{"id":101916,"date":"2016-08-23T12:54:10","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T10:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=101916"},"modified":"2016-08-23T12:55:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T10:55:02","slug":"what-the-playstation-plus-price-increase-means-for-south-african-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/101916-what-the-playstation-plus-price-increase-means-for-south-african-gamers","title":{"rendered":"What the PlayStation Plus price increase means for South African gamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MyGaming recently published an <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/101814-playstation-plus-international-prices-set-to-increase.html\" target=\"_blank\">article <\/a><\/strong>regarding<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>international price increases for PlayStation Plus, raising concern that we could see similar increases in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>We reached out to local distributor Ster Kinekor to determine whether these price increases will extend to South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The official response is that for the time being, <strong>there are no planned price increases in South Africa<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>That means local PlayStation owners will continue to pay <strong>R749<\/strong> for a year\u2019s subscription, <strong>R219<\/strong> for three months, and <strong>R99<\/strong> for a single month.<\/p>\n<p>Xbox Gamers recently faced a massive increase for Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox Live service, as the subscription as prices <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/92461-massive-xbox-live-price-increase-in-south-africa.html\" target=\"_blank\">increased <\/a><\/strong>by close to 218%.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 6 things we do in video games but will never admit\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/101774-6-things-we-do-in-video-games-but-will-never-admit.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">6 things we do in video games but will never admit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The South African gaming market is headed for massive trouble\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/101308-the-south-african-gaming-market-is-headed-for-massive-trouble.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The South African gaming market is headed for massive trouble<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 5 space exploration games to play instead of No Man\u2019s Sky\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/101640-5-space-exploration-games-to-play-instead-of-no-mans-sky.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">5 space exploration games to play instead of No Man\u2019s Sky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will we see a PlayStation Plus price increase in South Africa?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":97082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11681],"tags":[31,18473,5405,6524],"class_list":["post-101916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-playstation","tag-active","tag-increase","tag-playstation-plus","tag-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101924,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101916\/revisions\/101924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}