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actually you get 48 freee gammes a year for £40 so its even more value for money

After seeing them games and discounts its a NO Sale, all the stuff is rubbish sorry

Oh man those first few months aren’t that great. Totally put me off now. I was going to get this but I think I’ll wait until we get some truly amazing content.

just seen list i have 80% already rest is rubbish no sale here

there we go my comments have been justified , 1st two months content is giving away stuff loads of people will already have bought especially if they are core gamers

Question about Full Game Trials.

You say we can purchase after playing but the wording you use suggests that this is the download version of the game only. Can you clarify whether you can buy the retail Bluray version of the game and play from where you left of too?

Some of us don’t want to waste HDD space if they can help it!

Seeing the first two months offer, I think I’m into it. They don’t look amazing but promising to me (I already own LBP and Wipeout…).

Stupid question: what’s a “push demo”?

Psn+ will NOT work with those games, i think sony need to rethink about the free games before tuesday 29th

@Peetee36 , @ARMitre
i think the push demos are demos psn+ get acces to before others.

i am liking this even tho i own zen pinball etc i do like the avatars and DLC.

@seany1 we get it, you are not going to subscribe.

@Sereal_Killer
Those demos are already out though.

while i do think Xgame chat shoud be for everyone since it was shown long ago i dont think it will be free.

but this makes me wonder how it will work across ppl with psn+ and psn players.

only things that are exclusive are two dynamic themes that wont be that good as they arent game related at all and 2 fat princess avatars lol ouch thats a trip to burn unit for people who fall for this service

No Sale…

HDD backup online would be an instant sale. If anything goes wrong with my ps3, all my game saves can be downloaded, as long as all my downloaded content automatically re-installing and organising back to the folders i had them in before..

Also, why can PSN+ not effectively be an extended warranty on my system?

..at the moment I feel like I’m being asked to pay for games I don’t necessarily want. I buy lots of PSN titles, but this offers no guarantee that the stuff I will want is the stuff that will be free or discounted.

At the moment, it feels like Sony want our money, but they’ve had to try really hard to think of things to offer us in return.

hmm good point lol.
well im lost i gues maybe he should have used that term in his post above >.>

that game list is awesome the only one i already have is little big planet but i think i will download it anyway so i have it on my ps3 handy brilliant stuff sony !

I would like to choice betwwen maybe 5games because what happens in i alrady have the psn game you give to us?

@seany1

i dont get why try to convince everyone that this is a bad service.
the only thing i have fomr that list is zen pinball so it is worth it to me.

but yo do have a point that if this was aimed at the core gamers most of those would already be bought by them. (i dont have the money to buy all those things each month so the games are worth it to me.

but i didnt expect super awesome things in the first 2 months tho.

For the “Games & Special offers” you say : “A list of the games available in month 1 and 2 can be found below” where is the list ???

Are all those offer, psone game, mini, psn game, full game, dlc going to be only Sony first party / published games ?

Because for now the only game you have talk about are all first party or published by sony, wipeout hd, infamous, littlebigplanet.

One week from launch and we dont know what we are going to have for our subscription… You talk about full game trial, but cant even name the first few games.
You talk about “A list of the games available in month 1 and 2 can be found below” but you dont even show this list…
Its really look like Sony dont know what is going to offer to PSN+ subscriber! We want name ! Full list of what to expect !

oh where can i sign up? im going on vacation on friday is there anyway i can buy this before i go?
i dont think i can access this on vacation since im not taking my ps3(well its not in my plans)

seany1 if your not going to subscribe thats fine but you dont have to constantly comment over and over again saying how rubbish it is and calling everyone who is going to subcribe to it fools it acheives nothing and is just annoying
thank you

@121
its in he comments , his second reply has the list.
i think he is waiting for them to update the post since he doesnt have the autority i gues

Also, I suspect that the US will get better value than the EU….In which case NO SALE.

@malebolgi
Read the reply on the first page.

Not bad, even though I already own some of the content, the discounts bit seems nice.

If the offer game was ModNations instead of LBP (everyone has this awesome game). I would buy it day 1…

I have almost everything you guys are offering on the first 2 months… so no PS + for me… at least for now.

Modnation is too new, Luis_FFgamer. They will only ever offer older titles for ‘free’. It makes no sense to give new titles for free, but they may well offer discounts on new titles, if it promotes sales.

Where are the list of games?

Why is Automatic Download not a standard firmware feature for all PS3 users?

@130 its in a reply on the first page of comments.

@130

Page 1, James 2nd comment

yea i do agree LBP is in theory a good choice but in practive 99% of us already own it. they should have just given us 3 months free.

and there is no way you get a new games that still at 60euroes value for free lol. that would be a huge loss

How I can use Plus when the Store is not available in my country?

would be better to have say 20% off any 2.99 or under content or say 50% of any 1 9.99 to 14.99 rather than limit it to predifined titles this service needs more choice

Disappointed. Nothing to tempt those of us who’ve bought many PSN games already. Reading through the list of month 1 & 2 content, I already have :

LittleBigPlanet
Wipeout HD
Zen Pinball
Shatter
Age of Zombies
Infamous
Flower
Mushroom Wars
Super Stardust HD
Heavy Rain
Modnation Racers

Maybe I should NOT buy new games in the hope that they’ll be including in future PSN+ updates.

