For the first time since the service started I let my PS Plus subscription expire. This price hike is atrocious especially for the essential tier. Sony has also removed the ability for backing up saves to USB for PS5 games so your only option is paying for the cloud backups. Ffs. Very likely my last Sony purchase. Glad Linux gaming is a thing.
Pure money grab to force you onto PS Plus
Edit: I was mistaken. You cannot backup PS4 or PS5 game saves to USB on the PS5 either.
What the hell. I wasn’t backing up my saves thinking, “I’ll do it later”, turns out I can’t?
I used to do it every one or two months with my PS4, what a dick move by $ony.
Not seeing good reasoning here. “Adjusting to market conditions” means they went as high as they believed they could bear, and the claim that they haven’t raised prices in “many years” doesn’t justify raising prices by $40 in one jump.
Lots of “consumers” this and that, as if we’re all on board with the hikes because we just recognize so much value in the service.
Ya I ditched apple, disney and PS plus subscriptions recently because of hikes. Really can’t justify the price on this one, its just blatant greed. If they had just kept the price where it I’d probably still have it but I think consumers are tired of being gouged for every last penny. Especially with playstation, they hiked out of nowhere, its a huge increase and theres no additional service.
unhappy with any price hike,this me makes me question paying at all.
but i absolutely don’t want a gamepass world for sony games where games come out day one on sonypass as they do retail. That’s a deathnail for the high quality content that sony provides. The only reason Microsoft can do it is because Microsoft Office pays for it, they are hoping that Office can keep paying for it until the competition is dead. Then they will drop the quality and raise the prices just like every subscription service.
Their excuse doesn’t matter. I’m dropping from Premium to Essential. I might let it expire completely.
The only thing that really bothers me is that a lot of classic games are locked to Premium and can’t be purchased.
I dropped mine, which was an easy choice when I realized how little I was using it and how long my backlog has grown on my Steam Deck. If I resubscribe in the future, it will definitely not be at the top level again, and maybe not even for a full year.
I don’t play online much. But I do have a big gaming catalog built up from the monthly games. In the past, the extra discounts have paid for most of the price for me.
I’ll wait until it goes on sale if I do. But honestly, I have a ton of games that I own outright that I need to play through. So I might just drop it until I need it.
