• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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      14 days ago

      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.

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        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.

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          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.

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        14 days ago

        Tell that to people who play WOW, pretty sure PC players decided subscriptions were ok before console players did.

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          14 days ago

          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.

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            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.

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              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

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      But you are paying for a sub on top of your WiFi, you dont even have an argument. The fee shouldnt even exist