potd: how many people actually pay for any online game services?

[ME##]

as nyerp pointed out, nintendo is inevitably going to rolling out its own subscription service, so i felt like we needed this poll just to find the biggest schmuck amongst ourselves.


it honestly seems like no one here does beyond maybe snowy with ps+ [if he still pays for that]


i've had ps+ twice and neither team has tempted me with its feature set to "upgrade" for $60 a year.  its biggest draw would be online game save backups, but considering that both steam and origin do this for free, it makes me wonder why it has to be paid for on the console side. i was going to also say automatic firmware updates, but those seem to have been made free or maybe i just never realised that before?

[Thyme]

[ME##]

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[The artist formally known]

i'd pay if there were online experiences worth paying for

[Thyme]

i'd pay if there were online experiences worth paying for

i'm still looking for free online experiences worth playing

[spoiler]jk i'm not actually looking[/spoiler]

[ME##]

i'd pay if there were online experiences worth paying for

i'm still looking for free online experiences worth playing

[spoiler]jk i'm not actually looking[/spoiler]

looking not actually looking s2ep4

[Travis]

i'd pay if there were online experiences worth paying for

[Samus Aran]

i voted none but then i remembered my $5/yr Pokebank subscription

but that's such a tiny amount anyway

[The artist formally known]

i voted none but then i remembered my $5/yr Pokebank subscription

but that's such a tiny amount anyway

Is Pokebank going to be comparable for all "real" Pokemon games forever?

[Kalahari Inkantation]

never have and never will

[Samus Aran]

i voted none but then i remembered my $5/yr Pokebank subscription

but that's such a tiny amount anyway

Is Pokebank going to be comparable for all "real" Pokemon games forever?

you mean any future ones released? so long as they're on the 3ds/new 3ds and not exclusive to the new 3ds, then probably yes

but i doubt we'll see more than one new gen of pokemon on the 3ds

[ME##]

LOTE WHAT DO YOU PAY FOR?  XBL? 

[don't let's]

I think I paid like $30 or so for a year of xbl. But this is like the first time I've paid for it since probably around 2010. I basically only got it this time for those Games with Gold games and for Destiny.

[Samus Aran]

i voted none but then i remembered my $5/yr Pokebank subscription

but that's such a tiny amount anyway

Is Pokebank going to be comparable for all "real" Pokemon games forever?

you mean any future ones released? so long as they're on the 3ds/new 3ds and not exclusive to the new 3ds, then probably yes

but i doubt we'll see more than one new gen of pokemon on the 3ds

actually now that i think of it, even if a new pokemon gen was new 3ds exclusive (which i doubt it would be), pokebank would probably still be cross-compatible because it's just a cloud service anyway

[The artist formally known]

i voted none but then i remembered my $5/yr Pokebank subscription

but that's such a tiny amount anyway

Is Pokebank going to be comparable for all "real" Pokemon games forever?

you mean any future ones released? so long as they're on the 3ds/new 3ds and not exclusive to the new 3ds, then probably yes

but i doubt we'll see more than one new gen of pokemon on the 3ds

actually now that i think of it, even if a new pokemon gen was new 3ds exclusive (which i doubt it would be), pokebank would probably still be cross-compatible because it's just a cloud service anyway

I mean in the year 2020 when Pokemon α and β come out on the Nintendo 10DS