Or, as PlayStation South Africa would prefer to suggest, “slightly”. Maybe it would’ve all been OK if the notification of the around 53% increase in an annual subscription to the PS Plus service had been announced a month before or so before the change, but no, an email has been casually sent to subscribers warning them that “due to various market conditions, the price of your PlayStation Plus subscription is going to rise slightly. On 01/10/2014 the price of a 12 month subscription will rise from ZAR489.00 to ZAR749.00.”
Yes, tomorrow morning, you will be paying R260 more for your PS Plus subscription, but let’s be fair, at least that increase is in keeping with the price variation currently common between the PlayStation Digital Store and the Xbox Game Store, as originally brought to the attention of South African gaming by our very own Pose Zombie. His investigative spreadsheet on the comparative prices can be found here.
Anyway, we suggest you buy or renew your PS Plus subscription before the calendar switches to the month of October in a few hours.
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