Sony's Confusing Voucher Conversion Plan Is Yet Another Anti-Player Decision
thegamer.comSony isn’t happy about players stockpiling PS Plus and PS Now vouchers ahead of the PlayStation Plus relaunch in June. On Friday, the company confirmed that PS Plus extensions have been halted, meaning anyone holding on to codes for additional months or years of subscription time will have to wait until the new service starts before redeeming. At that time, Sony will institute a prorated conversion plan to ensure that everyone activating their vouchers will only get subscription an equivalent amount of subscription time, down to the exact day.
A one-month code for the old PS Plus will now be worth 31 days of PS Plus Essential, 20 days of PS Plus Extra, and 17 Days of PS Plus Premium. If you have PS Now vouchers, or a mix of both, things get a lot more complicated and confusing. To ensure no one disproportionately benefits from the conversion, Sony has created a more frustrating system for everyone. If there’s one thing you can count on, it’s that Sony is always looking out for number one.
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In a sane world, Sony would just convert everything to a Premium subscription for an equivalent amount of time. If you redeem a code for 12 months, you get 12 months of Premium. No one would have to deal with prorated days or confusing conversion charts. No one would have to worry about their subscription suddenly expiring in the middle of the month 219 or 183 days after renewing. It would have also saved Sony from creating upgrade paths from anyone that converted to Essential but wanted to pay more for either Extra or Premium - an alternate, yet still preferable option to the prorated conversion Sony ultimately settled on.
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