How does Steam do it?
Subscription doesn't include game servers by the way, so you don't pay for them, and game publishers always take them down after a certain amount of years.
PS3 was 14 years for me. Bought in 2010 with BFBC2 as my main game, and now EA shut the servers down.
If PS3 had had these current subscriptions, it would have cost me additional 1000€.
Generally console costs around 600€ and the lifecycle costs from subscriptions is 1000€ which is just insane. If the console itself was free, then the subscription would make sense.
My use for a console would be basically playing CoD or...
There's an easy fix...
...Stop charging a subscription to play online.
Immediately MS will have a marketable reason for people to flock from Sony's Playstation network to Microsoft's Xbox network. Furthermore, it shouldn't be as painful for MS...
Said $9.99/month on Sony website.
Still doesn't change the situation; at $80/year I would've been ripped $1040 just for access rights to Battlefield. $1360 if I had bought the PS3 closer to release instead of 2010.
See my post above https://hardforum.com/threads/rumour-ps5-pro-dev-kit-prototypes-will-be-going-to-1st-party-developers-within-the-next-couple-of-months.2027563/page-2#post-1045841402
$9.99/mo subscription will turn into that, this is a total...
That's why I likely won't get a PS5 to replace my PS3. I just can't stand the idea of being ripped extra 1500 dollars with subscriptions to just get access to a game I own. Lol.
Consoles are for dirty rich people only it seems these days.
$500? Why didn't you count the monthly fees that are required nowadays?
I've had a PS3 since 2010, which now reached the end of it's lifecycle this christmas when Battlefield servers were shut down.
If it had these current mandatory...
Counter-measures for the stutter caused by CCD jumping are relying totally on software like Xbox Game Bar. Some have to resort to core parking and other shenanigans.
That's just something that I need to check off the list. And with the PS4...