| Ljink96 said:
But ONLINE SERVICES ARE A SERVICE OR UTILITY. Do you ever wonder why sites like Wikipedia ask for money to keep their site up? It costs money to keep up a server. I'm referring to online services, not games. Where'd you get games from? Online is free for those devices now, but for Nintendo that's because they kept paying out of pocket to keep their servers up. If it didn't cost anything to run a server, we'd still have Mario Kart DS Servers and Devil's Third servers. Nintendo was nice enough to allow free online. Like I said, Sony and Microsoft don't make you pay because they're dicks. There's a reason. PS3 had free online for a while, but then they realized they could make money off it. |
But games aren't, unlike Wikipedia you have to pay to own them. If you're just reffering to online features besides online play (which you clearly aren't based on the rest of your post) then why are we having this conversation? No one cares about paying for temporarily free VC games, they care about their games suddenly being put behind an additional paywal, that's the issue here. Wii/DS online only went down because the server host Gamespy went under or something, unless you somehow believe Wii n DS didn't well and beyond cover the cost of online servers despite Nintendo still having billions in the bank from that gen. Yep Nintendo was nice before, but now they're greedy anti-consumer bastards. As already said, free online works, game sales cover the server cost, that is simply a proven fact.
Also lol at the bolded, you just destroyed your entire argument by admitting the paywall is solely for additional profits, not maintaining servers as you were trying to claim earlier. Btw PS3 still has free online.
