Well I currently have been playing PS2 on-line for about 2yrs now. And most of the on-line community would rather pay than get the service we currently receive. This tends to be on the Central-Station run games like the socom series and we tend to experience many un-punished cheats for months, lack of patches and updates.ps3 has free online play though. and that would be a major selling point for me if i had the money and online capabilities for one.