cartman414
Member
Great that SotN and Chronicles are up, but would like to see an across the board Konami sale so I could pull the trigger on MGS.
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PS+ May Deals ("another awesome month")
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Whoa, what? I had no idea Max Payne was on PSN or free for Plus.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Wait really? I never saw it on the store. Reading through the OP, I think this is EU only?
StevePharma
Member
I was always interested how that Journey thing packed out for Sony, that's to say how many extra Plus subscriptions they got that week compared to normal subscription rates in that time period.
michaelius
Banned
Yes but since February PSN+ was awesome deal and I'm happy I payed subscription. But before that it generally sucked
Wow. Alright, I think I finally have to pull the trigger. Just saw the current month promotions and figured I should jump on these too.
Is there anywhere to get PS+ codes for cheaper than what the PSN Store offers? I used to see codes on eBay a lot but I'm not seeing more than one result for it right now.
Is there anywhere to get PS+ codes for cheaper than what the PSN Store offers? I used to see codes on eBay a lot but I'm not seeing more than one result for it right now.
Yes but since February PSN+ was awesome deal and I'm happy I payed subscription. But before that it generally sucked
I would actually say that since December it has been delivering. Just picking the big games from each month we've got Tomb Raider Underworld, Back to the Future, Far Cry, Sly, Trine2, NFS and now this month. It certainly has quite a momentum for the past half a year.
I think it's something like this it works.
Pretty sure that developers still get paid for each person who click on the Buy, even tough price-tag says 'free' that month, if you have a PSN+ license.
Sony do probably waver all their store-fees and bandwith-fees.
The devs might not get as much as if the person didn't have a plus sign bought it tough, because Sony probably get's a deal for buying in 'bulk' or something when they are the ones who pay.
Also I think that the publishers who sign up for price-drops for plus-members, get a store-discount from Sony, matching the publishers own discount in percentage. :-/
An exclusive item for plus-members, is most likely a product bought outright for whatever is leftover.
I think Sony spends maybe all the membership-fees and perhaps even more, assuming they make more money on customers seeing something else they like in the store, and buys that aswell when they first are in PSN-store.
Sony get more consumer buisness.
Publishers get's their product placed in a store-part wich many people check, and more consumers.
Devs may get a bonus, depending on their deal with the publisher,
Consumers get more games, for a small fee on a yearly basis.
If this is the case, I think this is a win-win scenario and a smart buisness-model for everyone involved -consumers, devs, publishers and Sony.
Pretty sure that developers still get paid for each person who click on the Buy, even tough price-tag says 'free' that month, if you have a PSN+ license.
Sony do probably waver all their store-fees and bandwith-fees.
The devs might not get as much as if the person didn't have a plus sign bought it tough, because Sony probably get's a deal for buying in 'bulk' or something when they are the ones who pay.
Also I think that the publishers who sign up for price-drops for plus-members, get a store-discount from Sony, matching the publishers own discount in percentage. :-/
An exclusive item for plus-members, is most likely a product bought outright for whatever is leftover.
I think Sony spends maybe all the membership-fees and perhaps even more, assuming they make more money on customers seeing something else they like in the store, and buys that aswell when they first are in PSN-store.
Sony get more consumer buisness.
Publishers get's their product placed in a store-part wich many people check, and more consumers.
Devs may get a bonus, depending on their deal with the publisher,
Consumers get more games, for a small fee on a yearly basis.
If this is the case, I think this is a win-win scenario and a smart buisness-model for everyone involved -consumers, devs, publishers and Sony.
Is there any way to pick and choose what PS+ auto downloads? I really enjoy how it will download patches/firmware updates and the like but find the fact it keeps downloading betas automatically, annoying (I've had no interesting in playing either of the betas offered over the past few months).
Turn off Auto Download, then turn it on again. It'll present you with a list of stuff you can allow for download.
lucius
Member
Just looked at this and all boxes were checked but it has never auto downloaded a beta for me, even though I have downloaded pretty much all the beta games offered, didn't play them much though.
Europe got Trine 2 for free last month. Did you miss out?
Melchiah
Member
WTF?! Never saw that, eventhough I browse through the new content every week. Sometimes the store can be too disorganized for its own good.
Yup, subscriptions stack
Speedymanic
Banned
Yup, it stacks. Might want to wait for more confirmation, but I'm 99.9% sure they do stack.
^ Confirmation get.
Mithos
Member
Ok, thanks (it stacked), something I noticed though all freebies still say they expire at 6/8-2012 and not 6/8-2013. Bug or it will update in a few days?
Think it stays like that. But if you boot it up after your sub would have ran out, it updates itself. Or something.
You know what? I have no idea how it works.
Mithos
Member
Deleted and re-downloaded a small freebie, and re-installed it, date updated itself to 6/8-2013
UPDATE:
All I had to do really to fix the dates, was to start downloading the FREEBIES, and cancel the download, and the date corrected itself to the NEW expiration date.
I used to think that was necessary but all you have to do is launch a game and it'll update the expiry date to the new one.
Mithos
Member
That was the first thing I tried, maybe it works as in it updates the dates after a while, but I started 3 of the FREEBIES, and none updated the dates after quitting them and checking dates.
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
I don't think you have a clue on how this works for both ends. Too bad MSFT doesn't do what Sony is doing with the subscription revenue.
Speedymanic
Banned
Do you? I assume you do based on how you worded your reply. So please, fill us all in on how this arrangement works. I'm all ears.