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[Psi]

I'm thinking about subscribing for PS+, but I have one question. Hopefully someone here can answer.

Does the cloud save work automatically? Meaning when you boot a game up will it automatically check what you have saved on the cloud, or do you have to manually save the cloud save onto your console before playing?

Each game has a setting for auto uploading its save or not, and then there's a global time you set for all of the auto functions to occur.

The downloading saves is all manual I think.

 

[Suikoguy]

I'm thinking about subscribing for PS+, but I have one question. Hopefully someone here can answer.

Does the cloud save work automatically? Meaning when you boot a game up will it automatically check what you have saved on the cloud, or do you have to manually save the cloud save onto your console before playing?

It's supposed to be automatic, you tell the system what games to sync. But, I'm finding it's not transferring all of the games I told it too.

 

[Jomjom]

Each game has a setting for auto uploading its save or not, and then there's a global time you set for all of the auto functions to occur.

The downloading saves is all manual I think.

Ah I see. Yeah I knew about the auto uploading, where the PS3 would turn on by itself at some designated time and upload all of your saves.

So, you can't play your games from the saves in the cloud right if downloading the saves back to your console is all manual? You have to copy the save from the cloud to your PS3 and then play?

 

[Suikoguy]

Ah I see. Yeah I knew about the auto uploading, where the PS3 would turn on by itself at some designated time and upload all of your saves.

So, you can't play your games from the saves in the cloud right if downloading the saves back to your console is all manual? You have to copy the save from the cloud to your PS3 and then play?

Correct, it's designed as a backup.
If your system ever fails, you will love the fact you have them backed up.

 

[cpp_is_king]

It's supposed to be automatic, you tell the system what games to sync. But, I'm finding it's not transferring all of the games I told it too.

Did you play those games? I believe it only syncs new save files and save files that have changed.

 

[Number45]

Yeah, it definitely doesn't go back through the list and sync the lot. For me I manually went back through my saves and sync'ed everything that I wanted to and just select 'yes' when it asks me at boot time for each new game.

Works like a charm for me.

 

[Fuzzy]

Are you sure this is true? I can confirm my copy is not a demo after the patch. I know it updated to 1.01 or something the last time, I recently booted up and I'm where I left off and can get trophies etc. I even checked my history and the demo+unlock key are listed.

I could've sworn I read a complaint from someone about Stacking not working after their subscription ended even though it didn't have an expiry date.

 

[SuperSonic1305]

Did anybody else get a PSN message with a Home beta invite? It says I got it for being a PS+ member. Must be a beta for the Home relaunch.

 

[patsu]

Yap, but not much improvement I think. I went there.

 

[Cruzader]

I could've sworn I read a complaint from someone about Stacking not working after their subscription ended even though it didn't have an expiry date.

I'm talking about the game turning into a demo from the latest patch. It didn't for me and I got it through PS+ so in still wondering if it's fake what ppl say about that.

 

[Mrbob]

My PSA for GAF for those of you with standard subscriptions about to go out, check your expiration dates on games. We got bumped a couple months due to the outage, but not all games updated to the new expiration date.

For example my PSN Plus expiration date is now December 11, but I have a couple PSN and PS1 games that are going to expire on October 11. It is not easy, but for content you want to keep you need to go into your history and start a new download. Then PSN will update your content with the proper expiration date. You don't have to finish the download or delete what you have. Just need to start a new download. Once it is started you can cancel the download right away. Check your expiration date after and it should be fixed. Working for me.

 

[AEREC]

Just got a code from subway for 3 month PS+...if I put that into my PSN account which already has PS+, will it just add 3 month on top of my current subscription?

 

[Toki767]

Just got a code from subway for 3 month PS+...if I put that into my PSN account which already has PS+, will it just add 3 month on top of my current subscription?

Yep that should be what happens

 

[AEREC]

Yep that should be what happens

Thanks!

 

[Mrbob]

Weird issue. I renewed my plus account but none of my games updated their expiration date. Hope it all updates soon. Going to be mad if I lose everything in a couple weeks.

Between minis and PSN games, this is over 50 games i'll have to redownload.

 

[Fuzzy]

Weird issue. I renewed my plus account but none of my games updated their expiration date. Hope it all updates soon. Going to be mad if I lose everything in a couple weeks.

Between minis and PSN games, this is over 50 games i'll have to redownload.

They don't automatically get updated with the new expiry date. You have to start (authorize on PS store) the download then stop them for them to be updated. It's stupid.

 

[Mrbob]

Seriously? Good grief what an asinine set up. I'll give Sony a call then and see if they can fix it. Going through my download history will be torture.

