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kain_kusanagi on 24 February 2013
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Mummelmann said:
kain_kusanagi said:
Mummelmann said:
kain_kusanagi said:
Talal said:
It's about the principle really not the price. The competition does it for free. Back in the beginning of the gen I never complained about the online fee, it was a brilliant service and no one had anything like it, but now that the PSN is almost just as good it becomes annoying.


Books are free at the library, but people still buy them. TV is "free" over air, but people pay for cable.

Uhm, you think its free to broadcast TV signals and produce TV programs? I hope you're kidding now.

I didn't say that. Read it again.

Your book analogy doesn't work at all. Paying to play online would be like having to pay to be able to read the books you had just bought.

The cable argument is also flawed, cable offers completely different experiences than regular network TV or state channels, kind of like paying for an MMO.

When I buy Halo 4 I know I'm going to also pay for XBL. I'm not paying to play what I already bought. I'm paying to play period. If that means that Halo 4 costs me more than Killzone 3 in the long run I accept that becuase Halo 4 is good enough to convince me to pay for it. If XBL was free I'd be happy to pay less for Halo 4, but the reality is that the tiny XBL Gold fee is the price of admission and I'm willing to pay that price.

For some reason this is offensive to people who claim to not want to have anything to do with Xbox. I find this funny because when I don't care about something I don't bother with it long enough to care about not caring about it. That's what this thread is about. I'm tired of people telling me that PSN is free and PS3 is better and blah blah blah. Last time I checked you can't play all the best games on just PS3 and stuff costs money. That's why we have jobs.

As for TV. Cable has different channels than Network TV, that's very true, Just like XBL has different games than PSN. If PS3 had Halo 4 I'd happily use PSN for free. Although I would miss cross game chat. But not enough to stop me from playing Halo 4.