Sony provides update on US PlayStation Network maintenance

At least you get free games with PS Plus account, free games that are months out of date and cost the same price to purchase second hand.

@1 Just to name two, but I got Virtua Fighter and Double Dragon Neon on their day of release on PlayStatioj Plus. That was the value of a three month subscription right there.

Thats not including the instant collection and the crap load of other great free games offered every month.

Thanks for the info

@1 How many games are free on xbox?

0 all year long…

Its better than nothing even if these games are old.

@4 And how often do you go back to a game you’ve finished? How many games are either traded back in or left on the shelves to stare at for years on end?

I don’t mind the rental concept at all because chances are I’m not going to play many of them again after I’m done with them anyway. If I am, I’ll just buy the game outright.

@2

Personally I’ve never found nothing on PS plus I either hadn’t already bought or could find it at a similar price for a boxed, but that’s just me. I always prefer to own a physical game for some reason.

PS Vita plus looks a bit better though.

@4

Better service, cross game chat, less updates and quicker updates for games? I know which I’d rather pay for.

Also, it’s not free games is it? There just cheaper, your still paying for a service.

Haha, if the prices of the EU games are as cheap as the ones of US versions maybe i don’t mind buying any game on its launch day.

Example:

I think Bioshock 2 is ‘free’ this month…

I can get the disc game to keep and own for £3.99 on amazon…

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/offer-listing/B001W101N2/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1358546200&sr=8-1&condition=used

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NO Y Y Y

It’s not cool tht my boyfriend can play but i can’t.. we are on the same system & he WAS NOT signed in whn the maintenance started in fact he hadn’t been for hours..it’s currently 6:19pm where we live, whn will the maintenance be over.. I’ve read so many different things i don’t knw wht 2 believe

@8, Bioshock 2 is one of 5 games (3 PS3, 2 Vita) for January EU PS+.

Also, PS+ has so far cost me an average of £2.49 a month.

Bioshock 2 is at best a 2 playthrough game with negligible resell value. 50p on PS+ for a years rental looks pretty good to me.

Frankly, I DO think Mildred’s story is unbelievable.

@Monkey you do know that ps+ has auto updates and cloud storage to go with the free games. better service? netflix,web app, friendslist, sports services and accessible store for purchasing. they both have that. ISP takes care of any speed issues on either one. So that leaves what? X chat you are paying for and on psn+ you get game rentals that save you 500 bucks plus a year. Hmmm i guess buying that bioshock 2 for 4 bucks is ssssssooooo much more efficient.

“Netflix,web app, friendslist, sports services and accessible store for purchasing.”

Those are all entirely a matter of preference. I think the browser is a godawful, laggy mess, I find the 360 Netlfix app better, the friends liat is garbage and slow, I have no interest in sports, and I think the PlayStation Store is vastly less intuitive than the 360 Markteplace.

i can’t believe anyone would still complain about ps+. o.o

@monkey: i got a vita and ps3 and bought my plus subscription in summer sale, while red dead redemption was in the program, a game which i wouldn’t have payed for, but from which i heard such good fanfeedback, that i still wanted to try it out.
i spent 38€ for one year. i get 5 games per month (some one year old tripple-A games, some day-one indi/psn games). that’s about 70 games for 38€, which means not even 50 cent per game. and you get two licences per game and have the shared game libraty on the ps3 which is a feature, i would wish for on steam for example. not to mention discounts, open betas, cloud save storage for games, which don’t support cloud saving by themselves.

@IM not mine works perfectly fine for me. Its not like it use to be when you could watch hulu and youtube in the browser without a forced block from them. Then again I don’t really use it for much anymore since everything I would use it for are all apps now. Netflix on my ps3 is fast and reliable. I laughed hard though when I saw netflix trying to coin a new phrase “super hd” i tried so hard not to laugh my ass off at that crap.

on topic: this bs needs to stop. when ps4 comes sony needs to make sure all this is done behind doors and has no effect on the player. with their gaikai purchase i hope they figure out a way where the player isn’t affected in any way. this has become a laughing stock and i hope they realize that.

on the other hand with regards to ps plus i want to point out it is an amazing service and hope monkeygourmet comes to his senses before downplaying an awesome service. just the past six months the amount of games you got was ridiculous. dead space 2, crysis 2, red dead redemption, batman arkham city, resident 5, darksiders, vanquish, limbo, besides the stuff in the instant collection and now vita games as well. you still have 6 more months coming. you have very good discounts on games if you want to purchase content and keep permanently. far cry 3 and hitman were 50% within a month of their release. 1gb cloud storage, auto updates, early betas, etc…. so for that one time yearly fee you get like almost 50 free games to play over a year. rental or not you must be really ignorant to not call it a valuable service.

This is f*****g bullshit u f*****g pieces of f*****g shit suck my huge cock f*****g bastards f*****g u whore bags f*****r I’m goin to sit on my f*****g ps3 while I play the f**k out of my f*****g Xbox bitches Fuck you Sony FUCKERS

Jacob says u fuckers suck so then u really must suck ass

Im just am average joe, not a big blogger , but this is just a couple down days. It’s like none of you remember the full shut down in 2011 when the network got hacked. Whats all the crying about????????? I ts a couple down days, thats it. For the most part the network is free, whats the big deal????? Get off your lazy asses and do something other than cry about something that just is what it is. Take this time to clean your room or help your parents/girlfriend/boyfriend/spouse do something that they could use your help on. When the network comes back on you can go back to your old negligent self.

Go fuck yourself is right.

SLOLNY needs to invest in more hamster wheel grease, or they should get a second hamster in to power that joke of a network at least.

I shouldnt call it a Network really. That implies people are connected, which most of the time they are not.

Phony Offline Entertainment. You get what you pay for, that which you wouldn’t get even if you paid for it.

