Playstation Plus Discussion Thread - FAQ in first post

RangeR

Josey Wales wrote: »

Very impressive sale on the PSN Store now. Well if you have your PS+ subscription on the US Store.

Didn't we get about 70% of them free throughout the year on the EU PS+?

Varik

There are games that I may like but won't buy now for the chance that they'll show up on Plus, Liberation is one.

Josey Wales

Varik wrote: »

There are games that I may like but won't buy now for the chance that they'll show up on Plus, Liberation is one.

I was thinking the exact same thing about Liberation.

DjFlin

RangeR wrote: »

Why Sony don't add all IGC to each PS+ account every month is beyond me. It's a pointless excercise.

They pay publishers for every user that adds the game to their collection. Saves a few quid on the folks who may forget to check. Personally, I'm fine with that. Its nowhere near as sleazy as what Microsoft does with Xbox Live Gold's auto-renewal.

RangeR

DjFlin wrote: »

Its nowhere near as sleazy as what Microsoft does with Xbox Live Gold's auto-renewal.

I'm not familiar with xBox anything. What's sleazy?

DjFlin

RangeR wrote: »

I'm not familiar with xBox anything. What's sleazy?

Every time I buy Gold Membership or MS Points(Which are also a joke), my Xbox Live membership is set to auto-renew. It doesn't even ask. So every time I buy something on my Xbox, I have to log in to Xbox.com and turn off auto-renewal again.

It may have changed, I haven't paid for anything on Xbox Live in about a year.

weiland79

K so I downloaded Drakes Deception last night but just checking now it's not in the games section. It is however in my Games Data Utility. In the games section there is a faded out icon for Drakes Deception but this has been there for a few days and everytime i try and install it i get an error message.
I've tried deleating it and reinstalling but no good. I think this is the uncharted online file so i'm not worried about that. Just keen to get the game working.

Any thoughts?

jaxdasher

weiland79 wrote: »

K so I downloaded Drakes Deception last night but just checking now it's not in the games section. It is however in my Games Data Utility. In the games section there is a faded out icon for Drakes Deception but this has been there for a few days and everytime i try and install it i get an error message.
I've tried deleating it and reinstalling but no good. I think this is the uncharted online file so i'm not worried about that. Just keen to get the game working.

Any thoughts?

You play it through the F2P multiplayer version.

EGriff

jaxdasher wrote: »

You play it through the F2P multiplayer version.

So you have to download both even if you don't want to play multiplayer?

jaxdasher

EGriff wrote: »

So you have to download both even if you don't want to play multiplayer?

Yep I know. 33 gigs is big enough. I'm out of space myself.

chopperbyrne

I currently don't have a Vita, but "purchase" everything for it anyway, so that if I do get one I can have a large library of games immediately.

I hope this stays the same when PS4 launches and I don't need a PS4 registered against my PSN account to add the PS4 games to my library as it'll be at least next summer before I get a PS4.

RangeR

chopperbyrne wrote: »

I currently don't have a Vita, but "purchase" everything for it anyway, so that if I do get one I can have a large library of games immediately.

I hope this stays the same when PS4 launches and I don't need a PS4 registered against my PSN account to add the PS4 games to my library as it'll be at least next summer before I get a PS4.

You do that here.

chopperbyrne

I'm well aware of the online store, but there's no guarantee you'll be able to "purchase" PS4 games without having a device registered.

I hope we can as it'd be very nice to buy a PS4 next summer and have six or seven games already.

RangeR

chopperbyrne wrote: »

I'm well aware of the online store, but there's no guarantee you'll be able to "purchase" PS4 games without having a device registered.

I hope we can as it'd be very nice to buy a PS4 next summer and have six or seven games already.

While I agree we have no guarantee, we can also purchase Vita games without a device registered. I don't believe it's an issue. Only a few months to know.

sin0city

Thank you plus for Hitman. It has some of the best dialogue (between guards when you're stealthing about the place) and voice acting I've heard and it looks incredible. The environments are so detailed too. Just wish they'd included a save game option or a few more checkpoints, especially for the professional difficulties.

Captain Chaos

sin0city wrote: »

. Just wish they'd included a save game option or a few more checkpoints, especially for the professional difficulties.

That's what makes it professional difficulty, the lack of save points. You have to nail it right first time, every time.

ussjtrunks

So guys how does the instant game collection work I know it gives you free games every month but when do they get updated and how many are there usually it looks good value atm for a vita ps3 owner.

