snoopeasystreet
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Thinking of signing up for plus today. If I subscribe now, I'll get everything released so far in may, right?
PlayStation Plus Thread: Plus What? PLUS EVERYTHING!
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Brad Grenz
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Yeah, it's all available until June 5th, I believe.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Is the anniversary coming soon or anything? Mine just expired and I need to reup. 
Is there a problem with reupping and still not gaining access to previously downloaded games for the US or was that just Europe who had problems?
Is there a problem with reupping and still not gaining access to previously downloaded games for the US or was that just Europe who had problems?End of June i think
Yep. Service began 1 July 2010, I believe.
The anniversary is June 29th but they haven't announced if they'd be giving a special offer for it yet. AFAIK only some Europeans had that problem.Is the anniversary coming soon or anything? Mine just expired and I need to reup.
EDIT: Others may be faster but my date is the correct one.
Morgan Haro confirmed on Twitter that it'll be next week. dat PS+ revamp.
Yeah, yeah.The anniversary is June 29th but they haven't announced if they'd be giving a special offer for it yet. AFAIK only some Europeans had that problem.
EDIT: Others may be faster but my date is the correct one.
The second Plus was announced I thought at some point they would remove the free games perk from it, and instead do a netflix like streaming service with a monthly fee for the back catalog of games sitting on the virtual shelf collecting dust.
After all they removed the free games perk from Qore without warning and moved it to something that costs more. Of course they're gonna do it again.
Qore never really promised free games per say. It just so happened that they chose to include them to people. Qore did still come with free themes and stuff even when PS+ was out.
You kind of were promised free games when you got one just for signing up. Sony should have said. We're not giving out the same amount of content this time. Only subscribe if you think the video content is worth the price of admission. But instead they said "Year 1 was great, year 2 is going to be better" and we all know how that turned out. I remember one person on the blog pointing out most of the video content wasn't even exclusive.
you were never promised free games with Qore, It gave Calling all Cars for free with the subscription but it was never part of the thing that you would keep getting free games at least from how I always understood it.
I might be wrong though but Playstation Plus always promised free games from the start.
Doesn't mean it always will. They can change the Terms of Service at any time. Just wait for the spin: "With Cloud storage, Qore, and discounts on extended warranties we feel Playstation Plus still provides gamers with exceptional value for their money."
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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The anniversary is June 29th but they haven't announced if they'd be giving a special offer for it yet. AFAIK only some Europeans had that problem.
EDIT: Others may be faster but my date is the correct one.
Thanks, I hope they give crap for fee in June and then hopefully they have a slight discount again.
If this does happen I couldn't see it happening for a little while. PS+ feels like its just starting to hit its stride with the content they've been offering since the start of the year. We've gotten a few few retail games for free and we also seem to be getting the free PSN titles pretty close to release. If they decide to change the ToS I don't think it would be until they've got a larger subscriber base and more licenses people don't want to lose.
Personally, I'd be a lot more likely to drop it right now than in a few years when I have more titles to lose.
I would rather have the crap for free, personally.
Last year at this time they had a 3 months free with annual sub deal. I hope they increase the storage this year. 150MB isn't enough, and clearing space is a pain in the ass without a decent ui.
OldJadedGamer
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I would rather have the crap for free, personally.
Last year at this time they had a 3 months free with annual sub deal. I hope they increase the storage this year. 150MB isn't enough, and clearing space is a pain in the ass without a decent ui.
Now that I have PS+ every game asks me for cloud saving which I say no to. With the amount of downtime the service suffers with maintenance and stuff I don't want to be held hostage by not having my save information.
I have my HDD and that is good enough for now, that way I know I'll always be able to play offline. I can't see where having a cloud save is a good thing.
Does not compute. The cloud is a backup of the one on the HDD. All games directly access the local version, not the cloud...
Oppo
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I think it saves to both HDD and the cloud, with that option. Not positive but I'm pretty sure it just uploads a copy of your local save.
edit - jvm faster on the draw
thelastword
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Even in such cases, all you have to do to activate the PSN PLUS games again; is to go to your download list, then hit the download button on your freebies. This will reactivate your games with the remaining days of your new sub, and now you simply cancel the download, since the content is already on your harddrive.I realize that the PS+ games are supposed to re-new the instant you resub, but I've heard horror stories where people have done that, and they remain inactive, forcing them to look through their download history and re-download all of their PS+ content. I just didn't want any of that.