^ Too bad its only the store thats been down. I’ve been online and playing with noproblems. Guess not paying for online mp is just sssssoooooo terrible.

@19

Nice self censorship man!

Instead of wasting your shitty keyboard typing angry sentences you should just follow the Sony buddies’ example (e.g. Sony123456) and call me a nerd while spending 50 hours on pS3 per week and a lonely troll while making about as much comments per day as I do per week.

It’s a poor service and a poor console, devotee.

@26 Really? You post in anything sony to bash them and anything microsoft to defend them. You seem to be on here 24/7!

anything microsoft to defend them
Links?

Lying, exaggerating and putting words into people’s mouths is natural to console devotees.

I can make a list of poor MS hardware and software. Can you? No.

Sooo what about my sentence was angry? Lol If anything it was informative to your misguided perception. Calling someone a devotee because they play on a console you detest? Classy as always huh?lol

Here tell you what. Since you know so much about server management for over 90 million active users on a device. Lets all petition for you to become the boss of SOE networking Topology. Yeah that will fix the cause right? and whils your at it you can change the service under your guidance to be a paid for service. At least then you know you’ll be able to cut that 90million down by a little under half and give the perception that your service is running at optimum performance.

Oh wait I forget this might be to long for you to read. I forget your “little problem” stops you from being able to focus on “drawn out” sentences. My bad

They aren’t drawn out, they’re useless inane passionate gibberish..

Try harder. Perhaps this’ll make POSN work better.

It’s not that I think PS Plus is awful, it just really doesn’t offer enough for me to make the switch from Live.

The service on live has always been great for me, maybe it could trim some adverts down but that shit is rolling out across the board atm.

I think if I purchased a Vita again, I would get PS Plus, it seems more suited for a poratable system.

I like to build up a games collection physically so would happily pay a few £’s more for a game to add it to my collection.

I don’t know why, but I tend to ignore games more if I have them downloaded to my system, almost feels like they lose some of their allure. It becomes just a big collection and back log rather than something im going to sit down and enjoy.

Steam is the same for me too. Great value, but alot of the time you just end up collecting games and not playing them. Same on my Ipad, I have about 50 games just sitting there.

I was talking to my friend about this ‘Steam issue’ the other day as we saw an article saying a similar thing. It’s great to have things cheap, but at the same time I think it can devalue a product to the point you’re just buying things for the sake of it.

I had a similar feeling when I had a copying device in the latter years of my SNES. Tons of games to play, but they completly lost their appeal.

It’s a tricky balance for sure, the market has changed enough to show a company like Nintendo they can’t really charge £29.99 for Tetris again when you can get a similar experience for 69p on the iPhone or Steam, but you need to attach some value to your products otherwise peoplejust see them as ‘throwaway’ games.

So, all in all. PS Plus is not doing enough to make me move over from Live.

Miiverse is free too and I much prefer that over PSN aswell.

Also, I definatly expect Sony to charge something for online or some subs based model next gen. Will be funny to see all the devoted fans still trying to justify their God Tier company when they are being put in exactly the same boat.

Can someone do something about da man? All he really does is enter Sony threads & harass genuine readers. Ignoring doesn’t work, common sense doesn’t work, he’s the very definition of a troll. Criticises us for playing video games THROUGH a video game website, where’s the logic in that?

“Also, I definatly expect Sony to charge something for online or some subs based model next gen. Will be funny to see all the devoted fans still trying to justify their God Tier company when they are being put in exactly the same boat.”

…plus a tablet controller

Did the DarkKnight account work out for you?

i personally really enjoy da mans posting most of the time. it’s funny. depends on your perspective i think. imho there are some back stabbing trolls on this page that are a severe pain in the ass tho.

@31
Maybe you really like to make yourself a laughing stock. Did you forget the bet previous year where your ninty fan brain predicted a sell out for wiiu? And I dont need to remind you how spectacularly you failed. I am still waiting for my turkey.
*NINTY MAGIC SAVEZ ALL*

@31 For me it’s the same but the other way round. I wouldn’t switch over from PS+ to XBL.

^Someone please do something about that little two faced provocator. I can’t read this site anymore. All they do is defending Sony, trolling and making jokes for 12 years olds.

@35 LOL “back stabbing trolls”

ninja trolling

@38: i agree. they are slowly killing this site for me.

Hypocrite much?

I do think others like dragon need a swift kick up the butt too, but that’s because they’re naive & arrogant. da man is here just harass people. He doesn’t care about games, only getting his jollies from annoying gamers- probably jacking off right now over the disappointed PS3 gamers.

Nope, you’re just too dumb to realize anything I say.. I lol at 40 year olds playing Ni No Kuni, not people playing videogames.

Sure buddy, believe wherever you want to believe.

Thanks for proving my point. I’m not your buddy.

Oddly enough, pretty much all those ‘harassed’ people like Sony.

& why is liking Sony such a crime?

@36

I can’t afford Turkey for you and your alt accounts.

At least you could have a nice sit down meal though, you seem to like talking to yourself.

They like Sony, I don’t. They want me banned. Simple, no?

i am 37 yo playing ni no kuni…

still i am not feeling offended by da mans posting. i think it’s funny most of the time. his style is over the top. i just don’t feel offended at all by it and i think it sometimes is the much needed salt in the comment section. i really do.
it just depends on your perspective maybe.

theres a huge difference in straight forward mocking or sneaky, two faced, backstabber trolling.

So you spend your supposedly important time annoying them over a simple difference of opinion?

@Polygem, well from my perspective he’s not much better than the typical 4Chan troll. Wouldn’t be surprised if he were mocking a memorial page on Facebook right now. To me, there’s an obvious line between playful mucking around- and being a dick.