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Barozi on 04 July 2016

Puppyroach said:
I'm cool with it, I get 3-4 games for free each month, so of course there should be a price tag attached. I do think MS should make MP free for everyone and make free games and discounts the selling point for XBLG.

That would result in a huge decline in quality and/or quantity of the free games though. Unless they double the price.

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Barkley on 04 July 2016

Microsofts Play Anywhere titles with crossplatform multiplayer should NOT require Gold to play online. It's not right that someone on PC can play the game, on the same servers, with the same players and not have to pay while console users do.

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Chazore on 04 July 2016

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Just putting it out there that there are retail chains that require you to have a paid membership before you can use them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%27s_Club

Nightmare fuel be damned. Judging by their history and the general look of their stores, they don't seem to be doing so hot like say McDonalds, Coca Cola or any other popular brands let alone Tesco's or M&S for retail.

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FunFan on 04 July 2016

"pay to maintain the servers"? You mean pay to maintain these companies.

Don't be fooled, Steam has offered a better online experience since 2003 and managed to keep their online services free. That includes a cloud service since 2009. Also, as far as I know, none of their online games have ever been "shut down".

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jardesonbarbosa on 04 July 2016

Paying to play online is ridiculous. Everyone knows that. For some reason console players accepted it and it is what it is now. But PC players already refused it with GFWL. Microsoft can try, but that's a battle they could never win.

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pbroy on 04 July 2016

The same way I feel about having to pay for PS+ in comparison to free to play on PC. It doesn't bother me one bit. I'm also happily enjoying my indie game rentals.

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Puppyroach on 04 July 2016

Barozi said:

Puppyroach said:
I'm cool with it, I get 3-4 games for free each month, so of course there should be a price tag attached. I do think MS should make MP free for everyone and make free games and discounts the selling point for XBLG.

That would result in a huge decline in quality and/or quantity of the free games though. Unless they double the price.

Maybe, but I'm not to sure the number of subscribers would decline so rapidly.

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Culipechi on 04 July 2016

I still cant believe people pays psn and live to play online.

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V-r0cK on 04 July 2016

Free LIVE, free remasters. PC is getting it good this gen :P

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Peh on 04 July 2016

I'm not that much into all these gaming server stuff nowadays so excuse my ignorance.
But isn't the difference that console online servers are provided by Microsoft for the Xbox where as the PC online servers are mostly custom servers made by random people?
There are obviously exceptions like Sim City, Diablo 3, The Devision and so on where it aims for MMO.

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