I want online priced as it was 2 years ago. If it becomes priced the way isp want it will be to expensive to be practical. Even with a 2nd income in the homestead

Entitled to, that is a very interesting choice of words. When I pay for something I expect to be able to use it, if something is sold as unlimited then my expectation is that it is unlimited... that is not an entitlement thats an expectation that services paid for will be rendered unhindered.

Your right though, tiered internet wont stop everyone being able to stream media online or game but the added expense will definitely deter some from the hobby, maybe enough that it will make all digital being the "future" merely the future of some.

People are being squeezed between higher gas (petrol) prices, rising food costs and it seems higher internet bills and wages are not rising to match... where to you honestly see cuts happening first in a home trying to keep its head above water? In an all digital future that would mean anything you have bought in the past would become unusable simply because the cost of the internet went up.... at least with physical media continued use is guaranteed.

The internet being cheap and affordable is for a lot of people a bubble that will burst but your right when you say its not everyone.

When I lived in england my dad kept a money jar by the computer and I had to put money in to pay for my internet usage. Trust me when I say it limited what I did online. People are used to unlimited its going to be quite an adjustment counting gigs and paying overage... data on cell phones sucks for that reason people already dislike it but what does that matter right? They are only the consumer right? who wants to please the consumer?

nice zippy avatar btw... used to love rainbow as a little lad.

Companies have made the idea of all digital media or being Internet reliant (by releasing unfinished games and patching fixes) feel like it should be accepted and the norm.

Thank you to Microsoft and xbox live system developers have realized that their is much more money in charging for subscribers than there are in system sales. The new generations of systems can sell at little to no profit because they make so much money off people gaming online.

Sadly this means that people who can't or don't want to game offline and have no interest in digital media "Don't matter". We don't make them as much money.

I wish that people teach these companies (especially microsoft) that those who play offline still matter as a consumer base and stop supporting them with our wallets... Unfortunately we are outnumbered in this. If metered Internet does jam up plans for digital media it will teach them a lesson that's for sure. I don't think they counted on is p's wanting a cut of their new revenue