| Squeezol said: I agree that people should support the Wii U (duh) but if I have to be honest I don't think a free online gaming future is anywhere near possible at this point. |
It is completely possible. Developers and publishers just need to stop removing player hosted servers.
I can host my own server on all old PC games and still on alot of modern games. And if the devs want control over the player and remove that then the modding community can fix that and you can still play on your own servers.
There is NO need at all for official ONLY servers.
Proof that XBLG and PS+ are a ripoff is the simple fact that you cannot play a game with friends only for free. Keep the fee for people that want ranked games or people that play in tournaments and let everyone else play for free.
But because they want to control the consumers want to gather user statistics want to make you move to the next installment of a series when they shut down the servers of the old one and obviously want to make money they removed the ability for players to host servers.
If you could play with your friends for free then Sony and MS would at least have a 75% drop in users that pay a fee.
My 360 was offline only and will always be. My PS4 will also be offline only. I will never pay an arbitrary fee that serves no purpose whatsoever.
