Report: If You Got PS Plus at a Discount You'll be Charged a Higher Upgrade Fee - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 24 May 2022 / 3,359 Views
The brand new PlayStation Plus, with its three tiers, has officially launched in Asia, minus Japan, and there are reports coming out from users in Asia that those who purchased PlayStation Plus at a discount who want to upgrade to one of the two higher tiers - Extra or Premium - were charged a higher upgrade fee to make up the difference for the discount.
It is also reported that anyone who has stacked their PlayStation Plus subscription will have to pay the upgrade fee for the entire duration of their subscription.
The new PlayStation Plus is available now in Asia and will launch in in Japan on June 1, in the Americas on June 13, and in Europe on June 22. The new PlayStation Plus will be available in three tiers - Essential, Extra, and Premium. It combines PlayStation Plus and PlayStation Now into a singe service.
Sony has also revealed some original PlayStation and PSP titles on the PlayStation Plus classic game catalog will be adding Trophies. It was noted this is an optional feature for developers to add to their game.
According to reports from Asian players who have access to the new PS+, if you got your sub at a discount you'll be charged a higher upgrade fee to make up for the discount
— Nibel (@Nibellion) May 24, 2022
Also: stacked subscriptions must pay for the upgrade for the entire sub durationhttps://t.co/pn1NA2EYrF pic.twitter.com/XJc79EWOKN
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This is really baffling. Doing this probably provides Sony fairly little benefit, but this does generate some unnecessary badwill.
It's pretty daft they expect ppl to pay for the discount they originally got. Who thought that was a good idea?
Would be stupid of Sony not to address this.
Must be a mistake and will be fixed. Otherwise it’s a laughably bad move. There’s a large sale on Civ VI right now. Imagine if you paid $15 for the deluxe game and then wanted to buy the expansion pass. But before they let you buy the expansion pass, they made you pay the other $35 the game would have cost you had it not been on sale. Gross.
Three possibilities:
1) these reports are wrong
2) Sony made a mistake and will straighten it out within a day or so
3) Sony made an incredibly stupid decision in order to squeeze a few bucks out of loyal subscribers, and has sacrificed a bunch of goodwill to do so.
So if somebody just wants to upgrade for a month to try the new service, but they have a year of PS Plus, that's impossible to do?
I think it gets really confusing here. I have paid for a year but I want to upgrade just for a month, I shouldn't be paying the £11 for Extra as I already paid for PS+ for a year. I would assume they could my yea sub as £4.20 per month so it's £6.8 or does my month count as £7 a month so it's only £4 for the Extra for a month? Unless it doesn't even let me do that? It's either year or nothing?
Sony wants people to sign up, not dissuade them with tactics like this.
Hopefully it's just a small oversight rather than actual policy.
Would make sense for sum of 120 per year, but still is a bad move and even more when we expect that PS+ Premium will also have discounts in the future.
Stacked makes sense (but should offer the option to sub for a portion of the period instead of full stack only).
Scumbag Sony at it again.
I presume this is the fact they have the tiers at a certain amount. If I bought PS+ for £35 in an sale ages ago, and then want to upgrade to the £84 one. Unless there is an discount on that £84, they will still charge that and take off my original £35 so I'd pay 39? Instead of taking off £15 and £35 from the £84 (24)? Seems odd. I presume they can only regulate that with PSN store purchases as many places you can get PS+ for like £35 or lower from 3rd party websites but it's down as the full £50.
Similar pricing issues happened with Horizon FW. Is this a tactic to see who will bite and how far they can go before reverting these decisions?
I'm sure this is gona be later discovered to be blown way out of proportion.
This could really only make any sense if Sony never plans to discount the new PS Plus ever again. Which we all know won't be the case.
Since Sony will almost certainly be offering discounts to the new Plus service in the future, the players who got a deal or who have stacked in the past should simply be getting transferred to the new service tier and paying the base price for whatever upgrade if they so choose.
No extra charges, period.
I have to assume this is a misunderstanding or an oversight, because if PS has gotten this tone deaf or greedy, then god help us come PS6, or aka, PS3 Part II.
Umm, weird.
Every so often, the gaming industry pre-emptively goes out of its way to explain why I'm not a gamer.
