SeanNoonan
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Excellent...
...next noob question - there's no way I can move over my download history/swap account from UK to Canada is there? I'm aware this is the case for Xbox Live but wasn't sure about PSN.
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...next noob question - there's no way I can move over my download history/swap account from UK to Canada is there? I'm aware this is the case for Xbox Live but wasn't sure about PSN.
Frustrated_Grunt
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Oh darn, forgot to read the page before posting. Thanks for answering anyway.
SeanNoonan
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Didn't think so.
I don't know why the platforms don't allow you to change your location - even if it's once every two years or something. It's going to suck have to lose my PSN titles when I inevitably have to get a new account.
(though a lot worse on the Xbox side, I've got 50+ arcade titles - easy)
next tuesday won't have anything interesting on the store most likely, but it should have the preview for july around that date. The 3rd of july should be the next decently nice update (aka new free games)
Yup, they'll all be available until the end of the month. So best to subscribe near the end of the month to get your money's worth.
I see, is there a known set date for when the monthly refresh happens?
It's usually the first store update of the month
Thanks!
linko9
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Is this true for sales as well? I want to get RDR, which is on sale for $18, but I want to hold off until the end of the month if possible, as I wouldn't be using PS+ until then anyway, and I want to get the most of my free 30 day trial
edit: NVM, I see it ends Tuesday.
Is this true for sales as well? I want to get RDR, which is on sale for $18, but I want to hold off until the end of the month if possible, as I wouldn't be using PS+ until then anyway, and I want to get the most of my free 30 day trial
Sales usually happen every week (as new games come out, they may get a + sale discount). But free games are usually offered once monthly, although some games come out as free for plus when launched, so then it may be any week.
No matter how you do it, a 30 day trial will span two monthly "big update" periods and whatever you happen to get in the middle. As to the RDR sale, check the "last chance" folder under plus, if its in there, it will go away at the next week's update (Tuesday).
And for future reference, just check the "Expiring Soon" section in the PS+ section because anything in there expires the next time the store updates on Tuesday.Is this true for sales as well? I want to get RDR, which is on sale for $18, but I want to hold off until the end of the month if possible, as I wouldn't be using PS+ until then anyway, and I want to get the most of my free 30 day trial
edit: NVM, I see it ends Tuesday.
Or just find the game within the store and you'll see it has a red shopping bag next to it so you can download it again for free. The download list is worthless for me now that it's so long (closing in on 600 items).
Wait, I remember there's a download list in the account management. If I start a download, is it automatically added to that list, and I can start it at any time I want?
Anyone know where you go to turn off the cloud save shit? every time i start a game it keeps prompting me like hey you got this cloud save why don't you use it? i have 0 interest in having my saves in the cloud, i back up all my saves every week and a full backup every 2 weeks for a reason 
Also any news on when the full PS3 games get switched out? every 2 weeks? 3 weeks? 4? And what happened to the PSone free games? i just recently got back into PS+ and when i was a PS+ member for over a year they were always giving PSOne games for free and pretty damn good discounts and now i see no decent discounts or free PSOne games, do the discounts come every 2 weeks or something? i haven't really read up on it so i don't know much about it. Honestly i just want to disable this stupid cloud shit.
Also any news on when the full PS3 games get switched out? every 2 weeks? 3 weeks? 4? And what happened to the PSone free games? i just recently got back into PS+ and when i was a PS+ member for over a year they were always giving PSOne games for free and pretty damn good discounts and now i see no decent discounts or free PSOne games, do the discounts come every 2 weeks or something? i haven't really read up on it so i don't know much about it. Honestly i just want to disable this stupid cloud shit.
Anyone know where you go to turn off the cloud save shit? every time i start a game it keeps prompting me like hey you got this cloud save why don't you use it? i have 0 interest in having my saves in the cloud, i back up all my saves every week and a full backup every 2 weeks for a reason
Also any news on when the full PS3 games get switched out? every 2 weeks? 3 weeks? 4? And what happened to the PSone free games? i just recently got back into PS+ and when i was a PS+ member for over a year they were always giving PSOne games for free and pretty damn good discounts and now i see no decent discounts or free PSOne games, do the discounts come every 2 weeks or something? i haven't really read up on it so i don't know much about it. Honestly i just want to disable this stupid cloud shit.
