The Fury on 06 February 2014
| foodfather said: XBL is a service. A fucking great one at that. It never needed free games to justify the price. |
It should have never charged to begin with, no one else did. Now on the other hand something must have changed in order for them to change their ways, the service was still as good as ever, if not with some questionable decisions (BBC iPlayer dispute and Netflix being the main ones) but features that made it stand out like cross game chat helped a lot.
So why offer free games as well? If PS+ membership take up was so low on PS3 compared to the total user base, it wasn't a threat. Maybe their overall numbers started to decline, so it was a way to entice people back.
Hmm, pie.
