Playstation Plus Subscribers are getting a free 5-day extension to their sub due to the random full-day network outage.
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This is secretly a ploy to get people’s subscriptions to run out after the Summer/Black Friday deals. 
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– Those are the times with the highest sale prices lately, and you usually only get that deal if you aren’t currently subscribed. So people have been buying yearly and letting it run out around those times.
I’ve seen “current subscribers about to expire” get deals to renew, but that’s never happened to me… yet…? 