16th May 2005, 8:49 PM
Honestly I don't see the need. I have a number of PS2 games that have online for FREE. I really don't NEED to have a way for people to see exactly what game I'm playing and send me invites from another game. I DO have an instant messenger service :D. Prince of Persia? Bad design, but if the XBox Live connection is dropped, you are INSTANTLY booted out of single player (I mean BOOTED, not paused!) to inform you of this GRAVE problem and ask for your advice. Good luck if you were really far from the last save point :D. Point is, I disabled auto Live logon for that game, because I don't care what other people are doing when I'm in single player anyway.
Live is overrated. Now, I'm not saying that as in it's WORTHLESS, they are nice features, and I would rather have them than not. BUT, it's not worth paying for.
Downloadable content is worth paying for though.
But... only per content item, not a yearly fee.
It's only $50, so I pay the fee because that's the only way I can play my XBox games online, but with the PS2, I get the same experience for free, except the content, but on my PC? Yeah, I get free content drops ALL THE TIME.
Point is, I don't need a live service on my PS3, especially not REQUIRED. I WOULD like to be able to "check for updates" to my PS3 bios though.
Live is overrated. Now, I'm not saying that as in it's WORTHLESS, they are nice features, and I would rather have them than not. BUT, it's not worth paying for.
Downloadable content is worth paying for though.
But... only per content item, not a yearly fee.
It's only $50, so I pay the fee because that's the only way I can play my XBox games online, but with the PS2, I get the same experience for free, except the content, but on my PC? Yeah, I get free content drops ALL THE TIME.
Point is, I don't need a live service on my PS3, especially not REQUIRED. I WOULD like to be able to "check for updates" to my PS3 bios though.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)