New features will be added to the online gaming world, and it will get pricey for developers...it will come to a point where all online gaming will come at an extra cost. I'd be willing to pay, say, $20 for one year's access to EA Online in the future if they had features like tournaments with prize money, or features that could simply not be possible without servers that companies HAVE to invest in to keep running.
Who knows...maybe games with online play will cost more than $50 in the future...maybe we'll have $5 monthly fees all over the place...maybe we'll have to pay a monthly or yearly access fee. In any case, I don't see how online gaming will stay free for very long. It's like right now, we're just getting a free sample
