GrizzleBoy
Banned
$50 to rent a game for three months?
The value your customers have come to expect.
I see what you did there.
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All PS Now games available in open beta
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$50 to rent a game for three months?
The value your customers have come to expect.
I see what you did there.
HellBlazer
Member
There are some listed as free (last I checked, like an hour ago) but I got an error when I tried to rent one. :\
DoubleTake
Member
This. There absolutely has to be an option to buy games and own them. All rental based is death for Now
ComputerBlue
Member
You can also rent it for 30 days for $11.99 which is cheaper than buying used. Say you buy it used for $15 and don't like it and want to trade it in, what will you get for it? $3-4?
The prices should definitely be a little lower, and the 4 hour option just needs to be axed. But I don't think they're as bad as everyone was making them out to be.
Don't let FF13 be your first FF. If you have a PS3 get FFX:HD instead. Hell literally any other FF game would be a better first experience, and I didn't even hate FFXIII.
DidntKnowJack
Member
Ignoring the PS Plus aspect I mentioned earlier, I'm not asking for free games. I'm asking to stream the games I already own digitally so I can play them on my PS4. If they can't offer that, then it is BS and Sony can go fuck themselves..
pharmboy044
Member
People pay for alphas (early access) games. Everyone is different.
FirmBizBws
Becomes baffled, curling up into a ball when confronted with three controller options.
I'd be more interested in paying a certain rate (50 cents per hour, depending on the game)than this crap
No, it's not all bad. I guess this is ONLY a service for people without a PS3 any longer. If you have a PS3 you can flat out buy just about all of these games for less than the asking rental price. You may be better off in the long run just buying an old PS3 and just buy these games. Do I want to rent one for $14.99 for, say, 30 days or just own it flat out? Most of these games can be purchased BRAND NEW for less than the "rental" price of 30 and 90 days.
I dunno, it doesn't make much sense to me at all the way it's set up. I haven't followed this news at all. I was under the impression that it was a monthly or yearly fee and you could play like on Netflix or something. The entire rental deal, most of it, just seems very weird to me. That's all.
I would do it for certain games for sure, but I don't see nothing much here of value at all for me personally. I guess I'm not who any of this is aimed at though.
Psycho_Mantis
Banned
The prices aren't too bad. What I really want is PS2 titles 
ComputerBlue
Member
I have a PS3. So ok, i'll make that my first. Thanks.
I just looked and it doesn't look like anything's free anymore =/
I'm so mad that my PS3 is dead right now and that this service isn't even close to an adequate replacement. Ugh. Just give me actual backwards compatibility, even if I have to buy a big attachment. Please.
Kssio_Aug
Member
Actually this 4 hours price may be more for a test, what actually makes sense. If you want to check out a gameplay but dont know if you intend to play it for long, then get the 4 hours option. If it was free of course people would "exploit" it, and if it was 1 dollar some small games would end up way too cheap maybe. I mean, 50 dollars for 3 months I think its too much, but 3 dollars for testing, I think its okay.
Yeah_its_Bob
Member
some of those prices arent bad. A membership would be the better option tho hopefully they figure it out.
Dreamgazer
Member
Still don't see how it's BS.
You own the game on PS3, then go play on the PS3.
Your digital license doesn't come with free streaming.
The PS4 isn't backward compatible and you know this when you purchased it.
Streaming services still has its own cost, why would they provide it to you for free?
SerTapTap
Member
Are they changing the pricing or something? On the PS blog they said $2 for 4 hours. http://blog.us.playstation.com/2014/07/30/playstation-now-open-beta-our-journey-begins/#sf3940847
That and if something's cheaper on the PS Store, you could just go to the web store, buy it, then stream it on PS Now. I really dont think we'll get any of our digital titles for free.
FirmBizBws
Becomes baffled, curling up into a ball when confronted with three controller options.
Personally, at these prices is rather buy the game new and finish it at my own pace, than be in a hurry to finish 3 games in 30 days with the limited time I can put towards gaming
As far as hours, there should be a different strategy:
-first off, there shouldn't be differences in prices for certain games. For example, didn't final fantasy 13 come out after mgs4, yet it is somehow more to rent the latter than the former?
