I game more on my pc via steam and sometimes other platforms, but I've never had to pay anything to use any online service to play online. As we all know consoles are a different case. Why does it cost money to play online on consoles? Remember when psn was free? What happened?
Why does it cost money to play online on consoles
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Grand Conde
Superstar
Companies like money.
basketball reasons
All Star
cuz console users let them
There is enough value here that it doesn't really matter anymore IMO.
There was an argument when XBL was first introduced, but rolling out that network back in 2001/2002 was NOT cheap. The fact that I was playing on the internal beta of XBL back in 2001 and work as well as it did was incredible...one of the few times in where a console infrastructure was much better than anything on the PC.
I don't think many people know, but if you were in the first rounds of the beta you could actually connect to XBL with dialup speeds, but only worked well if you were relatively close to the other connection or playing ghosts and shyt in something like PGR.
There was an argument when XBL was first introduced, but rolling out that network back in 2001/2002 was NOT cheap. The fact that I was playing on the internal beta of XBL back in 2001 and work as well as it did was incredible...one of the few times in where a console infrastructure was much better than anything on the PC.
I don't think many people know, but if you were in the first rounds of the beta you could actually connect to XBL with dialup speeds, but only worked well if you were relatively close to the other connection or playing ghosts and shyt in something like PGR.
Price u pay for them dedicated servers 
Cause it costs money to build an online environment and maintain servers.
where's the value for people that only want to play a couple online games?
I think how tightly everything is integrated is a great value to people. No other layers to potentially worry about "UPLAY, GFWL, etc". Netflix/Amazon/Hulu/Vudu apps right in the store-front as well.
Remember as much as we love steam some people even find that daunting. The free games + tight integration is well worth the $5 a month or so you pay once you renew for a year imo.
u get free games monthly so i cant complain. the fact that sony charges more now is what i dont agree with. psnetwork has come a long way but its still needs some catching up to do with xbl.
microsoft started that bullshyt
I'm saying what value does it have for someone that just wants to play Madden? and people that aren't interested in the 'free' games?
firemanBk
The Manslayer
Cause gamers were fukking idiots last gen and we're like 'yeah, I'll pay for XBL cause it's way better than PSN' instead of calling Microsoft out on their bullshyt. Now, we're stuck with having to pay for online for every system as all the console companies would be idiots not to charge after the success of XBL