1) You can't turn it off. But if you're that obsessive with backing it up, why not back it up in an extra place?
2) Full games should be switched in pairs every 16 weeks (12 in EU)
3) See:
4) There will still be discounts
The EU blog post describes the new Plus pretty well http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2012/06/05/heads-up-playstation-plus-update-6th-june-2012/
pharmboy044
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I was sure a pair of games were switched out every month but there would always be 12 games to choose from.
Yep. There's obsessive and then there's ...
Something like that. One every month, a few every few months, and a few every 6 months? Plus there are EU/NA differences in calendaring.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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I really wish they would fix the download list, it's absolutely terrible with a lot of downloads. It's so frustrating to use it.
I think 16 weeks is the max window, not necessarily meaning it's actually every 16 weeks
I can't even use it to find stuff based on when I downloaded it any more either since it changed a bunch of my PS+ downloads to the date my second year of PS+ started. It's completely worthless to me.
Mikey Jr.
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Was just about to post this.
Ugrhhh, its so bad scrolling to number 300. Especially when half way through it times out and just kicks me back to the XMB.
Anyone know where you go to turn off the cloud save shit? every time i start a game it keeps prompting me like hey you got this cloud save why don't you use it? i have 0 interest in having my saves in the cloud, i back up all my saves every week and a full backup every 2 weeks for a reason
Do you realize that if you use cloud saves, they'll still be saved to the hard drive first? All the automatic cloud saving does is back them up every couple days. Also keep in mind the manual backups (even the full backups) to USB won't do much good for locked saves if your PS3 dies.
I haven't used it up, but I haven't saved a ton to there, heck there are one or two saves that I can't back up on there because they are bigger than 150mb lol
Callibretto
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8 switched in pairs every 16 weeks, so that means 4 updates for 16 weeks, or 1 updates per month, along with game of the month stuff, that mean we can expect 3 new title every months, and including the yearly updates, we'll get 6 titles for that particular month update. Am I getting it right?
Do we know when we got our next batch of free games? And what title it might be?
OldJadedGamer
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I never even tell it to save to the cloud. Never have found a use for it yet.
I do it just cause. Games can be glithced and screw up your saves, you never know
The next new games should be Tuesday July 3rd, and the games should be announced this coming Tuesday or weds on the playstation blog.
I'm hoping for moon driver
IrishNinja
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do you play Souls games?
I've had my PS3 HDD fail, so an easy backup of game saves is important to me.
OldJadedGamer
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Nope, never cared for them.
Outside of assuming the hardware could fail, I still haven't found a use.
The OP helped answer many of my questions but I still am curious about re-downloading games. If I download the free games for a certain month and delete them pretty much immediately (I don't have a lot of space on my HDD), will I effectively mark them as "owned" and be able to download them later while I'm still subscribed? For example, if I want to play LBP2 and Infamous 2 but only have room for one, can I download LBP2, delete it, download Infamous 2, finish it, delete it, and then re-download LBP2 and play it later without having to worry about losing the free game offers? Thanks!
yes, they get added to your download list.
N30RYU
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You don't even hace to download them, just add them to the chart, accept and cancel the donwload.
I filled it only because SSX has a stupid secondary ghosts save file that is over 100MB by itself. Its not the main save file with progress, just ghosts. Other than that, all my other save games are below 50 MB combined.
Oh really? Fair enough. The EU blog pretty clearly says
http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2012/06/05/heads-up-playstation-plus-update-6th-june-2012/
So definitely makes it sound like they change every 12 weeks.
Caesar III
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Indeed. It's so stupid. SSX saves the ghosts to the cloud as well. They are 100MB of the 120 LOL
edit: ah, AndyD mentioned it as well
@ changing time: It's 12 games changing every 16 weeks in US, 10 games changing every 12 weeks in Europe.
My impression was that it would 2 games of the 12 or 10 every month, probably in the middle of the month, with one "big" game changing at the beginning of the month, so three games total every month.
I know the wait for July has been longer than usual, for me personally, as I'm eager to see just what they do.
I know the wait for July has been longer than usual, for me personally, as I'm eager to see just what they do.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Why? What do you lose by saving it to the cloud? Seems silly not to save it there.
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