Playstation Plus

[Correction]

Added all up, you actually get $89 worth of stuff within the first month. This is including all the free stuff and the discounts.

Quite a bit more than the $50 advertised. I'm actually pretty impressed.

I don't count the discounts as 'received content.' If I did, I'd subtract the $77.92 you're spending anyway on discounted online card games, expansion pack DLC and quarter muncher ports from 20 years ago. Even that assumes you own Warhawk and Fat Princess. Pay for those and your total payout to maximize your first month's discount is over $110. I'm all for sales and discounts but even Sony isn't selling the discounts as part of your first month's 50 bucks.

Playstation Plus is a nice program and it could expand into something even more awesome in the future, I'm just looking at the 'discounts' and 'free perks' more realistically. Out of that entire list only Wipeout HD is at all appealing. The only real incentives for me and anybody who casts an equally jaundiced eye at the discounts is the cross-game voice chat and early beta access. That pretty much puts it on equal footing with XBL Gold.

[Dryr]

the reason you get 3 months free with 1 yr sub is because they really don't expect to be worth it for another 3 months...

[Devolver]

the reason you get 3 months free with 1 yr sub is because they really don't expect to be worth it for another 3 months...

Edit: Meh just nevermind. This topic is funny, so I'll quit taking everybody so seriously

[Faxanadu]

Dear Sony,
Guarantee me a FFXIV Beta invite and you may have my $50.
Sincerly, skeptical.

Seriously, i think its a good deal, but only if you do most of your video game shopping out of a bargin bin (i.e. read crappy or 'old' games), because this is surely what "Plus" will become. A few decent games that i haven't alreday played or bought could quickly change my mind though.

[Kyo]

It's a pretty solid deal for some, currently it doesn't interest me, the free services they already offer is fine with me.

[Kaisha]

PSN+ unrelated post spoilered below involving Canada's Video store:

Spoiler: show

Don't know if anyone cares, but lolCanada finally has Video store up and running on PSN.......along with the PS Store icon being back under the XMB's Video section. -.-
(wish I could turn that shit off, won't be much longer before it's back under the Music section also)

Is this the same setup as you guys in the States, with the Video category at the top that shifts the entire screen over to the right to a video-specific section?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...F/canuck_1.jpg
I kinda wish they'd do that for separating PS3/PSP games so I can check New Releases without having to scroll through a bunch of crap.

As it stands we only got 44 TV shows to pick from (almost all of them being the most recent season only), and a good backlog of 1252 fucking movies, so I'm assuming a lot of that was carried over from the US store.

Spoiler: show

My second fav channel is off to a bad start. ;/
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...sn_canuck2.jpg

Store doesn't seem to bother explaining how their rental process, has anyone used it before? If I ever get an unlimited bandwidth plan and don't feel like pirating, $5 to rent an HD digital copy doesn't sound too bad, but it doesn't explain their terms on renting. I'm *assuming* it sets an expiry date once it's fully downloaded and installed to your HD, rather than the period of paying for the rental on the store, or else those of us with slow net connections get fucked over.

Fuck their prices on owning movies though, I'll just go to the store and get a physical copy for the same, or a few bucks less. Damn companies need to get their heads out of their butts and not be afraid of retail corporations disliking them providing a product for cheaper because it actually costs less to deliver it in that medium.



Also, for any fellow Canucks that gives a crap, Sony is offering a free SD copy of Charlie's Angels (lol) for those who visit the store within the next couple weeks and will e-mail your PSN address with a code for it. ;/

Granted, I wonder if this means I'll be paying in Canadian dollars now for the store overall as I recall them charging me American currency under the games section of the store.

And on the subject of PSN+, it appears only a single person out of my entire friends list of 73 people (I really need to clean my list up) bothered subscribing, and wow did Sony make it obvious. A yellow plus right beside their friends list icon viewable without actually hovering over their account.

[Kurp]

Rentals work like this: you have 14 days to download the movie and watch it. But, when you watch it, it will start a new timer of 24 hours until it expires. So, you can rent a movie and fully download it, but you have some leeway until you actually watch it. When you do decide to hit play, it will start a new timer of 24 hours until it expires.

That appears to be the same format that the US Video section uses.

edit: I just checked and it's the same menu format, but we have only two ads boxes in the center. The right hand portion of the screen is a box with a list of popular movies and TV shows.

[Tomiko]

And on the subject of PSN+, it appears only a single person out of my entire friends list of 73 people (I really need to clean my list up) bothered subscribing, and wow did Sony make it obvious. A yellow plus right beside their friends list icon viewable without actually hovering over their account.

