It would be a pretty bad move to start charging a subscription charge just for the use of Home? Some people will have already spent money on, believe it or not (lol), houses, clothes and furniture… Yet not be prepared to pay to use the service. Could you imagine how many people would just want some sort of refund?
I do however believe that home could be a premium service under the guise of a PSN “gold” service.. I can see sometime in the future SONY rolling out some sort of annual payment scheme. Micro-transactions on Home have been there almost from the start, testing the water as to how many people would buy “tat” (IMO), and to build some sort of revenue… They have now started releasing premium avatars and theme's, accessing the market of users who are not on Home. Rumors of subscription charges for certain online games…
Starting to sound like any other Brand you can think of??
The fantasy of having everything for free was nice, but with the recent “world bank crisis” and SONY being pretty broke, i could def. see a premium service being rolled out soon, but not just for Home… It would be a sad day, but i'd prob. pay for an upgraded service depending for on the price and package, but that's just me…
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