"Free to Play" and PS+ Question (for Japan PSN)

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Mister Money
Posted 2/26/2013 9:35:24 AM
If you are a PS+ member and you download one of those "Free to Play" games, will you be locked out of the game once your PS+ membership expires (in my case, I bought a 3 months sub in January)??

I ask this because on my USA PSN account, I joined PS+ for 3 months, and when I went to download Gravity Rush immediately after joining, I got a warning box stating that once the PS+ subscription ends, I would be locked out of Gravity Rush unless I continued my subscription. Any saves, add-ons etc would be as well unless I renewed.

Does this apply to JPN PSN accounts as well? That any "Free to Play" game you download automatically gets blocked once the PS+ subscription ends??
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Japanese Import System Collection: PSP-3000 (White/Blue, Black/Red, Red/Black, Sky Blue/Marine Blue), PS3 (Scarlet Red), PS Vita (Cosmic Red)
gray_fox_00
Posted 2/26/2013 9:47:45 AM
Yes, you only have access to the free games if you have an active subscription. Works the same in all regions I believe.

I can at least vouch for UK and JP regions as I can no longer play the free games I downloaded with my free 3 month subscriptions after the PSN hack.

Any PS+ content you pay for at a discount you keep. Anything free goes away.
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Mister Money
(Topic Creator)
Posted 2/26/2013 9:50:08 AM
Thanks for the information :)

I'll have to check a few of my downloads I did after I subscribed then.
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Japanese Import System Collection: PSP-3000 (White/Blue, Black/Red, Red/Black, Sky Blue/Marine Blue), PS3 (Scarlet Red), PS Vita (Cosmic Red)