Should have and will are two different things. You seem to forget they are both companies out to make money. If one company sees another company is essentially getting free money for doing something, you really expect they aren't going to try too? Sorry, but it's the reality of it. I will blame the company that comes up with it and proves it's a good way of making money (just like I really wish people had more blowback on EA for MTs cause they are the ones who really pushed it for AAA games and showed other companies they are being left behind. I would say Rockstar also showed this with GTA online being such a money maker).
Yeah, I wish Sony hadn't caved, but it really wasn't unexpected. I'm going to guess PS+ was a way to slowly introduce us to the idea (and get us used to the "free" games so we wouldn't want to give that up when they introduced the mandate). And, well, as for the announcement... the way I felt about it was that I wanted Sony (and other companies, keep in mind other companies watch other companies) to see how happy I was they were staying with discs and not online DRMing them. ANd to me that was more important than pay for online (it helps that I'm mostly an SP player). I didn't want to get messages mixed (uproar at Sony for that meant that the goodwill they got from the other thing gets hidden and when a lot of companies stand to benefit from making online a way of DRMing that would make it easy for them to say it didn't give Sony a good enough benefit).
I'm still way more concerned with the trend to make games online only and microtransactions over charging for MP games. MTs imho are way more harmful in many many ways (including encouraging bad game design, as in game design to make the game purposely imbalanced so it's less fun unless you pay to fix the balance). I'll settle with at least MS had to get rid of the ridiculous requirement that you needed Gold for Netflix or web browsing. That's at least a small win.
