The downsides of doing so can be pretty extreme and you won't find out about it until later on but for people like me it mostly means that all of the "free" games that I have acquired via the PlayStation Plus will not be playable in my library unless I renew my subscription.
This might not be that big of a deal because I don't really even remember which of my games are from PS Plus and which ones I purchased. This doesn't change the fact that lately speaking the games that PS Plus has been throwing our direction have been pretty terrible, even though we pay very little for the subscription.
So far this year most of the games that they have offered have been pretty crap honestly, and while I suppose I wasn't expecting much for the grand price of $4 a month or whatever it costs. So far the only game I can think of that I actually played all the way through was Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
I completed Ratchet and Clank as well but that wasn't a PS Plus game that was a "Stay at home and do what the government tells you to do while we pretend to give you free games when in reality we are just trying to get more people to buy VR headsets" initiatives that PlayStation threw out there for everyone.
Lately, I have been getting pissed off because they are giving us games that are riddled with microtransactions and while a lot of these are cosmetic, some of them are unlockable characters that the game simply isn't fun without them. Who wants to play a WWE game when you only have 2 choices as characters from the start unless you want to spend real world money on it?
Later, they would give a number of fighting games where the same story is going on there. There are thousands of dollars worth of "optional content" in these "free games."
This trend of giving us a random game and then immediately having a "store" inside of said game is friggin lame and I almost want to not give my $4 a month just to let them know that I am cancelling because you aren't really giving us free games as was promised... you are giving us games that are only going to be fun if you spend money on them or grind for weeks to unlock all the content.... and that isn't fun is it?
I do not want to reward companies for doing crap like this because it is kind of ruining gaming if you ask me. I would much rather pay for games and not have this be a part of it.
In fact, I am a lot more likely to actually play and complete a game that I paid for than the PS+ games that I had no choice in receiving. September's offerings are more of the same in that one of them is a micro-transaction mess and the other is a game that many people have reported is very unbalanced and poorly made. These are once again games that I would not buy even if it was a mere $5.
Even if PS+ is only a few dollars a month, if they month after month give me crap that I do not want and will not play, what is the point?
What do you think?