Saint of Killers wrote:TonyDA wrote:I also think the old game pass upgrade for £1 has gone, which is probably a good thing in terms of my wallet!
Not sure if that is true. But even if it was, upgrading via a 1 month sub is still far above and beyond anything Sony is offering. (Many times more so if you can also find a cheap Gold deal via VPN, etc.)
Well, that’s just it isn’t it? They’re doing this specifically to block someone converting years of Plus to years of Plus Premium for the cost of a single month of PS Now. They disabled stacking just as they announced that’s how it would work. Previously they had just said Now would convert to Premium (not the longer of the two if you had both), but they removed prepaid Now cards from sale long before they revealed the new service, then the second they announced it they pulled 12 and 3 month now subs from the store (though there was still a loophole to stack more years of Now from PS5’s account settings for about 24 hours).
It’s one of those things where they know as the buyer you don’t really have a leg to stand on to complain. No matter when you add the extra months to your account you get exactly what you paid for. The only thing they’re preventing is people knowingly using it to get more than that for half price. Like they’re sitting there with a smirk on their face going “interesting that you’re so eager to stack time on to your plus account now and not last week, why
is that?”.
Of course, all Microsoft’s loopholes to get GPU for cheap are great for the savvy consumer, and make this look like a real miserly move, but I think the expectation is maybe flipped a little. I feel like it’s a lot more surprising that Microsoft knowingly leave those loopholes in place than it is to see Plus stacking temporarily disabled.
I’m dying to know what’s going to happen if you start with Plus Premium and stack regular Plus time on to it though. The fact that they just convert the longer of the two to the top tier implies they don’t have the ability to manage two different end dates for different tiers of the new service. So if that’s the case you’d imagine you’d just be adding more Premium time. But if *that* was the case you’d be able to get it half price forever, just as long as you remember to buy a new entry tier card before your sub expires, so no chance. It’s likely that you won’t be able to add lower tier time to an existing sub until the sub is up. But that will mean you can’t actually use your code until then. And you might have some years already stacked so you can’t use it for ages. But these codes expire after a certain length of time.