I think we’re seeing the whole F2P / Freemium model taken to its absurd extreme here, and it shows flaws in the whole model. The same problem exists for any content provider that wants to let you pay for content then consume it on a device you own, and I think we still haven’t figured out a consistent way to handle it.
I pay Netflix to watch their stuff, but I don’t pay a cut to the companies that make the hardware / OS I watch it on (as far as I know?). Should I? Does that make any sense? What extra value is the hardware / OS manufacturer providing, above and beyond the hardware I (presumably) already paid them for? Why is this game any different? Sure there might be some load on Sony’s servers for whatever PSN data might be accessed but that’s why PS+ is required and costs money. This reeks of double- (or even triple-)dipping on the platform’s part.