-there should be a day pass rate, week pass rate and a month pass, prices for each would be $2, $7 and $10 or so respectively, IMO
Don't listen to the haters and go in with an open mind.
Its my fave RPG of last gen and has one of the best battle systems in the genre.
And yeah, as a fellow Canadian I agree. There are no places to rent anywhere near me and renting on PS Now will be way cheaper than buying used.
Publishers set the prices for their games, not Sony.
Do you have any concept of the kind of logistics you're asking for though? It doesn't matter if you bought it digitally. Streaming rights aren't tied into digital purchases because it costs money to stream. Did you want unlimited streaming forever or something? It makes zero financial sense.
That said, some of these prices are crazy, others are alright. Service was really good when it was in private beta, very playable.
There isn't a set price. That was just an example or a starting point. Each game is different since publishers set the price.
Yeah.
DidntKnowJack
Member
It amazes me that people equate that as "free."
Wow. Some of you people will literally defend anything.
Look, I understand what you're saying but as a consumer i don't give a fuck what it costs Sony to run this thing. That's not my job. I don't find this value proposition appealing so I will not be taking part in this service. It sounds like a ripoff and I hope it crashes and biurns.
That's one of the only games I'd even consider through this service. It can be beat pretty quickly, right?
This feels an awful lot like the WWE Network to me, haha.
FF13 is not the best entry point in the series. The game is OK but if you want a true entry into FF, go for FF7/8/9.
Dreamgazer
Member
Not paying = expects something to be free.
Please, tell me, what's wrong with my argument.
I've actually been kept in the dark about PS Now. I knew what it was, but really didn't pay attention to the details. Just pulled up Catherine on my PS4 (I guess PS Now is just apart of the store, cool)....
But damn, those prices! What sucks is, I'd gladly pay $20 to own it. I wish you could like..buy it, and then stream it whenever you want (like Apple does with iTunes digital purchases). I guess I'm weird like that. I just don't have a PS3 anymore. I have nothing against a rental system, but I still think they should give you the option to flat out buy the title (it would be a way around the b/c problem).
EDIT: Then again, there is a lot of titles that I pay for, beat and never touch again. So, even $7.99 for 30 days is pretty much to beat any title. So it's basically cheaper than buying a game used I guess (and I can't even use it on my new system anyways). SO eh.
From that blog you linked:
"Also, in a few weeks, you will start seeing reduced pricing on some 4-hour rentals which will appear at $1.99."
So in a few weeks, you'll start to see a $2 reduced price on some of the 4 hour rentals.
I'd imagine offline would be workable, but that's entirely dependent on your internet connection and any existing lag from your HDTV. There's going to be a degree of input lag, could be a little, could be a lot.
Online? I wouldn't count it.
RedAssedApe
Banned
where's usf4? hehe
SerTapTap
Member
Interesting. I guess it's partly publisher's fault for the embarrassing pricing then (though everyone yells at sony). This is the first I've heard of it not being set by Sony. Well, I guess if most people only check out the games starting from $2 instead of $5 Sony will lean on the publishers wanting the higher prices.
Wait ohhhh...I just say the comment and assumed "soon" was "when the beta launches" since it was about the Beta coming soon.
Brian_FETO
Banned
Agreed. Some of the prices are ridiculous and it's not a service I would use often (if my internet can even handle it) but this is a completely new service for both Sony and publishers. People saying "WTF I can get this for ___ on Amazon" are missing the point. If you buy that from Amazon, you can play it on your PS3 natively. This is not only allowing you to play it on a system it's not meant to be played on, but it's using totally new streaming technology.
It really sucks that they aren't letting people stream games that they already own, but it is a different way of delivering the content to you that requires different resources.
Publishers are not going to hand over their titles and lose a bunch of money on a service that hasn't proven itself yet. And if no one goes for PS Now because of the prices, it could fail. We'll have to see I guess
Dreamgazer
Member
Regardless, Sony takes a cut, so they're not completely guilt free.
IAmRandom31
Banned
Zone of the Enders Collection?
Ohhhh yes
Ohhhh yes
GrayDock
Member
I live in RJ (Net Virtua 30MB) and was in the "alpha" and couldn't even do the connection test that you have to do before playing any game....
I'll wait a little more before renting anything to see if there was any improvement to the network, otherwise I'll skip it.