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ListerOfSmeg said:
DamnTastic said:
Name me another service that rents better games.
Untill then -> PS+ = king


Fixed that for you. You are not "given" the games as you do not own them.  You are not given anything when you have to pay money for those things. Thats like saying my car was given to me, even though I paid for it.


The word 'given' does not indicate that a price was not paid.



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fps_d0minat0r said:
ListerOfSmeg said:
DamnTastic said:
Name me another service that rents better games.
Untill then -> PS+ = king


Fixed that for you. You are not "given" the games as you do not own them.  You are not given anything when you have to pay money for those things. Thats like saying my car was given to me, even though I paid for it.


The word 'given' does not indicate that a price was not paid.

Don't waste any energy on him, he uses all of it to spin anything related to Playstation.



You get Netflix to watch movies. You do not get PS+ for the games only. They are merely one of the features.



1 Movie /= 1 Game



Panicnausia said:

It's better then xbox live that's all I know. Comparing netflix to a game service? Netflix gets the shows after they have already aired...................Usually quite awhile later.

 

There is more to plus then the games...The auto updates, cloud saving for cross plat like MLB the show and other benefits as well.

 

What's hilarious is having to bring up netflix, which it is not even in competition with....Trying to deflect the attention away from Live?

Tell Sony to get ESPN app to save me from subbing to cable then we'll talk about it.

Then who talked about Live?



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ListerOfSmeg said:
As mainly a PC gamer I get free games all the time. To me its just another reason not to own either the X1 or PS4.

@Cj2i3, I just finished 6 seasons of Dr Who and it cost me 8.00 instead of the hundreds it would cost to buy them all separately. Doesn't make it any less of a rental service. Now that is value for your money


I want free games on PC. How do I get them?

Or are you talking about piracy?



Legend11 said:

So I keep seeing some people rave about how great PS+ is and it has me thinking about how we as console gamers have a very low bar set when it comes to getting value for our money.  It's very obvious to every console gamer that buys new games that we don't get anywhere near the same value for our money that PC gamers do.  So it's surprising that some people don't see the same situation for PS+ since an even bigger gap exist in value when comparing it to other subscription rental services.

To illustrate this point here's a comparison between PS+ and Netflix.

Lets start with the number of titles available, Netflix US has 10186 movies/shows available compared to 20 for PS+.  Imagine what people would say about Netflix if it only offered 20 titles to choose from (or even 200 for that matter).  Yet PS+ gets away with offering just 20 titles and not only that, you need to own all three of their systems to play them all.

Then there's the amount of exclusive content you get with the services.  For Netflix you're looking at new seasons of exclusive TV shows that cost 10-30+ million to make.  For PS+ you're looking at a couple of indie games that might cost a few million to make at best.  In fact PS+ would have to step up its game considerably considering Netflix is investing even more heavily into exclusive content and will have even more new TV series in the future.

I know some people are going to want to compare PS+ to Xbox Live (very poor value) but it doesn't change anything except to show another case where we as console gamers should be demanding far more than what we're getting for out money.

What the cat are you talking about?



Let us compare now PSplus to a banana pie, the banana pie is delicious and you can eat it, the PSplus, you can´t! Therefore, PSplus sucks. Banana pie for the win.



My grammar errors are justified by the fact that I am a brazilian living in Brazil. I am also very stupid.

Also yeah I hate when guys talk about things they have never tried. What do you mean indie games?



WagnerPaiva said:
Let us compare now PSplus to a banana pie, the banana pie is delicious and you can eat it, the PSplus, you can´t! Therefore, PSplus sucks. Banana pie for the win.

That's a good point.  It seems the bar is set low for both PS+ AND Netflix users, as neither taste nearly as good as a banana pie.

I think the OP needs to update his post.