PlayStation Plus’ price is rising sharply in Europe on 31st August, but Sony’s offered a peace offering in the form of 15 months membership for the price of 12 months. Starting today until 29th August on the European PlayStation Store, you’ll be able to pay £39.99 for a full 15 months of membership. Keep in mind that from 31st August, you’ll have to shell out £49.99 for just 12 months.
Subscriptions do stack, so even if you have plenty of time left on your current membership, you can just add 15 months on top. To be honest, while we do think there are honourable intentions here, it does seem a little bit shady. It reminds us of when Tesco used to increase the price of its products so that it could say they were “reduced” when it put them back down to normal price.
Meh, it is what it is we suppose – if you know you’re going to be using PlayStation Plus for the foreseeable future, then you may as well shell out now and reap the savings if you have the spare cash. You can take advantage of the offer via the PlayStation Store.
[source store.playstation.com]
Comments 6
i should've bought it during e3 when it was 35 eur for 12 months...oh well..this is almost as good but not quite
@b1ackjack_ps Sony being Sony I would recomend turning off auto-renew and buying this manually.
Once you have buy a new PS + sub, Sony always turn auto-renew back on anyway and at least this way you can be certain that you get your 15 months
Didn't they have this deal a month ago? Bought an extra year then. Do I buy another? 🤔
@Rob_230 this should be a crime anyway especially since you can't get refunds. once I forgot that I had auto renewal on and it renewed. only afterwards it sent me an email that it auto renewed and I was like "oh crap I forgot about that" and immediately asked them to cancel and refund. "sorry no refunds"...very shady behaviour considering I sent them the mail less than 5 minutes after auto renewal for a whole frickin year. then I turned auto renewal off and guess what happened after a year? yep, they DID sent me several emails asking me if I really don't want to continue PS+. but when I had auto renewal on they can't send me a single heads up?! "hey just letting you know that your PS+ subscription will renew on date X". they can't do that?! VERY shady behaviour.
I picked this deal up on Amazon Day a few weeks back except it was 15 months for £30 not £40. I got 2 subscriptions for my ps4. Im grand for another 33 months thanks lol.
(3 months left on current script when picked up btw)
@manu0 I hate auto-renewals for that reasons, all companies are such money-grubbers. I just canceled my home newspaper delivery b/c I looked over past bills I realized it went from $25 to $35 in 2 years. I can afford the $35, but the newspaper gets worse, the price goes up, and weekly they send me emails about other things, but never once do I get a "Your price is going up next month" email. They've just been raising it, $2 here, $3 there. So I called and canceled.
I have to say Sony is by far the absolute worst if you called to cancel and they wouldn't refund it. I've had too many things auto-renewal on me but a day later I've always got a refund. Worse case scenario I wind up calling my credit card company and dispute the bill. AAA I had to mail in the cut-up card. If Sony tried to keep a year subscription on me I'd consider getting a lawyer just b/c. As you say, an email can be automatically sent. If they don't give you a heads up what do they expect? Lieing cheating losers, the lot of them. Can't charge a credit card w/o a dated signature. You don't have my signature or voice verification during a phone call I'm fighting it. Credit card companies dont' want to lose you as a customer, I've always won every disputed credit card bill I've ever disputed.
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