Sony raising PS Plus pricing by 33%

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Sony raising PS Plus pricing by 33% - Beehaw

Tier Original Pricing. New Pricing PS Plus Essential £49.99 / $59.99 £59.99 / $79.99 PS Plus Extra £83.99 / $99.99 £99.99 / $134.99 PS Plus Premium £99.99 / $119.99 £119.99 / $159.99 33+% is quite a hike, considering that Sony doesn’t offer PS+ Day 1 Launches, unlike Xbox. I hope they start offering their games day one, else people will start to unsubscribe. It’s a bummer, since I like PS+ Extra a lot (don’t get PS+ Premium, it’s not worth it) Also very scummy of them to hide their pricing update behind the Sept PS+ monthly games blogpost [https://blog.playstation.com/2023/08/30/playstation-plus-monthly-games-for-september-saints-row-black-desert-traveler-edition-generation-zero/]

I’m not a console owner, are PlayStation owners really giving Sony $60 a year to play online multiplayer? It shouldn’t cost anything in the first place. If Valve or GoG or anyone else started trying to tell me I had to pay them extra to send certain packets through my router, I’d have a good laugh.
Multiplayer and three free games added to your library every month.
Do you keep them or do you have to be subscribed to play them? Really gonna sway my opinion on this tbh.

You gotta keep your subscription active to play those games.

At least Xbox let you always keep the Xbox 360 games that were on free each month until they canceled that earlier this year.