If Sony believes increasing the price is worth it, then they'll go for it. Remember MP are locked behind a paywall (except MMO and F2P), thus I can't imagine many people would cancel their sub after a price increase. Furthermore on PS unlike Xbox you need to pay for cloud saves. On PS5 unlike PS4 there is no option other than paying for PS+ to backup the saves.
So they should just keep supporting a service that they don't want anymore ?
That price isn't changing. None of this has anything to do with what you're looking at.
Competition. Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo have a complete monopoly on online play on their platforms and thus can tell you to pay up or fuck off. PC launchers can't do that because if you tell those people to fuck off they'll just get and play their PC games another way.
As of May 2020 PS Plus had 41.5 Million Subscribers, there are ~114 Million PS4s around the world.
Oh definitely doing it wrong. I'd just imagine that people who subscribe to XBL GOLD out of habit for the last several years also subscribe separately to Gamepass. If I had an active Live Subscription, I wouldn't be jumping right into GPU.
This needs testing. The wording is vague. My reading was definitely that people who have a sub already won't have to pay any more, but when they renew it'll be at the 'current' price. Aka the increased price. But it hinges on whether current means the old or new price.
Yup, I bought a lot of those $20 3 months deals off CD keys, target and BB This past holiday to stay locked in that stupid low rate.
They run matchmaking servers (even for third party iirc) and have all those community features, which cost money. I wish PS+ and Gold wouldn't exist, but on the other hand, I can kinda understand that running such services is expensive.
You only increase price on subs if you really needs it, especially when your service is already giving profits. Like I said, Sony would do that if for some reason they wanted to push something or inflation. MS reason here it's obvious after all.
I'll quote it in 5 years. That's how many years I've got stacked (3 years applied, two more years worth of codes thanks to the holiday sale).
The *current* price is the current price. These *new* prices are not in effect yet. They are not taking effect until 1-2 months from now. There is 0 room for interpretation here that means anything else.
What? No. It's not a "justification". It's an explanation. It's still shitty, but it's a business tactic and that's what those comments are referring to.
What the heck is Stockholm syndrome about it? Nobody is saying they like it. It's just what's happening.
