm (Which is understandable given thousands of players in a constant interactive world simultaneously.)  What exactly are you paying for on Xbox Live?   Paying to play 1v1 Madden online?   Or limited FPS / TPS  action games?    It's a joke IMO. 

I would never pay and that's why I don't have a 360 >:(

And I use my PSN a lot.

No f...way

And also notice most of people advocating for paid online are well known x360 fanboys ;)

lol or they like the online. but yea id pay for psn i pay for 360's online every other month lol.

Nope. Though I think my boys (especially my oldest) probably like online play well enough that they'd be willing to pay out of their allowance. And that's fine by me. However I think they'd soon decide it wasn't worth the price and let their online lapse.

It's also why I don't do MMOs.

I wouldn't mind pay to play if the upfront cost of a game was about 1/4 what it is now.

Edit: I also have no objection to publishers charging a one time fee for people who buy used games to pay when they first start to play online.

It depends of the game... I would pay for monster hunter frontier on PC, Capcom is constantly updating the game, new monsters, new quests, new armors, weapons, etc... I would be willing to pay $20-$30 at month for that... 

Nope, I wouldn't pay-to-play online and I'm not that much into MMOs that I would bother playing them anyway.

This was one of the selling points for me when I got the PS3, I just can't be bothered to use 50€ yearly on something I can get for free elsewhere, that money gets me even more games. ^_^

OK I will put it this way... In Scotland and Wales they do not pay for perscriptions but in the England they do. A lot of people suggest the English should not pay for perscriptions and should be like the Scotland and Wales. Unfortunately it is a simplistic argument, in the case of Wales and Scotland they now have a funding shortfall so services which are available in England are not available in Wales and Scotland. Some of the services such as guranteeing seeing a consultant promptly if diagnosed with Cancer seem to me to be more important than paying for the occasional percription.

Now currenlty the PSN network costs money you guys do not pay for it so how is it funded? I can argue the case for PC games being mostly free because most of the servers are run by Clans and so are subsidised and to a small degree some of the PSN network is subsidised (Demos, purchases etc).

The 360 on the other hand makes you pay for the only really valuable service "online play" which in my mind means that at some point PSN will stop being free it just does not make economic sense to continue subsidising this free service. I very much doubt they will bring it in during the life of the PS3 but the PS4 may see some changes. I think if running these services was small change it really would not matter but everytime MS posts results and huge profits based on its members this just heaps further pressure on Sony after all if I was a shareholder I would be wondering why we were not tapping this revenue stream.

I think the question here is would you continue to play online if PSN Multiplayer became chargeable and like the 360 Gold members I think the answer is yes. If asked would I want to pay obviously the answer is no.

I would providing the right game was there, I played for Gold to play Halo Reach online, and I think it was worth it, I'm just not totally sure what game that would be for Playstation though, but I'd probably pay

Nope, I payed once for some MMO, but never will again

psn is perfect