Pay-to-play PC Shadowrun?

[Dark Jaguar]

MS has the potential to still make a lot of money through the online service through the purchase of extra goodies for games, and also the movies and TV stuff (which I think will be all the sweeter a deal for people if they have the freedom of using it on a PC instead of a game console). Aside from potentially being forced to allow the multiplayer for all the games to be free, they could also be forced to drop the ridiculous tokens for cash system. I'm sick of staring at my 40 credits in live knowing that's basically me having been ripped off by their "no refunds!" deal and no way to pay the EXACT price of those extra levels for PD0. As a result I get VERY stingy buying anything in Live, or Nintendo's thing. Sony, surprisingly, is the only one to get it right by charging actual monies. I hate Disney Dollars. (Actually here's another pet peeve. Why do ALL stores insist on the lie of posting the price SANS the sales tax? That's hardly honest. Do they really think I care which part of my cash is going to the store vs which is going to government? Nope, I just care about how much is no longer going to be in my coffers! And another thing, I just love it when a price that was set by the company, like a console system's price, is advertised as a "savings deal" by the store, like they are the only ones selling it at that price, like they are fooling ANYBODY.)

Anyway, as I've said before, depending on how good Nintendo and Sony's free online services become (and Sony is ahead of Nintendo in that regard), MS may be forced to provide free online play in the silver account on the 360 too.