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Since the past two decade, video game companies are beginning to require consumers to pay for an online membership in order to access online multiplayer as well as a handful of perks. However, the effectiveness of modern memberships appear to be slowly decreasing as the high prices boasting terrible incentives such as free games that came out two or more years ago and ineffectively moderated online servers for Triple-A such as Black Ops 4, along with deals that typically save you around two dollars during the duration of your membership. No one likes to pay for these services, but we do it anyway with the sole intent of being able to play online. For example, Playstation's "PS+ (PS Plus)" membership's prices range from $10 per month to $60 per year (365 days). That being said, the best option for getting the most bang for your buck is to opt for the 12-month subscription. With this in mind, the official page for the online memberships boast about "access to exclusive online features," "price cuts of up to 75% on tons of great games," "1GB of online storage," and "automatic game updates." While these are great things to have, automatic game updates shouldn't be something that requires money, and paying for one gigabyte of online storage is made pointless when one could just use an external USB or hard drive collecting dust in their drawer. That being said, the only real reason to get PS Plus is for online play and (to some extent) the PlayStation Store deals. Unfortunately, you only paid for an online service, not a quality online service. Nintendo's far cheaper online service suffers from this greatly as well. Games played online are typically laggy from the amount of people using the servers. Despite this, you would think that they would optimize their servers to create a more pleasurable experience considering that you paid for it. When it comes down to it, online services are never necessary, but if you want to get the most out of your games or even play with your friends online, you will have to account for the borderline garbage online service with a bunch of novelties tacked onto it. It's unlikely that video game companies will cater to us more than they already are as these decisions come from a business standpoint. Recap:
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AuthorBrady Bryan is quite familiar with blogs since he had to frequently post on his blog in 6th grade. Although its been a long time since then, he still knows what a proper blog should look like. Archives
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