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

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Ruler said:

badgenome said:
If modern consoles were as good as the Dreamcast no one would complain about paying for online.

i dont think it was that of a good console, espacially now. It lacks exclsuives, most of the games on the dreamcast you can play them on different consoles. The only exclsuives left are D2 and Shenmue 1 which are intresting to me. And its also good to play a view defentive console versions like dino crysis 1, but other than that there arent any reasons to have a dreamcast.

Not sure I am missing something, but at the time DC was very underated.  All this thing had was exclusive after exclusive and very good ones at that. You can NOW play most of those games on different consoles but that did not happen until Sega gave up on the Dreamcast.  Even now there are games that make the system worth finding and owning even though it does not affect Sega at all and one that jumps out is one of my favorite DC games Record of Lodoss War.