DerNebel said:
Then you didn't get the service for online multiplayer and aren't among the people I'm talking about. If this service and Xbox Live Gold was only about the deals and the free games then I wouldn't have a problem with them. I was more talking about the people that kept praising and celebrating Xbox Live Gold in the beginning of Gen 7 anyway. |
Honestly, the whole paying to play online thing has always bugged me. I was paying for PS+ when all it did was give me free games and discounts and I was OK with that. Hell, then I would have felt stupid for not paying for it considering the amount of great free games they offered (vanquish, deus ex and infamous 2 were enough to justify yearly subscriptions).
But when they put online play behind the wall, it rubbed me the wrong way. Simply cause we are paying for something that is already free in multiple ways. we pay for our internet, the console, the game then "have" to pay to play the full game. That's just wrong. Its not a lot of money, but its still really bad form. I would understand if it meant every PS game were on dedicated servers from Sony but thats not the case. I can understand put share play or maybe even live streaming behind a pay wall but online gaming shouldn't be.
But hey, we have MS and the fools that praised MS for XBL gold to thank for this. When Sony realizes they can get away with potentially making a billion from subscription fees alone in a year its hard to argue with their choices.
