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SvennoJ on 24 April 2022
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LudicrousSpeed said:
victor83fernandes said:

Exactly. My thought exactly. People are just blind. They can’t remember the 360. When Microsoft wanted to grab consumer base so they started making great exclusives. They also introduced paid online. Or else today we could all have free online just like on pc. 

remember what happened when Microsoft was beating Sony. They got lazy and no new exclusives coming besides forza. While Sony continue with great games like last of us and ni no kuni. 

this will happen again. When gamepass has enough subscribers they will raise the prices and you will never own your games. No second hand. No lending games. Just pay up every month more and more. 

Dreamcast introduced paid online.

Also, your remarks regarding raising prices and not owning your games.. you mean exactly like Nintendo did with the online expansion, and what Sony is doing with the new PS+? You gotta pay more on both just to have access to certain titles, which aren’t available outside the services, and are only accessible with a subscription. It’s funny how the doomsday scenario some here are preaching for MS, already exists with the other two. 

Dreamcast did not introduce paid online. You paid for connecting to an access point through dial up, just like phoning anyone else back in the day. They basically acted as an ISP providing access points to dial in to.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/dreamcasts-online-pricing/1100-2465476/
Japanese gamers will pay five yen (about four cents) per minute without any membership fee.

MS introduced paying for using your internet you already paid for, added the membership fee...