I have thoroughly enjoyed Sony’s Welcome Back package. The free stuff in Home is fun, the Wipeout package is awesome, inFamous is tolerable (mostly, more on that later) and Playstation Plus is … well, it still sucks.
I appreciate Sony telling me that they turned on my subscription renewal thingy for PS Plus, so I could be sure to go right into the menu and turn it off. So, yes, I was a bit prejudiced and skeptical to begin with. I’ve always seen the service as a way to separate fools from their money.
There isn’t much in the Plus package that interests me. The Minis are terrible. The free retro games are available on any emulator (although Sonic the Hedgehog 2 with trophies was pretty cool). And the discounts are tepid. A whole 2 bucks off! Really, Sony? That’s called Sony giving up its PSN cut in order to get their money upfront.
The one quality feature that the service offers is automatic update downloading, a perk that just ends up pissing me off, because it should be part of the basic Playstation operating system in the first place. Who thought it was a good idea to charge for something that Steam does free?
Needless to say, I won’t be renewing at the end of the month trial.
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