If You Had The Choice To Make PSN Charge Money, Would You?

As a player would you for some higher quality features? Would it be worth it in your opinion?

I don't think so unless paying for higher quality online could prevent hacking....

Depends. Will I get some of the money?

You mean turn it into XBL? Why would anyone with a brain or at least half of one want Sony to charge for P2P? To make P2P gaming better? LOL.

PSN is fine the way it is. P2P and normal functionality free. Bells and whistles optional with PSN+. Thats the way it should be. Not have everything held ransom like XBL. Its not really optional when when your basic right is taken away and put in the optional package. Sadly, this generation of children in NA arent as bright as the ones from Europe and Asia.

Nope, it's already free, so if they start charging, I will not pay. EliteM0nk3y

Same here..WHy in the world would I pay for something that SHOULD BE FREE??? Having to pay to play your already 60$ game online is like having to pay extra to have tires on your new car. Its just ignorant..

No...

only if I'll get something out of it, or a better service.... I already think xbl is a pos, and wont be paying for it much longer if I cant find any decent deals online to renew my account.

Yes absolutely!! If it were promised to be on the level of LIVE then YES...I have both and pay for LIVE and PSN Plus. I would trade the useless demos and minis for LIVE like features in a heartbeat. I don't play the free arcade games and find Qore useless so I regret paying for Plus as it is but would gladly continue to pay if it added LIVE like features instead.

And it's just not about the playing on line, which obviously you have to pay for on LIVE but its all the other features and functionality on LIVE that makes the fee worth it. Once I jump on PSN I immediately miss these features and IMO would gladly pay for them. PSN is free and that is fine and may be great for some people but I been spoiled by LIVE and its seamless integration into the system and not each game individually and I don't mind paying.

Hey you could also get cable over the air for free but if you want more than 13 channels you will have to pay and LIVE can be had for $40 a year better than $40 a month like everyone makes it out to be.

honestly? PSN is fine... ;)

why would I want to pay for PSN just to have a couple of useless features like cross-game chat that I will never use?

I'd only ever opt for paying for the online service if it meant that I'd get dedicated servers for all my games. Otherwise, I'd rather keep it free.

As a player would you for some higher quality features? Would it be worth it in your opinion?

I don't think so unless paying for higher quality online could prevent hacking....

ps3wizard45

Yes absolutely!! If it were promised to be on the level of LIVE then YES...I have both and pay for LIVE and PSN Plus. I would trade the useless demos and minis for LIVE like features in a heartbeat. I don't play the free arcade games and find Qore useless so I regret paying for Plus as it is but would gladly continue to pay if it added LIVE like features instead.

And it's just not about the playing on line, which obviously you have to pay for on LIVE but its all the other features and functionality on LIVE that makes the fee worth it. Once I jump on PSN I immediately miss these features and IMO would gladly pay for them. PSN is free and that is fine and may be great for some people but I been spoiled by LIVE and its seamless integration into the system and not each game individually and I don't mind paying.

Hey you could also get cable over the air for free but if you want more than 13 channels you will have to pay and LIVE can be had for $40 a year better than $40 a month like everyone makes it out to be.

CBCstillmatic

Yeah I think they should charge for it so that the costs are paid by those who use it. As it is now I pay for things I don't want. It's a socialist system that I think is unfair.Sushiglutton

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So wrong.

nobody wants to be charged for services other platforms get for free.

So no. What kind of question is this?

No, I wouldn't nickel and dime consumers into paying for something that has always been free and should stay that way.

No, it's fine the way it is.

[QUOTE="Sushiglutton"]Yeah I think they should charge for it so that the costs are paid by those who use it. As it is now I pay for things I don't want. It's a socialist system that I think is unfair.iAtrocious

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So wrong.

If they added universal cross game invites and a party system, sure. Also make their community managers step it up and have their policy enforcement team interact more directly with the community. I'd also want more outreach programs to parent groups and legislators.

...then maybe I'd pay.

No. All I care about is playing games online, couldn't care less for cross game chat, party chat, or anything like that.

You mean turn it into XBL? Why would anyone with a brain or at least half of one want Sony to charge for P2P? To make P2P gaming better? LOL.

PSN is fine the way it is. P2P and normal functionality free. Bells and whistles optional with PSN+. Thats the way it should be. Not have everything held ransom like XBL. Its not really optional when when your basic right is taken away and put in the optional package. Sadly, this generation of children in NA arent as bright as the ones from Europe and Asia.

vkun

You mean turn it into XBL? Why would anyone with a brain or at least half of one want Sony to charge for P2P? To make P2P gaming better? LOL.

PSN is fine the way it is. P2P and normal functionality free. Bells and whistles optional with PSN+. Thats the way it should be. Not have everything held ransom like XBL. Its not really optional when when your basic right is taken away and put in the optional package. Sadly, this generation of children in NA arent as bright as the ones from Europe and Asia.

vkun

[QUOTE="CBCstillmatic"]

Yes absolutely!! If it were promised to be on the level of LIVE then YES...I have both and pay for LIVE and PSN Plus. I would trade the useless demos and minis for LIVE like features in a heartbeat. I don't play the free arcade games and find Qore useless so I regret paying for Plus as it is but would gladly continue to pay if it added LIVE like features instead.

And it's just not about the playing on line, which obviously you have to pay for on LIVE but its all the other features and functionality on LIVE that makes the fee worth it. Once I jump on PSN I immediately miss these features and IMO would gladly pay for them. PSN is free and that is fine and may be great for some people but I been spoiled by LIVE and its seamless integration into the system and not each game individually and I don't mind paying.

