PS Plus Premium's PS5, PS4 Game Trials Have Trophies, and Save Data Carries Over

Weirdly this could actually put some trophy hunters off the trial - as they will have an “incomplete” game on their list. Great if you want a handful of bronze trophies though - or if you know you want the game anyway and just play the trial in the meantime.

Why would trophy hunters want to go for as many trophies as possible in 2 hours? Surely they want to go for the platinum!

They are showing willing with putting HFW on there to start with. I'm assuming that these games work the same as the Cyberpunk 2077 trial that was available before where you actually download the entire game and then if you buy it just unlocks it once the clock as ticked down?

@render That would be my guess. Interesting that GT7 isn't on there though

@K1LLEGAL yeah I'm no trophy hunter but the idea that I'll be stuck with a few bronze trophies on a game I may never continue playing kinda puts me off the whole thing.

Not sure it's a bad way to go about it, the way they are, I just know my OCD won't abide.

@Voltan Yeah it's a good point. Perhaps they will include it at a later date but shame it's not on the list.

I’m still unsure if gametrials are for a certain selection of games or all and every game in the store?…I originally thought it was for all games, but announcing games that have signed on for trials so far makes me think its a selection…

This "game trials" thing where you pay $120 a year and get 120 minutes a game of select games to play as a demo has got to be the single most "Nintendo-like" solution to demos I have ever heard of.

You are literally paying for time-limited demos of select time-offered titles. Think about this for a minute... Remember when demos were....demos...? For free? To entice you to buy the game?

I love the concept of offering demos or something and don't even mind that it's part of a premium subscription. But this solution seems like such a monkey's paw solution, I can't comprehend how it's Sony, not Nintendo, that came up with it.

I still feel like this could be the super power in this new era of PS packages. Ideally it would be a 2 hour trial on a system level, without devs creating a separate demo, but it sounds like a good start. Especially if saves carry over.

I am still unclear on the file. Is there one file that you download and if you like it you "unlock" it with no separate download? Or is the demo a separate file?

Wasn't this already a thing?! I could've sworn that game trials already gave you trophies. Why is this a selling point like it's new?

Holding back on the PS5 version of Uncharted 4 on the extra tier and advertising a TRIAL of that version as a reason to get the Premium tier is a new low even for Sony

I'm pretty sure you can delete a game from your trophy list, if it has 0%, would be nice if they change it to also be possible to remove games you only played as a trial too.

@Rafie at least generally trials don't currently give trophies, it's why I don't have any of the trophies from the beginning of Far Cry 4

@K1LLEGAL
DING! DING! DING!
I'm very OCD when it comes to my trophies and if I play a trial and do not get interested in the game that will be a stain on my virtual cabinet.

This is a BIG avoid for me. But TBF I won't be subscribing in the begining if at all because I'm still against services. Just the concept of trials and trophies is a big no-no.

I was/am very obsessed over my Xbox gamerscore too. It really is maddening. 😩

There's a guy on YouTube, don't know the name, who does achievement challenges, get all Steam trophies before getting refund. 120 mins is more than enough for Resident Evil 3 remake if you know what you're doing 😅

Saves transferring over is a big plus. Traditional demos that dump you in the middle of a game mostly annoy me, and have more often than not dissuaded me from purchasing the full game. Being able to start from the beginning and then continuing from where you left off is great.

Although I have no intention on getting the top tier subscription this is sounding pretty cool. I do think it should be part of the basic subscription though, or at the very least, premium.

@GADG3Tx87 haha, Sony have probably implemented trophies for this very reason. They hope the people that try it get a few trophies then have no choice but to buy the full game so that they can collect them all.

I only care about trophies if they are fun, or if it’s a platinum (as many leading you that platinum will be fun, interesting, or challenging). As such I don’t really see any value it trophies that can be achieved in just a couple of hours.
I do know many trophy hunters who would hate to leave an unfinished trophy game on their account though, so this could put them off.

@themightyant I remember the old Xbla games used to do this. I coughed up the 800 points and those sweet achievements would unlock retroactively.

Yeah this isn't a feature for me, this is a big turn off. So if I want to check out a trial for say Back 4 Blood and after an hour I don't like it I'm stuck with it's trophy list 😐

Either let us turn off the earning trophy's or let us delete any trophy list no matter the percentage, as long as it isn't a Platinum we should be able to delete the list

@NEStalgia But is that the only thing you get for €120? I think its quite a lot more then that?

@GADG3Tx87 Im glad i could let go of that problem it drove me mad in the past but i had enough and now I just finish games that i love and move on such a liberation. 😅

@Flaming_Kaiser premium is weird. Most of the meat is in "extra". Premium has the streaming Now had before, now sold extra for more money, which is maddening. It has the retro games Jim doesn't think anyone wants to play. And it has this. And apparently ubi+ but just a limited version.

Other than the streaming we used to get and the PS3 games we used to get in Now, premium is mostly appealing to new ps players, but this is pretty much the main feature for long time ps players with the classic library already sorted out.

@K1LLEGAL yup! Just found this article googling as my profile is now stained with 2 trophies from a game I don't want to complete.

Absolute pain in the arse, once you've got a trophy you can't delete the game from your profile so I don't know why they'd do this. I thought with demos on PS3/4, you could port your progress when you bought the game outright and that'd give you the trophies you would've earned, a much better system ino