SvennoJ said:
LudicrousSpeed said:
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... |
Nah, this article is early on, when the DC first started getting online games in Japan I assume. Outside of ChuChu, US got online games around a year after launch. And there was no charge for around a year and a half or so, outside of ISP charges. Then Sega started charging a monthly fee to access their titles online. You could still play third party titles with just the ISP, like Quake and Unreal Tournament. But I was big into NFL2k2 and it required a $10 a month payment to play online.
