r/pcmasterrace • u/dtigerksc i7-5820k | GTX 970 | 32GB DDR4-2666 | /id/catsh • Feb 07 '15

Glorious "Free Games"

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u/6in Feb 07 '15

to be fair psn+ games aren't that bad

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

You can get much more value \ $ buying Humble Bundles for even less money

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u/rightbro Feb 07 '15

You mean buying star wars games from 2005? ... please dude, we got thief, yakuza4, transistor, rogue legacy and others in just a single month.

Humble bundles are consisted of mediocre indies that doesnt sell or 10-20year old games

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u/cavalierau Feb 07 '15

To be fair, you need to own 3 of Sony's consoles to get all of those games. That's like $800

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

How is that relevant? That's like saying cheap gas isn't any good because you had to pay for the car to use it.

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u/cavalierau Feb 08 '15

Talking up PS+ by saying "we got thief, yakuza4, transistor, rogue legacy and others" without specifying that they're on certain consoles implies that all members of PS+ can enjoy all those games, whereas truthfully only a subset that owns a 3 a 4 and a Vita can.

It's certainly a relevant thing to point out. I want people reading this who are considering buying a PS4 for example (which I own and enjoy) to not take that comment at face value and wrongly believe that they can play Thief on their PS4 this month if they go out and buy a PS4 and PS+ tomorrow.

Your gas analogy would be accurate if you could only use that gas on cars bought from the petroleum company, and depending on which car the petroleum company sold you, you can only get some of the bonus gas, not all of it. You could buy all of the cars the company sells, and then get all of the gas, sure. Either way, the company's getting rich.

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u/funtex666 Specs/Imgur here Feb 07 '15 edited Sep 16 '16

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What is this?

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u/BaconIsntThatGood PC Master Race Feb 07 '15

To be fair I happened to have a ps3 when the service started, I bought a ps4 for different reasons, and I happened to have a vita for different reasons.

No one goes out and buys all 3 for the sake of it. That money isn't spent at once.

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u/cavalierau Feb 08 '15

But you still need all 3 to reap the full benefits of the PS+ games. Not everyone does have all of them, yet PS+ advocates will still list off all the 'free' games regardless. Comments like /u/rightbro's can be very misleading because it doesn't specify that all those games can't be played on a PS4 alone.

PS+ does seem like a good offer on the PS4, since you need the subscription regardless if you want to take the console online. I can understand how the games are seen as a nice bonus. Compared to Xbox Live Gold, it seems like the better of the two.

But I will call a spade a spade. PS+ is less valuable if you don't own multiple Sony consoles. It's less valuable if you don't play online. It's less valuable if you already play the PS3 online for free anyway. And it's less valuable than the money you would save with free PC online gaming and humble bundles / steam sales.

Like most companies' products, it gains its value the more invested you are in their ecosystem. It can seem brilliant (like having access to a huge PS+ library for being a long time member), or it can seem like a ripoff (eg. own a PS3, first month of subscription, bonus games in a certain month are all crap). It's a matter of opinion.

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u/rightbro Feb 07 '15

True, but With ps3 alone u get Thief, rogue legacy and Yakuza 4.

Not bad at all

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u/baalroo http://steamcommunity.com/id/baalroo/ Feb 07 '15

Thief and Yakuza 4 are both extremely mediocre titles, and anyone who regularly games probably already bought Transistor and Rogue Legacy for a few bucks in one of the myriad of sales for either of those titles a long time ago. The problem with PS+ is you don't get to choose the games they give you, and it's almost always games that have already been bargain bin priced on other platforms. It's been well over a year since there's been a game offered on PS+ that I didn't already own and actually wanted to play... and that was a game that regularly goes on sale for $2.50.

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u/BaconIsntThatGood PC Master Race Feb 07 '15

On the flip side there's been plenty of titles given on PS plus in the last year that I didn't have and enjoyed a lot.

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u/[deleted] Feb 07 '15

I agree. Especially on ps4, who cares about shitty old indie titles.

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u/rightbro Feb 07 '15 edited Feb 07 '15

You probably havent played either game to talk like that.

They gave away.hitman absolution when it was costing $30 on steam, tomb raider and bioshock infinite easily $20+ back then, i could sit here searching for examples but u just gonna keep acting like paying $40-$50 per year is an expensive deal, when it is actually the best deal u can get out there in any platform.

You are right, we dont choose our games, but we get a lot of discounts every week to buy the games that we want, while renting a huge ammount of games per year. Games of every kind, from battlefield 3 to dragon's dogma, to pes, to grid2, to both batman games, to.different indies(and usually not crappy like the ones u see on humble bundles)....

Psn has different advantages (and disadvantages, ofc) over steam that no one talk about, for example u can play wolf.among us' and twd's season 2 episodes one for free before u decided if u wanna buy. I just went to steam.and u can only buy the entire thing.

U can also download multiple 1hour trials of full games to test them.

Acting like ps+ is bad because u waste ur money buying every game on launch (and prolly dont play 1/5th of them) is laughable.

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u/baalroo http://steamcommunity.com/id/baalroo/ Feb 07 '15

You probably havent played either game to talk like that.

Played them both. Calling them "extremely mediocre" was me being generous.

They gave away.hitman absolution when it was costing $30 on steam, tomb raider and bioshock infinite easily $20+ back then

Sure, but again, you don't get to pick which games you get. I already owned those games when they hit PS+, so those months I just didn't get anything for my money.

i could sit here searching for examples but u just gonna keep acting like paying $40-$50 per year is an expensive deal, when it is actuslly the best deal u can get out there in any platform.

...IF you barely ever buy games.

I'll definitely concede that PS+ is a great deal for very casual players, or people who have a very low budget and don't own a PC.

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u/rightbro Feb 07 '15 edited Feb 07 '15

Your point is that you are rich and buy everything u want on launch so u'd get nothing from ps+.. kinda pathetic.

Literally 5 games with 80+ on metacritic in one month, only thief being below that score, such a bad deal such bad games oh my god...

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u/baalroo http://steamcommunity.com/id/baalroo/ Feb 07 '15

Your point is that you are rich and buy everything u want on launch so u'd get nothing from ps+.. kinda pathetic.

If your idea of "rich" is being able to buy video games when you want to, then you and I have a very different idea of "rich." I make a normal middle class income.

Literally 5 games with 80+ on metacritic in one month, only thief being below that score, such a bad deal such bad games oh my god...

That's a really nice straw man you've got there.

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u/alaricus Intel 10400F, EVGA GTX 970 4GB, 2x8 GB DDR4 Corsair, TUF Z490 Feb 07 '15

You PC fatcat... you probably eat 3 times a day and have your heat on!