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KingdomHeartsFan on 07 August 2013
tuscaniman99 said:
I'm sorry but it's $5 a month for X1 (less than $4 a month if you spend 5 minutes looking for a discount card) and a little over $4 a month for PS4. Buy one less Starbucks a month, one less pack of cigarettes a month, one less fast food trip per month etc. These are premium gaming consoles. If you can afford the console you can afford the fee to play online. People expect dedicated servers, more features, better everything for the same price as last gen and its pretty ridiculous. All you have to do is look around you and see the costs of everything are going up. WiiU has free online but lacks in all of the other extra features the PS4 and X1 offer for online gaming. Last gen cross game chat was enough to justify paying for gold. I hated playing PS3 games online because of a lack of this feature. People bring up PC but it has an extreme lack of AAA exclusives that interest me. I have a gaming PC but the online communities are so small it is laughable. BF3 and COD are basically dead.


Did you read the OP?  By the time the next generation is over you will have to pay the price of the console over again just to play online.  You talk about extra features like dedicated servers, PC has dedicated servers and you don't have to pay, lack of AAA exclusives has nothing to do with this, not sure why you brought that up.  What exactly are these "features" that are costing MS/Sony up the ass that they have to charge for online.  



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Zero999 on 07 August 2013

when you consider the long term, the price for ps4 and xone is actually $700/$800.



Zero999 on 07 August 2013
KingdomHeartsFan said:
tuscaniman99 said:
I'm sorry but it's $5 a month for X1 (less than $4 a month if you spend 5 minutes looking for a discount card) and a little over $4 a month for PS4. Buy one less Starbucks a month, one less pack of cigarettes a month, one less fast food trip per month etc. These are premium gaming consoles. If you can afford the console you can afford the fee to play online. People expect dedicated servers, more features, better everything for the same price as last gen and its pretty ridiculous. All you have to do is look around you and see the costs of everything are going up. WiiU has free online but lacks in all of the other extra features the PS4 and X1 offer for online gaming. Last gen cross game chat was enough to justify paying for gold. I hated playing PS3 games online because of a lack of this feature. People bring up PC but it has an extreme lack of AAA exclusives that interest me. I have a gaming PC but the online communities are so small it is laughable. BF3 and COD are basically dead.


Did you read the OP?  By the time the next generation is over you will have to pay the price of the console over again just to play online.  You talk about extra features like dedicated servers, PC has dedicated servers and you don't have to pay, lack of AAA exclusives has nothing to do with this, not sure why you brought that up.  What exactly are these "features" that are costing MS/Sony up the ass that they have to charge for online.  

it'a a single feature called greed.



fps_d0minat0r on 07 August 2013

I agree its a bad thing. Its sad that PS went down the same route as MS.



tuscaniman99 on 07 August 2013

It's $5 a month. You shouldn't be gaming if you can't afford it. Stick to PS3, WiiU or older consoles for free online. Its not going anywhere so there is no reason to complain about it.



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Zero999 on 07 August 2013

Actually the saddest thing I've ever seen was people aplauding during this E3's ps4 part because they weren't gonna pay for stuff that was theirs to begin with.



Lonely_Dolphin on 07 August 2013
Zero999 said:

the problem is that someone who just wants to PLAY online is forced to pay for unecessary crap. they should leave the lots of functions for a paid version and let people use the simple version for free.



I was about to say something liek this!

Max King of the Wild on 07 August 2013
KingdomHeartsFan said:

Did you read the OP?  By the time the next generation is over you will have to pay the price of the console over again just to play online.  You talk about extra features like dedicated servers, PC has dedicated servers and you don't have to pay, lack of AAA exclusives has nothing to do with this, not sure why you brought that up.  What exactly are these "features" that are costing MS/Sony up the ass that they have to charge for online.  

I had a dedicated server once for counter strike. I think it was 25bucks a month for 16 players... now times that by thousands per game. Just because you arent paying for the servers doesnt mean someone isnt paying



dobby985 on 07 August 2013
JoeTheBro said:
sundin13 said:
JoeTheBro said:
Things are changing. Back when online meant player to player connections, it was a joke to pay for online. Now with dedicated servers and all the very real costs associated with the online portions of games, paying for it is logical.


You already pay 60$ for the game, and out of curiosity, how much of those costs actually go do developers/publishers. I feel like MS/Sony are just pocketing most of the money, if not all but thats just a guess.

Anyways, I will be going Wii U/PC next gen and this is one of the reasons. I don't play online very often but I like having the opportunity.


If within the 8th gen steam or PC games don't evolve to also being paid online, then I'll agree that it's a rip off.


The servers on Steam or PC in general are usually hosted by clans and members of the community and not game companies themselves.

That's the main difference between PC online and console online.



Zkuq on 07 August 2013

And suddenly console gaming isn't so cheap compared to PC gaming once you start paying for online.

tuscaniman99 said:
It's $5 a month. You shouldn't be gaming if you can't afford it. Stick to PS3, WiiU or older consoles for free online. Its not going anywhere so there is no reason to complain about it.

If people complain enough, there's always a better chance of things changing. If people stop complaining, that's a sure way to prevent any change.