Microsoft is innocent!!

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Ka-pi96 said:

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:
Yea but Sega died in the hardware business but Microsoft made paying for online popular so....

Microsoft didn't force people to like it, they could have said no. Paying for XBL or PSN is a great deal regardless of what some people think.

Paying for XBL might be a great deal now that it has games with Gold, but before that what exactly was the great deal? Netflix and other similar subscription based apps behind the XBL Gold paywall? How is that a great deal, that's a shafting.

I'm a bit ignorant of the totality of what you got from XBL Gold before games with Gold but my perception is you paid for access to paid apps, and online gaming. That doesn't seem like a great deal to me. At least with PSN+ there have always been the "free" games, but now that online multiplayer is behind the paywall PSN has become slightly shittier, which is disappointing; personally I would have preferred they retain online pass. Ironically it's MS that's selectively moving online play out from behind the paywall starting with Destiny I believe. I guess at least Sony is keeping their FTP games genuinely FTP by making that online play free.