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Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 1 year agoPC games run on servers, but you don’t pay for a Windows monthly subscription to play the games, you just pay for the individual games themselves.
These servers are hosted by third party companies anyway.
hperrin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m not sure what you mean. PC games usually run on your PC, unless you’re streaming. It’s the multiplayer server software that run on servers. And the servers are paid for by the company that makes the game, usually. Or the publisher. The actual server hardware is rented from cloud providers, if that’s what you mean. Servers aren’t free, that’s my point. If you want multiplayer online functionality, someone has to pay for the server. And ultimately that cost gets passed on to you, the end user.
Waluigis_Talking_Buttplug@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What I mean
Xbox: you have to pay to even be able to play online at all, even if the third party servers are paid for and operated by other means. Third party games require you to pay xbox. They own the servers and pay for the servers. Even free games require you to pay Xbox.
PC: you can play games online without paying your OS provider.