Pay hundreds of hours to upgrade to PS Plus Premium? It seems unlikely and yet. The first users of the new formulas are horrified to discover the price to be paid for switching to a higher offer.
A few hours after the launch of the new PS Plus in Asia, Sony is already at the center of a controversy. And with good reason, the Japanese publisher is accused of banning gamers from saving, especially those who have accumulated classic subscriptions. You may have to pay a fortune to upgrade to PS Plus Premium.
Sony is scrapping PS Plus discounts
Piled up those discounted PS Plus subscriptions to cheaply upgrade to PS Premium? No luck, you’ll be mad. Asian players have indeed made a very bad discovery when introducing these new formulas. As a reminder, from June 22nd, with us you can upgrade your subscription to two new offers: the Extra for $13.99 per month and finally the PS Plus Premium for $16.99 per month. In order to switch to a higher offer, the monthly difference between the current subscription and the desired subscription must be paid. Only that the upgrade can be very expensive for some.
Basically, the price of the upgrade takes into account the number of days left in your subscription. For example, if you bought a 1-year PS+ subscription and have 7 months left, you will need to pay for the portion of those remaining 7 months on the plan you want. No surprise so far, arguably one of the reasons why Sony has put an end to the half-price PS Plus Premium trick. Apart from the fact that Sony has been careful not to say that those who have accumulated the PS Plus offers in the promotion so that their subscription extends over several years also the difference between the price at which it is usually sold , and advance it from the one they bought.
An upgrade that can be very, very expensive
In other words, the promotion will be retroactively canceled and some players will have to pay hundreds of dollars more just to hope to upgrade to PS Plus Extra. This is especially true for an Asian user who still has several years of active subscription and needs to advance more than 800 dollars to be able to switch to PS Plus Premium. An extreme case, of course, but several players have to advance three-digit sums.
A customer service email sent to one of the Asian users confirmed that this was not a bug but genuine intent on the part of the publisher. Splitting the remaining days will void any promotion: full price is required to upgrade. Sony will therefore require the refund of the discount upon payment of the remaining number of days. The contours of this calculation, which is as logical as it is improbable, are still unclear. As the hours tick by, the controversy continues to swell. Sony should therefore quickly take the floor to speak on the subject or even clarify the situation.
