A new method of payment on the PlayStation Store has launched that doesn't require a debit or credit card.
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the launch of Playstation Plus, Sony have started emailing long-time subscribers with the offer to get their hands on something unique, personalized, and for free.
Hmmm nothing for me and I've been with it when all we got was one psone game two minis and some avatars. Ah well.
I downloaded PS+ within friken 10mins of it being announced by Jack Tretton...yet I have no email... (yes the boxes have ben checked) and I have been shafted on betas n sht....
I mean....come on.....Im not asking for much....
Awwww, I have switched accounts since the start, had ps+ just switched which account, so I probably won't get it = /
so u HAVE to be a CURRENT plus member?
I mean I was a plus member before but I stopped my subscription after 3 years of being a member. do I get nothing?
and is this for NA? I spent a lot of money on the psn store. I hope I get something. don't be stingy sony ...
You should never cancel PS-Plus, that's like,, canceling breathing......Lol JK but seriously, I'm sure if you re up it you'll most likely get something, that 3 years is logged.
Ha, I got one after only being a member for a year. I guess someone screwed up at Sony's. xD
Gimme ma free print!
@ritchi lucky you considering they said you need to maintain it for the full 5 years
Only had plus on this account for a year and few months and I got the email.
wtf. ive had mine for at least 3 and 1/2 maybe 4 years and have a surplus for like 2 more years, and i haven't gotten one yet.
My account is at least six years old and I didn't get anything. I've had plus since it was first a thing.
I've had PS plus sense the second day it cake out on auto renewal and haven't got the email at all ... :( lol
Same here since launch, I haven't got anything yet... (US account)
If it's like any other time they send out emails, they usually don't send them all out at the same time. I've noticed they're spread out over a day or three.
I have a feeling this will be similar to the "Loyalty" coupons they did last year. They sent them as a thank you to "loyal" customers but I think its more of a random thing... I never got a coupon and I have been a subscriber since the beginning and have bought SO many things digitally. Hopefully Im wrong though.
ha to be fair, US gets some awesome flash sales... Europe gets a personalized card (which i'm betting the US will get eventually)
i'd much rather the flash sales (not that i qualify even for this gift)
I'm in UK, been a PS+ subscriber since the beginning this is the first I've heard of this. Haven't received any email. Mind you didn't receive the one that went out for people that bought 1st gen Vitas either after Sony lost their court case.
the Vita one was US only if i recall correctly.... the PS+ one i'd say get onto someone from sony, they'd fix it
I wish I had jumped in Day 1 for PS+. I didn't see the value.
Now I am swamped with PS+ games I will never play. Just downloaded Call of Juarez to the PS3 last night so I wouldn't miss Junes PS+ PS3 games....I will NEVER play it.
Too many games with PS+! not a complaint!
Agreed. It was a slow start to begin with, but has evolved into quite a decent package imo.
Agreed. My only regret was not getting it sooner. I'm mad too because ended up buying games that where already offered to PS Plus for free!!!
I've sat there and contemplated PSN purchases too!
These 1st world problems are a serious mess...../s
I have barely played my PS3 since I got a PS4, even if I had Backwards Compatibility on the PS4, I probably wouldn't play that many PS3 games on it.
Fired up Portal 2 on my girlfriends account for some good co op split screen last week, but still it's tough for me to go back...
...I have a lot of Batmaning to do.
"I wish I had jumped in Day 1 for PS+. I didn't see the value. "
Why? Early Plus wasn't that great of a deal and it wasn't until at least a year that it started to improve.
For exactly what I'm going to miss out on if this deal does come to NA,
maybe the prestige of being a day-1 will earn you some cool stuff like Microsoft did with XBlive Day-1 subscribers?
This specifically;
http://images.eurogamer.net...
"For exactly what I'm going to miss out on if this deal does come to NA, "
I'll never grasp this logic. So, you're basically saying you wished you thought ahead and paid more for Plus so you could earn a loyalty reward, even though the prize is still hypothetical and could potentially cost you more money in the long run? Yeah, hard to not see the value in this.
"maybe the prestige of being a day-1 will earn you some cool stuff like Microsoft did with XBlive Day-1 subscribers?
This specifically;
http://images.eurogamer.net...
Not to be rude, but I'm going to take a stab in the dark and assume even if you had Plus since day 1 you would not earn that prize. The console was awarded to select people and be it random or merit (like PSN level), I'm willing to bet you would not win, so you would end up with a prop or a print, but you would be out $50+ bucks. Maybe I'm overthinking it, but it just doesn't seem worth it to me. -shrugs-
I suppose it may as well be nothing at all but a thank you.
Plus, PS+ has "payed for itself" ten fold and counting. Every single month you have it, it "becomes cheaper" So even if the 1st PS+ line up was weak (which it was hence why I didn't jump in) I missed the total over all value that PS+ offered and whatever this will be.. if anything at all. I guess we will see.
