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It's wild that they get away with charging for it
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this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2024
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There's a lot of gamers in this thread too young to remember how overloaded and miserable the free console game servers were.
Microsoft was like "chuck us like ~$5 per month and we will put up enough servers so the games are actually playable". At the time, it was the best deal available for console gaming.
Honestly an argument could be made it was the most economical way to play online, in general, at the time. The console cost was subsidized, and the online servers were arguably at-cost, and you really only needed to buy one copy of Halo to join the fun.
Yeah but they don't run the servers anymore. So I don't know what I'm paying for really.
Some (Nintendo) even like using P2P instead of dedicated servers. Which makes it even crazier to pay for online.
When I pay for a game access to the whole game should be included and it is on PC (don't bring up DLCs and all that).
There are more costs than just servers. I'm just saying, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be part of the upfront price of the game, though, and I agree with you.
Access to a router somewhere, apparently.