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Alphachris on 23 October 2012
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I also subscribed to PS+ several months ago. For the money I spent on PS+, I got games like InFamous2 or Red Dead Redemption that I was probably going to buy. So I surely have profited by PS+.

But although the instant game collection is a good opportunity, I will not keep my PS+ subscription. I already have a huge backlog of 20 games and therefore I do not need more games. Since I rent my PS+ games I should give them a higher priority since I will lose access to them in a few months.

So I get some games for free, that I would never have bought. So I will not play them (Bulletstorm for example)now even if I get them for free because I simply do not like the Genre.

Then there are games like Deus EX and Dead Space 2. I know that they were very well reviewed and they are for free... but I simply doubt that I may like them. I do not want to have 0% games on my trophy list and so I think about which games I play... and if I start playing them I try to finish them. And since I am not a big fan of SciFi I doubt that I will like them.

Thats the problem with subscription services. Since you pay for them you want to get the most out of them since you don't want to waste money. But I want to chose for myself which games I play. I have no control on which games are coming to the instant game collection and I do not have time to play all games.

For me, it is a kind of a lose-lose-situation. If I play Deus EX now instead of a game I would really like to play now, I am going for less fun for me and I waste time ... and if I play the other games, I miss out on the free games and waste money. Either way, I somehow lose.

So, If I had only little money and therefore no backlog and I could not afford the really wanted games at launch, I would surely benefit from PS+. But for my personal situation, where time is the restraint, I think that I do not need it anymore, since I can't make full use of it. Since I can only get games that I do not already have bought I will most likely get games that I do not really want and that I normally would never play anyway.