Classic “technical reasons”.
On May 24th, after Sony just announced that its new PlayStation Plus membership service will be launched in Asia, players have not had time to be happy, and they are immediately hit by the price difference that needs to be paid for the upgraded service.
In Sony’s new membership service, the membership levels that players can choose from are divided into three grades, which are equivalent to basic, advanced, and advanced versions. More premium members can enjoy new game demos, or more classic games and remasters.
While the premium version of the service doesn’t look like much to most players, it’s generally less likely that people will stick to the details unless something else fuels players’ grievances — such as the price difference.
In the new version of the PS+ membership service, if players want to upgrade their membership, they need to upgrade all their remaining membership periods in one go. This is similar to the unreasonable package policy of the telecommunications provider. Sony does not support players to pay monthly (up to the next month and go back to the next month), nor does it support date conversion.
This means that if you have subscribed to the PS basic membership until 2025 before, you will have to pay all the price difference from basic to advanced in these 3 years in one go.
What’s even more outrageous is that if you have used a discount to buy a PS membership before, you must make up for the discounted price for this upgrade.
As soon as the news came out, controversy broke out on various platforms immediately. Players are anxious to go back and see how much they have to pay. It doesn’t matter if they subscribe for one or two years, and there are many people who start in five or ten years.
An old man who needs to pay nearly 10,000 yuan at a time
This matter has been so fermented for two days, until today, Sony tweeted a brief response “For technical reasons… players who have been charged an additional price difference due to discount issues, we will return the money to yours. on your wallet balance.”
We are just stress testing it, thanks for your patience
Let’s not mention why players’ real money should be returned to their e-wallets. Whether the “technical problem” can explain the reason for the price difference incident is also open to question.
The day before yesterday, a netizen contacted the Hong Kong customer service because of the price difference. Whether it was an email or a phone call, the reply was quite detailed, and it was explained word by word that “the previous discount price difference needs to be paid back to the normal price first”, and it can also be It can be seen that this is the unified response received by the customer service staff to this question.
This makes today’s announcement a bit unconvincing, and the vague “technical issue” is somewhat of a rhetoric for no good reason.
“OX”
There are many more places that add fuel to the fire for players, such as the classic game library problem mentioned earlier. Players quickly discovered that many of the PS1 classic games that were launched on the PSN store were adapted to the low refresh rate PAL versions of individual regions, rather than the higher refresh rate NTSC versions.
Coupled with the fact that many PS4 reset games that were supposed to be premium content have been included in the premium member’s game library, and the number of games in the library is significantly less than the 400 originally promised – even different versions of the same game, Different languages can be counted as two games, and it is obvious that the grievances of players are infinitely expanding.
As for this “technical reason” explanation announcement – I hope Sony can at least show a little more sincerity and honestly implement all the measures and explanations in the global market.
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