PlayStation Plus Packs Over $88 Value in First Month Alone
If you have been wondering if PlayStation Plus is worth the $50 per year, you’ll be happy to know that the first month of the service is offering subscribers a value well above the asking price. Not to mention PlayStation Plus brings some interesting new features to the PS3.
PlayStation Plus may cost $49.99 for a year, but it will definitely be worth its price tag if Sony can keep offering up excellent content like this first month’s smorgasbord of goodies. This month’s offering alone racks up over $88 in value when you add up all of the free or discounted content.
Here’s what is available in PlayStation Plus now:
- inFamous game trial (60-minute trial)
- WipEout HD (Full Game) FREE [normally $19.99]
- Rally Cross (PSOne Classic) FREE [normally $5.99]
- Age of Zombies (minis) FREE [normally $4.99]
- Warhark Fallen Star (Add-On) FREE [normally $1.99]
- Collision Theme FREE
- Fat Princess: Fat Roles DLC $3.99 [normally $4.99]
- Fat Princess Pink and Blue Princess Avatars FREE
- Gauntlet II $2.50 [normally $4.99]
- Mortal Kombat II $2.50 [normally $4.99]
- Rampage $2.50 [normally $4.99]
- Rampart $2.50 [normally $4.99]
- Cuboid $7.99 [normally $9.99]
- Cuboid Booster Pack FREE [normally $2.99]
- Cuboid Bundle Pack FREE [normally $4.99]
- Cuboid Level Editor FREE [normally $3.99]
- Hamsterball $7.99 [normally $9.99]
- Interpol $7.99 [normally $9.99]
- Magic Orbz $7.99 [normally $9.99]
- Magic Orbz Witches Pack FREE [normally $2.99]
- Magic Orbz Jungle Pack FREE [normally $2.99]
- Magic Orbz Winter Pack FREE [normally $2.99]
- Mahjong Tales: Ancient Wisdom $7.99 [normally $9.99]
- Mahjong Tales Ancient Wisdom Booster Pack FREE [normally $4.99]
- Smash Cars $11.99 [normally $14.99]
- Smash Cards Virus Run FREE [normally $2.99]
- Wakeboarding HD $11.99 [normally $14.99]
Of course that’s not all, there’s also a new “Automatic Downloading” feature added to the XMB which allows you to update your firmware, or install game patches even if you aren’t in front of your PS3. Being a PlayStation Plus subscriber also gets you a nifty little golden D-pad “Plus” icon next to your PSN profile and on your friends list.
34 Responses to “PlayStation Plus Packs Over $88 Value in First Month Alone”
what happens to things you buy at those sale prices if you discontinue the service? do they disable 50% of the game? lol…but seriously…anyone?
@curtis
You keep them. They’re yours
I would assume nothing happens to them
thanks man
I am getting the last Magic Orbz DLC because I didn’t purchased that one
@TheHater
Same here, love the game
Rock on, great first month. This is why I’m signing up for the service. Its a great deal for people who are dedicated PS3 users (ie this is your only console and you utilize the store often) and I like to show my support to Sony as well.
Score.
I do hope that PlayStation Plus evolves to let the end user choose what games they want to get for free. I can see them having a cap on it like any games $15 and under would be cool for PSN titles $10 and under for PS One titles and $5 and less for Minis or whatever.
Yeah I got the free boosters for games I own and will download whatever is free since I just renewed my Qore subscription won’t know if the next Qore issue is free or by my renewal.
Motion Control calibration is on the XMB
Well since I own most of that already and I subscribe to Qore I guess I will pass on this.
They should allow a little more user choice in the titles(or a voting system) since it would also give them some feedback on what users want.
One question though. Does all of the free content expire when you stop paying? So your games, themes, Qore downloads, etc just stop working?
Hey. “Your comment is awaiting moderation”…..that’s a new one.
Have I been labeled a problem so soon?
Feels like the good ol days on Kotaku.
One thing I found to be interesting was the no show of the Medal of Honor Beta and Qore. Now Medal of Honor beta may not be there because of EA control but does that mean that this “Priority Beta” will only be reserved for PlayStation first party titles? Or can developer/publishers like Square Enix allow PlayStation Plus members into the Final Fantasy XIV beta. About Qore….is this because they are waiting to start a new season of that program or what? I hope PS Lifestyle is able to get to the bottom of these questions. I’m pleased with the service because I can see it has potential to grow though.
