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Avarice28 on 19 November 2009
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waron said:

i mean you pay 50$ for gold because MS hold servers for all multiplayer/coop games from all the publishers so you will be able to still play Modern Warfare 2 even when Xbox 4 will be released.
on ps3 publishers have to hold servers for their own games. so considering the fact that they also pay sony for transfer from psstore and sony receives fees from every item sold on psstore, this is weird.

It is not holding just any servers is it waron, it is holding "dedicated servers"; something that is missed when you play games on live.  p2p network versus dedicated servers...I will take dedicated servers any day.  Not saying anything bad about live, because I used to pay for it last generation (original xbox); but this allows Sony to not have to foot the bill and upkeep when it comes to the server side of things (unless they are Sony hosted games obviously).  I do think that giving customers "options" is better than having only one (paid you can play online and no online if you do not pay).  So if multi-player is still going to be free, I will not be phased by this change.