My list isn't that large, but last time I logged on there was only 1 person on my list as well with PSN+. Not really too surprised, but was expecting at least more than 1 to have it since my friend list isn't that small (20-25 I think).

[Veikuri]

Anyone know what the this month's content is and when it's avail?

[Qalbert]

why the fuck did they remove the video utility that let me watch movies from a USB stick.

FUCK.

Seriously? haven't updated it yet, but that would be a major pain in the ass

[braaaanch]

Seriously? haven't updated it yet, but that would be a major pain in the ass

i was trying to load a NTFS stick, FAT32 works fine.

apparently im an idiot.


which leads me to this offtopic question. is there anyway to transfer massive files(5gig+) w/o NTFS so the console can read them?

[Shojin]

i was trying to load a NTFS stick, FAT32 works fine.

apparently im an idiot.


which leads me to this offtopic question. is there anyway to transfer massive files(5gig+) w/o NTFS so the console can read them?

PS3 media server or some other media server, go to the file in the PS3 and press triangle and copy to the PS3 hard drive, it should let you have files larger than 4gb. The PS3 internal drive isn't FAT32, it's a special format specific to the PS3, but it's only compatible with FAT32 external drives.

So either do as I said above or you'll have to split the files yourself.

[Shojin]

For EU Playstation plus subscribers:

Here’s what will be available to Plus members from Aug 4th – Aug 31st
PSN: Zen Pinball
minis: Blast-Off
Alien Zombie Death
PSOne Classic: Medievil
Full Game Trial: Infamous
Mushroom Wars
Exclusive Discounts: Zen Pinball Earth Defense Table – 20%
Warhawk Triple Combo Pack – 50%
GT Club PS3/PSN – 50%
WipeOut HD Fury – 20%
DLC: MotorStorm Pacific Rift: Adrenaline Pack
Automatic download demo: Pixel Junk Shooter
Mafia 2
Dynamic themes: Exclusive PlayStation Plus Theme
Exclusive ‘Clock’ Theme
Premium avatars: Heavy Rain characters x 2

And here is what you can expect to see from the 1st Sept – 30th Sept
PSN: Sam and Max: Devil’s Playground (entire season)
minis: Vector Tower Defense
Echoes
PSOne Classic: Oddworld: Abe’s Oddysee
Full Game Trial: Warhawk (with exclusive 50% discount for Plus members on purchase)
Inferno Pool
Exclusive Discounts: LBP: Ico and Shadow of Colossus costume pack – 50%
Metal Gear Solid (PSOne) – 50%
Warhawk – 20%
Pixel Junk Shooter – 20%
DLC: Exclusive UFC Undisputed 2010 DLC
Dynamic themes: Exclusive PlayStation Move theme
Exclusive ‘Fish Tank’ theme
Premium avatars: Eye Pet Blue Goalie Avatar
Eye Pet DJ Avatar

Sam and Max entire season is about £20 by itself. Zen Pinball is a fun time waster, I play it now and then. Good PS1 and Mini selection too.

I wish US would lay out what they'll get in future months like this, would probably convince me to pick it up. I see more and more people getting plus on my friends list lately, quite a few from BG too.

[Kaisha]

This is the only info on this month that they've released for NA afaik: http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/...rial-and-more/

You Europeans are treated like kings in comparison of bang-for-your-buck. What's disappointed me so far with PSN+ overall is lack of free PSX games. I've seen a couple discounted, and the odd 'free as long as you're subscribed' one, but that's it. Would be better if it was just overall free access to the entire PSX library like we all thought they originally meant.

Also disappointing is the lack of full game trials. One a month, and overall they've been old games that we've already played or can pick up for $19 or less. If they really want people to subscribe what they should do is give hour-long trials to games that are not yet released in retail, or at least something that isn't 6+ months old that already has demos available on the store.

[AoE]

Aside from two people and a near full list, none of my friends have PSN+

[Shojin]

When it first launched just one of my friends had it (my cousin, actually), and over the weeks it slowly crawled up to the 8-9 people on my friends list that have it now.

[Kaisha]

About 6 on my list, but I've no idea if they're in it for 3 months or a full year. If they had one month with insane discounts and freebies (that didn't expire) I'd hop on the 3-month.

[Faxanadu]

Well heres the million dollar question gentlemen, will plus subscribers get garunteed FFXVI Beta invites?

[Shojin]

Well heres the million dollar question gentlemen, will plus subscribers get garunteed FFXVI Beta invites?

It's possible, they'd have to announce FF16 first though.

[Rokku]

Is it wrong that I've actually been considering doing this? It keeps looking like a better and better value with each passing month, and almost every time I turn on the PS3 someone new on my list has a + icon next to their name.