Are subscriptions good for the industry?

[Alkibiádēs]

m_csquare said:

Alkibiádēs said:

What innovations have been made? I can play online on my PC for free and it's a far better experience than whatever Sony and MS can offer. 

If Sony can't afford to innovate without charging for online than they shouldn't be in the business to begin with.

Sony's subscription shouldn't include online play. Let people pay for the "free" games and discounts. I imagine the amount of subscribers would greatly decline though (further driving home the point that most consumers only pay for this subscription for the online play, and not the "free" games or discounts). 

Wait a minute, if we're gon use this reasoning, then all of those innvations talk abt NES getting online functionality is also worthless. On PC, you could also play NES games with online functionality (with emulator). Heck.. with PC, not limited to NES, I could also play GBC, GBA, and NDS games with online functionality.

Everything is free if you steal it. What's your point? 

And what emulator can add online play to games that didn't have it? Never heard of that...