This subject is just silly. I'm with the crowd that can't believe people are still talking about this. If PSN is just attempting to "rip off" of everything that Xbox Live does, then Xbox live is just attempting to "rip off" whatever steam's been doing, because that's the chain of superiority right? Then what gives.
Paying $50 a year to "occasionally" play a game online is a total rip off ;/ If your more of a "hardcore" online player, then sure, you don't mind spending the cost of a game, (or many arcade/psn games), on the sole purpose of playing online. It may seem like "Only $50 a year!!! HAHAHAHA", then you play online for.... 4.... 5 years >_>;;; well guess what... that was a Wii, that was your PC upgrade, hell, that was a friggin 450$ MINIMUM xbox arcade unit.
Anyone saying it sucks for the company is probably right in that regard, but c'mon, they've been running servers for pc games for decades now :/ it's not like this is new. If a company goes under because it couldn't project the cost of maintaining a server, well I think they were screwed from the get go :\
Then there's the nonsense of some PSN games having higher player counts for it's online play. Man that blows, so less lag, higher player counts... and free? MS seriously needs to stop dicking around with it's pay to play nonsense and join the rest of the world :P Because as mentioned above, every other aspect of live is free with the silver version, only the pay to play costs.
From 0 to KICKASS in .stupid seconds.