Okay, so I just checked PlayStation Plus Japan, and just like PlayStation Plus Europe, they get Little Big Planet for free as well. There are also three game trials, though there aren’t any Minis, unfortunately (though I would have had little use for them anyhow).
wow.
I’m in..hope record of argest war would be free or discounted someday..finger crossed.
Forgot to add free Qore
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Anyone else notice wipeout HD isn’t even on the store….?
One more thing I found is if you have videos on your HDD, your PS3 automatically makes video icons for them instead of it just having the film strip picture icon
@Crotin
That feature (video preview/icons) has been present for a long time; I remember it being there in the last firmware version and prior ones as well.
the feature to make the video icons have been there, but it never did it automatically, it usually leaves the film strip picture icon that doesnt move until you go into the video and choose to make the video preview icon yourself
Too many “discounts”, not enough free stuff…
I wonder what happened to the PSP Mini Field runners being free. Not like its a big deal, but its one they announced at E3.
But it’s another Sony fail to charge retail prices for digital downloads (Infamous is $29.99).
It would be worth it to download full games if they reduces prices by like $10 bucks. Especially if they start to add new releases.
Well, considering I own most of that, I’m still not sure whether I want to sign up during this first month. I am interested in the inFAMOUS game trial, but I’d like to know whether I’d be able to continue on a disc-based version of the game rather than having to purchase the digital copy of it.
All and all, I’m still a little upset that the digital copy of Little Big Planet is for everywhere but North America. They announced at E3 that LBP would be an incentive and now I find out NA only receives three free months. Not much of an incentive there. The free copy of LBP, you can keep whether you decide to re-subscribe or not. If someone doesn’t like the service, what kind of incentive is an extra three months? Not to mention that LBP retails at $29.99 while three months of PS+ is only $17.99. I don’t know. If I can get an answer regarding the full game trials, I’ll consider it.
Also… where’s Qore? If PS+ is only updated once a month, shouldn’t Qore be available right now?
He did announce at E3 we would be receiving 3 months free with purchase and apparently a lot of people seemed to think that he meant 3 month trial of the service. I do not recall anything about LBP though, I remember seeing that afterwards.
As for the digital games, I would think that you should be able to continue the game with the disc version. The game data and save data is on ur HDD, so I don’t know why it wouldn’t work.
I’m broke, I had to send my PS3 away cause she YLODed
@CryingWolf – agreed on choosing your free games. Since I own half the things on this list already, the service has been rendered useless to me (I guess I could pay $50 for a bunch of $3 discounts?). Beyond that, the idea of paying to play a beta just seems wrong to me. Its a beta. Why would I pay to play a flawed copy of a game and act as a game tester for someone? Normally that goes the other way around (or… freeish).
@Zerocool – I was confused about the three month thing, and the LBP thing… now that its clarified I’m much less interested in trying this.
@SPD55: why did you renew your Qore subsription? You know that you get free Qore episodes starting next month right? I think you do, was it an auto renew process?
@Blkant: Wipeout HD is there now. Downloaded it last night.
@tridon: as I said in a previous post, free Qore episodes start next month.
Dammit I need a new HDD…
I got the subscription last night, and with the savings from Age of Zombies, Smash Cars, Smash Cars Virus Run, Fat Princess Fat Roles, and Wakeboarding HD my effective cost for the 15 month subscription is $35. Since I was going to resubscribe to Qore in August anyway, I can deduct the cost of that out of my PS+ subscription, making my effective cost currently $10.
14 more months to go to break even.
Even if Qore was not in today’s update, you could still maybe add this value to the 88$ list for those interrested.
@ #1……..I read the content is yours so long as your subscription to the service is active. Discontinue the service, you lose access, yes even to the downloaded games. Pretty bogus if you ask me.
I’d rather pick and chose what I want, then get a bucnh of crap of their chosing. No thanks.
You forgot the yearly Subscription of Qore for $24.99
Peace,
VG