BasilZero said:
Buy it when it's on sale and don't pay for the ps plus service.
thats what I am doing
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It's not a question of money, most of the games I want for the PS4 are single player, and I have a perfectly good PC to play multiplayer. It's a question of practises. If we as consumers send the message that online fees are not a big deal, they will keep doing it, and worse, other companies will start to consider them too. When the 360 was the only one charging for fees, people were fine with it, and it sold around the same numbers as the PS3. When Sony saw this, they charged for their online services too, and people were too hyped for the PS4 to notice, or even care about it.Now the two big home consoles now have online fees, and they can charge whatever they want, because they know the other one won't drop the model either.
If the trend continues, what's to stop Nintendo from charging for their services too? Unlikely, but it's a scary possibility. Or even worse, what if EA, Ubi and Activision start charging for their online in their PC games? First with the older games (with excuses like keeping the servers alive) and then starting with their newer games. Imagine every PC CoD fan paying 4,99€ per month to play their game, all that sweet money going to Activision directly instead of Sony/MS? The same with other ones. It's going to get worse and worse. And people just accept it.
