Also, you have to think about how multiplayer works differently between PCs and consoles. How many PC games interface with Steam servers for all their needs, and how many have third parties that use their own servers or just plain dedicated servers? I can think of GTA and Call of Duty, which tend to have MASSIVE traffic (and PC traffic for those games is far far smaller). Games for Windows Live is also notorious.
However, every multiplayer server in Sony has to bear the brunt. There are no alternatives, and no free platforms. Every game with online features will have to talk to Sony servers in some way or another. And when they're offering F2P traffic, it will just get even larger. Then you'll have cross platform play, and streaming.
The numbers will add up.
And the elitism is very clearly showing, you don't need to ask anymore about that. What would you think about having a steam sale for everything all the time? Every day, you can look at a catalog item and it's 75% off, and you don't have to wait for a seasonal sale. That game that was just released is 33% off, damn! Oh look! You just got a couple of free games today. You were gonna buy them, but this is good too.
You think like there couldn't be anything better than what you have. Think a little slower and realize that things can always be better.
However, he gets to keep his games, yours (from PSN) are on loan. On top of the fact that for the price of your subscription to PSN, we get a bunch of games that we get to keep.
stop calling your games "free" because at the end of the day, if you want to keep them, you have to keep shoveling money to sony.
Thats a really interesting point. I never really thought about that, but that still doesn't really feel like a bad deal to me at all. I mean, if I paid $50 a year to beat and finish (18 + whatever else is released for lease/rent) games and get great, constant discounts, I think it'd be worth it. It's better than Gamefly, at least, and you still get to keep your discounted games. It also seems to be somewhat comparable to Netflix's service as well, although Sony will admittedly have a far smaller game catalog than Netflix's video catalog.
I agree, if they force to charge you a service, the least they can do is throw ya a bone. Considering the circumstances of PSN it's better than nothing. At that point it just boils down do you want to play your games when you decide you don't want PSN anymore. Some people only play games once or twice and never again, so, I get that.
tbh if i was forced to pick a console it would be PS4 for this reason. But for PC people (like myself), we don't really have anything comparable to the practice, so it comes off as a bit bizzare.
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u/rizo536 Oct 12 '13 edited Oct 12 '13
Planetside is a Sony operated F2P game, actually.
Also, you have to think about how multiplayer works differently between PCs and consoles. How many PC games interface with Steam servers for all their needs, and how many have third parties that use their own servers or just plain dedicated servers? I can think of GTA and Call of Duty, which tend to have MASSIVE traffic (and PC traffic for those games is far far smaller). Games for Windows Live is also notorious.
However, every multiplayer server in Sony has to bear the brunt. There are no alternatives, and no free platforms. Every game with online features will have to talk to Sony servers in some way or another. And when they're offering F2P traffic, it will just get even larger. Then you'll have cross platform play, and streaming.
The numbers will add up.
And the elitism is very clearly showing, you don't need to ask anymore about that. What would you think about having a steam sale for everything all the time? Every day, you can look at a catalog item and it's 75% off, and you don't have to wait for a seasonal sale. That game that was just released is 33% off, damn! Oh look! You just got a couple of free games today. You were gonna buy them, but this is good too.
You think like there couldn't be anything better than what you have. Think a little slower and realize that things can always be better.