As you know, Sony has overturned its monthly subscription system within PlayStation and soon we will have new modalities that seek to emulate Microsoft‘s Xbox Game Pass, adding a huge number of video games and mixing everything with the old PlayStation Plus to enjoy online dozens and dozens of titles with multiplayer. Now some users are complaining that they cannot renew their services because the Japanese have blocked it. What’s going on?
You will not be able to extend or renew
This change in the subscription modalities that we will have soon brings a problem and it is while there are users who have recently renewed their PlayStation Plus for a year, others, however, will be left without it just at the gates of its implementation. In the case of the former, assistance and an adaptation to the most similar plan that exists is guaranteed, but the latter are finding that they cannot take those 12 months again … because Sony prevents it.
Specifically, those who enter the website to renew PlayStation Plus cannot complete the purchase process and if they have purchased a code through a card in a store, they will verify that it is not exchanged and, therefore, they cannot add 12 more months. to your subscription. Obviously, complaints and requests for Sony to come out and give explanations have not been slow to appear. But the truth is that it is a very simple decision: there will be no more renewals until the new plans reach each territory.
From the Japanese support service they have been very clear with some users, who have received responses of the type “due to the upcoming changes in the PS plus subscription, currently the accumulation of PS Plus is not available since we have eliminated the capacity to do so”, or “I can only advise you to wait until your current subscription ends and then use your code. The extension/roll is no longer available”. So it’s time to wait. That leads us to the fact that in Spain we will have to do it until June 22, 2022 to start renewing those subscriptions that we already had from time ago, choosing that plan that best suits what we need. And as we explained to you a few weeks ago, there will be three: Essential, Extra and Premium.
What’s more, Sony has just updated the official website, precisely, to explain in detail what is happening around these renewals and expansions, stating that if you are a member of PlayStation Plus and/or PlayStation Now “Why do I receive an error message when trying to add time to my subscription either by buying more time from the PlayStation Store […] or by redeeming a code?” And the answer is as simple as it is predictable: “As we prepare to launch the new PlayStation Plus service, we are working to make the transition as seamless as possible for all of our existing services.”
So that error is simply that these options that have been working in recent years have been temporarily disabled and will return to normal when the three new plans are definitively implemented, in Spain, on June 22, 2022.
Sony avoids the picaresque
Although we can always look with reticent eyes at the company’s movements, Sony is protecting itself from those small legal loopholes that gamers tend to cling to when it comes to accumulating subscriptions or finding offers that reduce the final price of what we enjoy. And surely many had seen in this accumulation of PlayStation Plus purchases an option to obtain a better plan (of the new ones) for a significantly cheaper cost. Something like the Xbox Game Pass at the price of Gold.
Be that as it may, if you are in the process of running out of your annual PlayStation Plus on these dates, remember that you will not be able to extend it with a code , so do not be tempted to buy one online that you see especially priced. Because the same could be left without that year of subscription to the service and, in addition, without the money.