A legitimate complaint of oversight.



If you are with an active PS+ subscription, even a mere trial, you cannot cancel it early, period. You must let it run its entire duration instead. The competition does have the option to cancel when you want, completely on your terms, which is more pro-consumer as it gives you control and a choice. Why is this important? Well, it's not for the competition, because if you have their online service and a rental game, a "free" game as they call it, is available, you still have the option to buy a license and own it outright, regardless of future subscription status. On PS Plus, last I checked and used, you CANNOT purchase a game that you currently have a rental or "free" pass for. This means you must let your PS+ lapse for at least a bit to actually own these games as opposed to renting them. Why is this bad? Well, suppose a game is about to be delisted due to licensing issues. Scott Pilgrim is an example of such game. It was available as a PS+ rental, but then they announced it would be pulled. Those people that never bought it and happened to have plus had no choice TO buy it, and can never buy it again, instead they must forever pay and forever rent to play. That is not consumer friendly, so adding a month, that was not planned by the consumer, and not giving the option to lapse the service to buy stuff according to their original plans is a legitimate concern.



Luckily, if they wanted to, they could make this a non-issue by either letting you cancel when you want, or buy what you have rented.