What do you mean? 24 months of Xbox Live Gold is $85 American; it's $3.50 a month, not 10, and that's only if you don't share it with someone else for some reason, so it's really more like $1.75 USD. And you get 2-4 game rentals per month with that. But yes, if you only like very, very, very specific games, and only play that one game all the time and only play it multiplayer, then that price would not be worth it.

There are reasons enough to like PC games over consoles, certainly, but I just wanted to make sure that no one was confused.

And if you want to play God of War or Spider-Man or whatever, you can't play them on PC anyway, so I'm not sure what you're lamenting. The existence of consoles at all?