A few years ago, when buying a console, the first thing you had to do was probe your friendships to see which was the most used in your environment so that you can play with your friends over the internet. However, this is no longer necessary today, as most of the popular multiplayer games offer crossplay.
The cross-play functionality allows players from different ecosystems play together. Fortnite was one of the precursors of this functionality, a game that, from the beginning, has allowed mobile, PC, Xbox / PS and Nintendo Switch players to play together in the same game.
While, in some ecosystems, such as mobiles and computers, no need to pay extra to enjoy multiplayer gamesOn consoles, especially on PlayStation, it is necessary to pay a monthly or annual fee called PlayStation Plus.
What is PlayStation Plus
PlayStation is a subscription that can be paid on a monthly, quarterly or annual basis that allows users to play multiplayer games with other friends. In addition, every month it gives away, rather allows the user, the possibility of playing various titles for free.
And when I say yield to the user, it is because if you stop paying for PlayStation Plus, you will not be able to play all those titles again that in theory they have given you.
As a Plus user, users have access to interesting promotions and discounts, although it is still much cheaper to buy the titles on platforms such as Instant Gaming.
One of the worthwhile features of PlayStation Plus is Share Play. This function allows enjoy multiplayer and cooperative titles with a friend and also that another friend plays a title that only we have installed, even if he does not have the game purchased and associated with his account.
The PlayStation Plus subscription also includes 100GB of cloud storage for users to keep on Sony's servers. a backup of the progress in the game.
How much does PlayStation Plus cost?
As I mentioned above, the PlayStation Plus subscription is available at three modalities:
- 1 month for 8,99 euros
- 3 months for 24,99 euros
- 12 months for 59,99 euros
As is usual in this type of subscriptions, in the long run, it always comes out more profitable to buy the annual subscription.
Not all multiplayer games require PlayStation Plus
Not everyone can afford pay the 60 euros that the annual subscription to PlayStation Plus costs every year and the video game studios know it.
Sony charges developers an extra who wants to offer multiplayer mode through their titles without the need to pay for a PlayStation Plus subscription thus expanding the range of users that the game can reach, which Sony should really aspire to.
Fortnite, Apex Legends, Rocket League, Genshin Impact, Warframe, Dauntless, Brawlhalla and Call of Duty: Warzone are some of the multiplayer titles that they do not require PlayStation Plus to play.
However, other titles such as Minecraft, PUBG, and FIFA do require PlayStation Plus. With the money they have, they could already follow the same example of Epic Games or Activision and allow users play without paying a subscription that not everyone can afford.
Is it possible to have PlayStation Plus for free?
Yes. PlayStation allows new users to try PlayStation Plus during 14 days completely free, so that they can test first-hand all the advantages of using it, advantages that I have commented above.
Thanks to this completely free 14-day trial, we can create an email account every 14 days and create a new PlayStation Network account. Obviously it was not going to be easy to be able to enjoy a paid service completely free of charge and without having to do anything.
However, before you stop reading, you should consider the possibility of using the platforms that allow us create temporary email accounts. Once we create an account on PlayStation Network, Sony will send us an email to confirm the account.
Once we have confirmed the account, Sony will only send us advertising emails with the offers and promotions available in the store, so it is not necessary to keep the account at any time.
However, Sony does not accept all temporary mail platforms available in the market, especially the most popular ones, so you should try one by one until you find the one that does not give you problems with PlayStation Network when registering.
Disadvantages
Creating an account on PlayStation Plus to take advantage of the 14-day trial that Sony offers us to test the service, means that we have to communicate to our friends, a new username for 14 days. If our friends take advantage of the same trick, it really isn't a problem.
Platforms to create temporary emails
Next, we show you some of the platforms that, at the time of publishing this article, can be used without problems to create temporary PlayStation accounts.
Disposable
With Disposable we can create an account in a few seconds
YOPMail
YOPMail offers us a wide variety of domains to create temporary emails.
MailDrop
Another interesting platform to create temporary accounts can be found at MailDrop, one of the oldest platforms, but not very well known, so Sony accepts them without problems.
Buy PlayStation Plus cheaper
Buy games through the PlayStation store, as well as in physical stores it's the worst we can do if we want to save some money to invest in other games.
The same goes for the PlayStation Plus subscription. While Sony never reduces the price of this subscription, in other online stores such as Amazon, Life Player o Instant Gaming, we can find it with discounts of between 15 and 20 euros.
Before starting to buy a PlayStation Plus subscription, you should check that it is valid for your country, since a subscription for Spain does not work in any other country in Latin America.
If we buy the subscription through these platforms, it will send us a code, a code that we must redeem in PlayStation settings to activate the service.