Post: PSN New Monthly Charges?
03-02-2010, 01:44 AM #1
LuckoftheMoose
Moosalicious
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I was talking to some friends about how I would rather pay for Xbox LIVE than get PSN for free b/c of the problems I heard on it. And one of my friends showed me this link from GameInformer, although it is older I did not see it posted on here and found it interesting.

Originally posted by another user
In a presentation last month, Sony's Kaz Hirai mentioned that Sony was considering a premium PSN service that would come with a monthly fee. New comments from the company show that this idea is clearly gaining momentum.

Speaking to Nikkei Electronics, Sony Computer Entertainment executive vice president and chief technology officer Masayuki Chatani again brought up the pay-to-play topic: "In addition to single-payment packaged software, there are also schemes like monthly fees or per-item charges," explained Chatani when talking about new ways for Sony to generate revenue.

Sony already has an array of per-item charges, whether you're talking about PSN content or items in Home, but monthly fees are clearly something different. Kaz Hirai, in his previous remarks, also mentioned the possibility of charging for a premium PSN subscription, but further reiterated that there would always be a free option as well.

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This dates back to December but is still being processed by Sony if they will pursue this or not.
Even though a free option would be offered, it may be limited. Xbox has a free option of Silver but you get updates much slower and have no access to online multiplayer. This could happen with Sony.

Originally posted by BrodyF11

"It's not that PSN is being improved with these charges, its that if you want to keep everything PSN offers now you will have to pay. Otherwise a free option will be available like with Xbox Silver (Xbox's free option), but will be limited. BTW there are many annoying PS3 'fanboys' too Winky Winky"

Yea I understand the whole fanboy annoyance.

As for the benefits of premium PSN;
I read somewhere else that if they were to start charging for PSN then the premium users would get several benefits such as in game voice chat (similar to XBL's) and several other things that I can't quite remember. If there would be no benefits then it would be a clear idiotic decision by Sony and probably cause the companies game console popularity to decline greatly...
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03-07-2010, 05:26 AM #29
Teddy$%
Save Point
ok to all you retards here saying that it will be like 360's gold service your so stupid!!!!


the premium will just be for (maybe) cross game chat (its being debated for free or premium), Access to many Beta's, Movie's etc. etc.
this is a chart for 3 different option ideas...

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so to all of you saying this is bad.. learn your facts and read properly
non-premium members will have to same support they do now with no change.
only premium members will get those features above

EDIT: also these features are not concrete some may not happen or options will change
03-07-2010, 05:27 PM #30
LuckoftheMoose
Moosalicious
Originally posted by Teddy
ok to all you retards here saying that it will be like 360's gold service your so stupid!!!!


the premium will just be for (maybe) cross game chat (its being debated for free or premium), Access to many Beta's, Movie's etc. etc.
this is a chart for 3 different option ideas...

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so to all of you saying this is bad.. learn your facts and read properly
non-premium members will have to same support they do now with no change.
only premium members will get those features above

EDIT: also these features are not concrete some may not happen or options will change


Try not to insult other members, its ok to prove your point but to call people retarted b/c the facts they have prove there could be a chance it could be like Xbox's LIVE service, doesn't mean they are retarted.

The chart is for the PS3 PSN premium options it looks like, but you should include a link to the site you got this from so not only they are accredited for the chart but also so we can see where you are getting your facts from.

If that is indeed one of the final charts for the PSN Premium options, it is somewhat off in my opinion if they offer more than 2 different options. At several points it could disorganize what many people could do with their friends just because their friends don't have the same premium option as them.

Also, it would be a way to get many members to switch over to premium, because if several of their friends have different Premium options it would be hard for them not only to know which option to choose but even if there is one option, it would be difficult to talk to their friends who are premium. I say this because there friends would probably prefer using those premium options they are paying for to be able to use features with other premium users and not stay in-close of contact with their non-premium friends.

Not even all the premium options above feature the cross-game chat. That alone could cause several problems between friends. Who even knows how many members could be included in that chat whether its 2 or 20? Also, then this would split chat from premium users to their non-premium user friends...

This could definitely cause a huge gap between premium and non-premium users.
03-07-2010, 05:45 PM #31
penndeizel
I am error
I would be extremely pissed off if they downgraded their online service to being more like xbox. lol im not sayin i wouldnt buy id be real pissed
03-28-2010, 08:50 PM #32
jmtitan10
Bounty hunter
i hope we dont have to pay
03-29-2010, 02:24 AM #33
TMRKD
Haxor!
I'll ditch ps3 if they do this
03-29-2010, 03:21 AM #34
It is never going to happen. Why would you pay to play when the 360 servers are better.
03-29-2010, 04:13 PM #35
All PSN premeium would offer is beta tests, demos free dlc, theres lots more to0. We found this out when some of PSN users got asked to complete a survey like me
03-29-2010, 06:21 PM #36
bigfishbad
Bounty hunter
Originally posted by 16 View Post
i know this is old but do you really think Mw2 is the only game?


were in my comment did you see my say anything about MW2 LMAO:confused:
03-29-2010, 06:40 PM #37
Charizard
Yeah Buddy!
Originally posted by bigfishbad View Post
were in my comment did you see my say anything about MW2 LMAO:confused:


the only thing j-tags are ****ing up is mw2.

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