The complaint is that online on PC is free like it should be, not this ridiculous $80/year bullshit that console manufacturers can lock you into their ecosystem and force you to do.
If I’m paying $80/year for a service that’s free on an already better platform, you’d better believe that it going down for this long (or basically at all) would be totally unacceptable.
Peak copium that WoW = PC, meanwhile staring at thousands of online games that can be played online completely for free. Didn’t realize the PSN fee was only for a very select few online games of a specific genre which I can actively avoid.
Peak copium that wow is the only pc game that charges to play like you all aren’t the original home of the WHALE gamer. On top of all that bitching about being locked in to gaming ecosystems and you all are essentially stuck with fucking Microsoft. I’m gonna go have some fun on my paid PSN subsription now.
You all are essentially stuck with fucking Microsoft
Who’s “you all”? I don’t even use Windows, you goof, and all of my games play trivially and excellently. You’re the one stuck with a massive, shitty corporation, not me. lmfao
For 12+ hours? Literally never, actually, in the 8 years with them (maybe 2 hours at most, maybe 5 total outages ever?), and there isn’t a simultaneously free and better alternative. This fee is just there to gouge; it shouldn’t even exist.
Yes actually that does happen,it’s happened to me. And I pay a hell of a lot more for my internet than I do my PlayStation subscription. And I’ll tell you what my 600$ console that has an$80/year subscription cost me a ton less than a PC I’d need to continuously upgrade so you go cope harder with your little computer you all constantly bitch about having to troubleshoot just to play games anyway.
You all constantly bitch about having to troubleshoot just to play games
Projecting much? lmfao, sorry it’s too hard for you to navigate booting up a computer, installing Steam, downloading a game, and running it, I guess. That daunting task that needs so much troubleshooting.
And besides that, a decent PC is functionally as cheap as a console when you account for online services (I’ve owned my PC for 8 years and then an additional $200 for a CPU replacement that I did of my own volition; at $80 annually, that’s $640 for online services alone, more than doubling the price of your console) and the price of games. The reason your console is cheap at the time of purchase is because it’s a loss leader. For that same amount or possibly even less, you get exactly as much flexibility as you want in everything you do, from the desktop hardware itself, to the peripherals, to the games (overwhelmingly more extensive), to backwards compat (too bad the PS5 isn’t backwards compatible with PS2 games and instead uses trashy, bootleg emulation dressed up as a “port” and sold back to you for $30; I can emulate any game I own for free meanwhile, including PS3 games), to workflow, to OS, to privacy, to look and feel, to online store I use, to software installed, to incremental upgrades. And of course a PC can do a million things a console categorically can’t on top of that; some people don’t live life just to play video games.
If you have kids the fact the system is locked in becomes something of an advantage. MS and Sony are pretty aggressive moderating accounts when it comes to people being inappropriate around kids which is something you can’t get as easily on PC.
The complaint is that online on PC is free like it should be, not this ridiculous $80/year bullshit that console manufacturers can lock you into their ecosystem and force you to do.
If I’m paying $80/year for a service that’s free on an already better platform, you’d better believe that it going down for this long (or basically at all) would be totally unacceptable.
Already better platform? That is seriously subjective statement.
Grow up, life isn’t perfect. You act like your WiFi you’ve paid for has never gone down before.
Projection, who needs to grow up exactly? You are defending something that shouldnt even exist
Tell that to people who play WOW, pretty sure PC players decided subscriptions were ok before console players did.
Peak copium that WoW = PC, meanwhile staring at thousands of online games that can be played online completely for free. Didn’t realize the PSN fee was only for a very select few online games of a specific genre which I can actively avoid.
Peak copium that wow is the only pc game that charges to play like you all aren’t the original home of the WHALE gamer. On top of all that bitching about being locked in to gaming ecosystems and you all are essentially stuck with fucking Microsoft. I’m gonna go have some fun on my paid PSN subsription now.
Who’s “you all”? I don’t even use Windows, you goof, and all of my games play trivially and excellently. You’re the one stuck with a massive, shitty corporation, not me. lmfao
Literally 97%of you.
By choice; they categorically don’t have to be. That’s the entire point.
For 12+ hours? Literally never, actually, in the 8 years with them (maybe 2 hours at most, maybe 5 total outages ever?), and there isn’t a simultaneously free and better alternative. This fee is just there to gouge; it shouldn’t even exist.
Cope harder.
Yes actually that does happen,it’s happened to me. And I pay a hell of a lot more for my internet than I do my PlayStation subscription. And I’ll tell you what my 600$ console that has an$80/year subscription cost me a ton less than a PC I’d need to continuously upgrade so you go cope harder with your little computer you all constantly bitch about having to troubleshoot just to play games anyway.
Projecting much? lmfao, sorry it’s too hard for you to navigate booting up a computer, installing Steam, downloading a game, and running it, I guess. That daunting task that needs so much troubleshooting.
And besides that, a decent PC is functionally as cheap as a console when you account for online services (I’ve owned my PC for 8 years and then an additional $200 for a CPU replacement that I did of my own volition; at $80 annually, that’s $640 for online services alone, more than doubling the price of your console) and the price of games. The reason your console is cheap at the time of purchase is because it’s a loss leader. For that same amount or possibly even less, you get exactly as much flexibility as you want in everything you do, from the desktop hardware itself, to the peripherals, to the games (overwhelmingly more extensive), to backwards compat (too bad the PS5 isn’t backwards compatible with PS2 games and instead uses trashy, bootleg emulation dressed up as a “port” and sold back to you for $30; I can emulate any game I own for free meanwhile, including PS3 games), to workflow, to OS, to privacy, to look and feel, to online store I use, to software installed, to incremental upgrades. And of course a PC can do a million things a console categorically can’t on top of that; some people don’t live life just to play video games.
But you are paying for a sub on top of your WiFi, you dont even have an argument. The fee shouldnt even exist
Grow up.
Projection. Cheer up mate. No reason to defend this so harshly and get this mad over defending a payment structure that shouldnt exist.
If you have kids the fact the system is locked in becomes something of an advantage. MS and Sony are pretty aggressive moderating accounts when it comes to people being inappropriate around kids which is something you can’t get as easily on PC.