After I took a long break from online gaming during the PS3 era, which didn’t require a subscription to play online, and got back to playing online after the pandemic, I was surprised to see that most online games can’t be played without a PS Plus subscription. When Sony announced their intention to shut down the PS3 store in 2021, there was a huge backlash against it that led them to keep it open. Why was there not a bigger and effective backlash about requiring a subscription to play online during the PS4 era? I understand that was way before, but I still find surprising that tens of millions of PlayStation players simply accepted it.