Need PS Plus to play online ???

[Corporal Jones]

Hi all. So i thought id try the Online feature with No Mans Sky...turns out i need PS Plus to use it? Im slightly confused as all the info ive gathered about using the online/Multiplayer part of the game says that PS4 players DO NOT need it ?? Anyone help here ?

[japp_02]

I did never read the 2 words PS Plus from any PS4 player playing this game and posting here. What is PS Plus ? If this was a necessity, then the forums would speak about, did you do a 'Search' on the right here ?
PS4 forums of the game would be the better place to ask this.

[Corporal Jones]

yes my bad, sry...

[jules.stmp537]

PS Plus is an online subscription service and is required for online multiplayer on that platform. It is possible that the requirements for PS4 online services have changed over the years?

https://support.playstation.com/s/article/PS4-Online-Multiplayer-Requirements?language=en_US

For PS4 version of NMS, is there a difference between the online discovery service (i.e. naming rocks and uploading for other players to see) and multiplayer as the latter did not really exist when the game was originally released.

If I recall the Sony PS4 launch was months after the Microsoft Xbox One, and basically Sony said all the right things by saying the opposite of all the "nasty" stuff that Microsoft wanted to restrict and make their users pay for. It was too much, too soon and M$ also missed the point that people were still buying consoles to play games and only as a poor second as an all-in-one entertainment system.

I am guessing (because I haven't followed the subject) that Sony maybe played the long game and slowly introduced new restrictions over the years but the important thing to remember is just how badly Microsoft, a billion dollar corp giant, messed up a next generation console launch and lost market share.