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PlayStation Plus - a bad deal

Published: 12:22, 29 December 2016

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Growing frustration with the quality of the PlayStation Plus package is seeing more and more owners of the Sony console venting their annoyance in public

AltChar's SubReal is no stranger to controversy. He once claimed to have put sugar in our coffee against all available evidence to the contrary. This time, he's playing David against the Goliath that is Sony and asking whether the PlayStation Plus package is a poor deal for the console's millions of users. Is the tech giant taking the players - and their wallets - for granted?

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