Country: United States.
State: Pennsylvania.
County: Warren.
I graduated from high school on June-11-2011. I'm 19 right now. I'm turning 20 in December. I like playing video games, and board games. I like reading Sci-Fi, and World War II novels, and what not.
"There is nothing better in the world than being better at a video game than someone else....oh wait"
Posted by: RighteousTyrant
Yes, we should pay to play games online, because doing so requires hardware and other resources that we do not provide ourselves.
Aren't the game developers the ones that control the servers though? For example EA shut down the servers to some of their games and Sega shut down the ones for Chromehounds. So if that's the case we are paying to play on servers that PSN gets for free.
If you want free multiplayer, round up some friends for system link.
Even if you are doing that you are still playing half the game. The whole point of MP nowadays is to play online with people.
Well why shouldn't you have to pay for that service?
Let's say I get my Xbox just for entertainment. If I want to use things like Netflix. Not only do I have to pay Netflix a fee, but I also have to have Gold. So I have to pay an extra fee just to use Netflix. Why should that person have to pay for Gold when they are not going to play online?
It doesn't have to be free, but there is no reason why it can't be cut down by half. They made enough money off of it where they are not losing anything major. There are also those adds that give MS money to advertize their things on the dashboard.