CORRECTION: James Thorpe himself has come out and said on the EU Playstation Blog that Eurogamer is in fact wrong. You can find the link below and the explanation below.
http://blog.eu.playstation....
Update: Eurogamer has this wrong. You DO get to keep the DLC and add-ons to games that you acquire through Playstion Plus. However, Premium game content will expire when your subscription runs out. An example of Premium game content is the Private Member Club in Playstation Home. This will not be accessible if you cancel your subscription. They hope to bring more content like this in the future. However, your game add-ons/dlc/themes/avatars are safe.
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.. basically after your subscription which you paid for runs out your back to square one..
I know betas should be free but that KZ3 beta... I'd have paid money for, it's THAT good.
Not true. If your account ends you won't be able to access your plus content but even if you renew your account a year later all your content will be restored.
Just keep your subscription at all time, you lose nothing.
What's the problem?
Game on...
Just never start subscribing. Use that money to actually buy (rather than rent) the content you want.
What's the problem?
Game on...
That's a problem!
Game on...
Do I at list keep my themes?
You get to keep content. not all of it but quiet a bit of it and you get early access to beta's along with several discount oppertunites which you also get to keep.
But people want to act as if this is "new" for something else to rag on ps plus about.
This does not apply to any discounted items.
Free XMB Themes
Free Avatars
The above are yours forever.
dynamic themes, two premium
avatars and premium game
elements/add-ons for you to
download and many of these will be
exclusive to members only.
"These are yours to keep forever
once you have downloaded them."
Looks like you DON'T remember correctly. Did you even read the article or did you see the headline and go into Damage Control Mode?
Who says he doesn't remember?
It's been in the Faq for plus from the beginning.
Anyone that read the faq knows what you keep and what you don't.
Right from the start (for those that actually READ the faq for ps plus), you were told:
-ANYTHING you bought at a discount via ps plus you KEEP. INCLUDING game dlc you BOUGHT at a discount
-ANYTHING you downloaded FREE you lost. With the EXCEPTION of themes and avatars
Do you HAVE ps + or do you automatically go into troll mode.
There was never any "honest mistake." Everything they said still holds true. Any content you pay for that's discounted through PS+, you keep as well. Such as Crash 3, which went for $3.00 a couple months ago. You'll be able to keep that if you bought it when it was discounted.
PS1 games
Minis
Dynaminc themes
Avatars
Special Offers
Priority Beta Access
PSN games
all for £40/$50!
Any Themes or items you purchase that have a discount you keep forever. I've already saved a bunch of money on discounted items that I'll never lose.
'Honest mistake' deluded me in my buy. Do not want it anymore like this, thus:
"“”Premium game elements and add-ons are not part of the core monthly content… incorrect… honest mistake…”. Your mistake makes my view on the deal, if I’d knew it at that time, turn around on what I’m getting and paying for.
Thus as is written in several laws: if the seller makes an offer, and the buyer agrees on the offering and the price a deal is made. If the seller on purpose or mistake makes an error in the offering, which the buyer couldn’t know about, and the seller changes the offering after the buy there is a shortcoming in the execution of the service. In that case, the buyer can ask for a partly restitution of the original price paid or can choose to end the agreement/service where the seller has to return the total amount of money paid for the service/product.
For a large share I’m disappointed in my buy. Maybe I would want to stay PS+ member, but it depends on the partial restitution or offer you make me as this is not the service/product I thought to buy made by your ‘mistake’ or better said wrong information that got me deluded in buying PS+.
I want a personal reaction on this. The DLC to keep was the reason I bought PS+, otherwise I wouldn’t have gotten it…"
I would have bought the Motorstorm 2 DLC and Killzone 2 maps by myself otherwise but was thinking to have a better deal if it were given to me by PS+. SIGH! Now its not for me to keep, just a rental. FUUUUUUUUUU SONY!
"Well the DLC to keep was the reason I got PS+, so I just put this reaction on the EU blog. I wouldn't have gotten PS+ without it, so the deal actually changes from what I thought I would get offered. "
If any of you actually READ and Listened. They TOLD everyone that the game dlc that you obtained FREE would go if your sub ran out. They said that the themes, avatars, and games and dlc you BOUGHT AT A DISCOUNT would stay.
Long Story short:
free games + free game dlc- go when sub goes
discounted games+ discounted game dlc +free avatars +free themes+ free wallpapers= you KEEP even after sub runs out
All this was explained from the very beginning. Why people are acting like this is "new" or hard to understand is beyond me
its PS+ content...
its like saying when you stop paying for XBL you lose access to the net
or else people would exploit it (get sub for one product, buy the stuff, never sub again = loss)
hey, its not perfect but whom ever expected it to be the other way around are just dreaming
to me, PS+ isn't worth it, but i'm not going to bash it just because I don't agree with it, its just not for me
if you are willing to dish out 60+$ for internet or you're willing to dish out 60$+ for extra content, enjoy, its your money!
I personally don't like subscription payments =|
they mean the FREE games and dlc. NOT the discounted games and dlc.
If you BOUGHT the game dlc or game you still KEEP those even if your sub runs out
I don't know what to believe about Plus anymore.
I bought PS+ because I trusted Sony that PS+ will be a real Add-on service...
But I am disappointed and I don't feel like a + member. For me, + is a Fail :(...
Eh, the ignorance...
Btw, it offers more than i'm paying since i download about everything. If ppl rarely download things then no need to subscribe and then complain. Sadness.
you loose access to it, but if you renew your subscription you do infact get access to the content again..so no you do not loose it, you only can access it though while you have playstation + account.
example:
What happens to the content you get once your subscription ends?
Anything you buy with the exclusive discounts including exclusive add-ons, avatars and themes will be yours to keep. If you sign up for a year and download LittleBigPlanet, that’s yours to keep too.
However, the content you get for free (or, at least, included within the price) with the service, such as the minis and so-on will only work as long as you are a member of PlayStation Plus.
Do you get your games back if you re-subscribe at a later date?
Yes.
http://www.thesixthaxis.com...
please troll for some more $$$ we just cannot get enough trolling...lol
and some of us didn't know this, thanks for the heads up Eurogamer.
For some dinging any service is justified even though it's completely optional.
you are not stuck in a loop
read it again..good god.
anything you "purchase" you keep, even with no PSN+ account..even when its discounted..anything they give you that's free unless they say that you can keep it ..you will only get access to the free PSN+ mini's and Games while you have the account active if at a later time you reactivate you get access to it again.
you would not expect for them to give you all free games right?
no service set up this way would.
it's set to if you are active PSN+ member your getting freebies that reg. psn user's cannot even get without paying for it anyway. but you can play games that we would have to pay for.
you want to keep the content without PSN+ you have to purchase it, but in the mean time you can still play that content..why would you expect to keep paid content without paying for it..?
but..but my PSN+ account should cover that, it does you get free content and preview play on paid content...you are able to play full content paid games for as long as you maintain your psn+ but even still if you let it lapse, you can still get access to it again , you just have to reactivate your PSN+ service.
Come on people.
buy the games and dont get ps plus, is optional and nobody will care what you do with your money.
im ps plus and i think is well worth the money. only downside is that in reality i dont have the time to play all the content, but is there when wanted
STOP COMPLAINING enough of this bs
(Rental service)
They are not comparable services
First of all, you don't >need< gamefly - you don't >need< PS+
But to give reasons:
Discounts on stuff, free dynamic themes, free dlc and free avatars.
Using your analogy: the rental could be equivalent to the minis and ps1 games - those that are made unavailable after subscription ends.
So if you only rented minis and ps1 games i guess you wouldn't 'need' ps+...