Also do the subsciptions work by day or month i.e if I got the 3 month sub now would it end on 14th of September or 90days from now?

RangeR

ussjtrunks wrote: »

So guys how does the instant game collection work I know it gives you free games every month but when do they get updated and how many are there usually it looks good value atm for a vita ps3 owner.

Also do the subsciptions work by day or month i.e if I got the 3 month sub now would it end on 14th of September or 90days from now?

Read the FAQ in the first post. All answers are there.

ussjtrunks

Read the FAQ in the first post. All answers are there.

just saw it there lol

sin0city

Captain Chaos wrote: »

That's what makes it professional difficulty, the lack of save points. You have to nail it right first time, every time.

There are no saves for any difficulty and there are checkpoints on hard, which is a professional difficulty.

I think the older games allowed a couple of saves on higher difficulties too.

jaxdasher

RangeR wrote: »

Read the FAQ in the first post. All answers are there.

Keep fighting the good fight RangeR.

circadian

DjFlin wrote: »

Every time I buy Gold Membership or MS Points(Which are also a joke), my Xbox Live membership is set to auto-renew. It doesn't even ask. So every time I buy something on my Xbox, I have to log in to Xbox.com and turn off auto-renewal again.

It may have changed, I haven't paid for anything on Xbox Live in about a year.

I've had it mysteriously turn itself back on before, renewed with no notifications. Was annoyed because I got a cheap voucher online.

The phone call to remove my card details was fun.

Looking forward to getting back to PSN, not hiding behind points for prices etc.

Plumpynutt

Just a quick question regarding PS+, I want to get it over the next few weeks ahead of getting the PS4, as well as finally availing of all the free games etc. I share my PS3 with my brother (he's 16), so I just want to know

1. If I buy a subscription, I assume that it only applies to my account and he won't be able to access any of the free games or anything even after downloading them to the system?

2. Is there still an age limit of 18 on getting PS+ ?


Thanks in advance

Captain Chaos

Plumpynutt wrote: »

Just a quick question regarding PS+, I want to get it over the next few weeks ahead of getting the PS4, as well as finally availing of all the free games etc. I share my PS3 with my brother (he's 16), so I just want to know

1. If I buy a subscription, I assume that it only applies to my account and he won't be able to access any of the free games or anything even after downloading them to the system?

2. Is there still an age limit of 18 on getting PS+ ?


Thanks in advance

Anyone using your PS3 even under a different profile can use your PSN+ content that you download to it.

Plumpynutt

Captain Chaos wrote: »

Anyone using your PS3 even under a different profile can use your PSN+ content that you download to it.

Ah really! that's amazing, that's the decision made so, I'm definitely getting it soon

Varik

Plumpynutt wrote: »

Ah really! that's amazing, that's the decision made so, I'm definitely getting it soon

Your account has to be on his PS3 and active.

Captain Chaos

Varik wrote: »

Your account has to be on his PS3 and active.

They share the same console.

Dozen Wicked Words

Had PS+ for a month and already going to have to upgrade my 160gb hard drive. Hoping its as easy as google suggests. So I think I just need a 2.5inch SATA 5400rpm portable internal drive? Any links to any decent options would be appreciated, clueless about all this unfortunately.

Captain Chaos

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

Had PS+ for a month and already going to have to upgrade my 160gb hard drive. Hoping its as easy as google suggests. So I think I just need a 2.5inch SATA 5400rpm portable internal drive? Any links to any decent options would be appreciated, clueless about all this unfortunately.

I got this drive for my phat PS3 last year.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Seagate-inch-5400RPM-Drive/dp/B007NVGWV0/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1371303461&sr=8-2&keywords=2.5+hdd

It's very easy to do. There are some good youtube videos showing it step by step if you are not 100% sure of what you are doing.

When the PS3 formats it and instals it's own stem files it works out at 840Gb, I have mine near half full thanks to PS+.

Glico Man

Dozen Wicked Words wrote: »

Had PS+ for a month and already going to have to upgrade my 160gb hard drive. Hoping its as easy as google suggests. So I think I just need a 2.5inch SATA 5400rpm portable internal drive? Any links to any decent options would be appreciated, clueless about all this unfortunately.

Depends on how much you want to spend, and if you're collecting games or deleting as you play. If the former, a 1TB will keep you going for a good while. If the latter, a 500GB would be more than suitable.

Heres a great 1TB option from Amazon

If it makes any difference, I plan to upgrade my 320GB to the above next month.