• TheTechnician27
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    3 months ago

    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.

    • @MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world
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      43 months ago

      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.

    • aname
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      -43 months ago

      Already better platform? That is seriously subjective statement.

      • TheTechnician27
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        3 months ago

        For 12+ 20 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.