PS4 Game Removed from PS Plus Extra Update for January 2023

Genuinely how does stuff like this happen. It was one of the better games in the lineup as well so that’s a bummer.

How on Earth does this happen? It’s a shame, I was looking forward to this.

Weird, the same thing happened with Hot Wheels Unleashed for Game Pass in December.

Business deals falling through at the last minute, a bit of fine-print being misread, the developers suddenly getting cold feet and deciding they don't want their game on a subscription service. Could be anything. Still makes Sony look like the worst company ever.

It could be the fact that it’s still on Apple Arcade. Might be something preventing it from coming to another subscription service. Great game.

It's an awesome game. I don't regret buying it at all. It is very short, though if you like score chasing you can get some good legs out of it.

Sayonara indeed.

I would guess that it was due to be part of the service but whatever deal they had fell through at the last minute causing the game to be pulled. Or maybe the deal wasn't finalised in time and had to be pulled. I am sure we will find out eventually

Dang, that was the only game I was looking forward to in that line up

Best game of the month and it ended up not being true. Not a good look that Sony releases this themselves, but then again not surprising. Bluepoint's premature joining of first party comes to mind.

Still better than Games with Gold.....

That leave only Omno as a title of interest for me this time around, but I'll play Artful Escape instead, kind of the same genre

Unlucky, it was one of the games I planned of playing. Hopefully it just gets added next month, but this is not a good look.

This isn’t the first time they’ve made this mistake. A couple of months ago, they announced Ridge Racer 2 and a Train Simulator game as part of the service. They took the video down and removed Ridge Racer 2 but still forgot to remove the Train game. Seems like a lot is very last minute. Which is a bit strange.

My head Canon: There's this person in the company that usually updates the game list announcements every month, his PSN name is wildheart, so people usually just call him that. Unfortunately Wildheart called in sick that month but the person that send him the list of approved games didn't know that. Now this person was going to retire that month, so he wanted to leave his buddy Wildheart a quick little goodbye message, since the two had become friends doing the PS extra lists for a while. So when the intern that was filling in for wild heart was updating the games list for this month he read at the very bottom "and Sayonara, Wild Heart" he made the incorrect assumption that the game in question was also meant to be included.

I guess they have to make some agreements to place it in extra tier and something happened with that I can't imagine any other reasons.

Ahh damn, I wanted to give that a go

Well that's a letdown. It was the second game from the update I wanted to play the most.

This sounds like a contractual dispute. Perhaps it’s inclusion in Apple Arcade precludes it from other subscription services and the devs weren’t aware that would include a PS Plus service that didn’t exist at the time of the contract, and when Apple seen the announcement they contacted them.

what a lot of fuss for 1 game. there is enough to play right? maybe that title will be there another month. Personally, I was not interested in this title.

Wow, the only game that I either hadn’t played or had any interest for and they’ve pulled it! Thanks Sony 😭

@ATaco Nice, was that make believe?@Grumblevolcano is Hot Wheels gone?

@eM1x029
I was hoping it was blatantly obvious.

@eM1x029 On December 1st it was announced as coming to Game Pass on December 15th and then was removed from the upcoming list on December 2nd. Still hasn't re-appeared even now.

@ATaco just to be on the safe side....

Oh damn that’s what I wanted the most!