Why Games With Gold doesn't bother competing with PS+...

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sales2099 said:

They don't understand because they stole our culture, but they will.

You subscribe because you have to, not because there are incentives. That said I do like Games for Gold better. The games are actually yours to keep and 2 games per month is more then enough....I don't want so many games that I don't know what to do with them.

Free games have multiple values to Sony/Publishers/Developers.

• Advertising of a Series, usually a few months before a new entry arrives. This was done for several titles since PS+ started the whole thing. I know that because of plus, I will assuredly buy a sequel to Sleeping Dogs if it happens, a game I would have never purchased on my own as I'm not usually into the GTA formula.
• Encourages you to buy more games around release. This is because if Game A becomes available on Plus but you own it on disc, you can then sell that game to Gamestop and put it towards the next big game. I've done this for quite a few PS3/Vita titles. This is effectively speeding up the Buy-Trade-Buy process which lessens the hurt developers get from the used game market.
• Developers get some kind of payment for their games being available on plus. I think they make a guestimate percentage of how many copies they would have sold regardless, this is garanteed profit in their hands right now, which works really well for indie titles that might have struggled to sell with no advertising budgets

And more good games is always better than few good games. Its not like PS+ is giving away crap stuff, these are AAA titles and hot topic indies we are getting. Owning them out right versus only as long as you are a member is irrelevant when the avg person sells their games after a month or two. You also don't have to download them all at once, you just add up a few of them that you would like to play for the time being, then delete when you are done.