But I guess I'll just buy a 1year sub right now, thanks guys!
I'm an expert
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Cloud doesn't mean it's only there. It makes a backup there during your automatic upload schedule and keeps it updated if it changes. There's always a copy on your hdd.
It annoys me that it asks to save even on demos, if I am not mistaken. However PS+ cloud saves are a god send. When my fat ps3 broke I would have lost an insane amount of progress & grinding time in Demon's Souls.
Also it's a great way to transfer save files if you have more than one Ps3.
thelastword
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I'm glad it asks though. If i'm playing a small game like golden axe, I don't want this being saved on the cloud, only my high profile games. It does ask for demos, however something like GT academy I want it saved on cloud. I'd rather it ask than not, hitting the left directional button to say yes or pressing x to say no is trivial anyway. I know because, after my 60gb went under with a tonne of save files since launch, it was a real pain in the mama-jamma.
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LOL Wut? I'm not even sure what you think cloud saving does and how it works, but you have one or more things wrong.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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I would rather have the crap for free, personally.
Last year at this time they had a 3 months free with annual sub deal. I hope they increase the storage this year. 150MB isn't enough, and clearing space is a pain in the ass without a decent ui.
Ya, since it's so soon I don't want to buy another year and then they have a deal like that. I just hope the deal doesn't make you add your creditcard and you can just use the wallet.I can guarantee with a post like that. I can't believe people actually think that.
OldJadedGamer
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Weird... Why doesn't it just do it on it's own then? I still don't see a purpose to it or why I would need to use it. It seems the reason its there is to assume your machine will go down. I don't use the 500 megs they give me on the 360 either.
Well since when I signed up there were no instructions on how to use it... unless I missed it and there is info on my PS3 I missed.
why backup anything ever?
OldJadedGamer
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I'm a Mac user, all my computers get backed up behind the scenes and I don't even think about it. It is built into the OS and has been for years. Thats how this should work. Click and forget.
Click and forget on PS3 too then?
OldJadedGamer
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So there is an option to always save to the cloud as well so it doesn't ask me each time I boot a game? If not, can I turn off the message so it doesn't appear like if you don't have Plus? Sounds like a cool feature if it could hold all my save files. If not sounds like an annoyance unless it is a permanent feature.
It asks you once for each new game you start. Hit yes and it will upload daily to the cloud. Dont have to think about it.
OldJadedGamer
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So there is no option to auto save to the cloud or turn off the question screen? I either want one or the other.
Infernodash
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There must be something major coming for PS Plus. Amazon is offering 30 days free trial with the purchase of Uncharted 3 and some other games. Dunno if that's new, but it has me hype!
PS3 is so frustrating!!!
They've done this before. Don't read too much into it.
Infernodash
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I never noticed; thanks for the heads up. I'll just go back to refreshing the playstation blog every few hours.
I don't think it has those options. You have to agree to cloud save for each game the first time you boot them. This is because of the limited 150MB storage, that way you can choose which games you don't want taking space.
That doesn't annoy me. What does annoy me is its lack of immediate automatic syncing like on steam and origin. You have to schedule cloud syncs. And on a fresh PS3 format the cloud saves don't automatically sync to your system, you have to manually copy your cloud saves onto your system.
OldJadedGamer
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Well, maybe if they bump the space at E3 they will give the option to do it automatically for all games.
Agent X
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I don't believe there is a way to turn off the question screen altogether. However, it only asks the question once for each game in your collection, upon the first time you play that game. Not every time you play, just the first time.
If you later change your mind, then you can select the icon for that game (not the saved data, but the executable) in the "Game" category, and press the Triangle button to change the option.
I think the only way to turn off the question screen on all future games is to completely turn off automatic updates through the system settings. Doing that however turns everything off. Other than that, you'll continue to be annoyed.
OldJadedGamer
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I'm running into it way more because I downloaded all the "free" games so I'm switching a lot to freshly played games right now. I see now that is why it is annoying and might not be normally.
Yeah, it's normally not too bad.
Wait'll you run into it when starting up a demo for the first time.
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