What are your thoughts on online subscriptions?

What are your thoughts on online subscriptions?

Literally cancer shit

Its just natural to pay them Goy.

PS+ used to have good or goodish games. But for almost a year, the monthly games aren't noteworthy. I re-subbed for three months to play Bloodborne online, but I can't be arsed to pay anymore. I rather finish my backlog on the ps3.
The few games I wanted to finish after my sub, I bought at a sale.

It's okay now that nintendo is doing it too.

>spend 300 dollars for a console

>buy a bunch of 60 dollar games

>need an additional 20 dollars every 3 months to play online

i fucking hate these faggots

PSN is trash
Xbox Live is less trash
Steam is a terrible service but at least they don't charge you

It's fucking retarded.
I'm a poorfag and having to pay to play my games that i paid for is beyond okay.

that being said, sometimes the "free" games make it worth it.
I really enjoyed Tale From the Boarderlands, and my ps3 backlog is massive from the psn+ games alone.

>Buy ps+ subscription to play overwatch
>under the presumption that paying means I'll be playing on dedicated servers from Sony
>tfw peer to peer
>tfw get ddos'd out of game for winning by some script kiddie

>Charging users for things they're already paying for

Did the same. At least xbl has good games and the 360 ones work on xbone. I think 360 ones work on a 360 still after gold expires.

I don't care. If you're not retarded, you wait for sales and get them for cheap. Would it be better without them? Yes. But they're not going away.
>durr just play on PC!
but what if I want to play multiplats with more than 20 people at once? What if I don't like ASSFAGGOTS and counter strike? The only thing left for me then is MMOs. Luckily I like all those things but I can easily see why people play on console.

If you don't like the sub fee, don't fucking pay them. "but I want to play online!" then pay it, you faggot, or buy the game on PC and play with 20 people.

It's like the cost of one full game annually poorfag. It's literally pennies every day.

>Sony fanboys used to give shit to Xbox owners for paying for online
>Now they defend it just as vehemently

i don't mind it so much when you get like 6 games a month and a bunch of additional discounts on digital games like PSN, but i really wish it didnt involve using online games. wish ps+ was just an additional subscription that you pay for to get discounts and monthly games.

Good goy keep eating shit while we will be taking your shekels.

sony fanboi here. I do not defend this shit.

No way in hell, I already pay way to much to my ISP to let Sony / Microsoft and soon Nintendo to double dip. Fuck all of them, I'll keep my multiplayer games to my PC.

I've never payed monthly for PSN/XBL or any MMO so far and don't have plans to.

I'm hoping to get a PS4 some time this year but all the free games that PS+ gives you are ones I don't want to play and I don't care about my friend nagging me to join his GTA Online game either.

i should of just gotten a pc so i could atleast pirate games without getting my system locked

i don't subscribe to ps+

i hate them, but people are stupid enough to pay for them so i guess for the companies is stupid not to charge for the online

>having to pay 20 extra dollars to play a online only game

fucking why

This.
If you were actually buying a service it would be worth paying for, even if it's pretty scummy not to have a classic server browser/LAN support on the side.
But to pay for P2P online? Truly, consolefags are cucked.

Just an excuse to pay for internet twice. Not like Microsoft or Sony uses the money for better servers

They should pull an Amazon Prime and have all pre-orders have a 20% off, then maybe they'll actually be worth using.

Microsoft has several hundred thousand servers powering xbox live. Sony just rents out servers and is generally unreliable.

I have a free three months code sitting in my inbox that I'm waiting for a reason to use. It's probably been closer to two years--probably going to end up using it right before it expires, sometime in 2019.

can we just talk about how fucking awful Ps4 is as a platform in general. i've never had such a terrible fucking experience. why is every menu and system and error message cobbled together so fucking amateurishly, why does it crash so often anyway, why does it feel more like chinese bootleg software than anything from a huge company, why is the hardware so weak, why are the loading times so fucking atrocious, why can't you open multiple "apps" and game at the same time, can you even use the music player and play a game? why is it such a step back in functionality from the x360, which was 10+ years ago? why are the games so fucking expensive, why does nothing come out except what sony has to pay for, why do they have such rabid fantards that even lower themselves to praising complete dogshit like Horizon when everyone can see its generic garbage with ugly graphics, why is Bloodborne still the only system seller when its just dark souls in permanent blight town mode, why is the store so dead, shouldn't there be tons of smaller indie games coming out all the time, just, any games at all? please? didn't they make some marketing stink about how down they are with indieshit?

fuck i hate this big useless paperweight.

This is the one thing I like about Xbox One. You can have several apps open (and now easily switched with the new guide overlay) and still keep your game running.

oh i didn't get to security

why is sony always spilling my personal information, why is their security so bad? why are they always getting hacked or brought down, how in god's name, having never had any accounts stolen in my life ever, did i lose access to my PlayStation account, THE VERY NEXT DAY after getting one? why did the CS guy sound so confused when another random email address had mysteriously taken control of my account with apparent 0 effort?

It makes me angry that we would still have free online if people had a bit more self control. There were plenty of opportunities to stop this.

Console cucks love getting cucked as always

Keep paying for P2P lmao

Total scam.

It's the reason I no longer buy consoles or even pay attention to them.

