i'm being as forced to pay live as i'm being forced to buy a playstation because i want to play persona 5.
i don't have a playstation despite really liking the persona series. i still want to play it, too, but the cost of a playstation is not worth for me now. the cost of live, on the other hand, is.
i'm not upset, sorry if i gave you that impression. the discussion is being civil, don't want you to think i'm trying to attack you or anything.
i'm just curious and kinda baffled by how trivial your definition of "forced" is, for something so inconsequential and irrelevant as paying for a gaming subscription or not, and i gave you a pretty clear example of how i'm not. feels weird, like those people who comment on you being sad about something and you say "i'm actually okay" and they insist on how sad you are and how they know about your feelings more than yourself. might be something cultural, though.
Just wanted to comment on the 'forced' thing since it seems you two are a lot closer than you think.
'Main Entry: forced
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: compulsory, strained
Synonyms: affected, artificial, begrudging, binding, bound, coerced, coercive, compelled, conscripted, constrained, contrived, enforced, factitious, false, grudging, inflexible, insincere, involuntary, labored, mandatory, obligatory, peremptory, rigid, slave, stiff, stringent, unnatural, unwilling, wooden
Antonyms: noncompulsory, spontaneous, unforced, voluntary'
I think he is using Forced like Mandatory or Required, where as you're thinking of coerced, bound or compulsory. What a great language right?
As for PS+ being mandatory I think it is totally bollocks. You truly don't get anything of real value. Games like the original Destiny where on PS3 I didn't have to pay and literally buy it a day later when I got a ps4 and i had to pay. It is forced on you if you want to play online. Especially since Sony has proven it wasn't needed.
I would like to know what share of the sub money is used to secure things from pubs. I think that is part of why 360 was platform of choice, and now PS4 and it is also a reason why Nintendo is going that route. Being free didn't move the needle enough for Sony or Nintendo and I am pretty sure larger pubs received $$ from subs for game exclusive stuff or games at all.
Oh well you aren't being forced to pay for the sub, but it still feels scummy...