Playstation Plus Discussion Thread - FAQ in first post

EGriff · 13-06-2013 10:23PM

jaxdasher wrote: »

You play it through the F2P multiplayer version.

So you have to download both even if you don't want to play multiplayer?

jaxdasher · 13-06-2013 10:30PM

EGriff wrote: »

So you have to download both even if you don't want to play multiplayer?

Yep I know. 33 gigs is big enough. I'm out of space myself.

chopperbyrne · 14-06-2013 08:32AM

I currently don't have a Vita, but "purchase" everything for it anyway, so that if I do get one I can have a large library of games immediately.

I hope this stays the same when PS4 launches and I don't need a PS4 registered against my PSN account to add the PS4 games to my library as it'll be at least next summer before I get a PS4.

RangeR · 14-06-2013 08:53AM

chopperbyrne wrote: »

I currently don't have a Vita, but "purchase" everything for it anyway, so that if I do get one I can have a large library of games immediately.

I hope this stays the same when PS4 launches and I don't need a PS4 registered against my PSN account to add the PS4 games to my library as it'll be at least next summer before I get a PS4.

You do that here.

chopperbyrne · 14-06-2013 08:56AM

I'm well aware of the online store, but there's no guarantee you'll be able to "purchase" PS4 games without having a device registered.

I hope we can as it'd be very nice to buy a PS4 next summer and have six or seven games already.

RangeR · 14-06-2013 09:22AM

chopperbyrne wrote: »

I'm well aware of the online store, but there's no guarantee you'll be able to "purchase" PS4 games without having a device registered.

I hope we can as it'd be very nice to buy a PS4 next summer and have six or seven games already.

While I agree we have no guarantee, we can also purchase Vita games without a device registered. I don't believe it's an issue. Only a few months to know.

sin0city · 14-06-2013 12:28PM

Thank you plus for Hitman. It has some of the best dialogue (between guards when you're stealthing about the place) and voice acting I've heard and it looks incredible. The environments are so detailed too. Just wish they'd included a save game option or a few more checkpoints, especially for the professional difficulties.

Captain Chaos · 14-06-2013 03:53PM

sin0city wrote: »

. Just wish they'd included a save game option or a few more checkpoints, especially for the professional difficulties.

That's what makes it professional difficulty, the lack of save points. You have to nail it right first time, every time.

ussjtrunks · 14-06-2013 04:29PM

So guys how does the instant game collection work I know it gives you free games every month but when do they get updated and how many are there usually it looks good value atm for a vita ps3 owner.

Also do the subsciptions work by day or month i.e if I got the 3 month sub now would it end on 14th of September or 90days from now?

RangeR · 14-06-2013 04:31PM

ussjtrunks wrote: »

So guys how does the instant game collection work I know it gives you free games every month but when do they get updated and how many are there usually it looks good value atm for a vita ps3 owner.

Also do the subsciptions work by day or month i.e if I got the 3 month sub now would it end on 14th of September or 90days from now?

Read the FAQ in the first post. All answers are there.

ussjtrunks · 14-06-2013 04:32PM

Read the FAQ in the first post. All answers are there.

just saw it there lol

sin0city · 14-06-2013 04:54PM

Captain Chaos wrote: »

That's what makes it professional difficulty, the lack of save points. You have to nail it right first time, every time.

There are no saves for any difficulty and there are checkpoints on hard, which is a professional difficulty.

I think the older games allowed a couple of saves on higher difficulties too.

jaxdasher · 14-06-2013 04:54PM

RangeR wrote: »

Read the FAQ in the first post. All answers are there.

Keep fighting the good fight RangeR.

circadian · 14-06-2013 11:08PM

DjFlin wrote: »

Every time I buy Gold Membership or MS Points(Which are also a joke), my Xbox Live membership is set to auto-renew. It doesn't even ask. So every time I buy something on my Xbox, I have to log in to Xbox.com and turn off auto-renewal again.

It may have changed, I haven't paid for anything on Xbox Live in about a year.

I've had it mysteriously turn itself back on before, renewed with no notifications. Was annoyed because I got a cheap voucher online.

The phone call to remove my card details was fun.

Looking forward to getting back to PSN, not hiding behind points for prices etc.

Plumpynutt · 15-06-2013 11:17AM

Just a quick question regarding PS+, I want to get it over the next few weeks ahead of getting the PS4, as well as finally availing of all the free games etc. I share my PS3 with my brother (he's 16), so I just want to know

1. If I buy a subscription, I assume that it only applies to my account and he won't be able to access any of the free games or anything even after downloading them to the system?

2. Is there still an age limit of 18 on getting PS+ ?

Thanks in advance

Captain Chaos · 15-06-2013 11:33AM

Plumpynutt wrote: »

Just a quick question regarding PS+, I want to get it over the next few weeks ahead of getting the PS4, as well as finally availing of all the free games etc. I share my PS3 with my brother (he's 16), so I just want to know

1. If I buy a subscription, I assume that it only applies to my account and he won't be able to access any of the free games or anything even after downloading them to the system?

2. Is there still an age limit of 18 on getting PS+ ?

Thanks in advance

Anyone using your PS3 even under a different profile can use your PSN+ content that you download to it.

