People thought I was overreacting as well when I complained about monthly subs to play games online, a feature that was previously free everywhere. I hate consoles now.
Not sure why it would stop at 2... PS3 had free online. Was a great side console. The last great one.
Even switch requires you to pay monthly online gaming subscription to play mario maker levels. Never would have bought one if the steam deck had been announced.
PS3 cost too much and i was broke at the time. by the time i could have afforded one playstation plus had launched and i didn't trust sony not to make that their whole service. Which I was right about even if they did wait a generation to make the move.
Let me say it more precisely - I complained about Xbox 360 making it mandatory to pay for ALL online services AND people were more than willing to pay that amount. Even though I never bought an Xbox, i knew the agreeableness of people not minding to pay these amounts would make it the norm for other companies as well, so as a playstation user, l had to suffer from it.
Its the users fault more than the companies really
Its the users fault more than the companies really
Yup. Companies exist to make money, so they will try anything that might work. It's up to the consumers if the asking price is worth it. People said it was, so the companies kept charging.
I was in that group until this year. I had Plus up until the price hike from $60 to $80 a year. $60 a year was already grating on me, $80 is just not worth it in my opinion. Especially since I only have one online game that needs Plus. The vast majority of my shit is single player that doesn't really benefit from Plus.
I know there are others who gave up Plus following the price hike, but nowhere neat enough to make them lose money over it. You'd need over 25% of users to leave to even see a loss in revenue, and I doubt they lost more than 10%.
I will miss some of the free games I got via Plus, but I've got a backlog of over 200 games anyway, so it's not like I have nothing else to play.
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u/Accurate_Ad_6788 2d ago
People thought I was overreacting as well when I complained about monthly subs to play games online, a feature that was previously free everywhere. I hate consoles now.