One of the two companies is lying, and I’d rather want consumers to get a better deal than a corporation.

My premium sub was set to auto renew last week, but had an old cc attached and was flagged. Once I recognized this and fixed, I saw the price increase and was like ‘Fuck This’. Just a ridiculous increase, and I in no way play enough ps+ content to warrant this. And thank god that it was flagged otherwise Sony would have just been fine charging me with the increase with no notification. Just bullshit.

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.

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.