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Some PS Plus Players Are Seemingly Getting Hit With A Giant Upgrade Tax

Some players in Asia report having to pay extra to upgrade discounted PlayStation memberships.

gangsta_red696d ago (Edited 696d ago )

"That might sound like a weird outlier, but it’s not uncommon for some of PlayStation’s biggest fans to stack years and years of subscriptions when there’s a particularly big discount on them"

It's not just PS fans that do this, it's pretty common all around. I'm paid for PS+ and Live Ultimate until 2023.

One, sony shouldn't have made all this so confusing for people trying to upgrade and two, they shouldn't have taken away the ability for people to stack their subs. We just had an article celebrating how PlayStation Network generates over a $14 billion in digital sales, they could at least pass on the savings to us gamers who have been giving them money for how many gens now.

hopefully this is a mistake that will be corrected soon

darthv72696d ago

Maybe this is just an isolated thing as the stories i have read all seem to point to HK?

And honestly, how TF is Sony going to know how much i paid for my PS+ codes from CDKeyes?

Orchard696d ago

If I understand correctly, this won't apply to ones you got from CDKeys. It's hitting people who acquired PS+/PSNow via official discounts on the PS store.

The other part would hit you though, the part where if you choose to upgrade tier, you'd need to upgrade for the entire duration of your existing subscription.

VenomUK695d ago

‘Tax’ Kotaku using hyperbole to whip up a frenzy. Most other websites have written ‘upgrade cost’ or ‘fee’.

neutralgamer1992696d ago

The best thing to do is just wait few months for the service to launch and figure out all the kinks and then just sign up because right now there seems to be a lot of confusion

ABizzel1696d ago

It shouldn't be happening. According to reports it's been based on people who stacked PS+ post the announcement of PS+ Premium tiers, so we'll see if this affects people who had PS+ stacked for years prior. I'm in that same boat I have PS+ stacked for 3 years always, and I just so happened to sign up for PS Now a month or so before the announcement, so we'll see what happens.

Tacoboto696d ago

"PlayStation Network generates over a $14 billion in digital sales, they could at least pass on the savings to us gamers"

But they just can't afford a game catalog service *and* AAA development costs. To quote Ryan, any chance of $13 billion again will just "deteriorate the first-party title quality".

thesoftware730695d ago (Edited 695d ago )

I think Sony did complicate things a bit with upgrade stuff. The new PS+ should have been 2 tiers, not 3.
Essential and premium, essential should have been what we got now with regular PS+ with some PS classics thrown in at launch and every month, with Premium being the whole sha-bang.

elazz695d ago

It has been corrected. Users just started reporting that their price dropped.

darthv72695d ago

guess we can take this story down. Crisis averted... https://twitter.com/AskPlay...

Christopher695d ago

As of the time of this news posting, it was legit and accurate. We don't remove it just because things change. All of the comments and complaints were legit up until it was handled. We don't remove older news because it's no longer accurate. It's a timestamp in history.

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SoulWarrior696d ago (Edited 696d ago )

I hope this gets amended, I've stacked plus until 2025, if I wanna upgrade to one of the other tiers for a bit why the hell do I have to pay for the entire duration of my current sub???

I miss Shawn Layden.

Knushwood Butt696d ago

This is basically the same as a question I asked in another thread,

If you're basically tied to a tier then I think I'll be sticking to Essentials.

Stanjara696d ago

Because you didn't pay for premium plus service till 2025.
You smarter than the rest of us?

Aloymetal696d ago

''I miss Shawn Layden.''
Uncle Tretton still the best but yeah this Jim dude is not very likeable and his management is kinda weird.

Yppupdam695d ago

Agreed, I said this when he first appeared, He looks like an old school Hard a$$ boss, The kind of guy that is difficult to work with that knows how to run other sections of the company well but, has been put in charge of a market he doesn't understand.

elazz695d ago

It has been corrected. Users are reporting that their price has been dropped.

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XiNatsuDragnel696d ago

I hope this gets corrected immediately.

Star51696d ago

Yea, this needs to be corrected. Why would this even be a thing? If you have a sub, let them upgrade. How they acquired is irrelevant

Christopher696d ago

I don't know about various areas in Asia, but fairly certain this will result in a few lawsuits if they try this in EU.

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Ranking the Devil May Cry Series

VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."

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VersusDMC4h ago

First to last for me...3,4,5,1,2.

VersusDMC2h ago

Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.

Still a good game though.

Friendlygamer3h ago

3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them

monkey6023h ago(Edited 3h ago)

2.
Dmc.
4.
5.
1.
3.

God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best

Yui_Suzumiya1h ago

1 and DmC. The rest are unimportant.

DarXyde1h ago

Order changes depending on your focus. I tend to focus on gameplay/fun factor, so...

5, 3, 1, 4, 2.

I really didn't like 4 but commend Dante's weapon diversity. The retreading of old ground was pretty unacceptable to me.

But even then... Still more enjoyable than 2 for me

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Unicorn Overlord is a tactical RPG masterpiece

Vanillaware's tactical role-playing game Unicorn Overlord is a beautiful mix of old mechanics and new-age graphics, with over 65 unique recruitable characters and a rich storyline.

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jznrpg3h ago

I have the game and downloaded it going to start it tonight and play it on the Portal.

NotoriousWhiz1h ago

Enjoy. This game is so much fun and so addictive.

jznrpg1m ago

I heard great things and I am a fan of most Vanillaware games so I’m looking forward to it. Waiting for my kids to fall asleep and I’m good to go

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Beloved Strategem Still Broken as Helldivers 2 Players Plead to Devs

Some Helldivers 2 players are frustrated with some content still being broken, so read this article to see what that is all about.

TwoPicklesGood1d 5h ago

Some?? Try all. Mechs are bugged, many weapons are useless including the newly renewed ones, stratagems are bugged or weak, we still get stuck in the terrain with no way out, and the list goes on. Good game but they need to fix the issues before doing anything else.

jznrpg2h ago

Love the game hate the bugs. The worst for me is difficulty reverted on me so I can’t play past hard 5 and it won’t unlock again. Friend invites are spotty. Need a rejoin mission button for when you get booted (seems to happen at night more often than the day time) Fell through the world once. Got stuck a couple times on destroyed ships, on rocks a couple times stuff like that. There are other issues but those are the ones that bothered me the most without getting into weapons and strats. It all adds up. It’s not every mission besides the difficulty issue but it’s a bit frustrating. They have something special but the bugs are hurting it.

I want the difficulty one fixed right away and the friend invite as well. If they keep adding new stuff and with it comes new issues they may end up with so many issues they can potentially ruin the game.I can live without new anything for some time (however long it takes really) if they fix the major issues first.

jznrpg2m ago

I just re-unlocked level difficulty 6 after doing the 3 missions again today. Scared to try level 7 I might just keep it this way until I know I won’t have an issue and farm super samples I need. 7 is better farm wise but I’m fine with running 6 instead for the time being