PlayStation Plus subscribers get access to fantastic ... protection plan discount

This is worse than Ubisoft offering me a warranty for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World on PSN.

whats the point, just dont use it as a baseball and save yourself the money.

this should be free to plus subscribers

From the way I read it, it said something like "extends the warranty two years beyond the original." Which would mean that for people like me with launch PS3s what is the point? I've been trying to find a way to fix the browser freeze fault in my PS3 forever, without them "unfortunately" misplacing it and sending me a PS3 that isn't backwards compatible!

Pricing like this (i.e. double the amount of time for 25% more money) is ridiculous. It's a pricing tactic that I see everywhere these days and I lose respect for any business that does it.

They want you to think that you are getting a "discount" for buying more at once but in reality, you're just paying a premium for NOT purchasing the highest amount.

It pretty much forces the customer to think, "Hey, why pay $44.99 for one year when I get get DOUBLE that for ONLY 25% more!"

As a consumer, that's not how I would like things.

Im surprised you guys havnt done a story on how PS+ is a failure, at least at this point. Sony could really have had something special, but like usual they don't really know how to do it the right way or what even the consumers want.

PS+ subscribers have for the most part (95% IMO) has been really old games, which most hardcore gamers would have already bought long ago when they came out. Why would anyone be interested in subscribing to a service that just offers free games that were released years ago and probably have already bought. Add to the fact that a lot of the other stuff that they are giving away with PS+ is little stuff not many people want.

If you look on the main forums there are a lot of people regretting buying PS+. I was almost one of those people myself, but i waited to see what the content was for the first month, and when i saw the first months free stuff was games and dlc i already bought, there was no reason for me to want to buy PS+. sadly, still to this day nothing on PS+ has been of any interest to me.

It really makes me wonder who Sony puts in charge of making the decisions of what content goes up on PS+. I really think its the same people they have in charge of content for firmware updates. For the most part just useless stuff most of the community does not want.

Thats a really good deal though. The cost to repair a PS3 is brutally expensive ($170 vs. $299 to just get a new one)

$45 for two year warranty is a pretty awesome deal. If only it were available before my ps3 broke a couple months ago....

If this was in fact a repair of the same unit you sent in, then that's not a bad deal; you just have to deal with the long turn-around time.

If they just simply swap it out for a refurb unit, then that's shit.

I'm holding onto my 60gig BC unit for as long as possible.

Sony if you're reading this. I'd get playstation plus if you gave everyone who has it 2 15% off codes to use in store on brand new games of our choice. That would be awesome of you.

which regions are they calling it psn+?

Small print:
*Extended warranty only good while you are a PS+ subscriber

It would be nice if they offered some of that cloud storage (?) so that if something were to happen to my console, all of my saves could be brought back with ease. And before someone says, "You don't know how to use a USB drive?!@#", not all of my game saves work with one.

My PSN account recently got hacked and someone used my credit card to buy $150 of PSN crap. I've never shared passwords, consoles, or even had friends play my PS3 (sadly, other adults aren't too keen on wanting to play when they are over...). Sony didn't do shit except insinuate it was my fault w/out outright saying it. They didn't offer anything except to kill my account. No way I'm paying them for PSN+. In fact, I'm never putting a CC back on file again.

Wow...yet, this would never apply to my 60gig ps3 which is sporting a sweet YLOD...with sony's ..."excellent" support...I've learned how much fun my xbox was. Still miss the ol ps3...thinin of sending it to gophermod...still thinkin about it.