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I don't have a PS3 yet, so I can't comment on how good their online service is. With that said, I probably would pay extra for Home. As long as home remained fun, anyway.



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Not at all. I don't care how good the online is, pay to play is ridiculous. You already pay a premium for your console and your games, and now if you wanna use a feature built in to the game you have to pay for it? Naw. This is the main reason why I don't have a 360.



 

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Depends on the price. Anything under 30$ ya.



This subscription is actually for the PS store, so they could get free downloads every month, and they have loads of PS1 games over there.

Back on topic, I would only pay if it was reasonably priced. Anything more than £20 a year and I would not pay, but they will not charge a subscription for the basic online play



Hell no.

I could understand if they offered a premium service with extra features and charged people for it, but to pay just to be able to play online is a definite no-no.

Even if the service was twice as good as XBL and only cost the same, it just wouldn't be a good enough reason for me to pay a monthly subscription.

It's partly because I am cheap, but mostly a matter of basic principle.



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It would likely kill all my interest in the console actually and it has been one of the major selling points over the 360......if I have already purchased the game I am not about to purchase the ability to play online after already paying for my internet access.

It could kill the PS3's chances of a comeback in the US if they try it here, but I doubt that they will.



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I already don't pay $60 a year to hear spoiled 13 year olds call each-other childish names on Xbox Live. Why would I on PSN?

If it's one thing that I've learned from the Wii, it's that, "get a bunch of friends and a couch" multiplayer is much more fun than online multiplayer of any kind. And I can do that for free. :)



"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."

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Garcian Smith said:

I already don't pay $60 a year to hear spoiled 13 year olds call each-other childish names on Xbox Live. Why would I on PSN?

If it's one thing that I've learned from the Wii, it's that, "get a bunch of friends and a couch" multiplayer is much more fun than online multiplayer of any kind. And I can do that for free. :)


 Amen, I think a lot of people don't know what they are missing.  I used to think that kind of multiplayer was lame but its easily the most fun you can possibly have on a console ..at least it is in imo.



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It all depends what content would I get ... nothing else ...



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Garcian Smith said:

I already don't pay $60 a year to hear spoiled 13 year olds call each-other childish names on Xbox Live. Why would I on PSN?

If it's one thing that I've learned from the Wii, it's that, "get a bunch of friends and a couch" multiplayer is much more fun than online multiplayer of any kind. And I can do that for free. :)


I pay $50 a year to chat with my friends in other games, easily jump into friend's multiplayer games, and have it all accessable to me no matter what I am doing on the 360, even watching TV (I use my 360 as a Media Center Extender).  If there is anyone I don't care to hear talk while I am in a multiplayer game, I just mute them.  Simple, easy.

If the PS3 had close to the same, I'd pay for it if my friends were on there.



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