@milkman: the inch being online play? this inch has been around since the 90's. how is maintaining something that has been a staple in online gaming "taking a mile"?
Nobody is saying they are entitled to free games or other things ps+ brings to the table. We just want the OPTION to pay for the extras or be able to continue to play online freely (like we have been able to for years).
Do you know how much it costs for one machine to connect to another machines IP address? Nothing. If this was for dedicated servers and all games used that, sure, but the basic online model for console online games has almost always been peer2peer.
Pay to play online shouldn't be enforced. Make it a per-game payment if needed. By this I mean the following: If a game uses dedicated servers, require psn+ for that game. I don't see where people get off by telling others that they need to "shut the fuck up" or "stop being lazy and get a job" when all we are doing is raising a complaint about a monetary change in their marketing system. Online play has been free since 1990's, what magically happened from then that required us to pay twice for online gaming (especially in peer2peer environments). I could care less about the "free" games or whatever other "bonuses" there are, but when I buy a system that offers the ability to play online, I don't want to have to take into consideration that this is another payment I have to dish out for a game I've already purchased on a system I've already purchased using an ISP that I am already paying for. The worst offender is that Nintendo could have garnered some press/support by reinstating the fact that never had any policy regarding the inability to play used games and their system does not require an additional fee to play online. Unfortunately, Nintendo doesn't seem to be right in the head....
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