PS+ Essential Titles for September & PS+ Price increase
PS+ Essential Titles for September & PS+ Price increase
New pricing changes to PlayStation Plus 12-Month plans.
TLDR:
Saints Row (2022) - PS4/PS5 Black Desert - PS4 Generation Zero - PS4
Price Increasing:
PlayStation Plus Essential 12-Month Subscription 79.99 USD | 71,99 Euro | 59.99 GBP | 6,800 Yen
PlayStation Plus Extra 12-Month Subscription 134.99 USD | 125,99 Euro | 99.99 GBP | 11,700 Yen
PlayStation Plus Premium 12-Month Subscription 159.99 USD | 151,99 Euro | 119.99 GBP | 13,900 Yen
So Extra is going up by $35? Damn.
I'm not going to renew mine at this price - it's completely insane. Even the price for Essential is bonkers - 80 dollars per year just to play online and get access to cloud saves? What the hell are they smoking in Sony HQ?
I thought I'd get plenty value out of extra, but I really haven't this past year. Most of what's on there I had already played, and new releases don't really release on it. I still buy PS5 games to play them. Might just go on a month to month basis from now on.
The opposite for me.
When there was the anniversary sale or something in July I decided to upgrade my remaining like 450 day for idk, 35€? Simply because I wanted to play humanity, which cost 30€ already and the new ratchet and clank, which was also like 40€. So it was basically a no-brainer. I also knew it had Alan Wake which I wanted to play, the newer assassin's creed games, namely origins and Odyssey I always wanted to play but haven't done yet. Now on sale they are quite cheap anyways but really, this was a nice deal already.
When I found out what else there was to play on there, I was blown away. Death stranding, ghost of Tsushima, even miles morales. I also wanted to buy and play death stranding at some point, the other 2 weren't really of much interest before; but having them for free, I might as well try them.
This far I only finished r&c and am playing Alan Wake and death stranding, while I uninstalled MP games, to focus myself on actually finishing all the games on my backlog.
Also this month this moving out game was added which I played with friends and it was absolutely hilarious.
Personally, I think I might just get 12months on top while it's still the old price so I have some time left.
But the increase is steep indeed and it's wild they're doing that without any service change. Like 'hey in return we're promising an AAA game in every monthly catalog update and a AAA game in every second month of essential free games'
You still get the Russian roulette of maybe 1-2 actually good high quality games a year, 3-4 fun indies and the rest being mid af. For this price? It's tough..
I've seen a post yesterday also about ps5 prices falling in a region, idk what it was anymore and honestly this sounded like a good strategy, business wise. Sell consoles cheaper again, but increase the membership prices to make up for it. Easier to get in for lots of people because they will think the console is cheap, to then be playing high yearly fees basically
Jesus Christ a 33-35% increase? That’s pretty fucking steep.
It was barely worth the price before with the quality of games they've given away going down dramatically. Now they want you to pay more and they plan on giving you the crappy saints row.
Holy crap. Glad I got the disc Playstation so I can go back to buying used games instead of relying on Extra.
Permanently Deleted
I'm out.
I think I've played two many three games in full since joining in mid 22. Not worth it before definitely not anymore.
This is too much, I can't justify the spending anymore. Will only get games that I will actually play going forward. Multiplayer is never my thing so there's that.
I can kind of justify a $135/yr cost of extra as right now there are a handful of games on the service I have interest in that could easily sum up beyond that amount, but many of them were there when I subscribed last year and I never actually got around to them.
I’m going to drop from a year of Premium to Extra, and if I don’t play more than a couple games from the service in the next year, I’ll just drop to essential.
Hopefully they still do good deals around Black Friday. Because £100 a year for Extra is a bit much.
The price in Yen for premium is $95 US. Anyone know why?
I’ve noticed Yen prices for online services are lower in general. Like YouTube premium is considerably lower. Probably because of the yen being weak af atm
Glad I'm getting BG3 because these kind of look meh this month.
Holy crap. I've barely even justified to myself paying for the last year of ps+ premium because I would rarely turn on my PS5 unless I was playing Fortnite with friends.
My subscription ends in a few weeks and I'm never fucking paying for ps+ again. This price increase is crazy.
Incase you weren't aware any Free To Play game on PSN (Fortnite, Warzone, Rocket League, Apex, etc.) can be played online without needing ps+
This price increase is insane but at least in your case you can continue playing Fortnite
For a subscription that doesn't offer any first party titles at launch, this is a very big ask.
Feels like Sony have been making some weird decisions lately. PS+ price increase, that weird Remote Play device, not showing up to Gamescom, etc.
Yeah, you're right, it'd make a biiig difference if we ever got to play a first party title at launch. I was transferred to the highest tier when it rolled out, but I haven't actually used it that much. The back catalog hasn't really caught my eye much, I don't have use for the streaming (or the Internet for it). My subscription runs out in March or something, and I may let it lapse like you. Would be the first time in...years...I don't know how long. I'm just not seeing additional value for the price hike.
This price jump is insane. They're already getting $10/game when bought new, and the games given out with this price hike sucks.
Cancelled my PS+ Extra so it doesn't renew in June and I'll likely not sub again.
I caught this earlier a bought an additional year of Premium at the current price (£99). It’s really frustrating that they’re doing this. I’m assuming they’ve seen Microsoft increase their price to little subscriber loss and wanted some of that.