PS+ 18 months on.

If they were to ever release cross-game chat as a feature of PS+, I'd drop the money for a year-long subscription the day it got released. They also talked about this feature that would let you do trophy races with your friends and issue challenges and whatnot. That would've gotten me to think about a subscription. There was also this thing about getting exclusive rewards for doing certain things to “level up” your PS+ membership or something weird like that, and I think there were some rewards, but it wasn't fully realized.

I'm more willing to pay for those services more than I'm willing to pay for what they've got on offer now. The discounts are nice, but only if they're discounting a game I already wanted to buy. They had a discount on Closure and Journey, and each time I bought those games, I'd do the process of “Should I get PS+ to get this discount?” But the answer is “No. Of course not.” I don't think I buy enough downloadable games to get my money back through discounts.

Most of the free stuff they offer is just avatars and themes, but since you're only renting those things, basically, they don't factor into the value as much. And I don't remember the last time I saw them offer a game for free that I actually wanted to play. If that ever happened, that would get me my money back fast, since I don't need distant future access to a game I only plan to play once.

Automatic updating seems like more of a convenience than anything. It only saves a little bit of time every now and again. Cloud saving is probably a godsend to some, but it hardly helps me. If I had more than one console, or played on other consoles, it'd be useful, but I don't, so it isn't. It's good for back-ups, but that's not an active help.

The one thing I do really like about PS+ is the full game trials. Those are pretty great for the most part. They have a really big problem that would prevent me from ever using them on my main account though. I like demos because they're risk-free samples of a game. I can play them and not be punished for trying them. With full game trials, they install that damn trophy data onto my local list. It makes no sense to me why you can't get rid of trophies that you haven't even truly earned. You can get rid of 0% lists on the 360. It is a possible thing to do. When they had that free month of PS+, I played a full game trial on my main account and now I'm stuck with that 1% list, while almost every other game is at 100. Since I can't play the full game trials on my second account while keeping the other benefits on my first account without getting two subscriptions, that sours the deal again.

I signed up pretty early and I still am pleased with it. The service is growing still, IMO, finally offering free games that I want (Shank 2 and Shift 2 most recently) I think what I've liked most is the early access stuff and they need to have more, because then you feel like a privileged member of an exclusive service. The cross game deal hasn't bothered me, considering PS4's right around the corner. Damnit, Sony, you better include enough RAM on it!! 

I signred up 3 months or so ago when they were giving away the simpsons game, and im super pleased as all hell with plus. I figure when my ps3 goes out, the clouds saves are going to save me alot of displeasure.

Also, there are rumors that they are going to revamp the plus service to include more retail games and vita stuff, but, like i said those are rumors until E3 rolls around next week…

Sorry you get Shit on lol

Ultimate editions came out here inn the US last Tueday. I plan on buying the MAfia 2 bundle as soon as i get money

if you want, you can go to download the game, and it will be in your purchased list, and have a little red bag next to it. you can download these again anytime even if they are not giving them away for freee anymore, as long as it recognizes it as “purchased” when the giveaway was happening.

saving a few game like this in case i ever really need someting new to play

I'm kinda reconsidering renewing my PS+ subscription when the time comes to renew it. Hopefully, they don't try this 12 free games deal, then next month, shove out like 2 crappy games. Who knows? Hopefully, they start doing this type of thing like every few months or something.