Will cloud storage for saves ever be made a part of this?

@ 124 & 126 yes ok just saw the list ! thx.

But it kind of confirm what i fear, it look like its going to be only Sony first party/published stuff, so how long before they dont have any good content…
They allready have to go back to all stuff to fill in the list… But i like the premium game element ! KZ2 map pack first month and motorstorm map pack for the second :O
But i allready have kz2 map pack!

And its going to be the problem if its only Sony content, because alot of us own that allready.

And the Full game trial, for PSN game, its basicly like xbox live where every arcade game have a demo before purshase…

Since it look like Sony is going to use only Sony content, they should have added a free sony movie every month or a discount for drama, scifi, and so on every month !

@137 still the same problem.
you cant discount games if the publishers doesnt allow it.
so if konami is selling lets say MGS2 at 19.99
and sony decides to give you 50% discount that means that sony would have to pay konami 9.99 eacht time because the game would have sold for 19.99.

for sony games this is another story tho.
but in real life it never happens that its really 50% discount on everything lol. its a big loss if they decide to relaase a new game on psn this way and may actualy push them to no release it on psn since the would get more money by selling it in a normal store.

@131 so they can mug as many people into getting PSN+ as possible. Looks like we wont ever see new features on the standard PSN now which is a real shame, everything will be driven into PSN+ to make us pay.

This contradicts the new PSN terms and conditions which state

Type 1: Premium Avatars and Themes, which, so long as you download when originally available you can re-download after you end your subscription.

Type 2: PSN games, PS1 games, Minis and “Premium Game Elements” which we assume is a fancy word for DLC. This, as you’d expect, will no longer be accessible for use after your subscription period expires, even if you downloaded it before expiry.

going by first 2 months , i’d be paying 11.99 for a few avatars , the odd dynamic theme and the vague hope a beta may be around the corner , very disappointed

@ 140 im sorry but you are constantly hounding me for my views which is something i could easily report you for but i wont as im bigger than that . when do i ever mention any other psn users name like you have with me time and time again , i dont simple as that as im not ramming my views down any users throats im stating things over and over with my views so scee get the point that loyal customers like myself are not happy with this psn plus alienating core gamers like me just coz i have bought over 50 of the best psn games and 11 ps1 classics and 5 minis also have bought all dynamic themes and avatars available m8 so im well and truly alienated from this service which im not happy about

@141 that is the problem with any service. you always risk not getting what you want , so you have to decide if the content is gona be worth it to you.

its ezier for sony to do this with their own content becuase they control their own proces other content prices are not determined by sony.

i like the video idea tho but for counties without a vide service it would suck unless they put it on the store.

but this again has problems because they rights to the videos are different per country >.>

I’m also disappointed by the offering- free LBP is a poor choice for your target market and the plan for month 1 and 2 is just not compelling in the slightest

@144 stormyuk
i do think that small features will be for all psn users but you are right in thnking that big features will be only for plus memebers. it might sound unfair but sony needs money to make these services so its only logical.

but on the otherhand as a paying costumer our voices have more power because we can say that we pay for this so we expect more.
in the past we could ask for more but they could just say hey its free just be happy you have this at all.

sony is a company and that means making money

Having seen the contents of the first 2 months, I already have most, and the rest are things I wouldn’t want to go near….

and really? Is it meant to be a special thing that it can push a demo of a game I downloaded the demo ages ago?

Sorry, no sale after all.

Quote: James Thorpe
“Local prices for membership can be found below, payment is a one off fee for either of the memberships and can be purchased with any of the current Store payment methods – Credit Card or PSN Cards”

You seem to have forgotten to post the prices.

Also, this doesn’t use PlayStation 3′s subscription feature like FirstPlay does? With FirstPlay the subscription is automatically renewed unless cancelled. Do I need to manually renew my PlayStation Plus subscription? If this is the case then I’d far rather it be automatic to be honest.

Not sold for the first few months as i already have wipeout HD, i don’t like LBP, 90% of the minis don’t interest me. Not speaking for everyone its just my opinion.

I shall wait to see if this improves any more. I agree with all who say we should have an alternative to LBP, if i was to try it i’d rather have 3 months free than LBP.
I’ve been using my PC more for the last 4-5 months anyway so we shall see.

@151 Agreed, I can understand it but call me a cynic but if we start seeing all the blog share features going into PSN+ I will be very disappointed. One of the reasons I got a PS3 instead of a 360 was because PSN was always touted by Sony as being FREE. Seems now they are starting to get a settled user base the FREE means we wont be getting much improvement which is a shame.

This is what I would add to the PSN+, looking at the current offer. I’m not going to mention cross-game chat, PS2 emulation or things of the like, just following the line it looks Sony is having:

· A couple of film rentals per month – only this would be a huge success for the money paid.
· 20% discount on every item on the PSN Store for PSN+ subscribers, 50% only to a small selection (seriously, current discount system on PSN+ has been the biggest let down for me… very very very little to choose from. Lower prices lead to more purchases, I’m sure profit will increase)
· Some PS Home articles (now few people use it, if things are offered, more people will use it and interest on the platform will increase)
· Finally, of course PSN+ must evolve, this is nice to begin with, but I’m sure every PS3 owner expected much more of it…