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Playstation Plus Premium Service announced [S-CONF]
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badcrumble said:
If they release the firmware next week with free cross chat to all and a nice plan for PSN+ releases for the next 2-3 months (2 good free games and an exclusive beta for a mega title like LBP2 or KZ3), they may get a lot of subscribers just from the euphoria of the goodwill of the free chat.
You know what I think will also drive PSN+ adoption very very quickly? The rumored software PS2 emulator or downloadable PS2 games only for PSN+. The money raised would certainly pay off the development in spades. And it does not even need to be a complete 100% emulator, even if it does 50-70% percent of the thousands of games people would be satisfied I think.
badcrumble
Member
Possibly, yeah. I hope they use PSN+ to push titles with online communities that have gotten a bit smaller, like Fat Princess or Crash Commando or Motorstorm 2. Wipeout HD is a good start, even if I already own it.AndyD said:
Lagspike_exe
Member
Clearly, the only reasonable explanation of why the firmware and the CGC PRs were pulled last minute is the fact that Sony decided to implement CGC into free PSN.
GET HYPED!
GET HYPED!
badcrumble
Member
If Sony released some form of software-based PS2 emulation but only for PSN+ subscribers I think GAF would probably explode with rage :lol
The only possible better thing would be if they pulled it from consoles that could already emulate so people would be forced to subscribe to regain access to their emulation.
The only possible better thing would be if they pulled it from consoles that could already emulate so people would be forced to subscribe to regain access to their emulation.
angelfly said:
No. LBP is the EU free bonus for signing up in the first month for a year's subscription. It is also a game you keep even if you stop your subscription in the future. The US does not get LBP but an extra three months of subscription for free (15 mos for the price of 12). That what we know so far.
I dont think they have announced the actual PSN+ freebie for July yet for EU. Or August. They said they will always keep us 2 months up to date, so they should release an FAQ when it opens up next week. The US will get Wipeout HD as the freebie for July.
So:
US - early adopter signup bonus - 3 free months with purchase of 12. July game is WIpeout HD.
EU - early adopter bonus is LBP psn to keep forever. July game we do not know.
badcrumble
Member
I didn't say I thought cross-game chat would be coming to everyone, just that I thought it got yanked from PSN+ (for now). Maybe it'll come to everyone in the future, but it seems pretty likely from everything that's been said that Sony decided not to do that at the very last minute, either because of technical issues (doubtful, it's been in the debug firmware for like a year now) or because of an expected backlash (maybe). This could signal intentions to put it into PSN+ at a later date, or to give it to everyone at a later date. We'll see.AwRy108 said:
Oni Jazar said:
I thought the updating worked in groups of 10 from their description. It looks at the most recent 10 and updates those in one go ( I assume its so it does not stay on forever to update 50 games or more). If those recent 10 are already up to date, it looks at 11-20 and updates those. And so forth.
So if your most recent 10 that you play regularly/every day are up to date (which they would be since you played them within the past 48 hours), then it does the next 10 older. Then the next 10 two days later and so forth. Eventually working its way through your entire collection. Just not all in one go. So essentially it will keep your currently played games up to date first, then work its way back.
The smart way to do it is to probably que only 10 games worth of updates regardless of their "oldness". So if those updates are for games 1, 3, 14, 27-36, then those get updated. That way its not a strict top 10 recent (say updating only 1 out of 10), but only 10 games max most recent first, to keep downloads relatively quick. So depending on which games you have and if they are up to date, it may not have anything to download if no patches were released in the past 48 hours.
PlayStation Plus Explained
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2010/06/23/playstation-plus-explained/
I think they did a good job really.
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2010/06/23/playstation-plus-explained/
I think they did a good job really.
MrPliskin said:
You and me both.
It also states that the trial games for Plus members will be available to purchase by others and that only Plus members get the try before buy. So...full game downloads now. I wonder if they will do some digital pre-order stuff or hell pre-purchase to download the game on the system ahead of time and then release an activate key on release date.
Pai Pai Master
Banned
Anyone know yet if it just automatically updates PSN games you've bought, or all BD games that you've played in the past?
Dead Prince
Banned
sounds terrible still.
badcrumble
Member
Do not want. But I'd probably go for it if there were cloud saves.Withnail said:
Goldrusher
Member
What's a "Push Demo" ?
Surely push demos are the demos that are automatically downloaded and installed for you along with game updates.
That's a decent lineup of games, I'm not entirely understanding the hate unless it's a given that everyone posting here should already own a large percentage of those.
That's a decent lineup of games, I'm not entirely understanding the hate unless it's a given that everyone posting here should already own a large percentage of those.
Lagspike_exe
Member
It seems that one of PSN+'s key functions is to act like a Trojan horse for SCE WWS content. Expected, but if this things actually succeeds it will certainly act like a huge awareness push for Sony games.
Well they really can't release it for free, and then put it into PS+, because of the outroar from users. So I'd say this is pointing towards a positive, since it indicates it isn't in PSN+ and will be released for free.
ninja edit: yeah I'm tired so I'm not making much sense. :lol
SolidusDave
Member
uhm I don't get it, why would someone say this offer is bad NOW?
It's exactly what they announced (4 games etc.) plus these push demos, apparently monthly premium DLC (is this free and only available during membership, too?), the number of dynamic themes&avatars to expect and that apparently PSN+ discounts are something monthly and not only on special occasions.
It's exactly what they announced (4 games etc.) plus these push demos, apparently monthly premium DLC (is this free and only available during membership, too?), the number of dynamic themes&avatars to expect and that apparently PSN+ discounts are something monthly and not only on special occasions.
Yeah I didnt know they would have PS3 game trails :0yencid said:oh.. yeah i believe they are, like a Games on demand service, we happen to try the first hour, earn trophies and keep the save files for the demo, if we buy the game the trophies get uploaded to the server and you can just load.
Lineup looks pretty decent. I already own PixelJunk Shooter, and I've already played Infamous through rentals, but the rest of the stuff looks pretty good... I may have to see about picking up a three month subscription.
Ah, but this is the EU list... wonder what the American list will have on it?
Ah, but this is the EU list... wonder what the American list will have on it?
Dead Prince
Banned
DMeisterJ said:
This is a terrible service if they are just going to be selecting what content we can buy/try. I'm fine with the full game trial but when it comes down to discounts they pick, PSN, ps1 and mini games they choose for use to have during our subscription period is silly.
It just sounds to me they just want you to waste your money so they can continue testing consumers and see how they respond. i personally think we should just not give in to this! But yeah, it won't help much complaining online anyways.
Oh and spending many hours downloading full ps3 games only to play 1 hour is silly :lol.