Will the psn become a paid service after this issue is resolved?

[mantlepiecek]

gergroy said:

mantlepiecek said:

Xbbjf9s said:

mantlepiecek said:

They already have a paid service, plus members will get some kind of "oops we are sorry for the f*ck up, here's your reward for being patient enough even if you weren't" item on the PSN.

Plus is more like a vip club. The money they make on plus would be nothing if they started making everyone pay to play online.

That's not happening. They would lose one of their bragging rights against their competitors of having free online.

Its going to remain free this gen and probably next gen too. They have nintendo and the PC for competition, Live will charge but they are the only ones.

This isn't such a big deal for them. Making a game probably costs them more.

eh, I think they will charge next gen.  As it is they make the developers pay for the bandwidth, which keeps some of the smaller indie developers off of their system.  No way in hell will they charge this gen though. 

I think they might make it so that plus will be integrated into PS4, they will keep the online free, but have plus available from day 1 with a lot more features than it currently has.

If they do something like charge for online, then they will lose a lot of people from the countries where PC gaming is popular. They will certainly not gain any more people buying their systems.

Plus you have to remember that Sony is a japanese company and they will be at first competing with nintendo, so they will probably have free online gaming. Nintendo isn't and will never really will be charging for online.