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Fuck you, Sony.

My point is that people cry and bitch and moan any time a price goes up. Regardless of the rate, frequency, or compared to inflation rates. 

And that gamers are the loudest, whiniest, most entitled group out there. I've never seen a collective so bitchy about literally everything relative to how little they understand the market. 

I do think the hike is too much, I do dislike it, but Sony's right in that I'll keep paying it. Because it's still worth it. The amount of joy and delight I get out of the service is worth the measly 80 bucks a YEAR or whatever. 

Business is a delicate balancing act. No matter the company, no matter the market, the goal is always to raise prices as high as they can get away with, and once that price point gets them to a point where the audience begins to fall off, that's the sweet spot they'll stick to. It's economics 101 and psychology 101. Really basic stuff but people still whine and cry and complain about it literally every time it happens regardless of whether it makes sense or not. 

Like when games went up to 60 or 70 bucks. If you factor in inflation it should be higher, ESPECIALLY if calculating from the 90s where some games were 80-90 bucks already. Nobody cares about that. They just see the number go up and act outraged about it. And I find it pretty sad and pathetic. 

And what world are you living in where Sony got 'spanked' by microsoft? Microsoft had ONE good presentation in three years, that's not a spanking that's a very brief respite from the beating they've been getting. These imaginary narratives just don't match up with the reality the rest of us are living. 

I forgot that on consoles, you guys pay to play online.

That is one example were MS started and the market applauded, Sony put their beta with PS+ on PS3 (but charging just for the discount purchase and "free games") seeing that people didn't really care about it, but once MP was locked under it them subs exploded. It is totally greedy from all 3 platform holders but after market accepted it became a lost fight.

Eh . Xband and SEGANET preceded XBL.

While I don't think they backtrack on the price hike or even reduce it, (I think they should cut the increase in half) they are getting a lot of negativity now. Usually on Playstation's blog page they get 2-10 messages on most of the stories they post, on the playstation + essential updates they usually get 75-100 or so posts about it. 24 hours after posting this update it already has 784 posts and counting with 99% of them negative.

Did they charged for Multiplay? And well neither were very big or widespread.

I dont understand this shit, the timing is fucking weird with their competition releasing a big hyped game.

I am glad i only buy 3 months sub when i fell i want to play some games...