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I remember getting a PS3 just to avoid this back then (lemmy.zip)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

How much money do you pay to login to Mozilla/Chrome/Edge to make this post?

Various PC games before and after Xbox do not charge anything just to be online. it's not an outright requirement. To add consoles usually restrict internet entirely, which is a completely different thing from hosting rounds.

Your second sentence is closer to what the actual reason is, and goes more in line with rockslayer's post.

edit: I will concede that browsers aren't locked anymore behind the payment models it seems. But I will still stand by that everyone is arguing as if individual games don't have to do this, but i'm fairly certain still that no P2P or just outright free online games exist on consoles, which makes the argument moot.