Both have their advantages. A good 64 player game of caspian border conquest on BF3 is amazing. Then there are incredible free-to-play games, including Team Fortress 2, Tribes: Ascend, Blacklight Retribution, etc. If you're looking for great free-to-play MMORPG's, look at the company Nexon. They have incredible free-to-play games, like Mabinogi, Vindictus, etc. Not to mention, dem mods. Portal 2 and Skyrim just don't feel right anymore on the console because of things like the Steam Workshop.