You Won't Need a PlayStation Plus Subscription to Play World of Tanks on PS4

You need an X-Box live account to play it on 360. Not sure about Xbone.

No, but you do need nearly 50GB spare.

Really looking forward to this, there isn't anything more like man-child fun than driving video game tanks and blowing shiz up

@Arckadius I don't think they have this on the Xbox1, they released this on the 360 just before they released Xbox1 it might even of been just after, I can't remember. I'm looking forward to it though, i've enjoyed the beta's.

@xMEADx It is on Xbone. Silver members get 7 day free trial. After that you need gold to play it.

I thought all free to play games did not need P Plus membership. I have not played this but a lot of people seem to love it across different formats so I am looking forward to playing it. Never played it before. Ps Plus members are also getting a free premium tank which is always nice. Actually not sure if it is just ps plus who get the free tank or not maybe both wait and see.

I've been eyeing this for a bit..... but is it arcade like, or is it a simulation? I would enjoy something that fits in-between.

@dryrain Your right PS Plus is not required for Free to Play.

The free premium tank is for PS Plus members only.

Cheers

@sub12 Closer to simulation than arcade from what I've seen of it in let's plays, although I haven't played it to be fair

@dryrain Yep, you don't need a PS Plus membership to play F2P or subscription based games. You also don't need a PS Plus membership to voice chat or watch streaming apps like Netflix, hulu, etc. Not many people know about this.

@sub12 I have put in many hours on PC before getting rid of mine. It is more on the arcade side of things. Tanks are silohueted with team and enemy colors. SPG's provide a map-like aerial view. The tanks include many prototype tanks that never saw the battle lines. I am interested to see how well the aiming ports to the PS4. Aiming the cannon and turret with a mouse was pretty much second nature. It is a slower paced shooter for those whose twitch reflexes might not be online FPS tuned. They do a good job with giveaways during patriotic weekends and national holidays i.e. Thanksgiving, Christmas, etc. (at least in the US). I really enjoyed the game.

@xpacerx I regularly see people saying that you need PS+ to play online on the PS4, and every time I tell them that that is incorrect, that you only need PS+ for some games, but many games, and all apps, do not require a subscription.

I don't know why this article even exists, to be honest. There are so many games out there that don't require PS+ for online play, and this one gets its own article? Maybe a better article would be "PSA: You don't need a PS+ subscription to play free to play or subscription games."

The World of Tanks beta has been on the PlayStation store for ages. And of course, just like every F2P game it doesn't require PlayStation Plus to play it. When Sony launched the PS4 they stated that F2P games wouldn't require a PS+ subscription.

Having tried World of Tanks I can say that in my opinion it isn't that good. There are better F2P games on PlayStation. Warframe, Planetside 2 and Blacklight Retribution etc are definitely better imo. Besides, HDD space is at a premium these days so I only install the games I know I will be playing alot of.

Played the beta last weekend and have played a bit on my mates XBOXone and 360's. It's a nice game, not going to set the world on fire but is a solid shooter with some levelling up legs. I'm going to be investing some time on it anyway.