G3AR: "If you aren't aware, though I'm sure you are, Sony recently announced a price hike to South Africa's PlayStation Plus subscription costs of approximately 50%. It was a rather sudden announcement few saw coming and certainly ruffled some feathers, but it might very well be justified. With gamers having had a week or so to settle into the new pricing scheme, I thought I'd ask a couple of G3AR's writers with PlayStation Plus subscriptions to comment on the price increase. So gentleman, is the price hike to our PlayStation Plus subscription fee justified?"
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
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Is there a reason for the price hike? Is it to do with the costs to maintain an infrastructure there or something new with taxes and fees or the like?
"If you aren’t aware, though I’m sure you are, Sony recently announced a price hike to South Africa’s PlayStation Plus subscription costs of approximately 50%."
For those who just read the headlines without reading the story.