Ive got to say the whole reason i did not pick up APB was due to extra fees. I pay for live to play online,get to deal with a vastly reduced field of cheaters/hackers vs what was happening on PCs, and pretty much any game i picked up was supported life of console.
now parts of this have been eroded E&A and other publishers have managed to shut down servers for what the see as older under performing games. i see this as a problem but not a deal breaker
a very few games charge monthly fees, but they do not at the time require live gold to play them. not a deal breaker yet but reduces the value of live, and restricts the growth opportunity of live.
if more games moved into this, i would stop buying and playing it would kill gaming for me. i would just keep playing the old game i have and enjoy and on relic system.
a solution i could see to this is a reworking of the live cost revenues and a slight bump in cost. say 10 - 15 dollars a year next generation, with Microsoft cutting developers a share based upon time played by users in the developers game.
the other solutions will just lead to fragmentation and harm of the gaming community
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