During the Media/Investor conference, Sony has announced that the Playstation Network may soon get paid subscriptions. Sony has said that the online play will remain free, but a premium content plan may add new features such as a PSP rental service or to incorporate SOE’s upcoming MMOs. Sony as of this time has not confirmed the service but are looking into it.
I’m fine with that… the PSP rental service would be sweet if it was around $12 a month, and MMO’s normally have subscription fees nowadays anyway.
Sounds perfectly reasonable. They need a way to charge people for FFXIV and Agency, after all.
As long as I don’t have to pay for regular online or demo’s I’m okey with it. Also if they do this, they should discount PSN games by a small fraction for subscribers.
I concur, keep what I have available to me now free, and I won’t burn down your headquarters ^_^
We all knew they would go pay eventually, I’m happy to see they will be a bit more consumer-friendly about it than Microsoft.
As long as it stays to MMOs and game rentals, then that is fine.
I agree. As much as I would love Final Fantasy XIV to be free to play I know it won’t be, so they need a way to charge for it. As long as they don’t start charging for regular online play I guess I’m OK with it.
I don’t know, free has been working out pretty good for me.