Sega charged $22 per month to play online for the Dreamcast. Where was the outcry back then?

[Ruler]

Tachikoma said:

Ruler said:

even if true which i doubt it is, its still too expensive. Internet there where i live costs 10 bucks. Ad 5 or 6 and its still cheaper and a lot faster.

It was true,  the idea was that if you use sega net as your isp the ping would be lower since youre connected directly to their servers,  if you already had a dialup account with another isp you didnt have to pay a thing.
This was the day of dialup 56k, and the account had unlimited game-bandwidth use if you went with sega net,  which was a big thing back then. 

The pricing wasnt that high for a monthly isp service either,  most people in the US and UK were paying by the minute of usage on their isp,  in the uk that was commonly 2p per minute,  so an hour online was £1.60, 10 hours,  £16 (about $25 by the conversion rate at the time. 
So you could pay $22 for a month online playing games,  or about 7 1/2 hours from a normal isp. 

Something tells me you didnt put much thought/research in before making the thread

Like the user above said, they changed the formular at some point and charged people 10$ extra on top of their ISP

http://www.consolecity.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35528

Some old forum threads aprove