Playstation Plus discussion thread - Part deux

Clowns. Looks like PS Plus Essential for me until Jan 2023 if thats true. Should be a flat rate for everyone to upgrade.

I know how anti consumer Sony can be but i even find it hard to believe that when it's implemented in Europe and NA, when you are upgrading from your current Plus to premium that's it's gonna say " oh you got your current sub for 45 instead of 60, you have to pay more to upgrade". "Oh you paid full price for your current sub, your upgrade option will be a bit cheaper".

That would be unnecessarily **** out of Sony.

Hopefully something just got lost in translation. I saw another snippet saying that if you stacked several months/years of PS+ before the switch, you'd have to pay full whack if you wanted to upgrade a tier. In other words, pay the monthly difference x the number of months you had amassed in one go. I don't believe that for a second, so I'm wondering if people on social media are just misreporting stuff (which, let's be honest, is par for the course).

That's pretty **** then.

Lol. Even I can't defend that one. Good thing I just let it renew yearly. Just renewed 2 weeks ago, and Now due to renew next month. Wonder how that'll work out.

Looking forward to a few of those PS5 games, but have zero interest in the pre-PS4 games so Extra will do me fine, no need to upgrade to anything I'm guessing. Using the poor Hong Kongese to test out the reaction to it. I can see it changed a bit before the US/EU, but it wouldn't surprise me if Sony just went nah, that's the way it is. Most people will give out and pay anyway. Some may just stay on the lower level. Some will not renew. Sony prefers the most!

Suppose it's extra sour because of all the ways you can get Gamepass Ultimate for pennies through Gold deals and GPU upgrade thingy. But that's not something I can see lasting for too much longer. I'd say much like PS+, GP will eventually be hard to get a deal on, because they have to start making money off it at some point! Just my prediction though, based on nothing but opinion. I'm going to be taking advantage of that upgrade next month, so can't be saying anything. Then again, I'm only doing it to have it, haven't turned on the XS in a few weeks I think.

Had a sconce on the desktop site, seems if you have both Plus and Now you'll automatically be moved to Premium. That's a balls. Was hoping there would be an option, because the Extra tier is basically what I have now and don't want to change. Guess we'll find out on June 22/23.

I'll see if the demos are worth the extra. If not, I'll downgrade next year then. I suppose I could just cancel the Now renewal...

No, if your Now renews it will only cost the €60. If it doesn't it seems you'll need to pay the €20 plus the upgrade charge for the remainder of your subscription to Extra or Premium.

Now is basically gone and you can't get subs for it anymore. I can't see your sub being renewed.

That's almost 1000 euro which sounds about right if the upgrade is as follows.

You buy 1 year of PS Plus for 60 euro a day before the new service. Then that either converts to PS Plus Essential or you can pay another 60 euro to upgrade to Premium as that is 120 euro a year. You do that for 20 years and it's 1200 euro. Shyte there isn't a reduced cost to upgrade it for loyal plus customers but it seems you only convert straight to premium if you have PS Now stacked.

Now, as for the discounted subs, if you bought PS Plus for 45 euro (which most of us have) and Sony want you to pay 75 euro to upgrade to Premium, then that is the most scummy thing Sony have possibly ever done. They're the ones who discount it in the first place, not like we're getting dodgy plus subscriptions from 3rd parties. If this is still the case by the time it gets to Euro and NA release, they will have some amount of backlash on their hands.

To top off, I've read multiple posts on SM this morning where people are defending Sony with "damn right, that's what you get for trying to play the system". I mean, I get there will always be fanboys but Jesus.

I havent seen your scenario anywhere else as yet.

Leave auto-renew on and see what happens. Not long to wait.

EDIT: just saw this. No problems with Now renewing but they had auto-renew on since before new PS tiers were announced.

Are you able to turn auto-renew on at this stage? I would imagine probably not.

This came up when I tried to turn it on from the phone app!

I was afraid to click confirm.

Thanks a million that actually worked. When I downloaded Dirt a few months back both the PS4 and PS5 editions were downloaded so strange how this was different.

Looks like I can't do it!

What a pain! 😁