Wait so Microsoft has been doing this for years with Live and nobody seemed to care but the moment Sony does it then it's just silly?
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Xbox One or Ps4?
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the difference is that the Xbox line never had free multiplayer, Sony did and now they're axing it
In a world of subscription fees you would be stupid not to. Especially when NOT charging for so long and people STILL gladly paid for Xbox Live... any CFO would be fired for not making the same decision.
A good amount of people bought Playstations over xbox because they didn't require a subscription fee. Its simply one of the perks that to some made it better than Xbox. Now that Xbox's next console has completely bombed it's no surprise this new Sony subscription slipped by smoothly.
Like Fishykitty said, if Xbox was actually doing decent this time around then there would likely be a lot more controversy around the Sony subscription fees.
Regardless its a great money maker without a doubt but it's still a pretty dick move to your loyal customer base.
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Well, not really.
Sony require proper infrastructure to support multiplayer available to us. They need to buy hardware to support their servers (and everything else that comes with it, like the added cost of electricity each month), they need staff that can take care of the hardware and they need support that can help people with related questions to the network of Playstation 4. It's literally a chunk of cash piled on top of their other needed payments.
But also because they are a very happy company right now. With how shitty Xbox is doing (not even their recent "pulling-all-policies" will clean up the entire mess), Sony can literally do anything and most will buy their console. What company (their primary goal is to acquire cash, don't forget) wouldn't want an additional cash cow each month if they were able to?
Also, it's just 5 dollars each month (source: ...my cold tea), it's like one sandwich on the street. Come on mate.
Come on.
You're not that cheap.
...Buy me hot tea instead then, you can get some good quality for 5 bucks.
Couldn't agree more... this is like everyone complaining about Valve charging for Mann Up tickets. Then again there was no reasoning with those people either...
Oh well shit, someone told me it was $15 a month
$5 isn't that bad then. Still I'd prefer it without it but it could be worse and not much more that I can do other then QQ.
Plus you know.. the PS4 is 100$ cheaper than the xbox so Sony is probably selling it at a lose and have to get their money from PS+
