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PS Plus price hike: We'll all pay for a subscription-based future | Opinion
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this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2023
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I realized the only game I play online is FFXIV, which doesn't require PS+. I almost never play the "free" games they add to the service, and spend a non-zero amount of time browsing said free games in an effort to find something to play rather than something in my backlog. So I just canceled.
My membership is up in December and I doubt I'll even notice when it's gone.
What'll bite me is that almost every single game I "own" are the PSPlus freebies I've claimed over the years...
So, I just added another year to my sub ahead of the price increase.
I'm weak.
Price rises aren't welcome and the latest one does seem quite high. However I've been paying for plus since I got my PS4 and I'm still ok with it. Considering I maybe buy one game every two years for the price of another triple A game a year I've built up quite a library. The hours my partner has put into Spiritfarer, Slay the Spire and Hades indicates it's still providing good value. Every month we at least check out the new games unless it's a survival horror.
If I have one complaint it's since I got off the CoD train as I got older when I do occasionally dip into the free ones via plus I find it very hard to find any online matches. I assume this is because all the hardcore players move pretty quickly to the current iteration leaving the lobbies of the older games empty.