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Sony's raising the price of PS Plus in Europe and Japan - again
- Thread starter Warrior of Light
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And these two games are cheap and boring since month (or most of the last two).
The price of PSPlus is much to high for what it offers. Kill the free games and just pay a few dollars/year for online like competitors.
I hope Sony seriously starts getting in front of hiking prices. If it's to offer more games including VR, PSNOW/cloud streaming I get it.
But it seems to be region specific and I seriously don't know why? Has anyone commented what tax/tarif wise if this is something that could be affected by those?
But it seems to be region specific and I seriously don't know why? Has anyone commented what tax/tarif wise if this is something that could be affected by those?
Well that is true.. I've started buying 1 year subs because of it
My PSN is expiring on the 9th of June. And i'd probably pick Up the 2 free games from June. Then will see when i get the Next PS Plus subscription. Honestly i don't play much Online. I play all my MP on PC anyway. So i'd probably renew it, when i can find a good deal.
They really need to bolster the service this next gen in terms of content, server stability, etc.
Not really. With online multiplayer behind a paywall they can keep doing the boiling frog thing and slowly raise the price without anyone being able to do anything about it.
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I don't have an Xbox, but I think it's clear as day that they're offering a much better service and more bang for your buck at the moment. I really hope Sony announces something cool for PS+ subscribers soon.
Yeah people continue to roll over for this bullsh*t so why would they do anything other than continue to raise the price and lower the value?
Not really. Even if there's 4 games the Gold games aren't as great as the PS+ ones are. Both consoles have this bullshit paid online so neither is really better than the other.
If Xbox announces they'll get rid of paid online (unlikely because they'll be bundling Gold with Game Pass) I will switch to the Xbox. Otherwise I'm just going to move to PC full time. Will not get the PS5.
Sony's doing a great job of making me not regret letting my Plus Account Lapse. Unless they bundle PS+ with some sort of streaming service next gen, I really don't see the value.
What a ridiculous statement. Of course people still play on PS3 and Vita. You think people only play on current gen machines?
Do people actually still have issues with PSN or is this just a carry-over from memes of last gen/early this gen? Because I never have any trouble with PSN and I can't remember the last time it had widespread problems (outages/download speeds/etc).
I agree with you on content. There should be more than just a couple of free games a month, but I feel like that's not going to get any better for either PS+ or Gold with other subscription models now taking precedence.
You're right for sure, no question, and i'm aware of this.
But only because Switzerland is a rich country, it doens't mean that the general public is rich too.
We have a pretty high economic / financal standard, but we work our asses off to pay our bills, and in Switzerland you have a lot of them.
The problem for all of this is in the system. Either you're poor or rich, there's no second shift.
PSN downloads are still 30-50% slower than Xbox or PC downloads for me. Sometimes even worse.
They improved but the service is still nowhere's near as good as Xbox/PC.
Once a month it will go out for me and my friends, it's ridiculous.
Steam and Xbox provide virtually unlimited cloud save storage for free.
I wouldn't exactly qualify that as a worthy improvement if they aren't offering what others do for free, honestly.
Steam is the *only* service that can consistently saturate my internet connection.
As far as I'm concerned, they're all shit.
Price increase in Brazil as well... sigh
I sub mainly for the games, but if every interesting choice for Plus gets free on another service on PC (like Rime and the Witness on EGS) I have to think if it's still worth it.
I sub mainly for the games, but if every interesting choice for Plus gets free on another service on PC (like Rime and the Witness on EGS) I have to think if it's still worth it.
Yeah, Steam will basically prevent any other connected device on my network from connecting to the internet. I wish PSN and Live were that fast.
People on PS3 and Vita can simply stop subscribing and nothing will change. People who play on all PS platforms and want MP on PS4 however are the biggest losers.
The thing is, not everyone has this problem. My download speeds are the same on PS4 and Xbox One X. Other then some download problems people like to have, playing online via PSN or Live is nothing different in performance, because i have never seen topics about "how laggy online play is via PSN".
It's always about download speeds or PS Plus. So when in comes to equal playing online...no difference.
The bigger problem is the prices across Europe, they are the same even though the economic capabilities are not the same between all the countries. A country with 500€ wages has to pay the same as a country with 2500€, and this happens in a lot of electronics companies not only Sony.
This really is a big problem and I wish it would change, but I have no idea how they'd do it without people abusing it. Pipe dream nevertheless.
I guess he's talking about Nintendo. It's 20$ per year in single plan, and about 5$/year in the family plan.
Its an improvement if you compare it to itself in the older times.
Possible that the affected region did not get the Plus price increase benefit like the other region? My region didn't get a price increase since the PS4 launch.
I suppose so.
Unfortunately the product doesn't exist in a vacuum, and it is clear that there has been a bit of a reduction in value. Even more so when the price increases.
That doesn't mean that using cloud saves space as PS+ feature is good thing. But again Xbox asks for Gold to lay any game online including F2P so things are kinda in balance. except on PC where all those things are free.
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I'm borderline convinced arthands is astroturfing for Sony, so I wouldn't put too much stock in what they say on this subject. (Seriously, look up their history for any ps+ or sony taking servers offline for a game thread)
There won't be. Sony does not need new features. Other than adding the paywall to F2P games as well, it's still crazy how much money they're leaving on the table not charging Fortnite players.
We've reached the point where the cost of adding value will cost them more money than the increased revenue from extra subscribers will give them. Sony is already charging you to use your internet connection on the PS4 (unless you play F2P only). Adding more monthly games is costly and may not increase the subscriber number enough to make up for the extra cost.
If they were to add more value, it'll likely be in a separate service. I can see them re-branding PS Now to something like PS Premium to emphasize that you get a bunch of games to play and they can be either streamed (the streaming part of the service can still be called PS Now) or downloaded.
Server stability? I've played online games (Destiny 1+2 and Let It Die) on regular basis nearly four years, and I haven't had any issues. My download speeds are good as well; 45GB file takes an hour.
Those games don't use Sony's servers so they're not relevant. I think the post meant PSN downtimes and slow speeds that lots of people are experiencing even if you aren't.
Lmfao this is incredible.
Sony upping the price of PSN is pretty disgusting and I can't believe it's being defended.
Is there actually reports of their first party games, like TLOU and UC4, having online issues? I've never heard about it, and few of my friends played TLOU online religiously.
Lots of people also don't have issues with download speeds. Anecdotally, in my circles only those using Wi-Fi have been complaining about it.
It's less about the online components of certain games having problems and more of PSN itself being held together by duct tape and Sony dropping support for the online of some games. Just navigating the store is extremely slow, the download speeds are typically very slow (I have Ethernet for all my set ups and my PSN downloads cap out around 25% of whg my computer and switch do).
There's also egregious examples like them shutting down Gravity Rush 2 and Driveclub. We're already paying to get passed an arbitrary paywall that shouldn't even really exist, but Sony can't even ensure longevity of the online components of their first party titles?
A subscription service which recently sees a record breaking number (more than 35 million) of subscribers, doesn't need any defending. The numbers going up and not down, indicate that Sony is doing the right thing and players are ok with that because of the added values.
That dude is a troll and constantly does this, he have been banned multiple times because of it now.