If you are a PlayStation lover like myself (I’m not a fan boy just a lover!) then YES it is worth it. I’ll put that another way. If you own just a PlayStation or you own multiple systems BUT you play your PS3 more than any other one OR you have Both the Ps3 and Vita, PlayStation Plus is DEFINITELY WORTH IT.
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it achieves what each membership service sets out to achieve. Once you are hooked, you cant give it up. Otherwise you lose out on all the perks.
So the idea is...dont give it up.
I let my PS Plus lapse once. The loss of the plus symbol, the loss of a ton of game licenses,etc.
Needless to say, I was pissed for a day and I got it RIGHT BACK. And as advertised, I got all the stuff I downloaded right back.
But still....yeah, once you have it...giving it up kinda kills the psyche.
When it lapsed i immediately signed up for the year.
I like games.
Normally a champion troller, this one lacked originality and was too obvious though
Rating of 5/10, but only for the number of disagreers you hooked.
Still, you rarely ever make sense. Every now and then, you say something that's spot on.
This isn't one of those times.
Europe - yes
Japan - never (poor games, late DLC and very confused navigation)
I think any additions Sony plans on making for the PSN next generation should only be for Plus users, that way it can get more people into it, while keeping it free for online gaming.
That's awesome.
Of course Music Unlimited being $12.99 is temporary. What's your point? It's just like any other service. Sometimes you get a break on the subscription price and then it eventually goes back up once whatever promotion is over.
It gives you access to millions of different songs and albums but you cant download the songs or anything. You can replay them as often as you like though. No commercials and unlimited skips. It's a beautiful thing.
Take that and compare it to Sony's ps+ where they make u pay 17.99$ for 3 months. (I'll just compare sonys 3 months to Microsoft's 10 year) and you get a collection of games for both ps3 and vita + discounts on games/add-ons, avatars, themes and music (12.99 right now btw). I do t need to add this do I?....... So my point is why is this a question?
PS+ only forces you to pay to keep the free perks that come along with the service. But ANYTHING you put money toward you get to keep. So if PS+ were to for some reason have a game discounted to $0.01, you'd get to keep that game if you bought it at that discount without having to continue to subscribe.
Same goes for Live, any free perk such as online play and youtube you have to pay to keep. Where as anything you purchase you keep without having to continue to pay for Live.
What makes this a super deal in my opinion is, I was already paying for ps+ before the free games. When they came out there was no extra charge for them so to me its free. On top of that I own a vita so when it came out for the vita I had even more. Is it worth it fuck yes. Is there a better deal out there hell no.
Why is this in question is beyond my comprehension.
@g20wly I didn't realize that point about the helmet(lol) or the fact that you keep discounted purchases. I ....I.... Learned something today.....2pts for the comment.
One point though: when you stop subscribing to Plus, any discounts you benefitted from (which are very frequent and often substantial) remain your benefit. The anti Plus brigade always fail to spot that one - I wonder why!
In short, stop paying for Plus, you still have something; stop paying for Live, you don't - and that's a pretty key difference IMO...
With Plus you get to keep everything except for the "100% off games" once your subscription expires.
So if you got a shiny helmet on plus you could still keep it long after your subscription runs out :-p
well, im sorry to disappoint you but it gets you a little more than that....
Early DLC, and not only DLC game events too, remember ME3's online events(Operations) in the beginning where there was great items to be had.....lets just say im glad i wasn't playing it on a certain other platform.
Multiplatform games that just work. (Yes MS spends quite alot on making sure that the most popular games will work on the 360 in close cooperation with the games developer.
A stable Service(in the 7 years i can remember a 2 week period what the XBL service was a bit unstable, but you could still play)
At last i wanted to mention Security, but im just gonna skip it, you've heard it before.
Im not putting PS+ down, i thinks it's better than XBL, but i think your simplistic comparison of the two is really tailor made to trash XBL.
And considering we're talking about well over $200 worth of games for $50 a year, how can it NOT be worth it?