Driveclub ps+ edition detailed

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Zekkyou on 07 May 2014

What kind of sense does that make? @___@ If this is indeed true, then it's kind of like they are punishing you for getting the free version first :p

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kitler53 on 07 May 2014

kowenicki said:

Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

DerNebel said:
It's pretty stupid. But I guess Sony are just testing this out. If it doesn't work then they won't try it again.

They shouldn't be testing the waters. This is the same sh1t we still haven't forgiven Microsoft for, not to mention this game was supposed to be a launch day title.

The PS+ upgrade is a blantant rip off, and it takes advantage of consumer ignorance the same way MS has been doing for years, but considering all the postive PR Sony has gotten so far, this is truly disturbing and hopefully an oversight.

For 10$ more, or waiting a few weeks, one can get the retail permanent copy of the game rather than paying a 50$ to keep the game with a subscription.

Its actually worse.

I am guessing its a mistake.

hardly, the reveal xbone was much worse. this is just an unappealing option for this game.

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kitler53 on 07 May 2014

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This must be somehow mistyped. Everything you pay for while using PS+ stays with you forever even without subscription. Would be weird if that stopped with this game.

if you have a ps+ game and you buy dlc for the game you lose access to the dlc when you cancel your ps+ subscription.

...appearantly they are handeling the upgrade as dlc to the driveclub ps+ edition. so basically, the ps+ edition is like a demo and if you like it buy the full game not the demo upgrade.

stupid as hell but whatever.

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jlmurph2 on 07 May 2014

Azerth said:

kowenicki said:

Its actually worse.

I am guessing its a mistake.

doesnt seem like a mistype atleast

...what?

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Azerth on 07 May 2014

jlmurph2 said:

Azerth said:

kowenicki said:

Its actually worse.

I am guessing its a mistake.

doesnt seem like a mistype atleast

...what?

its from the ps blog comment section

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DerNebel on 07 May 2014

Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

DerNebel said:
It's pretty stupid. But I guess Sony are just testing this out. If it doesn't work then they won't try it again.

They shouldn't be testing the waters. This is the same sh1t we still haven't forgiven Microsoft for, not to mention this game was supposed to be a launch day title.

The PS+ upgrade is a blantant rip off, and it takes advantage of consumer ignorance the same way MS has been doing for years, but considering all the postive PR Sony has gotten so far, this is truly disturbing and hopefully an oversight.

For 10$ more, or waiting a few weeks, one can get the retail permanent copy of the game rather than paying a 50$ to keep the game with a subscription.

Blatant rip off seems like a bit of an overreaction. The reason for the upgrade to be still tied to the PS Plus subscription is probably to prevent people from just using one of those free test codes for PS Plus to get the game cheaper, though that could certainly be done better.

I personally don't see very many people going for this, but honestly, if you plan to stay a PS Plus member then I'd say that there isn't much harm in doing this. I highly doubt that there are many people that are planning to get this game a week before their PS Plus membership runs out, which they then don't plan to renew and if it runs out a couple months later then you probably won't be playing the game anymore anyway.

And it's not the same as MS's DRM, you can still buy the game physically or digitally without upgrading from the PS Plus edition and play the game whenever you want PS Plus member or not.