It will be a certainty if people continue to pay to use online gaming functions on the 360. I just think it's incredibly short sighted of those people.

Nick,

It is people like you who are at fault here. There is absolutely no reason under the current climate for you to pay to play online and flimsy excuses like "it's got cross game chat so it's worth it" (even though cross game chat is available to silver members) just mean it's less likely that other companies who've been running a free model quite happily for years now will continue to do so. I don't see why I should have to pay to use a P2P online system.

As long as Sony keep the online gaming aspect of it free I'm ok with them charging for 'premium' features that I never use- however the day they start charging for online gaming is the day that I stop playing online using my console.

I wont be, at all- I'll just go without playing online via my console.

It's people like you who've paid MS and are happy about it that are shafting the rest of us in the long term.

As long as gaming online remains free its fine.

I'll have fun playing online for free thank you very much and the money saved can go towards another game.