PS Plus price hike: We'll all pay for a subscription-based future | Opinion

I still wonder why console players allowed their online services to require subscriptions in the first place.

You might pay for a subscription-based future, but I will stay on PC where this sort of nonsense is not tolerated.

just get a shitty computer tbh, worse graphics is fine actually.

I realized the only game I play online is FFXIV, which doesn't require PS+. I almost never play the "free" games they add to the service, and spend a non-zero amount of time browsing said free games in an effort to find something to play rather than something in my backlog. So I just canceled.

My membership is up in December and I doubt I'll even notice when it's gone.

What's the point of PS Plus anyway? What multiplayer games on PS5 cannot be played on PC?

I was going to consider Assassin's Creed Mirage on PC instead of PS5. Then they announced it wouldn't be available on Steam. Now I won't consider it on PC and likely won't get it at all in any format.

There are reasons PC gaming is still stupid, and it's mostly various companies fault.

We're not really headed to a subscription-based future. People like Game Pass, but it has no exclusive content. Nintendo's the only one trying to make a catalog of games exclusive to their service, but they're all retro games, and Nintendo can get bent, because we can all pirate and emulate those games better than Nintendo can rent them to us. They could get be getting some revenue from actually selling those old games to customers in the places they want to play those games, but Nintendo isn't interested in that. If this particular situation gets worse, then I might be worried. There's just too much diversity in the game industry for this to be a threat. There's no central cartel or representative group for games the way there is in movies and music to dictate those markets away from what the customer actually wants. In video games, you can switch to Xbox or, more likely, PC when Sony raises prices. PCs have gotten easier, and they've always been more open, and I think the gaming market has demonstrated that they value the openness.

Nope. I did not subscribe to PS+ and probably never will unless I really want to play an online game there, which I find unnecessary at this point.

Well, not from me. When money's tight, shit like this is the first to go. I have no issues skipping multiplayer on my PS system.

It’s still less expensive than a PC hobby

just with the sales and free online/cloudsaves PCs are cheaper in the long run

And mods are an added value, we can even include fanmade patches that fix what developers don't

Consumers don’t have much say in what these companies do or how they operate.

Yes, they do. Microsoft tried to incorporate Xbox live onto PC and it was a failure because PC consumer didn't bought it

The same goes with paid mods, Valve and Bethesda tried to make people buy mods and it was rejected by the consumer so the have to backtrack.

Consumers have all the power in their wallet they decide the course of the companies. If a company does something that goes against your interests as consumer is as easy as stop giving them money, if you hurt them economically, they'll have to go back to the business model that gave them profits

If you're not paying for it, you're the product.

Wait no... it seems like capitalists will charge for whatever they can get away with. Those bastards!