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You've said multiple times that different services don't have you pay to play online. That's a really good point; just use those services instead. Play your games on PC, play your games on PS3, play your games on your phone; show Sony that you really care about a free online model by not buying their system and not paying for PS+.

The fact of the matter is Microsoft had another source of revenue with Xbox Live that allowed it to upgrade the Xbox UI and the dashboard through many iterations and it helped fund a lot of other projects involved with the 360 and presumably the Xbox One. Sony's getting a new source of revenue to improve the infrastructure of Playstation Network and make it a much better service. Hell, if they spend all that money improving the download speed on the Playstation Network, I'd gladly pay for it.

If we were talking about the current structure of Xbox Live, I would agree with you wholeheartedly. But Playstation Plus isn't JUST for the sake of playing games online. It's for the sake of getting discounts on games on three different platforms, or even getting access to those games at much less than the cost of actually playing them. Playstation Plus is a real value as a service and the paid multiplayer model just seems like a way for Sony to make sure the positives of PS+ can keep rolling with that revenue stream.

You are not entitled to play video games online, that is not some human right that Sony is taking away from you. It's the way they're deciding that their service works and if it's that much of a deal breaker for you, don't buy the Playstation 4 and don't buy PS+. Play your multiplayer games where they're free; that's what I do. Sony's doing as much as they can to ease the blow of paying for multiplayer on PS4 and they're going to use that extra revenue to make the Playstation 4 and PS+ an even better service than it is now.