Sony Interactive Entertainment has left Turkish PlayStation Plus subscribers stunned and infuriated as they announced a staggering price increase of over 600% for the monthly subscription service. Effective immediately, the monthly cost has surged from 400 Turkish Lira (TRY) to a jaw-dropping 2,340 TRY, sending shockwaves through the gaming community.
"INDIE Live Expo, Japan’s premiere online digital showcase series connecting indie game fans all over the world, highlighted more than 150 games during its Saturday broadcast introducing world premieres, new trailers, and updates during its 10th-ever digital showcase." - INDIE Live Expo.
A schedule for all of the currently announced game conferences in June 2024, including the Summer Game Fest 2024 date and times.
For the first time in a long time I have a hard time feeling excited for these events. Maybe it's because of all these massive lay offs and closures there hasn't exactly been good news since the start of the year.
Maybe come next week I'll get a little more excited but I dunno I just can't get too excited right now
Is it just me or is there little to no buzz or marketing leading up to this compared to previous SGF?
After the way they rudely hurried people off the stage at The Game Awards, I won't bother watching any of the streams for this. I'll just checkout out a few game trailers on Youtube after they're uploaded there.
The VP of Marketing at Boosteroid revealed that the company is in talks with major publishers to secure exclusive games on the service.
So they're adding Skull and Bones to their service? That doesn't seem exciting at all lol.
I love how this article leaves out the fact that Turkey has debased the value of its currency so much in recent years that the government has now had to raise the interest rate to 25% to try to address the issue:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/0...
To put that in perspective against the inflation problem in the US, the Federal reserve has only raised the interest rate in the US to 5.5% to limit inflation, and people consider that high.
Woah! Not jealous.
Whilst their currency did take a knock, a 600% increase is definitely not justified and based on pure greed. This should serve as a warning for the future some of you numbnuts are promoting, an all digital and subscription future will look like this irrespective of platform.
Yeah they closed that loophole quick after the report of that one gamer stacking subs all the way to 2050 for a very low price (compared to US funds).
https://mp1st.com/news/game...
Geezus, Jimbo when’s enough going to be enough!? You’re already doubling down on GaaS, we’re paying $70 for standard games, I mean what more do you want from us?