| endimion said: i'm totally against a free XBL first that way we have less annoying kids on the network but most important any online network for free is doomed to fail if its successful... you need money to upgrade it to put new servers etc.... and I don't see why it should be free any MMO built on a large scale makes people pay to play on their official servers and that's just for one game..... if you don't pay for XBL you will see specific fees in the future... right now you just pay once and you are good.... and come on people are you serious ???? 50 bucks a year... less than 5 bucks a month even a trump can pull that off of his pocket..... are people that cheap now a days ???? use less gas guys you'll be saving the planet and be able to pay your XBL membership... i wouldn't be surprised if PSN won't be free forever if they become successful one day.. |
I don't know, if a 'chump' can pull $5 a month easily, how can something so measly keep those annoying kids or even the same chumps who cause problems off the network? Regardless, there are going to be those annoying people, I don't even know why that needs to be brought up as I've heard the subscription of Xbox Live and the PS3's price as detractors to annoying people yet here we are seeing them everywhere.
For a subscription based MMO, how about FFXI? I guess you don't have to have a gold Xbox Live account for it, but it still costs money to play it and keep your character information stored (or whatever).
If the PSN suddenly becomes a charged service, I would seriously consider dropping my online games and just rent singleplayer games for the rest of this generation. Even then, what would they charge? Would it be like Xbox Live and screw me by telling me I have to pay them so I can be allowed to play my $60 game online?
