It is annoying that we would have to play for MP, but I mean, you could have expected that sooner or later. And like many others said, we get several free games yearly.
I keep a pretty tight gaming budget. For my more recent previous consoles, I own 31 Wii games and 36 Gamecube games. A number of those were gifts, and amongst the games I did buy for myself, a lot of them were purchased used or after the price had dropped. I count 8 games on the Wii that I bought when it first came out, but it also took me over a year to get my hands on one, so during the Wii's life that puts me under two new games a year. When there aren't any games I want to buy at launch but I am in need of games, I delve into older games to pick up on a budget.
At 64 games a year the games you get with PS+ are basically ~80 cents a piece. And if it has a seven year lifespan that's ~448 games.
Also, PSN downloads are notoriously slow. Paid online reduces this problem.
One of the reasons I really enjoyed my PS3 was that online mulitplayer was free on PSN.
Now that it's going to cost money I'll probably just stick with PC for my online multiplayer.
I might still buy a PS4 for local multiplayer. I wish more PC games would have local multiplayer so I'd have no reason to buy a console.
Truly dissapointed that there hasn't been more of an outcry from Playstation fans over this.
There was so much outcry over XBone's mistakes that it seems Sony got a pass on this one.
Either way, ps4 users will have to pay in order to have online accessibility.
Do we need to pay for multiplayer on the XB1?
why everyone against the "Free" idea?
if it goes to most people react here, it just FIVE FVCKING DOLLA YOU CHEPP BA$TAD, then if it's cheap why not making it FREE AT ALL?
unlike PC, consoles get their money not just from the machine, but also from the games.
it's weird that if those games which already had multiplayer mode only can be access when you buy another ONLINE pass
do you pay steam so you can play your games online? (assuming you also play on PC mostly online)
did you pay them so you can access it to buy a games?
Nope.
not a single cent, unless you buy something from them.
even more stupid when you divide it into each day/hour/minute.
yeah it just FIVE DOLLAR, how much if there's a million subscriber, it's 5 MILLION DOLLAR A MONTH.
it's clearly a clever way to make easy cash, even assume they didn't have a million subscriber money is money.
stop saying a cent like isn't worth anything.
Don't play online games if going online is to expensive for you.
Well that or spend less money on stupid shit and save up more.