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jlmurph2 on 25 June 2014
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Faxanadu said:
jlmurph2 said:
MyCodenameIsIan said:
In my experience it tends to be younger gamers that tend to bemoan paying for online. For most adults it is 2-3 hours of work to cover a year of online gaming.

The fee leads to better technology, dedicated servers which in turn leads to a better online experience.

The problem Nintendo face is gaming seems to be heading towards an always online/persistent world future. Nintendo are already significantly behind with their online infrastructure and are not generating the revenue to convince them to invest in improving it.

Sony stepped it up by offering free games to the service which Microsoft have adopted as well. The games alone make the fee worth paying in my opinion.

I noticed that too. $35-60 a year is nothing to someone with a job. Maybe it might be to someone who has to ask their parents for money. 

Over 5 years that is 300 USD. That is a lot of money for a lot of people.

If I spend 300 USD on a console, I dont want to spend another 300 USD on hidden cost down the road.


If you buy Xbox Live or PS+ at full price then you're a sucker. I always buy it when its on sale on EBay for $30-35. I spend more money at the movies with my girl buying a ticket and concessions than a full year of Xbox Live. And its worth every cent because it has given me so many free games so far, allows me to communicate with friends, if something happens to my Xbox everything is attached to my account so I just have to re-download. Not spend all of that money again on new games. So in actuality since you want to speak in hypotheticals, getting your Wii U broken or stolen costs more money than Xbox Live or PS+ AND getting your Xbox or PlayStation broken or stolen.