Unless they've told their support staff to lie to customers, which would be a really silly thing to do, they aren't blocking the ability to extend your membership. It's just broken atm. It's not some intentional thing.
If it's true than absolutely but I don't think there's really any proof that it's anything other than something is broken because even that support chat doesn't say anything other than they have stopped redemptions but the claim was it was more than one year.
When I talked to support they specifically said it wasn't an intentional thing and they were looking into it.
I was leaning towards it being some type of a technical issue until it started coming out that they're allowing new subs but not allowing you to extend your sub.
Again no proof of that because that's not what the chat claimed. You and others are jumping to conclusions they are blocking extensions but it seems like something is broken and they have turned off all redemptions.
There's no proof that something is broken, either. It doesn't "seem like" anything. That's just your opinion just as I have mine. And they didn't "turn off all redemptions". They turned off the ability, specifically, to extend your PS Plus membership.
The support chat also specifically said that it wasn't an intentional thing and they were looking into it.
I guess all we can do is wait and see because if it's to prevent extensions than yeah fuck them, if it's something else than I want to know that to.
Because they are still fucking selling them. They could have put in the same blog post that plus stacking wouldn't work.
The scummy part would be where they neglected to mention this in their blog post.
I agree they should've announced that. PS+ codes do still work for first timers or lapsed subs.
Yes. They are the ones who said that it would work in their blog post. Why should I not be angry. It's the scummiest shit ever.
Maybe next week we all will get a better idea of what's happening.
I think people would be understanding...if there was any communication about this whatsoever. I've just spent £80 on 2 years of plus that you could stack maybe a week ago without issue to now find it's useless until 2023 and with likely no hopes for a refund. That's the shitty part, the lack of any communication.
I'm going to continue to trust the support person I personally talked to over some rando with one post lol
I do agree, they should've messaged that.
I completely understand your anger and frustration and am not saying it's wrong to be so. But from my view it's a bit of buyer beware as you're in a sense trying to game the system. I know that doesn't help you, and I do hope you and the others can in some way get the extension or your money back.
They should stop selling codes and accepting codes already sold. You can't expect consumers to sit on those codes for years. They should have communicated that codes would no longer be sold/redeemable after x date. But this is Hindsight Sony we are talking about. Create a problem first and then maybe fix it.
Any other company and this is me trying to get a deal but with Sony I'm a bad person.... I bought legit codes to redeem them now. Not when Sony deems so.
It makes perfect sense. They want you to pay $120 a year for PS Plus Premium, not $40-$50 with the conversion trick.
It wouldn't be years. It'd be 2 1/2 months. Once the new PS Plus tiers go live, redeeming an old PS+ code would just give you PS+ Essentials rather than PS+ Premium. So nothing to gain at that point, in other words.
