daroamer said:
Grimes said:
daroamer said:
Wagram said:
I'm not saying people shouldn't be disappointed because they definitely have the right to be. However getting pissed off, and calling the company insulting names doesn't solve the issue here. People are forgetting what Sony has done for them with the PS3s free servers. Now because this happened they are just evil bastards. This entire thing sucks, we all know that.
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Well, ok, your first point is fair enough. I agree it's not necessary to be calling the company names although in this case I feel the anger (or at least massive annoyance) is justified.
You lose me on your second point though and this is my main gripe with some people's mentality. "People are forgetting what Sony has done for them". Sony hasn't DONE anything for people. They made a business decision, plain and simple. They don't offer PSN free out of the goodness of their corporate hearts. It's a tactical move to try to get them to sell more PS3s, that is all. After seeing how much money Microsoft is making off of Live you can bet they are thinking long and hard about whether online will be free next gen. You're already seeing it with PSN Plus.
People just need to realize that corporations don't love you, they are just trying to make as much money as possible. The same is true for Microsoft and Nintendo. Publicly traded companies primary responsibility is to their shareholders, not their customers. That's not to say there aren't people throughout the corporate structure, developers etc, who try to do things for "the fans" and who care about their customers (I've met some of them), but things like free PSN are done with an eye to the bottom line, not because of some higher noble purpose.
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Indeed, PSN is not a charity. It is a business. They don't get a free pass just because they use a different business model. Google is 'free' to users, but they make a ton of money as a business. If Google had most of its data stolen and went down for three weeks, they would probably never fully recover. Nobody would give them any sympathy because what they were offereing was 'free'.
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Excellent point. Could you imagine if gmail, hotmail or yahoo mail were hacked and people private emails were exposed? No one would care that it was a "free" service.
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Agreed. Just because you don't pay a monthly premium doesn't make a service free. There's always a cost that usually consumers end up shouldering.
