doubleofive said:

And PSN has no reason to apologize or give you anything for free because of the outage. It's a PRIVILEGE to have the service at all!

I'd rather pay for something, it gives the company a reason to keep it up.

I agree. But since free access to PSN is one of the PS3's major selling points, when someone pays $300+ for the system, part of what they feel they are paying for is the ability to go online and play Call of Duty (or whatever) with their friends whenever they feel like it.

The most important aspect of gaming to me these days is the social experience, so I agree with 005; I'd rather pay money for that portion of it, than have it be a privilege that I can just "deal with" when it goes down. If I didn't have LIVE on my Xbox, it would be useless to me. I have a hard time imagining Microsoft's service being down for six weeks over anything.