I think Sony is onto something with PSN Plus and I'll explain why.

[kain_kusanagi]

Lafiel said:

kain_kusanagi said:
PSN+ does not interest me in the slightest. I'd much rather just get random sales than pay for a subscription to "free" games that I'll lose if I end my subscription.

To me games are not a service. They are products for me to purchase and I don't want o purchase anything temporary. It's more like an extremely limited rental service.

The "free" games on PSN+ are more like rentals. But you don't get to pick them out. Sony picks some games and allows you to download and play them. Who say's I wanted those games? Maybe I want different games. Subscribers are paying for access to these "free" games regardless of if they get any games that interest them.

If PSN+ was more like Netflix, meaning that you pay a monthly fee to access 1 or 2 games a month but have access to the entire catalog of games, I could at least see the value. But as the service is right now, I just don't want to spend money on access to games Sony picks for me and sales on stuff I may not want.

While I do understand your gripes that Sony picks the stuff and that you don't actually own the games that you can access without further payment apart from your subscription fee, I do think that without these limitations the service would realistically cost 10 or more times the amount it does now, which makes it way less attractive to me, especially because Sony often picks really good games tbh.

But plus definitely is not an "extremely limited rental service", as you can keep all the stuff you got at once and for however long your subscription runs.. that's way different to renting something for a few days. And additionally there are sales on a lot of things which you can buy and keep "forever".

By "extremely limited rental service", I mean the following:

Not the entire PSN game list.

Limited to what Sony picks for you.

If you miss a month you are S.O.L.

 

As for the "keep forever" sales you are talking about. Sure that's nice, but Origin, Steam, XBLA, and Wiiware all have sales and you don't have to subscribe to access them. XBLA does have a few Gold only sales very rarely, but I just don't see the point of paying for access to sales. It's like buying a coupon book for the grocery store without getting to peak inside first.

I'd conside PSN+ if it had at least one of the following:

Full access to entire catalog games at all times (With or without a limit to how many you can play at a time) Like Netflix

Full perminent ownership of games.

Exclusive games that I want and will never be able to get anywhere else.

 

As of right now I see no value in PSN+ for myself. I will stick to buying physical copies when ever possible and buying the occasional digital only when one catches my or or is on sale.