We chat about videogames and videogame accessories.

That five-a-month will probably suffice Sony for a while, since they probably already have stuff in place from PSN, and I doubt every PS4 owner will be signing up Day 1, but I wouldn't have been surprised if they'd gone for $10 or $15 instead.

I guess they figure multiplayer isn't always a huge concern for most people. World of Warcraft gets away with $15 because that's the whole point of it, to be this ongoing game/world/service/thing; Sony won't need to do as much work (since they're just hosting games rather than continuously making one), and they probably figure they'll have enough people (who want to multiplay online and don't find $5 objectionable) to keep everything running. It's also probably one of the ways they're trying to bolster revenue, which is sort of a concern what with massively overbudgeted titles and "disappointing" sales figures and such.

I'll probably get suckered into it if Destiny turns out to be good at all. For a second I was disappointed that it won't be per-console rather than per-user, but then I remembered data storage costs and realized that was dumb.