Sony Removes $5 Requirement from PlayStation Store

Finally! Jesus christ, this was the dumbest thing.

I didn't even know this was a thing? I have always used PSN cards.

I'm not putting my credit card info on my account after all the times PSN has been hacked...

Hallelujah, welcome to the modern world!

I always figured it had something to do with credit card processing fees, except that if you have 5.00 in your wallet, and buy something for 5.99, they only charge your credit card 0.99, and not another 5.00. Maybe they just wanted you to spend more than 0.50, you cheap bastard.

Didn't when know this was a thing. Neat.

@rjejr

Imagine spending less than $5 on the Store to begin with.

Peasants.

@ShogunRok a couple of loot boxes?
or having funds left over and getting something that is like $2 more than you had in there?
IDK - it happens

It's almost as if people dont want to spend more than necessary.

This is the first time I know this, I don't have this problem when using my usa psn account.

I found this out by accident last night. Went 2$ over the gift card limit I had. And I only got charged exact amount. So yay!

@Knuckles-Fajita
Which is fair enough, I don't want to spend more than necessary either but after what happened in 2011 I don't know why anybody would ever trust Sony enough again to purchase directly from PSN. Hell no on that one. Good news for those who aren't as paranoid as I am, I guess. Now if Sony could just sort out its ridiculous feud with the world's largest online retailer...

How about they stop charging us for inline multiplayer access too and trying to keep us happy by giving us 2 crap games free every month

hmm... who were the masterminds behind this peasantry?

@Tasuki
I purchase off PSN too, but I will never put my credit card info on there again. That's what I'm talking about when I say 'directly from PSN.' Could've worded it better.

I can't even remember ever buying something for less than a fiver, but yay I guess?

WIN FOR GAMERZ!!

Knew I be the minority here, but I agree with the $5 minimum. Having a full time job and bills, I rather see no less than $5 deducted at a time. Last thing I want is to look at a bank or card statement and have to scroll past lots of tiny transactions. And for those who are broke or kids, if you can't afford $5, then you should not be buying a $.50 avatar and learn to save money.

I used to hate having to do this back on the PS3. I didn't know it was ongoing over in the US of A. Bonza!

Yes they have been doing it since birth
Ty you though message is out there. I got it ! Ty ty ty

Good. But maybe their strategy was to make you buy more. I often buy a couple of cheap games because they'll charge the 5 euros anyways. I don't think I've purchased any masterpieces for 2-3 euros though. I bought Goat Simulator, kinda like my personal inside joke, but it was sincerely even worse than I expected and I did expect a broken and awful game.

Really neat. Although a bit useless for me personally unless Sony also goes as far as to remove the rule about bank card emitters and account regions. Which I don't really expect to happen.

@ShogunRok lol right, less than 5 and I’d be too depressed to even look at the psn store

@Neolit Might have been 10 hours, I sleep in on Sundays. Is sleeping in on Sundays a thing in other cultures? I know I'm not the only person in the US who does this. Only 2 things to do Sunday mornings, church or sleep. Well unless you're on the West Coast, then there's the NFL. Never could get used to that while I was out there, too early for football.

This was a serious pet peeve of mine, Sammy isn't exaggerating. There are always games I want to buy on sale for $1.99 that I just don't b/c that $5 minimum was stupid. I even use a Sony credit card so they are the ones collecting the fee.

For all the people who won't give Sony their credit card info for fear of hackers - do you even own credit cards? If you do, your identity has probably already been purchased. After what happened Sony is probably one of the more secure places out there now. The list of hacked data is very very long.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data_breaches

Now I need a new pet peeve. Guess I could always jump on the "change my name" bandwagon, but I've been rjejr since day 1, I'll be rjejr in the grave. Guess I'll just focus on Dreams getting a release date, or at least a beta release date, even that is 2 years late now. 😛

@WorkingGamesFan I'm here as long as Sammys here. I tried going elsewhere but Playstation news wasn't the same without him and Taylor Swift.

Really? I've bought stuff from the PS Store with the required amount only. I remember that Sony always sends two emails when you buy something from the store: one for adding funds and the other one is for the purchased goods.

In theory, you don't purchase anything, you add funds to your account which Sony later uses to complete the purchase. But everything is done on a Macro, so the speed is generally fast.

The PS4 + free avatars are also gone.

@Gamer83 there have been data breaches at many companies at this point. there is no bulletproof security system so no point in worrying about it... it is just part of everyone's future whether we like it or not.

@Neolit "favourite games list"

As a cranky old guy who hates everything, a "Favorites" list isn't going to do me a whole lot of good. Though if it's on the web browser but not the PS4 that is a little odd. Though coming from the bare bones Switch UI that would hardly register anyway. Themes, eShop music, folders, social media, streaming, web browser.

As a cranky old enough guy ive always hated that there isnt a favorites option to keep track of all the games i eventually plan on buying. Grr

@Neolit Oh, you mean a wishlist. I have a wishlist on the website.

https://store.playstation.com/en-us/wishlist?emcid=se-pi-147509

Is there no wishlist on the PS4 store? I thought there was. Switch has a wishlist that I'm always adding games too. I have no idea how to access it or where to find it but I know it's there.

My many Amazon wishlist's are many many items long. My cart's about the same. I filled them up for Prime day then bought nothing.

If there's no wishlist on PS4 there really should be. I think I've had a couple of items at most in my cart but that's really no way to run a wishlist b/c once you buy 1 you have to delete the rest.

@Bliquid Dont know the free Guns seems to be working great on with the schools. What could be better then undetectable guns. So funny that the US is ruled by a massive lobby who own the political system. 😁

@Gmork___ +1000

@Neolit Meanwhile you could also use psprices.com and setup your whishlist there. The site even notifies you about sales for games if you wish to be notified. And on top of that, you can see if the discounted price is a good discount or not.

@Gmork___

Use pen and paper

Yes! Sony finally upgraded their ancient gas station technology! I am glad :]

@Savino Pretty much.

I'm looking at it as a day late birthday present from Sony, now that I'm too old too enjoy it.

Worked part time in retail and grocery store apart from full time job: it deals with identity theft and stolen debit/credit cards. It is not unusual for someone to have a debit/credit card stolen and find numerous small charges from it. When my credit card was stolen some years ago, there were tons of purchases for less than $2.

@hotukdeals wth is that???

Was $10 in Australia, guessing this is gone too.

@RogerRoger I've actually heard that the reasoning behind things costing 9.99 instead of an even 10 was that it was used to keep employees honest back in the old days - the employee would be forced to open up the cash register (which would automatically create a record on the cash register's ribbon/paper) to give that .01 back as change. Otherwise the employee could take the even change of a 10, give the customer their item...and then pocketing that 10 instead of ringing it through the register (I guess this was before people really cared about getting receipts...then again, there's still a lot of people that don't care about it even now).

@Ralizah

It costs money to transfer funds from a credit card. So the $5 requirement was an attempt to minimize those costs. Now items less than $5 may go up in price.

Sony is not the only one to do this. EZPass a service for going through tolls without paying cash funds my account $50 at a time. Do I cry about it? No because I am not a baby.

@DarthDiggler Yet somehow Nintendo and Microsoft didn't see the need to inconvenience customers like this.

It was a dumb policy and Sony was right to change it.