PS4 Now requires PS+ for MULTIPLAYER!

[Kantor]

slowmo said:

Farsala said:

slowmo said:
After we've read years of threads like the one below, it's now ok to charge for online to Sony fans is it?

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=152272&page=1

No, read my posts and a few others.

 

I find it strange that a subject that has spawned hundreds of threads is suddenly becoming a non issue on these forums for a large number of posters, the silence is deafening.  These are posters that posted walls of text about how much XBL was rip off, yet you're now lucky to get more than sentence of them saying "meh, but there's no DRM". 

I called this when PSN + was first announced, it was obvious it was a ploy to start introducing Playstation fans to the concept of paying to play, it was just impossible for Sony to do it last gen (without them losing all credibility) after they made so much of a big thing about free online.  I agree with people that I'd rather pay a subscription service like this than lots more money up front for the console for a service I may or may not use. 

It's really very simple.

You are comparing a strategy followed by Microsoft when Sony did not follow that strategy, to a strategy followed by Sony when Microsoft does follow that strategy.

Obviously it's going to be less of a turnoff if both companies are doing it.