PlayStation Plus: 12 Month Membership - Essential £33.34 / Extra £53.70 with ShopTo PSN Credit @ Playstation Store

Thanks for this. I think I can get 2 years of extra with the £84+£40 plus £1.98 on card. Total £106.68 if my maths is up to scratch

Yeah I did this the other day. The £80 is better value than the £75. Coupled with what credit i already had, the spare credit from the £80 top up and the £5 PSN reward credit i achieved I’m sitting on £13 spare now… which I’ll use to buy another year of premium for circa £50 while also gaining another £5 PSN credit via the rewards system. Been upgraded to Shopto Gold membership again too. (edited)

That's right, I bought the same, and it come to the same amount £55.70 on Shopto. The table shows the discount prices of each credits you get. So you get 12.97% off discount with the £32 ones. Hope this helps.

Thank you.

That would be for new / lapsed users only, not existing - IF the promo happens that is.

This days of play offer is for all users. (edited)

About 5 or 6 years I think it's over 3 anyway I think mine runs out 2026

You buy gift cards from shopto (they're % reduced e.g. you get a £50 card for £40).

Then redeem the cards in the playstation store to buy PS+, which is being reduced on 2nd June

I recommend Extra, have a look what games are currently available on Extra and Premium.

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Sorted it now. You have to wait for the date of expiry of existing sub to end and then the discounted price appears

1x£45 (16%) and 2x£32 (16%) = £109 Credit / £91.55 Payment

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This article may help I've not read it though.

It maybe easier to upgrade your existing plan to essential then add another 12 months of Extra when it's on sale.

If you do upgrade your essential to Extra remember to turn auto renewal OFF.

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If your current essential plan expires tomorrow why bother upgrading, just let it lapse - make sure you do not have auto renew turned on. Once it's expired start a new Extra plan at the discounted price. (edited)

You need you subscription to lapse, however long you got left of premium subscription, just make sure auto renewal is turned off in settings, so it doesn't automatically charge you when your sub runs out.

That's right, 25% off £50 is £37.49, then once you buy a gift card off shopto or CD Keys, you get upto 16% off that, so that brings the price you pay down a bit again, to around £34 odd.

Yes stacking works. Sony only disabled it for a few months to prevent people buying lots of the normal PS+ and converting it to the top tier for cheap while they launched the new service. So probably about 3 months of not being able to stack.

If you want more than a year just keep buying them. Its direct from Sony so sign up to the 1 you want you get 12 months then go on the offer again and buy another 12 months of the same tier. Rinse and repeat as much as you like. (edited)

You can't buy extra while on the premium plan, only extend your premium.

Same here lol

You can stack and longer than the 3 years with Microsoft.

They stopped stacking just before they announced how the new PS+ tiers would work in terms of existing customers with PS+ and PS Now. It meant that no one could take advantage of buying lots of standard PS+ and stacking that up before the switch over and getting the top tier PS+ for less than half price.

Once new tiers launched, then stacking was enabled again. (edited)

You're a decade (+ change) late to be complaining about that now though?

PS Plus started as a 'value added' service, it was originally only getting access to 'extra' features/discounts and some smaller scale games on the PS3.

Once the PS4 generation kicked in, Sony shifted feet on it, because they had seen MS with XBL Gold raking in all that extra revenue by making it mandatory for online play and network/infrastructure funding.

I agree there is some price gouging, with the service jumping up from £40 to £50 baseline in the last few years, BUT I will say that IMO the games line-up for Essential has been pretty good the last couple of years, if you can get 2-3 games from your essential sub that you might have purchased over the course of a year, it's pretty much paid for itself.

You can’t buy a tier that’s lower then your current subscription and have to wait if it to expire before you can buy the extra instead of premium

You pay the shortfall via bank card.

If you are new, my advice is get extra and not premium. Most say premium is not worth the extra money unless you are really into classics or streaming games. I’m sort of stuck as I can only downgrade after my sub finishes and usually no offers on then. £65 for premium is still a bargain as there is usually enough in the games catalogue to keep me going without needing to buy more games when they come out. Only bought Hogwarts Legacy recently.

We get this deal every year but there is also a 50% off sale in December for new or expired subs.

Someone yesterday said it would only let them stack until 2026.

You can purchase another Extra sub in the sale and it'll increase the length of your current sub.

When you purchase PS PLUS in the sale it'll automatically become the same as your current tier.

You can upgrade a tier at later date but any downgrade will take affect from when your current sub expires. (edited)

The only caveat with that is some games are Region locked, like Miles Morales. If you enjoy it enough to end up purchasing it in the UK (or it becomes available on PS Plus Essential), your game save won't work with it. Fine for most titles mind. (edited)

Buy a years worth - it gets applied to your account. You then precede to buy another years worth and it gets applied to your account. Ad finitum (edited)

I don't see why you wouldn't be able to, if you can get them to refund they will refund the credit to your PS wallet which you can then use to buy the discounted sub.

You can’t AFAIK. To downgrade, you need to essentially cancel premium. When you are then expired, re subscribe to the tier you want.

Most people if you look at gaming forums don't think Premium is worth it, I've got premium but don't think I've ever played a classic game.

If you want cloud streaming and game trials then you need Premium for that.

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If you're on Essential it'll extend your Essential.

No

You can only buy this if you stay on Extra.

Grab a few years of the tier you want, but don't grab if you wish to downgrade in the future.

Stacked PlayStation Plus Essential till April 2027 (edited)

I suspect it'll be only cheaper if you stack several years of essential and then upgrade it all to premium as I believe the upgrade cost maybe capped at £100 but not 100% sure if it still works.