New optional PS Vita Software Update v 1.69 is now available to download
For what? 3 or 4 games? It needs to be way more then that to take off. Sure, future games might have it, but it needs to be on older ps3 games as well.
Honestly, if I could remote play all my PS3 games via Vita, I'd get a VIta in a heart beat.
Atm, they keep touting Vita as a extension of ur ps3... but you can't even remote play the games -_- so much for 'continuing the game where you left off'
It was understable for PSP, but Vita has enough keys to be able to act as a DS3 controller.
Man what I'd give to be able to play Red Dead Redemption from college via my Vita
I want to be able to add all my PS1 games into my memory card all ready... i have 22gb of free space.
It is up to the game developers to implement these features. Take it up with them!
When was the last time the ps3 got a GOOD update. How about a mini in game xmb and a real web browser?
give the people there making the d@mn software some time; God if any of you was even in the armed forces, that is a prime example of "hurry up and wait" you would not last 3 min's there with that kinda attitude you have; god your worse than little 4 year old children.
Even a 4 year old get's a lollypop in their mouth and shuts up every now and then.
they are working on it. BUT..BUT WE NEED YOUTUBE, and it's getting released the end of the month..but..but it should have been on the system aready right from the start. Really? and why is that? did you make the d@mn thing? did you pay for the people to make it's software?
IF no than you do not know what was to be released on the d@mn machine from the get Go.
you may say my Attitude sucks, and that im a fanboy defending Sony. No where am i defending Sony; Im simply saying the people who make the d@mn software and work on it every day is not your d@mn slaves. for $249.00 to $300.00 one time payment does not give you the express right to sit there and keep looking over their shoulder crying about features that they are working on , but are not being done fast enough for your impatience.
how about people stop harping about it over and over, they did not forget about your request the last 1000th time you asked about it last week!
instant gratification generation
http://www.psychologytoday....
you know there's a problem when there is a whole subject on the matter right now.
but my cell phone is sooooo slow...the signal there sparky is being shifted through a satellite
the cellphone was not even created until 1973 and the first mobile telecom phone was not yet commercially available until 1983. How many of you were born before 1983? if so you are older than the d@mn technology that was created.
Of course i get a disagree...but yet many on this forum still think it's overun by PS3 fanboy's defending their console of choice. When no it's just over run by fanboy's period.
Actually we did pay for the people to make the software. It's a part of the $250 - $300 each of us had to pay when we got the system.
Yeah, cuz you need a good web browser on your console lol. Seems you have no trouble considering you're online right now posting. You probably have 4 browsers. PS3, phone, Vita, laptop, etc....
How many browsers does 1 man need? PS3 is for gaming, not surfing. It does the web just fine.
Umm, If it was worthless, it wouldnt be a update right? EVERY update is for a reason. Nobody releases updates just because.
Most updates are just to keep one step ahead of hackers so they arent of much benefit to gamers.
Some on on this site said
"Gravity Rush is just one mediocre game and MGS: HD is WAY better on consoles (Vita doesn’t even have Peace Walker HD). Vita is dead (how ironic) and Sony as a whole will soon follow, just look at their crashing stock and company value. F ‘em!"
Then another replied
Are you gamers or stock analysts?
I find it hard to believe that any real gamer who isn’t a diluted fanboy would want Sony, one of the only companies constantly pushing new games whose competition pushes other companies as well, to fail.
@Jason
“MGS: HD is WAY better on consoles” Yeah? And so is Mario. Your point is invalid.
I’ll be enjoying great games like Gravity Rush while you wallow in hatred."
^
This guy deserves a medal for being a true gamer. Why would you ever want a company to fail? Do you get excited with hundreds and hundreds of layoffs? Fanboys are the scum of the gaming world, and they are all in good need of a swift kick to the balls
We're inching our way to 2.0, which will give us partial PS1 support for the PSN's partial library.
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Huzzah?
Oh you lucky bastards who will get it tomorrow. It launches in EU June 15th and then I will have to wait for a week-long delivery :(
downloading it now.... can't wait for Gravity Rush tomorrow... might pick up metal gear also!
yeah man ive had my vita since day one and that was the big seller for me. i developed alot of paitent waiting on the game industry to release shit, but i really want to enjoy my vita more and its hard to wait. right now im just playin my consoles. :/
Joel Taveras of DS, "If you really thought that Sony would offer cloud game saves without an ulterior motive behind it, well then you’d be completely wrong. Sure its a nice perk but when you honestly sit down and really think about it, what’s the point? It’s not like a game save file is as big as a game install file (which unfortunately still exists) so where's the benefit of storing these files remotely especially if what we’re talking about is just a few measly megabytes. After speaking to one of our sources at Sony, it seems that the electronics giant may have something very special brewing for E3, an announcement that will make the NGP simply irresistible when it lands on shelves."
I would guess from the same games being available on both the ps3 and the ngp, that would make transferring saves over pretty easy. I don't think that I've seen anything about cross play but I've not being paying much attention
Cross play hasn't been mentioned yet. Just the idea of the same "1st party favorites" but not the idea of actually playing your same console game while on the go.
someone who buys an NGP would need to be a paid member of plus otherwise they are SOL?