Hey you could also get cable over the air for free but if you want more than 13 channels you will have to pay and LIVE can be had for $40 a year better than $40 a month like everyone makes it out to be.

ianuilliam

Listen I am not alone in thinking this. All of my friends that also have both systems hate playing on line on PSN. They all also think LIVE is on another level than PSN. PSN is barely where LIVE was on the original XBOX but hey if your ok with that cause it is free then all the power to you. The TC asked a question and I answered, I have both and decided to share my opinion on both. I personally like how it feels like Microsoft built the 360 and the dashboard all around LIVE. PSN feels like an after thought on the PS3. The only reason PSN can compare to LIVE is because it is free, they know they can't offer the junk set up they have now and ask you to pay for it. It goes for everything, messages take longer to send/receive, game invites take longer to send/receive. Everything I download on PSN takes longer to download then I have to wait for it to install. I can download a demo on both systems, have it finish and play it on the 360 before its even done installing on the PS3. Its the things like this other than the cross game chat and other features people bring up that make LIVE worth it to me.

So the question was would I pay if it added features and were more polished and yes I would, I can't complain about PSN since it is free, and I am not trying to complain, but compared to LIVE it isn't on the same level. That is exactly what LIVE is to me compared to PSN, more features and more polished. LIVE is better integrated into the dashboard and I like that.

Everyone is going to feel different on the subject but I can only speak how I feel and all I know is that when I play a game on LIVE then jump over to PSN, PSN feels very lacking in all departments. I personally don't mind paying for what LIVE offers and even after having both I still feel LIVE is worth the fee and would gladly pay the same for PSN if they brought it up to LIVE's level, IMO of course

CBCstillmatic

messages take longer to send/receive, game invites take longer to send/receive.

Yes, if I had a choice between free and being charged, I would be charged.

Wait, reverse that.

If they expanded a lot on the service I wouldn't mind paying for it. Especially if they added stuff like cross-game chat, a party system, and some other things.

You mean turn it into XBL? Why would anyone with a brain or at least half of one want Sony to charge for P2P? To make P2P gaming better? LOL.

PSN is fine the way it is. P2P and normal functionality free. Bells and whistles optional with PSN+. Thats the way it should be. Not have everything held ransom like XBL. Its not really optional when when your basic right is taken away and put in the optional package. Sadly, this generation of children in NA arent as bright as the ones from Europe and Asia.

[QUOTE="CBCstillmatic"]

lasseeb

messages take longer to send/receive, game invites take longer to send/receive.

Yeah thanks for handling this so maturely and getting so defensive over a console. I love my PS3 and if I had to choose only one console to keep I would choose it over my 360 but doesn't change the fact PSN is inferior to LIVE in every way. I don't make things up as I have better things to do in life than try to start arguments on an Internet board. I was simply sharing my opinion and in no way was trying to bash my PS3 just offering my comparison of it to LIVE since I do have both. For anyone that don't believe it my gamertags are LIVE- aKa DaSh1zn1t and PSN- aKa_DaSh1zn1t if you want to check(replace the 1 with i, website kept censoring the name).

I have both because my PS3 doubles as my Blu-ray player and I have many friends that only have a PS3 and many that only have a 360 and many that have both as well. My fiance's brother I play NHL 11 with and anytime he sends me a message he ends up calling me before I get it wondering why I don't answer him back. I have also been on the phone with him and he sends me a game invite and literally don't get it till 30 seconds later. Maybe it is his connection or something but I never experienced that on LIVE. But of course this can't be true and I must be lying cause it was the one thing you disagreed with from my post.

I don't see this being so far fetched to believe cause I am the only person I know of out of all my friends who cannot enter a clan tag on Black Ops. Tells me its denied do to prohibited text no matter what I enter. Not one of my friends believes me on that either because they have no issues. So just because you don't experience something doesn't mean that I don't either. So again thanks but I am not making anything up. Not sure what my grandmother nor superman has to do with anything at all either other than show your lack of maturity.

if it was the exact same service as xbl i would pay for it.

psn bugs me, everytime i'm on there it's like amateur night.

i played resistence 2 co-op with a friend the other night and it was not horrible or anything but it was just kind of second rate and annoying.

after a 20 min update i had to scroll through a list to find the game he made since it has no invite directly in and the audio quality is poor.

like i said it was not broken, just y'know... primitive.

[QUOTE="vkun"]

You mean turn it into XBL? Why would anyone with a brain or at least half of one want Sony to charge for P2P? To make P2P gaming better? LOL.

PSN is fine the way it is. P2P and normal functionality free. Bells and whistles optional with PSN+. Thats the way it should be. Not have everything held ransom like XBL. Its not really optional when when your basic right is taken away and put in the optional package. Sadly, this generation of children in NA arent as bright as the ones from Europe and Asia.

WilliamRLBaker

ya, you ghet watz you pay forz.

If PSN starts charging money for more features, that's fine, as long as they leave the essentials (online play, marketplace, trophies) free.

Oh, wait, they've already done this. It's called PSN+.

@TC

It depends on the cost. If Sony would like to charge me $20 a year to improve certain features, I'll buy into it. But $60 bones a year!? That's too much for me.

[QUOTE="vkun"]

You mean turn it into XBL? Why would anyone with a brain or at least half of one want Sony to charge for P2P? To make P2P gaming better? LOL.

PSN is fine the way it is. P2P and normal functionality free. Bells and whistles optional with PSN+. Thats the way it should be. Not have everything held ransom like XBL. Its not really optional when when your basic right is taken away and put in the optional package. Sadly, this generation of children in NA arent as bright as the ones from Europe and Asia.

WilliamRLBaker

How so? I just log on, join a game and play.

No. PSN is fine how it is.

No, it's fine as is.

Yes, because as it is right now it is much worse than Xbox Live.