I still remember my first online console gaming experience… Alien Front Online on the Dreamcast. Still not sure how that was an actual thing at that point - the controller even had a little mic module that would slip in where the memory cards went.

Just looked it up - I’m shocked it came out almost 2 full years before Xbox live…

I'm old enough to remember free online gaming that required you to dial into the phone number of the server with your modem. It was a wonderful and glorious time.

I spent $70 for 3 years of gamepass and online play. I'm more than getting my money's worth.

I, too, sleep in a bed, lying down.

Tbh, I'm not only blaming those corps but also the whalers for enabling it. It could have died but people funded it and now here we are. I mean paying subs for servers made sense, then they did game pass, microtransactions and all other stuff, and now it's unplayable for me. Solo games on consoles, and multiple players on PC only if they're worth it. Even with some trash games like CoD, I miss them when they weren't subscription based. I bought CoD Vanguard out of nostalgic and it didn't even take me a week to get turned off by game pass. I regretted it, I tried to have it refunded but I played a bit too longer past refund period.

It sucks so bad. I'm glad I kept my old consoles like n64, ps2, ps3, wii, wii u, GBA SP, DS etc. I still get hooked playing those old games.

I got switch, but only for zelda games, thankfully they haven't mess with those type of games... So far...

Not only the PCMASTERRACE doesn't pay subscription, we also got 20 great games for free over X-mas from Epic, Gog, Indigala and many more.

And if you really want a subscription, Amazon Prime gives you 5-10 games per month for free. Permanently.

If I remenber it well Apple was the first to push the monthly subscription model (not in gaming).

Remember when sony had a few database hacks and all the bootlickers were like "see paid services are better!" Fuckin idiots

The funny thing is that Microsoft also attempted to bring paid online to PC back in the GFWL days and failed.

I think most people accepted Xbox Live being paid due to the fact that online gaming on consoles wasn't all that prominent compared to PC at the time.