you still have to pay to play online now. if ps+ is so awesome that everyone wants it there is no reason to ask to pay to play online if online gaming should be free (something i heard often enough last gen). the only reason why sony does it now is because only a tiny fraction of ps3 users paid for ps+ since not so many people seemed to care as much about ps+ as people in forums want to believe.
if almost every gamer who plays online on playstation would pay for ps+ on ps3, online gaming on ps4 would be still free. but that's not the case and sony tries to force you to pay for ps+ if you want to play online. if you get "free" games or not.
there are millions of people who simply don't care about all these games and who would never in their whole life pay for ps+. all they want is their cod, madden and fifa online matches and not demon's souls or contrast but now they have to pay. and for them, the "nobody should have to pay to play online" rule is exactly the same on a playstation and not only on an xbox.
not to forget all the people who buy all the games they really want at release or the weeks after. not sure how someone who already owns all the games he likes before they are on ps+ has something from ps+.