 

[Fuzzy]

Seriously? Good grief what an asinine set up. I'll give Sony a call then and see if they can fix it. Going through my download history will be torture.

Let us know what they say. I haven't bothered with most of mine because I'll just wait until I want to play one of the "expired" ones.

 

[Suikoguy]

Quick note on save backups:

Automatic backup for saves seems to only activate on titles you have launched since purchasing PSN+.

So if you noticed it did not backup a save you told it to sync, that's probably why.

 

[Mrbob]

So a quick update. I had a couple games that were labeled as EXPIRED since they didn't get the two month free bump.

I decided to start them and see what would happen. The games launched, and when I quit out they were updated with the proper expiration date. So maybe we don't have to re-download games? Just boot them up.

 

[MrPliskin]

Quick note on save backups:

Automatic backup for saves seems to only activate on titles you have launched since purchasing PSN+.

So if you noticed it did not backup a save you told it to sync, that's probably why.

Don't you have to play it and then select "Yes, sync saves" for it to work? I didn't think there was any other way for auto-sync to work. It's either that, or manually update them.

 

[spats]

Hydrophobia Prophecy free for + users, coming november 2nd.

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/10/28/hydrophobia-prophecy-on-psn-next-week-free-for-plus-members/

 

[graywolf323]

Hydrophobia Prophecy free for + users, coming november 2nd.

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/10/28/hydrophobia-prophecy-on-psn-next-week-free-for-plus-members/

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011...ts-psn-tuesday-with-playstation-move-support/

free for US members as well

 

[Andrefpvs]

Hydrophobia Prophecy free for + users, coming november 2nd.

http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/10/28/hydrophobia-prophecy-on-psn-next-week-free-for-plus-members/

That's nice! That's one game I've always been curious about but honestly would never purchase.

 

[Brazil]

Is that game as shitty as the original, and will developers stalk and threaten me if I don't like it?

 

[Number45]

Is that game as shitty as the original, and will developers stalk and threaten me if I don't like it?

I think they fixed a lot of the problems in a major update that's included with this version. But they'll probably still want your first born if you criticise it.

 

[Aru]

Well, it's free, so definitely worth a try.

 

[Slaylock]

PlayStation Plus for November

Free PSN Games and DLC
Hydrophobia: Prophecy (11/1)

Free PSone Classics
Crash Bandicoot (11/1)
Crash Bandicoot 2 (11/1)
Crash Bandicoot3: Warped (11/1)
CTR: Crash Team Racing (11/1)

Free Minis
Rumble Trucks (11/1)
Where is my Heart (11/8)
Doodle Fit (11/15)

Full Game Trials
MORTAL KOMBAT VS DC UNIVERSE DIGITAL (11/1)
MONOPOLY STREETS (11/8)
Hasbro Family Game Night 3 Full Game Trial (11/15)

Exclusive Discounts
Jurassic Park: The Game – Full Series (Episodes 1-4) – 20% off – (11/15)

Free Themes
Robots Dynamic Theme (11/1)

Free Avatars
Green Hat Penguin Avatar (11/15)
Raccoon Avatar (11/15)
Red Ornament Avatar (11/15)
Snow Monster Avatar (11/15)
Turkey Leg Avatar (11/15)

Media
Qore Episode 42 – November Early Access

 

[Live Free or Die]

PlayStation Plus for November

Free PSN Games and DLC
Hydrophobia: Prophecy (11/1)

Free PSone Classics
Crash Bandicoot (11/1)
Crash Bandicoot 2 (11/1)
Crash Bandicoot3: Warped (11/1)
CTR: Crash Team Racing (11/1)

Free Minis
Rumble Trucks (11/1)
Where is my Heart (11/8)
Doodle Fit (11/15)

Full Game Trials
MORTAL KOMBAT VS DC UNIVERSE DIGITAL (11/1)
MONOPOLY STREETS (11/8)
Hasbro Family Game Night 3 Full Game Trial (11/15)

Exclusive Discounts
Jurassic Park: The Game – Full Series (Episodes 1-4) – 20% off – (11/15)

Free Themes
Robots Dynamic Theme (11/1)

Free Avatars
Green Hat Penguin Avatar (11/15)
Raccoon Avatar (11/15)
Red Ornament Avatar (11/15)
Snow Monster Avatar (11/15)
Turkey Leg Avatar (11/15)

Media
Qore Episode 42 – November Early Access

Awesome. PS+ just keeps getting better and better.

 

[darkside31337]

Honestly that's a really weak month but I'd imagine some things are still fluid like discounts for the month and what not.

 

[Andvary]

wow, all Crash PS titles, very nice, my nephew loves them

 

[GeoramA]

Good content this month. Glad I waited on CTR. The release day discount for JP is nice too.

