PlayStation Asia has recently announced the increment of PS Plus subscription fees due to market conditions and it’s starting this coming August. Pricing is as below:-
– 12-month recurring payment plan will change to RM159 from RM129
– 3-month recurring payment plan will change to RM69 from RM43
– 1-month recurring payment plan will change to RM29 from RM21
Before any of you start grumbling about the price hike, let’s first look back at all the free PS4 games that we (PS Plus subscribers) have been entitled to for the past 12 months.
Jun ’18 : Call of Duty: Black Ops III, XCOM 2, Trials Fusion, Vostok Inc., Qbert Rebooted
Jul ’18 : Call of Duty: Black Ops III, Omega Quintet™, Alone with You
Aug ’18 : Mafia III, Syberia 3
Sep ’18 : Destiny 2, God of War III Remastered, Another World
Oct ’18 : Portal Knights, The Bridge, Thumper, Rocket Birds 2: Evolution
Nov ’18 : BEYOND: Two Souls™, The Metronomicon: Slay the Dance Floor, Burly Men at Sea
Dec ’18 : God Eater 2: Rage Burst, GRAVITY RUSH 2
Jan ’19 : Tom Clancy’s The Division, Steep
Feb ’19 : For Honor, HITMAN™ – THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON, Hand of Fate, Shake That Controller!
Mar ’19 : Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® Remastered, Action Henk
Apr ’19 : The Surge, What Remains of Edith Finch
May ’19 : METAL GEAR SURVIVE, The Witness
And for the month of June, we will get Borderlands: The Handsome Collection and Sonic Mania.
So what do we get?
That’s a total of 33 free games that we’ve received in a span of 12 months. Given that some of them aren’t “AAA titles” but nonetheless we’re still getting it for free – on top of the multiplayer services that we’re subscribing for. And let’s not forget the Chinese New Year PS Plus 12-Month Membership + 3-Month bonus offer which makes that a total of 15 months worth of free games!
If we’re to include the cloud storage services, and the other PS Plus exclusive add-ons and themes, awesome games such as Warframe and Apex Legends that remain free throughout our subscription period – we’re really getting a lot for a small sum of RM 10.75 a month.
So is it too much to pay a fee of RM 13.25 a month for all that starting from August? I don’t think so. But if you’re really worried about the price hike, PS Plus will be going a 30% discount during Days of Play. Days of Play will be running for 10 days, starting from the 7th of June.
