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I claim everything every month as I own vita, ps3 and ps4. Amazing value even if I probably only really play about 1 in 4 games.



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gergroy said:
You aren't missing anything. They haven't given anything that I have been interested in a very long time. Most months I don't even bother claiming them...

So, he's not missing anything because you have no interest in the games?



Hiku said:
Mystro-Sama said:

So you keep them after the month is over? You'll have to excuse me for not knowing this. I've had my PS4 for a while now and still haven't gotten +. lol

You keep them, but you can't play them unless you have an active PS+ subscription.

I thought if you let your PS+ expire at any time that you permanently lost your licensees to any free games you had.



The_Yoda said:
Hiku said:

You keep them, but you can't play them unless you have an active PS+ subscription.

I thought if you let your PS+ expire at any time that you permanently lost your licensees to any free games you had.

lol no that would be horrible.



Hiku said:
Mystro-Sama said:

So you keep them after the month is over? You'll have to excuse me for not knowing this. I've had my PS4 for a while now and still haven't gotten +. lol

You keep them, but you can't play them unless you have an active PS+ subscription.

Ooh. Thats pretty cool.



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betacon said:
The_Yoda said:

I thought if you let your PS+ expire at any time that you permanently lost your licensees to any free games you had.

lol no that would be horrible.

I wasn't sure, I thought that was the way I had read it and also I'd seen posts like this on the PS forum:

 

Jul 10 2016, 1:59 AM

What you read online is out-of-date.  The licenses of the free games will expire as soon as your Plus subscription expires, but there is no guarantee that you will get them back even if you renew your Plus subscription later.  It depends on how much later, and Sony has been reticent to specify exactly how long you can let your subscription lapse before you lose some, or all, of your free games permanently.  You can't just buy a Plus subscription when you want to play one of your free games.  Sony allowed that for a few months, but that was years ago.

 

I've seen some stuff to the contrary that if you re-subscribe and renew your license then you are good to go again. I've just never let mine expire.



The_Yoda said:
betacon said:

lol no that would be horrible.

I wasn't sure, I thought that was the way I had read it and also I'd seen posts like this on the PS forum:

 

Jul 10 2016, 1:59 AM

What you read online is out-of-date.  The licenses of the free games will expire as soon as your Plus subscription expires, but there is no guarantee that you will get them back even if you renew your Plus subscription later.  It depends on how much later, and Sony has been reticent to specify exactly how long you can let your subscription lapse before you lose some, or all, of your free games permanently.  You can't just buy a Plus subscription when you want to play one of your free games.  Sony allowed that for a few months, but that was years ago.

 

I've seen some stuff to the contrary that if you re-subscribe and renew your license then you are good to go again. I've just never let mine expire.

iirc unless Sony themself are delisting the games you should be fine. Even if it happen they should at least announce it a few week or months earlier.



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Vor said:

So i just realize that you can claim the free PS Plus games on the PS4 even when you don't have it right now. I'm sound like total idiot right now. If only I realize it earlier

I was doing this the entire first year the ps4 was out, by the time I bought the console I had a backlog of almost 50 games to install on it day one.

Sorry you didn't notice me harping on about it in a load of threads on here.



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Lawlight said:
gergroy said:
You aren't missing anything. They haven't given anything that I have been interested in a very long time. Most months I don't even bother claiming them...

So, he's not missing anything because you have no interest in the games?

Sorry, should I have included "in my opinion"?  I thought it was pretty much implied... but yes, this is my opinion.  



You made me just realise that I've missed out on a ton of PS3 and Vita games.