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Euphoria14 on 01 August 2014
phaedruss said:
Some people will defend Sony no matter what.

Some people will ask a question and then when it is answered just ignore it since they don't know what to say.



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gergroy on 01 August 2014
Munkeh111 said:
Yes, so an overpriced service is like stealing. There's definitely no logic missing there.


Anyway, if they price it too high, people won't buy. But I doubt Sony are the only ones setting the prices it. Personally, I'm not hugely interested, I still like owning physical games and I don't have the choice anyway given my UK location

highway robbery

 
noun
1.
robbery committed on a highway against travelers, as by a highwayman.
2.
Informal. a price or fee that is unreasonably high; exorbitant charge.


KLXVER on 01 August 2014

They can charge 1$ or 100$ for a week for all I care. Never using that service anyway...



FentonCrackshell on 01 August 2014
phaedruss said:
Some people will defend Sony no matter what.


Yes, some will. But most here aren't defending Sony. We Sony fans mostly agree that it's not a great deal. But it is only an option. If you don't like it just don't use it. That's what I'm doing. How about you?



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Normchacho on 01 August 2014

"highway robbery"? spending $8 a week to rent a game is robbery? Jesus, I can't imagine what Redbox is then...manslaughter?

In my opinion Sony needs to focus PSNow on older games and make it a subscription service. $60 a year to play all the PSone and PS2 games I want would be great. The issue is that it probably wouldn't financially viable to include PS3 or PS4 games into that mix.



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Munkeh111 on 01 August 2014
gergroy said:
Munkeh111 said:
Yes, so an overpriced service is like stealing. There's definitely no logic missing there.


Anyway, if they price it too high, people won't buy. But I doubt Sony are the only ones setting the prices it. Personally, I'm not hugely interested, I still like owning physical games and I don't have the choice anyway given my UK location

highway robbery

 
noun
1.
robbery committed on a highway against travelers, as by a highwayman.
2.
Informal. a price or fee that is unreasonably high; exorbitant charge.

There's clearly a difference between robbery and a high price. The whole point of a robbery is that the money is taken against your will



AnthonyW86 on 01 August 2014

Guys it's a game STREAMING service not a rental service. They have servers that run the game, and that costs money.

And then you have this in the OP: "e considering that the game can be bought for $6.99 used from GameStop".

Did they really just use USED game price for comparison??



phaedruss on 01 August 2014
Euphoria14 said:
phaedruss said:
Some people will defend Sony no matter what.

Some people will ask a question and then when it is answered just ignore it since they don't know what to say.


Here I'll answer your moronic "question" here too. Having more services would never ever reduce the number of deals possible.



gergroy on 01 August 2014
Munkeh111 said:
gergroy said:
Munkeh111 said:
Yes, so an overpriced service is like stealing. There's definitely no logic missing there.


Anyway, if they price it too high, people won't buy. But I doubt Sony are the only ones setting the prices it. Personally, I'm not hugely interested, I still like owning physical games and I don't have the choice anyway given my UK location

highway robbery

 
noun
1.
robbery committed on a highway against travelers, as by a highwayman.
2.
Informal. a price or fee that is unreasonably high; exorbitant charge.

There's clearly a difference between robbery and a high price. The whole point of a robbery is that the money is taken against your will

ok, but the term highway robbery has a second definition here.. a pretty common one here in the states... As there aren't really robbers on highways anymore...



Teeqoz on 01 August 2014

12 dollars for 30 days ain't bad...