Sony’s Big Giveaway: One Year On With PlayStation Plus’ Instant Game Collection

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   TSBonyman 11/07/13, 10:16

   Awesome, my only concern is that as more people get on-board, less games will actually be sold.

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   Porcupine_I 11/07/13, 10:19

   Can we have an article about how PS+ is now required for online play on the PS4 with the title:

   “Sony welcomes Xbox gamers by providing a environment they are comfortable with”

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   stormy 11/07/13, 10:21

   Is All for one cross buy? I thought it was PS3 only?

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     stormy 11/07/13, 10:24

     4 even….

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       Adam Guest 11/07/13, 11:24

       You’re right, oops, it’s the newer Q Force / Full Frontal Assault that’s cross-buy.

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   Moshbag 11/07/13, 10:28

   PS+ is indeed superb value, but it’s a little disingenuous to say “Even Lovefilm can’t rent you titles for that price”. As far as getting what I want, when I want it, at a rate I can play it (1 or 2 games at a time), Lovefilm is by far the superior service, even after the extra cost (about three times the price of PS+ over a year). And you get films and a streaming service on top of that. I’m very sad to see the game rentals go.

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     Adam Guest 11/07/13, 11:15

     It was an of-the-moment gag, that’s all. Lovefilm won’t rent you games at /any/ price.

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       jimmy-google 11/07/13, 12:35

       I have plus and lovefilm. The combination is excelled, lovefilm let me keep up with new games and Plus filled in the ones I’d missed.

       Gutted lovefilm games is ending in under a month.

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   hazelam 11/07/13, 10:32

   i won’t criticise anybody who doesn’t want a plus sub, but for me this has been one of the best features introduced this gen.
   for the price of a game a year, i’ve got to play dozens of outstanding titles.
   sure i only keep them as long as i continue to subscribe, but they’ve always made that pretty clear and i knew what the deal was going in.
   and frankly i can live with that.

   i trade in my older games sometimes to buy new ones, so, many games i wouldn’t end up keeping forever anyway.

   and when i do finally get a Vita, i’ll have a library of games to play from day one, once i buy one of the overpriced proprietary memory sticks. >_<
   and then when i get a PS4, the same will apply, though it'll probably be a smaller library for that machine at that point.

   if the online play sub on PS4 was just for online play, i wouldn't be paying it.
   but with all the content that comes with it, i will have no issue paying for a plus sub.

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   retsam 11/07/13, 10:32

   I bought Vita just because of PS+ :P

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   Suncrest 11/07/13, 10:48

   I’ve been a subscriber since before the IGC the way Plus paid for itself ever since is… astounding.

   I just wish I had more time to play through all of the games, but I pretty much haven’t felt the need to buy a Vita game (even though I’m eying P4G and AC3:Lib).

   I think that Plus can also help with PS4 sales (if they include a month or three with the starter console, per example).

   I completely understand that Plus is only “worth it” if you have enough time to play the games and that in some cases, if you’re a sports or (j)RPG buff it probably won’t do much for you.
   However, the one critic that usually arises that I can’t get my head around is the whole “they’re just borrowed games you don’t own”. I mean, unless you’re inherently against subscription services, it pretty much pays for itself, and I still buy the games I want to “own” on launch or shortly thereafter, and through Plus I get to play other games I’d get but probably wouldn’t play more than once or twice… to each their own, I guess.

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   gaffers101 11/07/13, 11:07

   I’ve been a PS+ subscriber since day one. I’m really happy with what is provided and feel it offers excellent value for money.
   My son takes over my PS3 when my PS4 arrives and he’ll have a HDD loaded up with games already (less the cert 18 ones obviously).

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   Jag 11/07/13, 11:41

   There is one thing this article overlooks and that is guys like me tend to buy a lot of games at launch even with the knowledge they might come to Plus eventually.
   However the way I’ve been factoring whether the IGC is worth it for me is on a monthly basis, given that I pay £3.33 a month for Plus I look at whether I get at least that back every month.
   I’m not going to say that’s true for every month but it’s rare that I don’t meet that target.
   Also there have been games lately that I would’ve bought at full price anyway (Catherine, Starhawk, Velocity, Thomas Was Alone) which more than makes up for those barren months for me!

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    freezebug2 11/07/13, 11:51

    I’d say that most of the games I get from the IGC are price droppers (bargain binners) ie. I don’t buy on release but would pick them up when price dropped to around £10-£15, so even taking those statistics into account the savings made over the year are still staggering and that doesn’t take into account additional discounts on top/medium priced games and cloud saves etc.
    It really is a must have addition to any PSN account already, even though it’ll soon be a necessity for next gen online play. ;)

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