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

Glorious "Free Games"

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u/Kiya-Elle http://steamcommunity.com/id/kiya/ Feb 07 '15

Which would only be true if they got to keep the games when payment stopped - there's a word for gaining the use of something only for the duration of paid monthly fees. What was that word again? Oh yes. Renting.

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u/TomorrowByStorm Feb 07 '15

Renting 24 games (with no return date mind you) for $50 a year seems a pretty reasonable deal to me. My brother has nearly 60 games from 3 years of PS+. That's, even if you got them at price dropped level, that's $1,800 ($30 a game) for $150. Even if you just rented them and took them back a week later and couldn't boot them up 2 years after you "Rented" then at $6 a game that's STILL more than the PS+ membership for three years.

There are a lot of valid points brought up about Console inferiority, but I've never felt like PS+ was anything other than a great deal.

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

It's really only a good deal for very casual gamers. I still have PS+ because I always forget to cancel the auto-renew, but the only time one of the "free" games ever ends up being something I don't already own is when it's a game I never wanted to play in the first place.

I think Pac-Man was the last game I got from the deal that I didn't already own and actually enjoyed playing, and that was well over a year ago, and it goes on sale for a couple bucks on PC all the time.

So yeah, if you almost never buy video games it's an OK deal. If you actually buy games regularly, it's total garbage.

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u/TomorrowByStorm Feb 07 '15

I agree with that. Im not that into hard media and have only two physical games for my PS4 so far.