I can live with that. Pay to play has taken on a different form. Finally something that justifies the service. I may sign up for this if it's true.
I don't know about this. Games on the the NGP format are 2-4GB; try getting Uncharted 3 or MGS4 in 4GB, not gonna happen!
It's also unlikely this size will ever change, since these flash memory disks use Fat32 and can't exceed 4GB files! Although there is the possibility of having the game in split files or something.
Really can't wait for this thing!
DaTruth why do you think its going to fat32 ? It could just be same as ps3's main file system and that is linux file system.
Of cause NGP games are going to be loads more smaller, high quality sound and and high resolution textures are what make them games so big.
@DaTruth
you're right about the 4GB files, but i have trouble believing that a game would come in a 4GB file, rather than multiple smaller files which doesn't make this an issue
everything is pointing to cross-platform play and that's is so great that I can't wait to try it out, the whole idea is simply awesome...
Cross platform with a "Steam-type" system would be great. At first, I thought cross platform would be limited because there are still only two shoulder buttons on the NGP. But then, I remembered that the back touch pad could be used as analog trigger stand-ins. They wouldn't be perfect, but they'd work okay, I would think.
Well, we don't even need to predict anything. Kojima talked about that during tha NGP presentartion, that thanks to the specs and cloud storage it's finally possible to do something he had dreamed about, games you can play whether you r home or on the train...not PSN sorts games but games like a MGS title.... he promised to talk more about this on E3, just that fact sets SONY's press conference in the center of attention.
That's awesome i wonder if it will work with all old and current ps3 titles cuz i would love to play me some MGS4 when i'm not home.
True. It would be great if NGP owners get cloud saving for free instead of paying it! I suppose they would allow you to transfes saves over a USB cable, though.
you cant expect everything that comes out for psn to be free. They have to have some items to make the plus service relevant. If you want to do cloud storage and (possibly) game saves from the ps3 to the ngp then you have to pay to play.
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While something like this may be "Pretty easy to predict", having confirmation from an internal Sony source(although anonymous) is pretty valuable.
Oh, there's always a reason. I think cloud game saves is a pretty cool idea anyway - PS3 or NGP.
That's a great question and an awesome angle for Sony to play. It's a trojan horse to get people to pick up PS Plus.
Of all the features PSN+ had, cloud saves should have been free. Why should I have to pay just to save my games in case my PS3 YLOD's?
there has to be something of substance to make paying for plus relevant. Otherwise it would just stay the current discount store with free samples. Kind of like costco.
If they offered game saves to be uploaded to the ngp via bluetooth, wifi or direct usb link then the notion of having plus becomes moot.
cloud saved my life i just got the YLOD while playing Demon Souls and all hope was lost when it first came out i put most of my game saves on it put haven't updated it since meaning I'd lose all my progress in DS and KS3. For those that haven't played DS it's the hardest most thought provoking RPG i've ever played and if you beat a boss, level up, etc. it's not simple to recuperate the loss and if you send it in to get repair it's sent back with an empty HDD (everything gone pic,vid,saves) so whatever the reason i'm glad we got the cloud when we did. I was also able to get my ps3 to turn on(using gilksy method on youtube) long enough to transfer my pis and update my save to cloud all i need is a PS3.
Hey, I have a question about the cloud save thing. Can you save all of your stuff(music or vids) or just game related stuff(like saves and trophies)?
Also can you save game files for any game? Or just the ones that allow you to.(I believe Motorstorm prohibits copying the save data.)
full length movies, no. small movie clips and pictures? i dont see why not. you do have a limit as to how much you can upload, so it makes it impractical though.
i think there have been two games reported that dont work with the cloud feature, i cant remmeber the names, but they were games that didnt sell much and werent big name titles. saves with save protection can be uploaded, so yes, motorstorm and other games such as demon's souls can be uploaded to the cloud
right now no movies or pics that i know of and most games are compatible(copyrighted or not) right now but all future games will support it all of mines did. If your considering getting it PS+ is more than worth it you get a lot of betas and free games along with exclusive features like auto-downloading and the cloud and i'd expect most things in the future to be the same. It's 50 for a year+3 more months free and every month you get free stuff and discounted things but the later you sign up the more you miss out on in the free stuff department.
As per usual, Finland not included.
A step in the right direction but really in 2016, two factor authentication should be an industry standard in an optional capacity for absolutely anything which stores bank card details. I hope Sony plans on adding that down the road sometime this year.
All I did was sign up for an American Express Serve. And I use that for all my online transactions. Its prepaid and you just load money when you want to use it. They are so many options but good to see Sony come out with their own. For gamers seeing a logo they know like Playstation could be more reassuring.
I usually just buy PSN cards but this is a pretty good option as well. Not to mention you can pay a lot more than just PSN with them.