Yeah, I had an Xbox for one game (Midtown Madness 3), and played through the trial for live, but never subscribed. I’m not sure if I paid for a month of psn+ during the gta5 launch, but if I did that would have been the only time I’ve put money to play multi-player. Didn’t take the bait for Games for Windows Live garbage either. It would take until the pc release of Halo 3/ODST/Reach/4 for me to play them, even though I badly wanted to play in their prime. Principles and all that. And I was pissed that MS shelved their windows gaming division to milk the Xbox.
On May 16, 2011, Sony announced that two PlayStation 3 games and two PSP games would be offered for free from lists of five and four,† respectively.[75][76] The games available varied by region[75][76] and were only available in countries which had access to the PlayStation Store prior to the outage.[76]
She’s judging the husband for using a Sony product now that they’ve enshittified.
I’ve been annoyed since multi-player became a paid service since the ps3, but it’s nice to finally have some validation. Only took 20 years but…
E: and we can’t forget the rootkit fiasco either
stares lovingly at my PC
You had to pay to play online on Xbox a decade before that. It was free on PlayStation. When they changed it I just stopped playing online.
Yeah, I had an Xbox for one game (Midtown Madness 3), and played through the trial for live, but never subscribed. I’m not sure if I paid for a month of psn+ during the gta5 launch, but if I did that would have been the only time I’ve put money to play multi-player. Didn’t take the bait for Games for Windows Live garbage either. It would take until the pc release of Halo 3/ODST/Reach/4 for me to play them, even though I badly wanted to play in their prime. Principles and all that. And I was pissed that MS shelved their windows gaming division to milk the Xbox.
Same!
And yeah, getting 2 free games for compromising all user data, months before they launch PSN plus with rotating free games… Felt odd…
There were 2 games compromising user data on the ps3? Which ones were those?
No, users were offered 2 (I think?) free games as compensation for the PS3 data breach.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_PlayStation_Network_outage
They enshittified long before the PS5 came out. I think it’s been about two decades since the music CD rootkit scandal, for instance.
Bit late to the party. They got caught infecting their customers’ machines with rootkits back in 2005.
I still cannot believe that no one went to jail over that.
I mean I can, corporations are only people when it results in a positive outcome for them, but still. A fucking rootkit.
I still can’t believe NO ONE GAVE A SHIT