PS Plus Subscription Sale Takes 33% Off, But There's a Big Catch

I always renew mine during Black Friday sales and, luckily, I’ve never had a problem getting the discount even when buying a few days before my sub runs out. I wonder if it’s the same for people here or it’s as harsh as the wording indicates.

Seems they punish those already on the higher tiers. Poor customer that

I’m actually expiring this week, so I should be good

Disappointed. Was hoping that existing customers would get a discount too.

According to Billbil-kun several EU countries get 30% off Premium and not the 33% which US gets. Still a nice discount though if your sub ran out before or during Days of Play.

It’s because they know most ppl will renew without the discount. No need to reduce a price with the market is meeting it…pretty funny that some ppl act like this is an insult to customers. Price is determined by supply and demand, not feels.

I pay full wack every month for Ultimate/Premium. I cba'd looking for discounts, I just direct debit them out of the bank. Ultimate is worth it, Premium isn't, i'll still pay it though. They do this with everything from mobile phones to cable TV, existing customers don't get a look in so i'm not surprised Sony are doing it. Literally every corporation does it.

This is just a standard practise used by companies all over the world to promote new subs. Its the same with Internet, Phone, and TV packages. It sucks but its just the way it is.

@SBBuds Have you not been tempted to pay for a year in advance if your happy continuously subbing anyway? You save about £40 for a 12 month sub over monthly’s

greedy corporate *****! yes, you can quote me on that, thank you.

This continues to be not great. I have been a Plus member since almost the beginning. I am not going to spend a lot of time lamenting the couple of bucks this boils down to, but it is not a great way to encourage loyal customers to retain your service.

My family has a longstanding tradition of renewing my Plus subscription for Father's Day, so whatevs. But Sony should do better.

@GeeEssEff Never been tempted, I don't know why but it just doesn't seem important. I don't do it for other things either, we have so many subscriptions in our house saving £40 a year just doesn't seem worth it when we already pay so much for everything else /shrug. I honestly don't have a decent reason as to why I don't bother but I probably never will. There's five of us in our house so you can imagine how many subs we have for everything.

Can anyone advise of the way to downgrade subscription. Looking to drop from premium to extra

@Lonejester I think everyone understands this. And I am one that makes the case for your argument, as I just posted that I am going to roll my eyes and renew anyway.

The issue is that many businesses for the entire history of capitalism have rewarded the loyalty of longstanding customers in various ways. Not out of the goodness of their hearts, but because customer retention and a reputation for good customer service mean something in the market.

I think it is a valid discussion whether it is a good decision in the long term for Sony to not take better care of existing customers. A lot of people like me will just renew, but some won't. And it may impact how people feel about it going forward.

Ahh... that well known promotion called "How to upset loyal customers"

"For the players"? More like "For the quarterly results".

Same garbage as every year, oh well

Since premium came out I don't think there's been a good discount for it unless you're upgrading. Long gone are the days of getting plus and now 12 months for 50 quid

Without ps stars i have no intention or allicient to renew immediately so I will let it expire and renew in the next offer

I stopped subbing a couple months ago for the first time since the services inception. Haven't looked back, tbh. My backlog list is so long that I don't care about missing out. The only thing that bums me out is not being able to play Helldivers, but I will be playing Elden Ring Nightreign completely solo offline so c'est la vie.

@rusty82
You would think if you are already on the top tier you would get something off as you can’t go any higher.

I always try to compromise but obviously Sony can’t.

Also they are so tight with cloud saves
Only the member gets the cloud save feature.

As on Xbox the member and anyone else signed onto that Xbox gets cloud saves.

Actually I think Xbox cloud saves maybe free anyway.

This is what happens when one company, Sony doesn’t have it try hard to sell consoles.

Only thing these upgrade discounts have caused in my behavior is that I have allowed my PS Plus sub to expire twice now. And I'll be doing it again. So GG Sony.

Sony are the same with TVs.
Only supply 2 HDMI 2:1 ports and one of those doubles as your earc. And that’s with a £2k plus TV. Also including their two new 2025 65 inch TVs costing about £3k each. It’s a joke Sony.

Elsewhere in good world LG and Samsung supply all 4 HDMI ports at HDMI 2:1.

@thefourfoldroot1

There appears to be some variation depending on region or maybe some other factor, because that hasn't worked for me for the past 2 or 3 years. Before that, I got the Black Friday deal every year without issue. Lots of folks have been reporting the same issue, but it's clearly not consistent for everyone. (I'm in the US and have been subscribed for about 8 years.)

I don't miss the games "offered" on basic subscription, so still not for me.

@OldGamer999 well you say that...
I don't own a Sony TV and wouldn't be able to comment on them, but I do run LG C1 (which is not spring chicken anymore) and it only has a single HDMI 2.1 port and a different HDMI for eARC. Which luckily for me is enough, but not ideal.

@Cikajovazmaj
The thing is for a Sony 2025 TV costing lots of money.
1 hdmi 2:1 PS5
2 hdmi using for earc
And that is it.
What about a second console series x or even Switch 2. That would have to run on hdmi 2:0.

