Sony interactive entertainment (SIE) has officially launched a new Playstation plus service in Asia on May 24, providing basic, upgraded and advanced levels. However, if players who already hold PS plus membership want to upgrade the service level, they need to pay the expected level price difference, and even make up the difference caused by the discount when purchasing PS plus membership.
After the relevant information was disclosed and caused an uproar, Sie today (5 / 26) quickly adjusted the calculation benchmark of the upgrade fee, excluding the part previously criticized by players that "it is necessary to make up the price difference caused by discount when purchasing psplus", and only need to pay the price difference at all levels.
The actual verification results of the editor of GNN website in the previous report are as follows ( unit: NT $*):
Take GNN editors as an example. There are 542 days left for the original PS plus membership, respectively from:
Last purchase: purchase 1-year PS plus membership at a discount of 792 yuan (365 days remaining)
Last purchase: 1188 yuan, automatically renew PS plus membership for one year (542-365 + 1 = 178 days remaining)
Originally, the editor of GNN thought that upgrading to advanced only needed to pay 1100 + 1100 × (178 ÷ 365) = 1636 yuan, but actually 2032 yuan needs to be paid, mainly because the membership of PS plus 1 in the latest year was purchased at a discount of 66% of 792 yuan, so the price difference of 396 yuan has to be made up.
Just now, the GNN editor verified again and obtained different results:
At present, the upgrade fee has been changed to only calculate the ratio of the price difference multiplied by the remaining days to convert the annual fee. For the example of editing, it is 1100 × (541＋1) ÷365＝1633.42
It can be confirmed that the cost calculation formula for upgrading the new PS plus from basic level to advanced level has been changed to:
Price difference × (remaining days + 1) ÷ 365
The price difference caused by discount when purchasing PS plus membership before will not be calculated.
However, the new PS plus still only provides a one-time upgrade scheme. Players must upgrade all the remaining membership days at one time. For players who have hoarded a large number of PS plus membership, the burden is still heavy. It is understood that the official will handle this situation through individual customer service channels.
At present, Sie has not made any announcement, comment or reply on the issue of setting the upgrade fee of the new psplus service.