PlayStation Plus - Page 5

I don't see one next to your either. And I thought you bought it the day before.

I haven't yet. I'll probably pick it up next week (payday). I keep thinking of all the reasons why I never wanted a 360 and then for me to pick up PS+ that has a couple less features than what the 360 offers seems hypocritical on my part. PS+ has yet to make me an offer that I simply cannot afford to refuse.

Well since PS+ turns your wallet into an auto-transfer for funding (PS+ is an autorenewal), I went back and turned that portion off since it said I could. I wonder it turning off the auto-transfer that my "+" goes away. I'll turn it back on around 6 tonight. Let me know if you see it. I better get my Yellow Badge of honor so help me...LOL

it's there now. I guess someone at home must have logged on to watch a movie and it updated on my list.

With auto-renewal, will I still be able to pay for PS+ by adding funds to my wallet via a $50 PSN card purchase? I prefer not to keep a permanent credit card number in my PSN account.

i took my billing info off. where do you find the option for auto transfer/renewal and such?

I suspect so. But to be safe I would just keep a minimum of $50 in the account so when PS+ rolls around, it won't have to look for funds anywhere.


It's under the transaction management section. Should be obvious once you get in there.

trading with the enemy

A couple of things that are more relevant than "Fifty dollas?!? Sony is trying too robb me blinde!!!1 Whine!!!one":

- You can have PSN+ with no credit card information attached to the account. Everything I purchase PSN, or Live, is all through store bought PSN cards, with credit card info never being attached to the account. With PSN, I have to remember to not float my normal ~$75 on the account though, as it will auto-renew the 12-month subscription if the funds are available. I am interested to see if it will auto-renew my subscription at 3-month rate if I have $20-49 floating in the account. That would be annoying.

- I picked up the disc version of Infamous a couple weeks ago and have spent the last week playing it, finishing it Thursday night. Today I downloaded the PSN+ version, just for curiosity sake. Riding the train rails around the city, I can see that pop-in and loading is about the same. I'm guessing that the normal game's 1.3GB install consists mostly of the city models and textures. Maybe on a game without a large install, the load times and pop-in will be reduced.

- The PSN+ version of Infamous is smart enough to know that it is on the hard drive. As such, it doesn't require the install file. Frankly I am surprised by this.

- If you go to Account Management > Transaction Management > Services List > Playstation Plus > Playstation Plus: Package, then you can select Cancel Automatic Renewal. In the description of PSN+ upon purchase, the text made it sound as if auto-renewal was the only option. It is nice to see that you can kill it with a bit of digging.

Again, I bought this for the Steam-like auto-patching, as the normal PS3 patching system is unbelievably retarded. Anything else that PSN+ offers is a bonus. It is nice to see that retail disc games are going to be a downloadable focus though. Discs are a little 1985 for my tastes.

Okay. Has anyone had the auto-patching system actually, you know, work? I grabbed Wipeout HD the day PSN+ came out. I even installed it that day. I did not play it though. Today, some handful of days later I went to play Wipeout HD. What then wanted to download three patches totaling 140MB before I was allowed to play the game? Yeah.

I guess I'll go delete my Heavy Rain patches and check in a couple of days if it got patched when I wasn't looking. Maybe they designed the system to only work for disc games, or for games that you have a save file for. I seems like a pretty damn big oversight if the auto-patcher ignores new games that you download, given that they like selling PSN titles, and apparently now want to also sell disc titles over the network.

Even when you pay for Sony's patching system, they still insist on making it retarded!

does the auto updating for games work?

The way the auto-updating works:

Sony puts out patches and what not to auto-update. Therefore, if you have games like Red Dead Redemption or BFBC2 and there are new patches, unless it's part of Sony's package, you'll still need to boot the game for those new patches.

More reasons why I'm not sold on PS+.

I'm kinda with you on that, I have yet to see something offered that I absolutly want.

sony needs to include every game (hard drive or disc) in the auto update feature. i feel ripped off.

They might eventually, but it might not be easy. I don't think the system does a full power on when it updates (I am always asleep when it updates though, so no idea), so it would have to read the disc to know what game it is to update. Again, not sure if this is why it doesn't do it yet or not, but obviously it would be very nice if it updated disc-based games automatically also.

Actually, from what I have seen as you can set the update period for the exact time that you are on, and when you turn off the PS3, it will stay on and Auto-update.

From what I have seen, it updated a few of my games and when I powered on, it actually told me which games where updated.

The wierd thing is it only updated the games that I tried seeing if there was an update before I powered off. The other games I haven't played in a while did not get update.

Specifically, Socom seemed to have gotten updated.

Will test more.

So maybe only the stuff that you play post 3.40 update, auto-update? This still has the same old effect of having to wait terrible amounts of time the first time you start up a downloaded game. I'm used to Steam always taking care of everything automatically in the background before I even care, and Xbox Live with it's super-fast 4MB patch cap. This PSN+ auto-patching is turning out to be some seriously disappointing fail. In short, it looks like it only works at times that I don't ever care if it works.

Maybe we should list games that seem to auto-patch.

So far the only game that I can confirm 100% are:

Cuboid
Mahjong

or sony should provide us a list of supported games next time they promote their half@$$ features.

Either Warhawk or Wipeout auto-updated on mine... don't remember which.

Wipeout auto patched for me. I started it first and it said their was an update available. I pressd O for no and played the game with no problem. I trned the system off at night and slept. When I turned the PS3 on in the morning it said the following games were auto-updated - wipeout hd.

Do we know when the new PS+ monthly offers come out? Since today is the first Tuesday in July...is it today?

Has anybody tried starting a disc based game that needed a patch and then not patching it then to see if it will download that update? I might try this with my copy of SFIV I haven't updated in forever or something.

I think it's next month...Aug 3rd

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/...ore-update-146

It looks like additional PSN+ stuff came out today. I'm about to hop on to confirm.

Holy crap is Qore a terrible product.

Guess I'm finally picking up SSHD!

It's bad, sure, but it was/is a means to an end for some Betas and perks for the subscribers. Now it's included in PS+. I never thought it was worth the $25 on it's own. But as part of PS+ maybe. I did find it amusing that Plus access to the Qore episodes after the fact is tied to your PS+ subscription renewal. With a Qore annual sub on it's own, the episodes never expire, but then again why would you keep them or re-download them in the first place.

I hopped on the bandwagon the other day- I figure I'll give them a year to wow me with this feature. So far so good.

I'm thinking the "big" free stuff, like free PSN and Classic titles, are gonna be a once a month thing. The rest is probably once a week, but we'll see once the new wears off.