When the brand new PS Plus tiers launched in Asia on May 23, gamers who had current PS Plus subscriptions reported discrepancies between PlayStation Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium improve charges. Sony later blamed these on a “technical error” following a slightly vocal social media backlash and promised to compensate affected gamers. This has began rolling out to gamers, however as an alternative of getting round $10 for their inconvenience, PS Plus gamers are as an alternative getting fully the unsuitable compensation quantity of 10 cents.
Another PS Plus pricing challenge resulting in unsuitable compensation quantities
Players caught up within the authentic PS Plus pricing discrepancies have been despatched the e-mail above, as seen by Reddit. This defined how they have been overcharged for their PlayStation Plus improve when the service first launched. As such, they’d obtain a full refund of the quantity they overpaid in addition to HK$80 (round US$10) in compensation to be deposited into their account for use on the Playstation Store. Sony additionally apologized for any inconvenience.
The downside is gamers didn’t obtain HK$80 in compensation. As reported by GamingSym, a number of gamers checked their accounts as instructed by the e-mail and located they’d acquired simply HK$0.80 (round US$0.10) as an alternative. Sony is but to make any assertion on this new downside, though it would probably be blamed on one other “technical error”. Sony can be nonetheless to make a touch upon latest reviews that PS Plus improve charges could be capped for gamers who had stacked their PS Plus Essential subscriptions for a number of years and had been beforehand dealing with extortionate payments to improve their subscriptions for your entire period.
In different information, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was unveiled right this moment with a brand new trailer and Infinity Ward confirmed the open multiplayer beta could be heading to PS5 and PS4 first. Elsewhere, God of War Ragnarok’s placeholder launch date was reportedly modified on the PSN backend, sparking rumors of a delay.
