> And if you're a console player you also get to pay monthly for the privilege of playing online. I miss when game companies didn't host their own games Just t

> And if you're a console player you also get to pay monthly for the privilege of playing online. I miss when game companies didn't host their own games Just to be clear, you aren't paying for game server hosting, only for the console's lobby/matchmaking services. The game servers are still paid out of pocket by the devs. This is why many games try to get away with player-hosted servers (which gamers misname P2P), where a player is assigned a host role by the matchmaking service and the rest connect to it for the duration of the match. Which means one other player can see your IP and if the server disconnects the match is interrupted.