PS Plus: Free Games for February 2016

Sony doesn’t just decide which games are free… unless it’s a Sony owned property, of course. Of the games you listed, not one is a Sony owned property. Which means that in order for them to make ANY of those games free, the publisher has to be willing.

So complain to the publishers for being unwilling. I’m sure Sony would LOVE to make one of the worst two games of last year (Dragon Age: Inquisition) free… sadly I doubt the publisher is as willing.

PS+ and XBGold offer similar services, but PS+ also offers special discounts.

Now if you ignore ALL of the discounts(which is kind of silly to do given the number of them, but for now, we’ll ignore them)… the relative value of the two services is still approximately equal with MS typically offering fewer games but generally higher priced ones while Sony offers more games but usually ones with a slightly lower pricetag.

What it all comes down to is whether you LIKE the games, and that’s a matter of personal opinion. The games Sony is offering are perfectly good games… they’re just not catered to your tastes. So provide that feedback… but be respectful about it.

As to your comment about the games MS gets… Sony gets some of them too. But the games you’re asking for aren’t Square or Ubisoft. They’re either niche Japanese producers(which I agree – I’d love to see too, but they generally don’t have faith in Western markets), Capcom (who rarely gives freebies in general) or Bioware (who also don’t often give things away free).

That being said, on the Bioware subject… both Inquisition and Mass Effect Trilogy were on REALLY solid sales this past month, both of which were made even better by PS+.

If you want your feedback to be taken seriously, rephrase it.

Saying: “More crap on PS Plus” tells Sony you’re likely a child who probably doesn’t make enough money to pay for the subscription yourself and that you’re not intelligent enough to form an educated opinion.

I’m not trying to say that’s what you ARE, but that’s the way that phrase comes across.

If you had rephrased it and said, for example:

“I’m not really a big fan of multiplayer games, and I generally don’t find Japanese games all that interesting so Playstation Plus is not offering anything to my tastes like it used to. I’d really appreciate it if there were more games like , , or on the list.”

Then you get the message across that you’re a mature individual who is interested in the service and you’re trying to get value out of it but it isn’t offering what you’re looking for… and your feedback is far more likely to be taken seriously.

I haven’t gotten anything interesting from PS+ in a while, but I recognize that’s because of my own tastes and not because of anything they’re doing wrong.

Honestly, the service can’t appeal to everyone all the time.

Many of the months that a lot of people think were the best were the worst for me, offering games that not only was I not terribly interested in, but I would genuinely prefer not to own.

That’s fine, just like its fine that right now most of the content is stuff I’m only slightly interested in. Some months will be great, some will suck… and the ones that suck for you will probably be amazing for someone else while the ones that were great for you will probably suck for others.

But you seem to recognize that, so I won’t go too far into it…

The one thing I did want to clarify though is that the ‘voting’ thing was a test and they even said that it was not intended to be a regular occurrence, just a once in a while thing.