Your PS Plus Essential Sub Netted You $1,500+ in PS5, PS4 Games This Year

I’ve stopped caring about Ps+ value. I pay for online, I might occasionally play a free game, I’m satisfied regardless. (I know the free games is what we’re technically paying for since the ps3 days.)

EDIT: I do activate all games every month if I ever want to play it later.

When you look at it this way it’s hard to argue against it really. The value for money is incredibly decent.

Haters will hate regardless, I thought this year's offering were very good, there was something for everyone. I think the two stand outs were Lies of P and Alan Wake 2.

Im sorry but this is nonsense listing each game as full retail price years after release

That sounds good on paper, but only if you haven't bought any of them, and played each other. Not to mention those games usually were heavily discounted even without psplus.

Assuming that you claim and play every single game then you simply cannot argue that it offers great value for your money.

However I've just scrolled down the list and I think I've only actually bothered to download and play 9 of those 40 games listed. (I always claim the games, just don't always download them)

Obviously that's just me, everyone's personal taste in games will differ. (as is clearly evident in the "are you happy with your monthly games" Polls)

Despite not playing them all, Id still argue that 9 games for £60 a year is worth it... for me at least

$1500 +? LOL. No it didn't. All these games are listed at full price. Bye.

I’ve played Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon: Forbidden West, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, Thymesia, Immortals: Fenix Rising, Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Streets Of Rage 4, Kena, etc. all from having Premium (later downgraded). It’s been well worth the money. Especially since my son plays basically every game they release each month. It’s been a net positive for me.

I don’t play nearly as many games as most of the enthusiasts on here, but I still find PS+ a great value.

I’m locked into Premium, but I still play over the subscription fee’s worth of games each year. I roughly factor my break-even point for my money at 6 games from the service played; that’s assuming an average price of the games around $20-30. This year I played exactly 6 PS+ library games, so I got my money’s worth. Most years I do more than 6.

There’s also value in playing something from the service that you wouldn’t otherwise try, and so it opens new avenues to diversify my playtime. Some examples from this year that I played which I probably never would have otherwise were It Takes Two and Sword of the Sea. Both were really quite good and I’m glad I played them.

Then, the other perks are all just icing on the cake: cloud saves, online play, the occasional extra sale discount, and my favorite — cloud streaming.

Counting the all-time low price at the moment the game was received - £573.61

And now everyone should actually count what they played (or intend to) at “discount prices” that they would actually pay for the game. I have Extra and can tell you it is a really good value for me. (The negative effect is I would rather wait on something to get on PS Plus, so some devs are simply not getting the money from me… And they deserve them)

I dont see how anyone can complain about it. Even if multiplayer was free. For cost of one full price rrp game, you got to play all of these games. What else can you get for 6 pound a month that's better value entertainment wise?

And my Netflix account provided me with films and series for more than 100k of value, based on the original retail prices of the DVDs. And now?

Can't deny it's excellent value for what you pay, even more so if you're subscribed to Extra.

But it's the WRONG £1500! Jokes aside, you can't really argue with the price you pay and what you get in return. Plus, it made me play games and even genres of games that I now love that I wouldn't have looked twice at previously.

That's the dumbest and most pointless calculation 😄

@Max_the_German you mean billions?

And yet I didn't play a single one of them. To be fair, I do usually play at least 2 or 3 games from PS+ a year to justify the sub, but I've not played my playstation much this year. All this makes me realise is there's too many games, not enough time, they're not even close to worth the prices they're charging and I'm paying the best part of £100 a year to occasionally talk to a few friends in chat while we play different games. If anything it's made me feel a bit stupid for buying Alan Wake 2 for full price and not getting round to playing it. Online play should be free, I'm more than happy to give up the library of unplayed PS+ games.

There's some good games on the list, but I let my PS+ sub expire around about September, and the only game I played on that list was Robocop. I dont have time for all these games, especially as most are games I wouldn't usually buy and play.

Give me cheaper online access without the free games instead.

i stopped reading the lst after Suicide Squad valed at $70. Did anyne anywhre get $70 worth of value out of that should have been a free to start game?

The sevice is propbably worth it to a ot fo people, but if you go through the PS shop and only pick ut out games that Pushsquare gave reall bad review scores too, like total shovelware going for $20 or whatever, s there really any value there?

I play several free to play games that have free online, my value is $80 in my pocket by not paying to play online.

Despite apparently being a certified 'hater' I generally think it's good value especially for those only just buying a PS5 who might have been out of the loop with gaming for the past few years and I have recommended it as such.

But the entire premise of this article is utterly ridiculous. I mean come on fellas.

Looking the full list it is indeed good value but it didn't feel like it most months personally.

I didn't renew my subscription and unless I play co-op games with my friend I don't plan to do it most of the year, at least it will be less frequent for sure. My Gamepass also ends in April and I plan to do the same. I realized that buying/owning games that I want to play right away is much more satisfying then having the illusion of playing countless games from these services.