Hotmail's not free?

I'm not talking about hotmail or yahoo or gmail. I'm talking about E-mail accounts hosted by YOUR ISP.

Ha Ha, I don't have one I only use Hotmail

Yes but does your ISP offer the e-mail accounts, mine offers 3, but I didn't bother with them, I use strictly gmail.

Hey, how about this, do you pay to access porn sites???Because if you do, well,  those porn sites are asshats for charging you money to use the internet service you are already paying for.

I know it seems like I'm picking on you, but I am just trying to challenge you to rethink your argument. Paying for XBL is like paying to use a toll highway. You already bought your car, so why should you pay to use it everywhere. Or the netflix argument, "well, I already pay for my internet service, so why should I pay Netflix to stream movies" 

Basically what I am saying is you CANNOT, in all seriousness say that paying for XBL is like paying to use the internet or games you are already using. You are paying for an EXTRA service. I told people earlier not to bring up XBL because it would only start a shitstorm, and the way you have been skirting around my answers tells me you know your argument was flawed. I was hoping people could be civil and just give the amount they would pay, and why...I guess that was just too much to ask.

0.00 if I had a PS3 .... Live is worth -$50 ^_^

I was asking how much you would pay for PSN, I don't care what live is worth to you, I don't care if you don't have a PS3. How much would you pay to use PSN if PSN was not free.

I can't see how Netflix is the same thing as an online game matching service. If you watch a movie, it is obvious you pay in some way (unless torrents of course:)).

Again, the PSN is primarily a store front and a matchmaking service for mainly p2p games. They make plenty of revenue through the purchases of PSN games, movies etc.

Why have a double charge just to get on? Yes XBOX silver is free but game matching should be part of that. It's just criminal.

@ironman: calling someone a hypocrite because they think Netflix should not be free? It's just not the same. No way.

Heck I hate paying for software if I can get a free (or pay what you think it's worth) alternative (OpenOffice, Firefox, and all sorts of other free/open source stuff). Why in the heck would I ever pay for the ability to fully utilise the software I have had to pay a lot of money for? And why would I pay just so I could buy DLC? Online console entertainment/services is just not that important to me.

So it's a big fat zero from me. If PSN was ever to become pay to play I'd just be enjoying single player and local coop action. I'd miss the user generated LBP content though.

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Nothing. I like my PS3 for having free online as I don't use the features PSN offers enough to want to pay for it, no matter how good they are.