PS Plus Expiry Dates Return to the PS Store, Because Sony

In other words, nothing happened

clearly it was just an error. happens to most companies.

but everyone overreacted, before knowing everything

If only specific sites that report news contacted Sony for a statement about the missing expiry dates before writing an article assuming stuff, but that's too much work.

@AinsleyE You mean the requests Sony very rarely responds to? We do ask, all the time, actually. Asking for an explanation doesn't mean you can't report on what happened, though.

@LiamCroft Hang on, there is a difference between writing about what happened and writing an article that specifically says in the title that Sony scrapped it. Reporting that the expiration date is gone is one thing but most of that article was you assuming Sony did it on purpose and only a small line at the end that suggests it could have been a glitch.

@AinsleyE If only specific users, that make unverified accusations, contacted these sites for a statement before writing an allegation assuming stuff, but that's too much work?

I chuckled at the headline lol good one guys

Oh Sony, never change*

*actually, please do change

@Eldritch You know what, you are right. My post came off more aggressive than I would have liked. My complaint about the original article was that it was written in a way that felt like there was evidence pointing towards the assumption that Sony scrapped the dates on purpose, which from the information at the time I would say wasn't sufficient enough to make such a statement. My dislike of that article shouldn't justify my passive aggression and apologies to Liam for that.

@stvevan

Exactly. It’s Sony, I guess. We all know, they’re the bad guys in gaming. So every error must be intentional.

The expiration of the expiration has thus expired.

So one way you COULD phrase it is that Sony heard the negative feedback, and responded by putting the expiration dates back.

But that's supposition, unless Sony were to actually communicate something like that, or that they were removed in error, or SOMETHING.

Doesn't everybody have Rez Infinite from Play at Home for free?

@djlard not newcomers to playstation since then, or even people who missed the giveaway.
Unrelated but rez is an amazing vr experience.

Microsoft went all out with Game pass. Launch day titles and full backwards compatibility.

Sony keeps halfassing it with Plus by cutting corners. Some recent games and maybe one launch title you get if you're lucky. Very few PS1 and P2 games and PS3 streaming.

@Orionsangel

"Full backwards Compatibility". Well that's a lie. Series s/x support zero Kinect cameras and their games. About 30% of the 360 library is where they stopped and about 40 actual Xbox original games.
"Full" is a blatant overstatement and you are being called on it.

Meanwhile 5000 PS4 games are playable on PS5 including over 800 PSVR games, even the 11 year old PS Move controller works.

Another Xbox myth debunked.

@RobN
That relies on the premise that Sony listen and react in a timely fashion, lol, no. Pushsquare just jumped the gun in an effort to get content out.

@Balosi I don't have VR but Rez was fun for about hour...

@LiamCroft If you'd just reported on what happened, that'd be one thing. But you editorialized, asserting something that happened that you didn't have any information to assert.

And now, after that you asserted has been shown to be wrong, it's somehow Sony's fault, and not yours?