Third party publishers pay for their own matchmaking servers when they use peer-to-peer online. Obviously, they also pay for their own dedicated servers if they use them. Nothing is given for free. And despite customers paying en-masse for these bullshit services, it doesn't guarantee that the likes of Sony will maintain the server upkeep for their own games, as we have seen multiple times how they take them down. Sometimes they barely last a year, like with Gravity Rush 2.
That's it, that's the thread. Brought upon by the recent Xbox shenanigans.
That's it, that's the thread. Brought upon by the recent Xbox shenanigans.