 

[ULTROS!]

Free Hydrophobia eh, guess I'll pick that one up.

 

[Ardenyal]

Nice. Will play the Crash games again once I get Vita.

 

[Aru]

Good month for PS+. I bought CTR years ago on EU PSN, but I was always thinking of buying the classic Crash games. Now I'll get them all for free
Already finished 3 on PS1, so I'm not sure I'm gonna play it again. I'll start in release order.

 

[jvm]

I missed the ending of the brouhaha, but wasn't there something about how PS1 games might not be playable on PSV? I saw that, lost track of it, and ended up remembering it just now as people were saying "can't wait to play on Vita".

 

[Suzzopher]

The American Plus is really good. In Europe we really do get shafted and pay more

 

[Number45]

I missed the ending of the brouhaha, but wasn't there something about how PS1 games might not be playable on PSV? I saw that, lost track of it, and ended up remembering it just now as people were saying "can't wait to play on Vita".

Yeah, I think they said that it wouldn't be there at launch (JP launch, you would hope that will be sorted by Feb).

The American Plus is really good. In Europe we really do get shafted and pay more

Hyrophobia is also listed as the game of the month for the EU I think, so hopefully we can expect the same on that at least.

 

[mAcOdIn]

I missed the ending of the brouhaha, but wasn't there something about how PS1 games might not be playable on PSV? I saw that, lost track of it, and ended up remembering it just now as people were saying "can't wait to play on Vita".

That's hard to say Sony said yes but Famitsu(I think it was) said no, frankly if it plays PSP games one would figure it could play psone games as the PSP is emulating the Psone so is a step up HW wise. It wouldn't make much sense for the Vita to not also be able to, perhaps the differing information is because maybe the Vita won't be able to do it out of the box, perhaps it will come with a later firmware update and Sony won't have the emulator ready? Fuck, perhaps Sony changed their minds and decided to ditch the PSone? And perhaps the rumor it can't play Psone games is false? Who knows?

 

[Shanlei91]

PlayStation Plus for November

Free PSone Classics
Crash Bandicoot (11/1)
Crash Bandicoot 2 (11/1)
Crash Bandicoot3: Warped (11/1)
CTR: Crash Team Racing (11/1)

Having never played Crash Bandicoot before, this is amazing.

 

[Zaraki_Kenpachi]

Weren't the crash games free earlier? Or were they just discounted? I can't remember.

 

[HenryHSH]

Weren't the crash games free earlier? Or were they just discounted? I can't remember.

Crash Team Racing was free a while back.

 

[jvm]

Crash Team Racing was free a while back.

I'm fairly sure I have Crash 2 & 3 from PS+. Maybe just one of them.

Edit: Need to add this spreadsheet link to the OP. Unfortunately, hasn't been updated since July!

12/14/2010 Crash Team Racing (Free)
2/15/2011 Crash Bandicoot (50% off)
11/16/2010 Crash Bandicoot 2 (50% off)
7/27/2010 Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped (50% off)

https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub...ckRJQlZJclR6aGc&single=true&gid=3&output=html

 

[Toki767]

It's a fairly weak month considering September and October were so awesome but it's still pretty decent. I'm guessing there won't be too many games coming out on PSN in November though?

I was kinda hoping the Only On PSN thing would be a permanent thing where games that fall under that category would always be 20% off for Plus members.

 

[HenryHSH]

I'm fairly sure I have Crash 2 & 3 from PS+. Maybe just one of them.

Edit: Need to add this spreadsheet link to the OP. Unfortunately, hasn't been updated since July!

12/14/2010 Crash Team Racing (Free)
2/15/2011 Crash Bandicoot (50% off)
11/16/2010 Crash Bandicoot 2 (50% off)
7/27/2010 Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped (50% off)

https://spreadsheets.google.com/pub...ckRJQlZJclR6aGc&single=true&gid=3&output=html

Oh, you bought them discounted, but they were never given for free.

 

[AEREC]

Too bad Jurassic Park isnt free for all PS+ subscribers who are getting renewed for a year...my yearly auto renew is in december.

 

[Ken Masters]

Having never played Crash Bandicoot before, this is amazing.

Having played all those games on the PSX, this is amazing

 

[QuantumBro]

Too bad Jurassic Park isnt free for all PS+ subscribers who are getting renewed for a year...my yearly auto renew is in december.

You can renew now and just have it add to your days left.

 

[Square Triangle]

Too bad Jurassic Park isnt free for all PS+ subscribers who are getting renewed for a year...my yearly auto renew is in december.

Doesn't it stack? Just renew now.

 

[Carl]

Yeah they stack. Just renew now and you'll get free Jurassic park