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BMaker11 on 06 December 2013
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Ronster316 said:
BMaker11 said:
Ronster316 said:
Well, back in the day a lot on here said they would never pay for online.

But credit where credits due, PSN has improved over the years.

3 or 4 years ago it wasn't worth paying for (and to be honest, if i want a game, i buy it day one or not long after release, so ps+'s free "we'll decide when you play this game or not" games don't man squat to me)

Now a day's take away the "free rented games" that i don't care about, and as a service, i still think Live is top dog, but the justification to pay for PSN is now just about valid.

You can't do that. That is a merit of the servive which warrants subscribing to it. If you can say that, then I can say "take away the online MP for XBL and PSN is top dog". I'd say something else for comparison sake, but online MP is literally all the XBL offers.

And I really doubt you don't care about the games. On a list that includes games like LBP2, Super Street Fighter IV, Borderlands 2, inFamous 2, Batman: Arkham City, Sleeping Dogs, UC3, XCOM, BF3, Assassin's Creed 3, Mass Effect 3, and many, many more games, that all come out within a year after the game initially released (no releasing a 7 year old game in a monthly update), I doubt you just "don't care" about them, considering these are all big games. And if you download and play just 1 or 2 of those games over the course of one year, PS+, then, has already paid for itself, and you still have ALL the other games to choose from. If you put it in that perspective, you don't really pay to play online. Technically, yes you have, but in practice, no you haven't


I bought Super Street Fighter IV day 1, Sleeping Dogs day 1, Arkhan City day 1 all on 360, the other games mentioned that are multiplat i could not care about.

For ps3, LBP does not interest me, by the time i got my ps3 i got UC3 for £8 & Infamous 2 for £4 (and best of all i get to keep them)

Basically, for the last year that i have had a ps3, i would have got UC3 & Infamous 2 for my £40 investement if i subscribed to PSN.

A net loss of £28 then.

I'm not saying its not value for some, but as someone who gets his games mostly day 1 if its something that interests me, PSN is not a worthwhile investment.

I'm not saying you have to get those games in particular, just that games of that caliber are available for free. I didn't want to list every single game that's available. Anyway, you don't have infinite money. And there are games you haven't bought. You may get a lot of games on Day 1, but there's a host of games that I'm sure you haven't, put have wanted to play. And those games are free to you with PS+. And if you play just a few of them, PS+ has already paid for itself.

Unless you're saying that if you don't buy a game Day 1, you never buy it. But that's just silly. There are so many games that come out in a year, and I know you don't buy every single game the day it comes out. Unless you're a millionaire with no job so you have the funds to buy every game, Day 1, and the time to play them.