PlayStation Plus Explained
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Yeah this is a good point, it doesn't actually say you get to 'keep' these games, and if you ever cancel your account you no longer get to play them so effectively your sub fee is a rental for the games you choose you download, they're not really free considering that PSN is free anyway.Kapol said:
IMO you'd be better off sticking with the free PSN and buying the games you want, given that you're probably going to actually really want only about 20% of the games they offer, which you know won't be current releases or anything too decent.
So I get to pay $50 a year for essentially a game rental service? Uh, no thanks. The free DLC is kind of nice, but I imagine it's mostly things that I either a) own already if I was going to get it, like the Killzone 2 pack, or b) if I don't already have it, I wasn't planning on ever getting it. The free games are kind of nice too, but requiring an active subscription is crap. Those free games are worth a fraction of the subscription cost if I bought them otherwise, and I get to keep them without an active subscription.
This. Paying money and ending up not owning anything is a no-go. I'd rather pay 20$ a year to actually buy the few PS1 classics that interest me (hypothetically, cause until now the only ones that did were the Oddworld games) and the "next" Flower. If they removed this useless feature, added chat and halved the cost I would subscribe for sure, but now no way.Dorkmaster Flek said:
Meh, if I wanted any of these things, I'd buy them on their own off the psn. This sounds really pointless to me.
Seeing as I already have the majority of their biggest hits and DLCs, what's left to even bother with?
Yeah, the Oddworld games are the only ps1 games I have ever bothered to download, and it came to about £14. The only other full games I ever bought of the psn was Warhawk and Wipeout. The only addons were for Warhawk and Killzone.
Seeing as I already have the majority of their biggest hits and DLCs, what's left to even bother with?
Well it depends mostly on how much someone spends on psn games to begin with. most psn game go from $10-$30 so $70 for what is sounding like 12 games (not counting 24 minis and 12 ps1 games) sounds fairly good. Besides how many years you plan on playing the same games anyway? you might as well buy that particular game for good then.Andronicus said:
do you happen to work for a game company currently involved in a similar subscription scheme?twm1709 said:
but yeah, you're sorta right, how long do people intend to play those surgically removed mini games, probably stolen from an innocent ps3 title currently floating in a bathtub full of ice in a hotel room somewhere.
I won't be giving them my money, but some might.
Please stop using the word "free" for anything in that article. Because none of it is free. Just at a remarkably good value for money 
so thats like $50-$60 US. Not a lot for a year, but nothing its offering makes it worth that money. I've lived without it all this time, i'll continue to live without it. Sorry Sony
...unless they put in cross game chat to but not from non-subscribers then i may consider it.
so thats like $50-$60 US. Not a lot for a year, but nothing its offering makes it worth that money. I've lived without it all this time, i'll continue to live without it. Sorry Sony
...unless they put in cross game chat to but not from non-subscribers then i may consider it.
Its great that online play is still free. I will definitely get this once i get to my apartment once classes start and I have a job.
I think it's more like $50 a year in US currency. The argument is you never own the free games (only DLC/themes), and we don't know if they offer a selection of the games or if you are forced to only get certain ones. It's expensive, isn't necessary, and the only "feature" it adds is your PS3 can turn on automatically and think for itself to try and download updates...Cassassin said:
EVERYONE! TAKE COVER! THEY'RE TRYING TO TURN PS3 INTO SELF-THINKING ROBOTS! THE ROBOT APOCALYPSE IS ON US, AND IT IS LEAD BY KEVIN BUTLER!
plus, I want my cross-game chat, but isn't worth $50. Also, for the people that wanted the PS3 for free online are going to be pissed (aka me) when you can't have all the features until you pay. Hopefully, they might give Plus users new games before releasing to public, and so it will just be a delay instead of "Only Plus Members May Buy This" and hopefully no disk games have features that are only unlocked with a Plus membership. Now say, if a Sony game came with a free month, it might be worth a look.
Well this depends on what it is. does it mean 6 free games a month I can choose, 6 that are offered, 6 that I get to keep? 6 that I'm renting?
Look for all the people saying "I'm not paying to rent" well do you use steam cause that's basically what your doing.
But still I feel it is to vague to put my money into it.
Look for all the people saying "I'm not paying to rent" well do you use steam cause that's basically what your doing.
But still I feel it is to vague to put my money into it.
I'm going to get it, but damn it all. This is the first I've heard that there's not going to be cross game chat. That truly bums me out. I was looking forward to Demon's Souls without Ventrilo. (I love that freakin' game. VonBrewskie is also my PSN name, so come get some in DS if you dare! bwahahahaha!)
oranger said:Can't say if you're baiting me over thertwm1709 said:
personally I won't be buying this. I'd rather play my PSOne game on my PSOne proper, could care less about minis and there's, like, 3 psn games I care about. I'm just trying to get in the mindset of someone who might be into this
A free PS1 classic you say? Hmm I do download those a lot... Any chance this will be able to be done on PSP (it said they can't be played without the subscription I think, so I am wondering if you have to be on PS3 because I don't think you stay signed in on the PSP) if so I just might pay for this...
Ok, the price is certainly reasonable, but I do have some concerns: will the "free" games expire after one month, or is it like Steam where you can just download them again at your leisure? And secondly, will there be some selection of these "free" games, or do we just get 4 set titles every month? See, I really don't give a toss about sport games, or anything gimmicky, so...
Ok, DLCs and avatars do not interest me in the slightest, but it's a nice thing to be thrown in. I was thinking about getting a PS3 anyway, might as well keep an eye on this...
Ok, DLCs and avatars do not interest me in the slightest, but it's a nice thing to be thrown in. I was thinking about getting a PS3 anyway, might as well keep an eye on this...