Comments on: Is it time to start charging for the PSN?

By: gamer

gamer — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:21:42 +0000

Arn’t the PSN and Xboxlive just glorified match making services? The game hosting (server intensive part) is hosted by one of the players. I could see it being reasonable to charge for a mmo where the servers are hosted by the developers.

By: Mr.Hellrazor

Mr.Hellrazor — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:34:20 +0000

Wow man, you are a complete dumbass. just shut the fuck up JDawGZ. you have no idea what your’re talking about. stop trying to sound smart.

By: kabraal

kabraal — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:22:10 +0000

Sigh, Wow is a game that gets 1GB content patches every couple of months. New content. You can’t compare a game like WoW with a game like COD4. Look at Guild Wars… it’s free… Wow has teams of 100’s of developers constantly working on new content. Do you think COD4 developers does the same or do you think they’re currently in the Bahamas sipping martinis?

I buy four or five games a year. Of those, probably only one or two will really test my interest to go online and play for a couple of months. So either I have to permanently subscribe to Live, or unsubscribe or re-subscribe as I see fit. Either way, it’s BS really.

Now I understand Live has all sorts of gamer cards, Mii’s and I don’t know what other BS gimmicks, but the in general, logging onto a shooter with a advertised multi player component which you just paid R600 for, shooting some people online, should be free.

By: SlippyMadFrog

SlippyMadFrog — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:51:06 +0000

a month? Are you sure mate

By: SlippyMadFrog

SlippyMadFrog — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:50:25 +0000

What about WOW?

By: Insanie

Insanie — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:56:50 +0000

I’m sorry but you are completely missing the point.
No one (Lazy or myself) said it was a bad service. I don’t
have a PS3 so I can’t comment. The point is, by being payed a
fee MS is forced into providing and improving a service.
If they don’t, people don’t use Live and they lose out directly on money.
While Sony may provide a good service that they
update regularly, they don’t have as much of
an incentive to as MS do to keep it updated. There is
no direct financial impact. (Sure indirectly people may stop
buying games etc etc, but I meant directly)

By: megulito

megulito — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:51:20 +0000

i bthink psn free service is great there is no need to pay ps was doin online b4 xbox they find ways to keep it goin and reclaim the cost and alot of servers work better on ps3 because xbox is more peer to peer and ps3 is dedicated server based as each ps3 can be used as a dedicated server

By: baba

baba — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:30:08 +0000

So Mike, what is so wrong with the PSN that you would like to pay for? I play 360 and PS3 online, and I’ve never had a hickup with either. I think the PSN store is MUCH BETTER organized than the Live arcade. The fact that Sony shows us that they can do it for free, and in our own currency must be an embarressment to MS.

BTW, why would delevopers ’skimp’ on their network? Do you think they go:
OK guys, we’ve created a multi million dollar game. I’ve got an idea! Let’s skimp the servers and fcuk all our players!

By: JDAwgZ

JDAwgZ — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:11:13 +0000

My first online experience was on psn and it was Resistance Fall of man, I’ve never experienced Live so i dont know what i’m missing out but simply dont care because the PSN does a good enough job for me, I’ve had my launched 60gb going on 2 years this December. So i can literaly say i have 100.00 in my pockets i have saved for not paying online. I dont think psn should charge for theyre servers and the servers are not crap theyre only problems whenever the game launches, take for example warhawk i’ve logged in like 600 hrs of lag free gameplay well minus the launch problems which were taken care of but other than its been smooth sailing for long time

By: killasouljah

killasouljah — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:37:37 +0000

ok i already pay for internet {broad band} pay for the ps3
bought the 60 dolloar games,pay for extra content online and now you want me to pay for psn!! WOW i think thats a little much, i think thats what makes ps3 much better than 360 because the free service if you take that away, hell i really got an 360 lol.. we pay so muc for all these things anyways
and by making us pay more thats pushin it alot!!!