Sony and Nintendo will no longer auto-renew subscriptions after investigation

Sony and Nintendo are changing their guidelines around automatic renewals for their online subscription services.

As reported by Gamesindustry.biz, both companies were investigated by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), a U.K. government organization, for potentially predatory subscription renewal practices. As a result of the investigation, Sony will now reach out to longtime PS Plus subscribers who haven’t used the service in a certain period of time and ask them if they want to cancel their subscription. The company will no longer take subscription money from those who continue their subscription but don’t use PS Plus. This change comes ahead of Sony’s planned revamp of PS Plus, which the company announced earlier this year.