Online subscription. Fair or not fair?

[Flilix]

Mr Puggsly said:

Flilix said:

Of course people suscribe to play online, but why can't it be free? It doesn't cost them millions to maintain their servers.

Heh, I'm sure it cost millions to build/maintain their servers and online services. Perhaps many millions. I mean they have a staff and the services are used by many millions of people whether it be online play or any other service that uses their servers.

But their goal isn't to lose money or break even, these subscription services are part of what makes these platforms profitable and relatively speaking its cheap. I mean PS+ and XBLG COMBINED is about same price as a year of Netflix.

Aren't the online services free on PC? Why would developers waste millions on their PC servers?