How the fuck are they the ones stealing your money when they actually give you the option of what you want, unlike sony that just throws crap in their console that i dont need or want so they can charge you an arm and a leg.
And how long do you think Sony will keep online play free? when they start charging people for it, PSL or what ever they call it, will fail due the fact that noone wants to play ps3 games for a cost.
COOL, Microsoft is giving us the choice of what we should have in XBox 360?
How nice of them, if I decide I' d rather want a Bluray-player for mine, instead of DVD, or HD-DVD, where can I find it, and how much does it cost?
And noone can tell for certain that Sony means to provide free online gameplay forever.
They have said they will not charge us for online gaming in the forseeable future, they' ve said that some server-intensive games like Massive Multiplayer RPG' s and similar will be charged, however I think XBox is the only platform wich is beeing charged for small-numbered multiplayer games.
I don' t think Sony charged for basic online gaming ever, not on PS2, neither did they do it on PSP. It seems to work for them.
I think that Microsoft gets away by charging for online gaming simply because they do not allow any competition on their platform.
I' m sure just as many people who run Counterstrike servers would run Halo-servers if they had the option to do so, for unmodded xbox' es.
But anyway on 99% of all online console gaming, all the servers do is to:
- Handle Your Stats, Friends list, Clan list, Msg system, and get you into a game wich is usually hosted on the console with the most bandwith.
Many people provides it for free, and as of now, Sony is one of them.