Not defending paid online but the extra $500 you spent on your PC isn't much different in total sum costs

well thank microshits for making it ok

>the extra $500 you spent on your PC isn't much different in total sum costs

Except it is

A PC does more than a console. Most people are going to own one regardless of owning a console, so paying a bit extra for one that can play games isn't really an extra expense.

$1000 Gaming PC vs $1900 console + Mac Book

Free games are good

>"10 (ten) Microsoft Points have been added to you account"

>psn/xbox $60/year
>new tower upgrades coming a few months out the year $300/year

>buy ps3
>buy ps vita
>pirate both consoles
>fuck sony
>retarded fanboys forced to pay extra to support their greedy jewish practices
Hahahahaha, want a better joke than this
>ps+
>free games

>why does it crash so often anyway
It doesn't
>why is the hardware so weak
It's the most powerful current-gen console
>why are the loading times so fucking atrocious
Almost every game loads faster on the PS4 than Xbox One
>why can't you open multiple "apps" and game at the same time
Why would you want to? It just results in apps like HBOGO on PS4 running faster than HBOGO on Xbox One. Xbox One version drops frames in transitions and animations, takes longer to populate lists and UI elements, images, etc.
>its generic garbage with ugly graphics
Games are even uglier and more generic on Xbox One
>why is Bloodborne still the only system seller
It's the only current gen console with a system seller, every other console's best games are on other platforms.
> i hate this big useless paperweight.
The Xbox One is larger and even more useless

PS4 has issues but it's the best of a bad generation. I own all 3 current gen consoles and the other two are somehow even worse than the PS4, it's crazy.

>pirating both
>free online on both
:^)

$50 a year is fucking nothing.

Anyone who has a problem with that is a poorfag.

>spend 100 dollars for a used console
>buy a bunch of 10 dollar used AAA games
>need an additional 50 dollars every year to get 70+ free games
fixed

Yes and free games too, what's not to like? :^)

It's cheap if you have a job, but it's still an incredibly scummy and bullshit subscription. They should make it that activating the plus only gives you the discounts and the "free" games, but no, they gotta be jews about it

They made me ditch multiplayer games for good, not that I was really into them to begin with.

Can you send me $50 a year to my paypal account. I mean, $50 is nothing right?

sent

PS+ was good before the PS4 launched.
Now it's shit.

Yeah you should just stick with consoles user

Steam has the best model so far. PSNow is pretty good too for pc gamers if you have a good connection. PSN and Live are literally cancer.

This. The Instant Game Collection was decent when it launched, they had more games per month and even added extra games for E3, it was a cheap rental system.

>Can't even play something as simple as PPT without having plus
It's fucking awful.

I dislike that it costs money but it's a trivial cost to me. I actually pay for both XBL and PS+ currently, might end up paying for Switch online too but based on my experience with MK8D probably not.

I let mine expire. I don't even play online and the free games are shit.

I honestly wouldn't mind that much if it wasn't getting worse and worse all the time.

I hate it.

Dogshit. PS+ can fuck itself.
I've never payed a subscription for online before and I never will.
I have enough bills to pay, kill yourselves game devs.

If I recall correctly it's still decent on PS3, but it's shit on PS4 because there's not enough old-ish AAA games to put on it, so they always resort to some obscure indie game every month

I like it, I have PS4, PS3 and psvita and free games are fun to explorer.

Fuck no I dont defend that shit

But it started with Microsofts jewery.

>Free
>If you stop paying the subscription you can't play them anymore.
It's not free, dumbass.

What regard upgrades their pc multiple times a year.

Don't like it but I like to play online so I have to pay for it. Hate that the ps+ disount only applies to some games that are on sale instead of anything that is discounted. At least that would help "cover" the cost. The free games they've been giving out recently are half assed.

Are we not just pulling shit out our ass?

Fucking retards here, how else are they gonna keep the servers up-to-date? maintain the servers.. etc

>ddos
>on ps4
that works?

they don't host game servers though

You'd have a point if they did, but it's all P2P

This. We all should be charged a standardized fee for each individual company in order to play the Call of Duty games online and even the hottest EA releases. How else will they be able to keep their servers up to date?

>servers
>every game since the 360 its peer to peer
>download from official "stores" its peer to peer 99% of the time
sure thing , servers my ass

gay and fake

And yet their games are all p2p

>game is also more expensive
>battleborn still costs money
>evolve still costs money
>they all require ps+ on top

ps4 is not for multiplayer games

The games were god tier when it was an OPTIONAL subscription. Why do things always go bad in this world?

I was fully expecting those games to hit ps plus just so they can shill the dlc.

>It's a 'PSN subscription required to download this demo episode'
Video games are going to shit

If I have to pay for online play then I'd better be getting some nice games as a bonus. Sometimes I get something good but not often. I can say after getting REmake for free that I have no idea what anyone likes about any iteration of Resident Evil.

Fucking Nintendo giving me temporary demos holy shit fuck off. I guess their service will be cheaper than PSN's though.

Gamers are one of the worst demos when it comes to having standards as consumers.

I got it while I was playing Bloodborne but there hasn't been a game to make me want to renew it.

This. I know most of them are kids but you'd be surprised by how many adults are glad to throw their at the next big shiny thing.

I agree. It's only fair.

Online subscriptions as in MMO subscriptions, services like humble monthly, or having to pay to be allowed use your own internet like OP pic?
The former two are fine, latter is ridiculous.