Plumpynutt · 15-06-2013 11:42AM

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Anyone using your PS3 even under a different profile can use your PSN+ content that you download to it.

Ah really! that's amazing, that's the decision made so, I'm definitely getting it soon

Varik · 15-06-2013 01:00PM

Plumpynutt wrote: »

Ah really! that's amazing, that's the decision made so, I'm definitely getting it soon

Your account has to be on his PS3 and active.

Captain Chaos · 15-06-2013 01:19PM

Varik wrote: »

Your account has to be on his PS3 and active.

They share the same console.

Dozen Wicked Words · 15-06-2013 01:36PM

Had PS+ for a month and already going to have to upgrade my 160gb hard drive. Hoping its as easy as google suggests. So I think I just need a 2.5inch SATA 5400rpm portable internal drive? Any links to any decent options would be appreciated, clueless about all this unfortunately.

Captain Chaos · 15-06-2013 01:39PM

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

Had PS+ for a month and already going to have to upgrade my 160gb hard drive. Hoping its as easy as google suggests. So I think I just need a 2.5inch SATA 5400rpm portable internal drive? Any links to any decent options would be appreciated, clueless about all this unfortunately.

I got this drive for my phat PS3 last year.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Seagate-inch-5400RPM-Drive/dp/B007NVGWV0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1371303461&sr=8-2&keywords=2.5+hdd

It's very easy to do. There are some good youtube videos showing it step by step if you are not 100% sure of what you are doing.

When the PS3 formats it and instals it's own stem files it works out at 840Gb, I have mine near half full thanks to PS+.

Glico Man · 15-06-2013 01:40PM

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

Had PS+ for a month and already going to have to upgrade my 160gb hard drive. Hoping its as easy as google suggests. So I think I just need a 2.5inch SATA 5400rpm portable internal drive? Any links to any decent options would be appreciated, clueless about all this unfortunately.

Depends on how much you want to spend, and if you're collecting games or deleting as you play. If the former, a 1TB will keep you going for a good while. If the latter, a 500GB would be more than suitable.

Heres a great 1TB option from Amazon

If it makes any difference, I plan to upgrade my 320GB to the above next month.

Dozen Wicked Words · 15-06-2013 01:45PM

aaronh007 wrote: »

Depends on how much you want to spend, and if you're collecting games or deleting as you play. If the former, a 1TB will keep you going for a good while. If the latter, a 500GB would be more than suitable.

Heres a great 1TB option from Amazon

If it makes any difference, I plan to upgrade my 320GB to the above next month.

Definitely like to keep majority of the games, me and the kids play on it so lot of different types of games will live on it, looks like I should plump for a 1TB drive then.

Glico Man · 15-06-2013 01:52PM

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

Definitely like to keep majority of the games, me and the kids play on it so lot of different types of games will live on it, looks like I should plump for a 1TB drive then.

Thats the main reason I'm upgrading. I've about 5/10GB space left and would like to keep all my games on the system. I'd also advise you to order a hard drive enclosure. That way you won't have to waste the hard drive you take out.

RangeR · 15-06-2013 02:19PM

aaronh007 wrote: »

Thats the main reason I'm upgrading. I've about 5/10GB space left and would like to keep all my games on the system. I'd also advise you to order a hard drive enclosure. That way you won't have to waste the hard drive you take out.

Just make sure the HDD height is 9mm and you won't have a problem. Don't go for the 12mm.

Dozen Wicked Words · 15-06-2013 02:27PM

RangeR wrote: »

Just make sure the HDD height is 9mm and you won't have a problem. Don't go for the 12mm.

Didn't even know there were different sizes

, thanks for the tip. I suppose DX would be best place to buy something like that?

CastorTroy · 15-06-2013 02:58PM

aaronh007 wrote: »

Depends on how much you want to spend, and if you're collecting games or deleting as you play. If the former, a 1TB will keep you going for a good while. If the latter, a 500GB would be more than suitable.

Heres a great 1TB option from Amazon

If it makes any difference, I plan to upgrade my 320GB to the above next month.

Gonna order this one myself. Any suggestions for an enclosure to use on the spare drive then?

Richard Dower · 15-06-2013 03:44PM

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

Didn't even know there were different sizes , thanks for the tip. I suppose DX would be best place to buy something like that?

There are 5mm, 7mm, 9.5mm, 12.5mm and even 15mm.....you need the 9.5mm but a 7mm will also work. I have a 250Gb Seagate 7mm drive and it worked grand.

Note...Western Digital/HGST will soon have a 1.5TB drive in a 9.5mm format :cool:

Richard Dower · 15-06-2013 03:46PM

I was rather pissed that Uncharted 3 ended up being a 41GB download....you had to download the bloody 2D and 3D files as well. 23GB for those then 4.7GB for the multiplayer, and 11GB for the single player....madness!

tok9 · 15-06-2013 03:57PM

I must admit I'm a little worried about Plus for PS4. With it being pretty much essential for online multiplayer, I'm a bit concerned that the games content may not be as good as it has been for vita and PS3.

Here's hoping it continues to be great anyway.

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