Sony Appears To Have Disabled The Ability To Stack PS Plus Subscriptions
PlayStation's revamped PS Plus will be here before you know it. In fact, Sony revealed last week it will be rolled out in Japan, North America, and Europe throughout June, and in Asia on May 23. It has also been revealed that if you have active PS Plus and PS Now subscriptions, you will be automatically migrated over to PS Plus Premium. Even better, if your subscriptions are currently stacked up, your new Premium sub will remain in place for whichever of your current subscriptions runs for the longest.
That highlighted a pretty significant loophole this week, and it appears to be one Sony has already closed. Simply put, if you have Now and Plus and you stack up the latter for as long as possible, you'll be getting Premium for a far lower price than everyone else, potentially for a very long time. Since that news broke, people trying to stack up their Plus subscriptions have been reporting they are unable to do so.
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As highlighted by Eurogamer, a number of subscribers have taken to social media over the course of the last 24 hours to reveal their attempts to cash in pre-paid PS Plus cards have been denied. One customer who has tried to use this method to get ahead before the tiered system arrives this summer has revealed Sony replied, informing them the ability to stack subscriptions for PS Plus and PS Now has been temporarily disabled.
“There is a temporarily deactivated function for PS Plus/PS Now subscriptions which does not allow for stacking of either membership on already active memberships,” Sony's retort reads according to a report from PushSquare. That presumably means if you're currently not subscribed to either Plus or Now, you
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