Earlier in the month, it was reported that Sony was discontinuing its traditional digital PS Plus vouchers. These allowed you to purchase one month, three month, or 12 month memberships from third-party retailers, which you could then redeem on your account in order to extend your subscription. Occasionally, these would be discounted.
On the official PlayStation website, it was directing customers towards PS Store credit, which you can obviously use to purchase subscription time. Now, with the service available in Europe, it’s released some new wallet top-up denominations specifically for its revamped PS Plus tiers. Major UK retailers like Shop To and Amazon UK now allow you to purchase £84 of PS Store credit, which is the cost of PS Plus Extra for a year.
There are also rebranded options available in the US, like $110, which is the price of PS Plus Extra and tax. We’re not convinced this format is as clean as the old option, where you just bought how much subscription time you wanted and didn’t need to worry about PS Store credit, but we suppose with three tiers on offer, this is ultimately more manageable for retail displays.
Anyway, that’s the situation right now: PS Plus specific vouchers are out, but rebranded PS Store wallet top-ups are in.
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Looks like this is a way for Sony to stop people from stacking and getting any type of savings towards these new ps plus subscriptions. Can’t get more greedy than this. I went to both my local stores and they both said they no longer will be selling cards or deals on them like they always use to do. I guess I’ll just have to keep my eye on the online marketplaces and see what deals I can find around Black Friday.
I turned auto renew off for ps plus & ps now when I bought them & the cheeky b******* have turned them back on after launching this 'new' service luckily I caught it before they charged me for a year of premium!
$110 in US would be for extra. It's $100+tax which is 10% in some areas.
@Milktastrophe Ah, excellent shout, thank you! I’ll update!
@mrtennis1990 There's nothing stopping retailers selling the £84 cards for less than face value surely? Or stacking either for that matter?
@Would_you_kindly They charged me a year too, even though I was prepaid through to April. Couldn’t get ahold of customer support either. Can’t decide who has better customer service Sony or Activision…
@Anke that’s a good point but I use to be able to get some cards and deals on them from some local stores. I went to all of them and they said they no longer will be having sales or giving out the old retail cards. It’s pure greed but I’ll definitely be keeping my eye out for cards online but sadly no longer in stores.
@Would_you_kindly I still wonder why "auto-renewal" isn't a crime yet. The average person is always pressing buttons be it in games or using any service whatsoever, yet sly sneaky service providers want to suggest the user is just too lazy to manually renew any expired service by tapping a few buttons...I mean you're saying I can parry, dodge, roll, pull of all sorts moves to beat bosses in Elden Ring but I can't manually renew anything myself...
Bargain for extra at £77.85 on Shopto, what I like about shopto.
@mrtennis1990 wow, that's bizarre how they'd be saying that already. I'm sure some online stores will have discounts on them at some point.
As a PS User who doesn't buy new games often, this new PS Plus Extra/Premium is insane value for money.
Leads me to believe there will be discounts around Black Friday / Christmas either online or certain retail stores.
Imagine you get a deal of £70/year for Extra. The cost of 1 game
@hoffa007 Always calculate the other options instead of just buying the single card outright. An £80 and £5 card bought together on Shopto currently costs £74.70, £3 cheaper and a pound of credit left in your wallet.
@somnambulance they didn't charge me because my subscription lasts until October but they would've if I hadn't checked my subscription status even though I know I turned it off as soon as I bought it they've been sneaky & set it to charge me for premium when it ends
@mrtennis1990
I doubt staff at high street stores would know company strategy on something Sony announced today. Likely they just know of no upcoming sales. Which nobody would at this point.
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Ah, so the post I made earlier this week on a different article has come to pass already.
Won't be long before 3rd party digital stores have generous discounts on these network codes.
I’m paying per month until I know which tier to go annually for. Not enough of a roadmap for me yet to see what’s worth getting.
Hopefully Shopto in the UK will discount them a bit more in the Black Friday sales. My sub expires end of August, so will get 3 months in the meantime if I decide to renew.
@Netret0120 I have never paid £70 for a game in my life. No idea what you're huffing.
IF i decide to upgrade at any pint it will defenately be paid for using discounted top up via shopto or cdkeys. They have £45 credit for £40 at the moment
@Intr1n5ic I'll be honest I have done that before in the past for something else so thanks for the heads up in reminding me.
@Would_you_kindly same thing happened to me, I always ***** auto renewal off as I always got my PS+ for a fraction of the cost and soon as the new service went live my subscription ran out 3 days later and my card was charged $120 for PS+ premium (I had also been a PS now subscriber) so I had to contact PlayStation support and thankfully they refunded me BUT it shouldn't have happened in the first place. Players beware
I find it really weird with some people sometimes. that auto renewal is always turned off by default, I really have to turn it on myself to make use of it. Is that perhaps because of the legislation in Europe? Or is it different in my case in the Netherlands?
Well... Sony just insured that we won't be able to buy the subscription at a discount from other stores, online or otherwise.
Cd key sites, for example, had promotions on subscription cards more often than Sony, and all around the year, by 50% or even more sometimes (bought myself 15 months of PS+ for 28$ from one of those sites, almost 15 months ago... which is about to expire).
This kind of discounts don't happen on PS store credits.
You could never get that deal for 10$ 20$ 50$ 60$ 100$ store credit vouchers. The best promotion on them was $ for $, no matter the store selling them.
So yeah.. Sony insured now it has full control of the subscription process... the best discounts will be on PS store, and only when they feel generous... which is usually 2-3 times a year, if we're lucky.
They're just proving again that they are greedy mofos, through and through...
@Anke yes I hope so!
I always use cd keys or shopto to top up my ps wallet. Generally save between 10-15%. Better than nothing 😌
Used gamivo for the first time yesterday. Got £35 of ps credit for £30. Worked fine, just remember to untick the subscription box at checkout.
Why is everything Sony is doing these days with PlayStation so …awkward? Like they want to be competing with what Xbox is doing but rushing it… £84 credit? Just print 12 months psplus extra on a card… everything about these new tiers have been made way more complicated than they needed to be by them.
@Anke As has been mentioned, Shop To already have them on a discount - nowhere near the same as the PS+ subs used to get discounted, but a good few quid off.
I'm locked in with Premium for 5 years, but it's a damn shame they eliminated PS Plus specific cards.
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