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SnakeEyez on 29 July 2013
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walsufnir said:
Talal said:
walsufnir said:
Talal said:
walsufnir said:

Yes, but they are not giving them away for free and it is tied to your ps+-account. If you can't see the technical difference between these two solutions I can't help you.


The only difference I can think of is that the games go away when your subscription ends, which isn't very important since people would have:

1- already played the game

2- renew to play the game.

So what's the difference?

 

OT: interesting games this time IMO.


People pay especially for ps+ so that publishers get money off the money you give to Sony. MS gives games away for free (well, you could argue this, of course, as you have to pay for gold) but they are really giving it away for free. No additionals costs for gold-members, and they can keep playing the games without gold and without internet.

Then the question arises: How long can you operate the PS3 offline with ps+-membership? I mean you pay for ps+ - do you have to be online to play your games? Does it need to check every x days/hours so that you can play the ps+games?

 

PS+ uses the PS3 internal clock or whatever. Whenever you reach the expiration date the service ends. So you don't need to be online at all as far as I know.


So technically you can be online for ps+, borrow your games, disconnect from internet and the ps3 itself will disable the game the day your subscription ends?

I had PS+ for a month and only got online with Vita to download the games, and never logged back on. I was still able to play the games, not once being required to log back in. On the last day of membership, a little message appeared on screen while I was playing Gravity Rush that said something like "you have xx numbers of minutes left" and after the time, I got booted off the game. No online is required for PS+