PS Plus is ripping fans off before it’s even out so imagine what it’s going to be like later – Reader’s Feature

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A reader is not happy about Sony’s attempts to block stacking of PS Now subscriptions, as he accuses Sony of taking advantage of fans.

For months we’ve had rumours of Sony preparing their answer to Xbox Game Pass and by the time they actually announced it all the basic information had already leaked. In fact, the official announcement has not provided any new information except the launch date. But then the whole reveal was weirdly low key, like the sort of thing you’d expect for a minor indie game and not what could be Sony’s most important new product in several generations.

It could be that, Game Pass certainly was for Microsoft, but so far the whole thing is shrouded in confusion, anger, and the sense that Sony is gearing up to once again take its fans to the cleaners. The first real evidence that the PS Plus revamp was real was when Sony started removing PS Now vouchers from shops, a clear indication that PS Now was going to be discontinued and that something else was going to take its place.

What we didn’t realise at the time was that it was more sinister than that. The other reason Sony was getting rid of the PS Now vouchers was because they were going to offer a deal so that anyone with a current subscription got an auto upgrade to PS Plus Premium, the top tier of the new service. At first this seemed pretty generous as it means you can get a year’s worth of Premium for less than half the price, but that was before we knew the lengths that Sony would go to in order to stop people taking advantage of it…

Once everything was announced everyone quickly realised that you could ‘stack’ several PS Now subscriptions on top of each other, so that you had multiple years’ worth of subscriptions already paid up and on your