| Alby_da_Wolf said: As I wrote in the first part you answered, I don't pretend to get for free expensive online services, but just basic online multiplayer, the P2P one, that requires little to no effort at all from publishers' servers. If the server is hosted on the players' consoles or PCs themselves, why on earth should they pay a fee for it? That's the great thing... you DON'T have to pay for it. Just play a different console or the PC. You've become accustomed to online play being free regardless of the financial burdens of the people who offer the service. Fortunately, there are options for people like you. I don't know your financial situation, but $60 a year isn't really setting me back much and I get a lot of entertainment from Live I can't get elsewhere. It basically pays for it self with all the Deals of the Week I take advantage of as well.
And about the second part, making people pay also for basic online multiplayer is a business model followed only by a minority of gaming enterprises, if the majority is fine with making pay only for premium features, it's just the natural way of things that majority will prevail. Boasting the approval of large, but minority, gaming communities, won't make them become the absolute majority. Perhaps its the minority, but financially its the most successful. I hardly feel like a minority paying for Live considering its considerably more active than PSN. Also, I'm in the US which is where the 360 is going pretty strong. |
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