The even more annoying thing is a PS5 VRR needs an HDMI 2:1 port, unlike the series x you can use HDMI 2:0 port for VRR.

Sony studios over the years have created some amazing outstanding games but their hardware be it PS5 or TVs also plays bare minimum on certain aspects, cost cutting really.

The five free days given away after the short PSN outage means that my current subscription now ends on the 12th, so I will be unable to take advantage of the discount. Their generosity has actually cost me quite a bit of money.

So annoying that you can't stack subscriptions anymore.

Never understood this criticism. Yes, I get you want to save money, but it’s a promotion to gain new subscribers. They’d be crazy if they would suddenly ask you to pay less when you already committed to pay. This has worked like this for decades for pretty much all subscriptions.

The people that will renew will likely renew regardless so why 'lose' money on them? This is more to incentivise people either upgrading to higher tiers or to sign up for PS+ - not to 'reward' loyalty.

I won't be 'renewing' or upgrading to a higher tier myself though.

This is the dominant, arrogant Sony starting to emerge. It’s ridiculous you don’t get rewarded for loyalty.

@SBBuds Haha fair enough mate. I am my mother’s son so I will look anywhere for a bargain but I can understand where you’re coming from. When you got some subs on a 12 month basis and other monthly’s it can become messy to manage.

It’s unfortunate I renewed my subscription but good to know this to not renew my subscription in February. I don’t want to be punished for being loyal.

The sad thing is ever since the revamped "tier" PS Plus system was introduced it simultaneously saw Sony stop selling 12 month subscriptions in bricks and mortar retail stores. The day that happened you suddenly saw all Essential subscription sales stop unless it was to new unsuited members.

Existing members get completely ignored other than the upgrade sales...& in light of multiple price hikes in the regions like down under & EU etc.,& still stuck with half baked Deluxe with minimal & obscure PS1/PS2 Classic releases vs the likes of GOG getting all the RE 1-3 titles,Dino Crisis 1 & 2, Breath of Fire IV,or say Steam seeing the likes of the C&C series the lack of third party & first party genuine classics recently on PS Plus has been telling.

Apart from the occasional ps plus PSN sales discount on certain sales,& older select PS Plus freebies the incentive to resub is just diminishing with every stunt like this.

An unsurprising bummer.

@Cikajovazmaj LG C1 has 4 HDMI 2.1 ports

@Nalim you sir are correct. For some reason I was under the impression only the rear HDMI port was 2.1 : facepalm:

@RagnarLothbrok

Turn off auto renew..... wait for your subscription to expire....

Then renew at whatever level you wish as soon as you want to

@Cikajovazmaj Sounds like at least two of your HDMI 2.1 ports can still be considered "spring chickens". Result!

You can cancel and a day later get it again at the discount. Did it last year.
That said not sure if I'll be getting premium again this time. It was giving me too much on my plate to play.

Ok so my situation is my subscription ran out over a month ago. I've not renewed it and I've been waiting for a discount. Will I be offered a discount for ps plus? Im obviously not a new customer.

Mine runs out June 7th. Might be able to take advantage.

@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare I can understand that, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a promotion to gain new subscribers. It’s not the regular price you pay every year. I see both arguments, I’m just a bit surprised how people feel they’re entitled to it.

When my current sub expires at the end of November I'll be dropping down to the essential tier. It's not that I don't find value in it as I think I've got more than my moneys worth out of it over the past 3 years or so but I just don't really play much outside of anything that involves racing. I'm still an ardent souls type game player but I always buy those games anyway because they are never included in the extra sub. Plus I never seem to be able to take advantage of any these offers. I'll use the money I save to put towards more sim rig goodies..

That sucks 😕 like seriously

The ps app is broken I was trying to get prices for the yearly tier and it's "Something went wrong" error

But what pisses me off it why can you pay the monthly fee it says like for example PS+ Extra is £99.99 a year but with sale it's £74.99 equivalent to £6.25 a month why can't I pay that per month for that year sub

I was waiting for Days of Play to renew my ps+ essential for another year, but what a letdown I can´t do it for better price. It´s really not a big deal in terms of actual money, but I´m dissapointed by how Sony "rewards" their long-time ps+ subscribers, shame on Sony! I´m really thinking not to renew and after long time cancel ps+ completely

Been a PS+ subscriber since the PS3/Vita days but let it lapse last year. Needed to back up some PS5 game saves and as Fony don't give the option to back up PS5 saves onto USB unlike the PS4, I had to renew - used some better value PS gift cards from ShopTo though.

PS5 - for the payers...

I've resubbed during days of play the last few years, sub ends one day and the offer works the next day. But now they gave us the 5 "free" extra days as compensation for the downtime it's pushed my expiry date to June 12th.
So I'll be without a subscription now until the Black Friday offer.

It is just another example of loyalty not being rewarded......but I'm the idiot as I keep renewing the highest tier......even though game releases are disappointing.....yes I am an idiot!!

They already give you a discount for paying annually. The 33% is an incentive for new subscribers. Yeah lower fees would be nice, but this is pretty normal.

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