Deaf Spacker
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It sets a bad precedent but I've always intended to buy it outright.
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Buy $50 Driveclub PS+ upgrade, lose access if your PS+ sub lapses
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Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
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But it's also in the video. How can that be a typo? Watch the video.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
The video is pretty damn hard to misinterpret. It's pretty clear what they mean.
This is fucking insane.
Creates more confusion than it should. Makes it harder for people to guess what is keepable after sub expiration and what is not. Is that game you bought with the Ps Plus discount playable after your sub expires?
Just make it a permanent PS plus discount of the full game, not UPGRADE to full version, and make it permanently be playable just like other games you buy with a ps plus discount.
This is shameful.
Agreed.
Creates more confusion than it should. Makes it harder for people to guess what is keepable after sub expiration and what is not. Is that game you bought with the Ps Plus discount playable after your sub expires?
Just make it a permanent PS plus discount of the full game, not UPGRADE to full version, and make it permanently be playable just like other games you buy with a ps plus discount.
This is shameful.
Agreed.
Hehe. This is more of a job for Rushy. If this were true, the PS+ is basically the games menus and engine, and the DLC would just be more cars and maps. I think they have about an hour to fix/correct this before all hell breaks loose.
Uhhhh... Upgrading the PS+ version to the Full version makes it the Full Version, it is no longer the "PS+ Edition". So regardless your subscription end, you will have the game.
Only the PS+ Version is unplayable if your PS+ Subscription expires.
I watched the video, and I don't see how it proves anything other than bad choice of wording in that specific segment.
Only the PS+ Version is unplayable if your PS+ Subscription expires.
I watched the video, and I don't see how it proves anything other than bad choice of wording in that specific segment.
Dark Octave
Banned
Not a good idea for Sony.
mercenar1e
Member
I'm going to enjoy buying this game used.
Omnii-chan
Member
So try the game, buy the game. But the game isn't yours?
Wow very anti consumer.
Wow very anti consumer.
Shao Kahn Brewing a Stew
Banned
Who bit your ass in the morning? Lol.
That's probably how the game is currently set up in Sony's database: the PS+ Edition is the base app and the missing content is restored via a DLC app. That said, though, this is something that could very easily be changed.
It's like they're literally telling people "Don't upgrade!!". Who is making these decisions? In the UK at least the retail game will almost certainly be cheaper, you can trade/sell it on and it won't go away once your PS+ subscription runs out, there have to at least be some reasons to get people to go the digital upgrade route aside from convenience (though with the PS+ clause even that isn't much of an argument). This isn't how digital upgrades are meant to work. Really hope if TLOU offers an upgrade program it's nothing like this.
SmoothRunningGun
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SEGAvangelist
Member
That's not what the blog says, though.
Afaik, if you buy DLC discounted on Plus, you keep the DLC even if you let your Plus lapses. So i can't think any reason it would get think this gets a different treatment if they want to think of it as DLC instead of Full purchase. So, it's BS.
PodcastFips
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Dark Octave
Banned
This is bullshit. I am seriously angered about this. I'll be buying the physical version of the game and part of me is tempted to buy it used.
Junior Mint
Member
This makes no sense at all. I bet they clarify in a few days. If not, no one would be stupid enough to buy it this way.
Umh, true that. I missed that part. That sounds weird.
gigantor21
Member
Why, what happened?
michaelius
Banned
Tidus_Great
Banned
ps plus on ps4 is pretty bad. Not gonna renew if they keep it up
Metalingus5150
Member
That's incredibly stupid.
Acquiescence
Member
Come on now. If you put 50 dollars towards the upgrade, the whole product should be available to play, whether your PS+ subscription is active or not. I was singing this game's praises because of the absence of microtransactions, but this is just as shifty.
XANDER CAGE
Member
I imagine their idea was to prevent a wave of people subbing to plus, grabbing Driveclub and the upgrade at a low price, and canceling their sub. That's why the upgrade is practically full price, and why it still requires a sub. The cost of getting the game in this fashion is more than it would cost to just buy the full thing.
That being said it's really, really stupid. I think Sony would have been better off not announcing Driveclub as a PS+ title so early. It's caused absolutely nothing but headaches both for them and potential consumers.
That being said it's really, really stupid. I think Sony would have been better off not announcing Driveclub as a PS+ title so early. It's caused absolutely nothing but headaches both for them and potential consumers.
So he's saying that, once you buy the upgrade, you now have the PS+ Edition and the full game, and you can't play your PS+ Edition if you unsubscribe to Plus...but once you resubscribe you can get back to playing the PS+ Edition right away? Why on earth would he mention that you'll be able to continue playing the Plus Edition if you resubscribe if you already have the full edition?
Nope.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
Oh you'd be surprised. e.g consumers that don't realise about this difference.
lol Way to jump the gun. Sony has always made a point to let consumers know that games bought with your own money on PS+ remains yours. What sense does this make to make you pay to keep the game when you already paid for it with the $50? Use some common sense man.
uncleniccius
Member
Bull. Shit.
I get that they needed to give incentive people to pay full price, but this is a bad way to do it.
I get that they needed to give incentive people to pay full price, but this is a bad way to do it.
DarkJedi24
Member
Well that's not a very good discount, so I'll just purchase the game outright without PS+.
Banjo-Kazooie
Member
Nope, you can play SP offline according to Rushy on twitter last month
You get access to the full content as long as your PS+ subscription remains active. It's pretty damn clear.
Garrett 2U
Member
damn, yeah that makes it pretty clear :/
DrROBschiz
Member
Well shit just buy the full retail at that point. Seems dumb to start a precedent like this
Miles Quaritch
Member
This seems so crazy to me, what are Sony thinking by linking the upgraded Plus edition to the Plus sub.
Even though the video is pretty clear, I still can't help but think this might be a case where the information isn't being presented properly.
Here's the part in question.
http://a.pomf.se/znncms.webm
It seems pretty clear cut, but the VO could be referring to the base Plus edition and not the upgraded version....
Even though the video is pretty clear, I still can't help but think this might be a case where the information isn't being presented properly.
Here's the part in question.
http://a.pomf.se/znncms.webm
It seems pretty clear cut, but the VO could be referring to the base Plus edition and not the upgraded version....
My interpretation is that the PS+ game is like a demo- has the engine, menus, etc., and the upgrade is DLC. So you could still use the DLC if your sub expired (yay!) but the game would become useless (and hence the DLC, so boo!).