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fps_d0minat0r on 12 June 2014
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baloofarsan said:
fps_d0minat0r said:
baloofarsan said:
fps_d0minat0r said:

 

Servers - not every game uses dedicated servers and of the ones which do, those servers are not always provided by Sony or MS. In cases where they are supporting their own games with servers, you are paying a price to access those servers when you buy the game. It also means if you want to rent your own server for a game like BF, you have to pay twice which is silly.

Her is some real world costs for servers: 

http://www.nyteknik.se/nyheter/energi_miljo/energi/article3832058.ece

Sorry but it is swedish but here is a translation:

The Facebook serverhall  in Sweden uses 1 TWh electricty annualy. That is roughly 1% of Swedens total electricity consumption.

This has to be paid, so even if you think facebook is free, they make money on us, as a collective, in many ways - mainly ads!


XBL or PSN doesnt have as many users as Facebook and nor do they hold as much information about us.

The bulk of the information about us is held by 3rd parties like EA's battlelog, or on twitch's servers. Yes we have cloud upload which is 1gb on PSN I believe, but thats nothing. Companies were providing 1gb cloud storage for free like over 5 years ago.... and im pretty sure they were not selling peoples uploaded files for cash. They were profiting from services which they provided as OPTIONAL extra's.

The services which PSN and XBL are offering are as basic as they come. If they want to charge extra for something like 50gb cloud storage then fine, but all im saying is what they are offering right now doesnt justify the fee, yet we are forced into it because people supported it.

Anyway, its starting to go off topic so this will be my last comment about this issue. May I just add that I will continue subscribing to PS+ because the games make it worth it, nothing else.