| Jega said: Xbox Live was getting a little hate last gen for having to pay for it, while the PS3 was free to play online. Many Xbox fans predicted that sony would change their tune after seeing how successful Microsoft was with the paid subscriptions. PSN is no longer free. Is PSN worth the price or was Playstation fans just upset that people were paying for live and not for PSN.
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Well, let me preface this by saying I'm not happy about it, however, I won't damn Sony as much over it, because of a few simple reasons. The only thing behind a paywall on PSN is what, Multiplayer and auto-trophy syncing? So, you're paying only for the access to multiplayer. Now, compare and contrast to XBL. What things can you NOT access, if you don't have a Gold account? (The list is huge, check it out http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=669313).
The problem I have there is, you're actually paying on top of an already paid fee, for certain things...like Netflix, for example. You're also paying for something that costs Microsoft absolutely nothing. It's not like some of the things they're charging for is actually contained on their servers. So, how could anyone....at all, be ok with that policy? And the fact that millions of...people, bought into it, helped set the tone for other companies to go completely closed and start nickel and diming wherever and whenever possible. Remember when you used to be able to get together with your buddies and rent game servers for virtually any MP game, at a cost of ~$45 bucks a month, between ALL of you? Remember when you could experience some truly spectacular community driven multiplayer maps that in some cases were better than anything the developers themselves came up with (Barbarosa - CoD United Offensive..by Afterhourz.com, great bunch of people). Remember seeing a cheater on your server that you could nuke with Admin controls, add their IP to the punkbuster master ban list, and chuckle silently to yourself knowing they weren't getting on any legit servers without going through some serious hoops? Blech. So much wrong with this gen, and how the companies have changed the industry, and how consumers have just swallowed it, hook line and sinker.
But yeah, I'm not thrilled at the paywall on the PS4, however, I do like that it's very very limited in scope, and that you get a TON of content in return (the amount of new games they just give away on PS+ is pretty ridiculous). Now, if I ever feel like playing MP on a console (I'm primarily local MP in games like Street Fighter, King of Fighters, Dynasty Warriors etc...), I might have to pay for it. Until then, I'm more than satisfied on PC.
