Online gaming has been the most significant change for the game industry in the past decade. In the midst of this change has come the rise of various online services unique to each platform. While many have praised such things as Xbox Live for its established infrastructure, many have neglected to grasp the full picture that is gaming. Among all the different services provided by various companies, PlayStation Plus from Sony is the most misunderstood and rewarding of the bunch. While many out there would succumb to blind loyalty and dependency to justify avoiding becoming a Plus Member, those who take the dive into the service will discover a program that rewards the loyalty of gamers for simply doing what they do best, being gamers.
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I'll never quit this service, it actually makes me WANT a PS Vita, because I can play some Vita games for free, like Uncharted:golden abyss. I dont really ever have to buy so many games anymore cause of this service.
I think I am going to subscribe again just because I haven't played Limbo, Infamous 2 and motorstorm yet.
I was rather shocked at how many good titles that where available through ps+.
Also, the whole argument of, "they're rentals, you don't actually own them." that I've heard around, is null and void to me. Considering an entire year's subscription to play these games anytime is less than the price of a single month's internet bill...
ps:plus is a great service and going into next gen it could only get better as we go
http://youtu.be/4LkNYJiAcVk
Also Uncharted Golden Abyss is free for Vita, which most people (myself included) find amazing!
Can you edit the video though? At one point (2:54) you say, "50 bucks a month"! Of course, you mean 50 bucks a year ;)
You're so right though; the problem used to be how to afford to buy all these great games, whereas now, it's like, I have them, but how the hell will I find the time to play them all!
A welcome dilemma for those smart enough to understand the value :)
We'll see, but one thing is for sure, PS+ is the best service to ever grace a console.
You are PAYING $50 a year so that you can PAY MORE throughout the year.
In order to benefit from that $50 initial start up member fee, you HAVE to purchase other content. That means by the end of the year, you could have paid 2x as much (possibly more) meaning your $50 initial cost is now $100+ at the end of the year.
Sure you get "free" games so long as you are a member, but if you find that the offerings don't justify your membership cost, you now just lost all those "free" games.
Sorry but paying to get discounts is idiotic. You are paying MORE in the end anyways.
Sure you can argue that XBL is $40-$60 but you are playing on a unified service where you still get "free" content from MS (sure most is XBLA content) but you get to KEEP IT if you cancel XBL. You can also find XBL gold memberships for really cheap prices as well as the Family bundle where you pay $100 for 3 gold memberships. That's $33 per person for a years worth of XBL which is STILL the undisputed unified online gaming network on any home console.
Sure it sucks to have to pay for XBL and PS+ but the lesser of 2 evils is XBL. You pay once and that's it. With PS+ you have to keep paying after you have paid the $50 in order to justify the initial $50 spend on the membership.
Also if you can't find at least 10 games in the 50 or more they give away each year then you must not be that into gaming and you've got to remember this is a service for gamers not casuals.
They are both paid services.
Lets say you get 10 games a year for free for 10 years then for whatever reason you stop paying yearly for your PS+ membership....so now what do you have to show for your $500 that you have spent for those 10 years of PS+ memberships?
You have NOTHING!
Pretty hefty price to pay to rent games.
The services have nothing in common except being available on consoles. There is no room for comparison.
'Lets say you get 10 games a year for free for 10 years then for whatever reason you stop paying yearly for your PS+ membership....so now what do you have to show for your $500 that you have spent for those 10 years of PS+ memberships? You have NOTHING!'
Memories of all the great games you've played/completed? How often do you go back and play games from ten years ago? Unless you're going back for a nostalgia trip you'd likely rarely ever go back and play old games again. And if that's the case then why not just either renew your membership or buy that particular game outright? It's only going to be a small handful of games anyway compared to the hundreds you would have played in that time.
"You have NOTHING!"
This just blows my mind. I've seen people come up with some pretty ridiculous stuff on this site, but this really takes the cake.
After ten years of getting ten games a year you like, you get...
*gasp!*
...Ten years to play dozens of games you like.
Gamers paying with their main intention being to PLAY the games instead of hording them for years. Imagine that.
But it's amusing that you try to pretend only ownership is worth the money, while simultaneously defending a service that you need to "rent" the online portions of games you already own. A whole lot of good ownership of the content does there, eh?
First of all, you're terrible at math and being properly informed.
There's over a $1000 worth of (free and discounted) content offered every year on PS Plus including Cloud storage and full game trials.
The $50 fee paid itself the moment I subscribed.
How can the "lesser of 2 evils" be XBL? You can't even play online(the other half of the game you paid for) at all without a Gold membership.
Plus is optional. And they're not even comparable since they offer two different services as I clearly just pointed out.
I have so many games on my hard-drive and downloads list. More games than I have time play.
Two years ago I bought the Red Dead Redemption bundle for only $25 which included all 3 DLC packs such as Undead Nightmare.
There are plenty of big titles like that and other content offered at a discount or free all the time. They definitely justify the fee and I would be spending A LOT more money for all those games without Plus.
Feel free to say otherwise, but that's just your uninformed biased opinion.
I guess it also helps to be a more diverse gamer.
What is free that you get to keep? Online gaming? Youtube? Or are you talking about giveaways? If so then that argument is invalid as it is a giveaway and NOT an actual feature that comes with being a member by default as you would have had to be a member at the time of the giveaway.
The service offers a genuine value so long as you aren't afraid to find it......
The reverse logic fearmongers that claim the 50$ fee is only a cover for further fees should consider compiling a typical years worth of PS+ content for less.
Nevermind the convenience.
Could it improve?,of course it could and likely will.It is optional and not a requirement anyways.Pretty simple stuff.
Over 15 PS1
Over 12 PS3 games
Over 6 PSN games
My downloads patches and uploads my clouds saves every without a finger lifted. Only with PS+ I got games 50% through 75% off and kept them.