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@VenomUK I was suggesting Netflix were paying not take two, would make no sense for them to pay Netflix to host it when they can reach and bigger audience for free on their own socials. Netflix will have paid a big fee to get this exclusive window.

Weird thing for Netflix to be spending what is likely an ungodly amount of money on is my only thoughts on this. Feel like i shouldnt watch it to dissuade them from thinking this is money well spent.

All the series they constantly kill before they ever get going and yet they're spending copious amounts of money on this and trash reality TV and wrestling.

Pretty much a prerequisite for any 1st or 3rd party sony exclusive to have a very easy platinum nowadays.

Quite staggering it's taken this long in truth, should have been an Xbox response about a year tops after trophies were introduced.

Today marks the beginning of the slow death of EA. Years of squeezing out every possible penny from anything and everything followed by a ruthless asset strip and dismantling of the entire business beckons.

Reviews for games like these are always flawed. The reviewers will have 11 other like minded reviewers that they'll at least be familiar with to play it as intended, how many others will play it like that?

Watchable but thoroughly forgettable. Not sure what the hype is about.

If you're buying an Xbox, unless you are a fool, you're getting gamepass with jt where all the games you play are digital and on a timer. Would only be worthwhile if there was something to gain financially, there isn't, so they won't.

Dying light is a great game. Just played it already when it was on extra so it's a pointless addition for me. Big walk I have zero interest in, signalis isn't my genre, i'll only play the odd survival horror game if i'm in the mood and it's exceptional.

Big miss for me personally, but I can see how it might potentially be a great month for others if you've not played dying light 2 and you're into friends slop. That's the way it goes, my only legitimate complaint would be the double dipping of bringing an extra game to essential.

Crazy how expensive Lego is nowadays and insane how popular it is given how expensive it is.

What! You mean signing a meaningless petition doesn't work? Since when?

The only opportunity to have any genuine impact would be to have a massive boycott of a future big 1st party title, wolverine being the next one off the line. If millions of people refused to purchase it upon release or at the very least, refused to buy the digital version then it might make an impact. Otherwise, it's pointless.

Platinumed this on ps4 earlier this year, fantastic, brilliantly simple game. Not sure if mobile and touch controls would make it easier or harder, depends how well they are implemented.

Despite all the outrage, nothing significant will come of this decision, it will happen and everybody will just accept it and carry on as normal, which is primarily playing digital titles. the few that don't, and walk away to a different all digital format, fair play to them but they are so insignficant in numbers they won't be missed

Now this will be a proper disaster for the industry. They'll bleed EA dry whilst sucking every last bit of life from them before burning it all to the ground once they're done. Vultures don't leave anything behind. Prepare for the death of EA, it won't be instant, but it's coming.

Always impressed with how much techland support their titles long after almost everybody else would abandon them. Worth commending.

Don't recall thinking the upgrades were too slow to come through tbh, as long as it's balanced and doesnt trivilaise things, can't be a bad thing though.

The grind came from the crazy requirements to how much distance you've got to cover for one trophy. Played the entire game, did everything there was to do, got all other trophies and you're left with a hours of running around to do still.

I'm getting the word....

It came to ps+ essential in May, not extra.

Does raise the question why they had a bloated, inefficient work force under Microsoft. Whether they've got the support of a financial behemoth like microsoft or not, they should always being running an efficient business.

Greenlighting that kiln game was a bizarre choice. Screamed collosal failure from it's reveal and the fact i've heard literally nothing of it since release would suggest it was exactly that. I suspect they won't be doing something like that again. Would love a psychonauts trilogy but probably too ambitious now. Wish them luck.

Still haven't heard a single viable reason for the staggered releases. If you give me all games on the third Tuesday of the month as it used to be, I download those i'm interested in playing immediately in one go then I decide what to play first.

In the new format, you're soft forcing us into playing games in a certain order dependant on the rrlease schedule and giving me less choice despite giving me the same amount of content. how is it consumer friendly or good practice to restrict choice?

Equivalent to going out to a restaurant, ordering a meal but instead of getting it all at once and you choose how to eat it as is standard, the waiter brings out the individual components of the meal one by one in any order they choose. You're getting the same thing, youre paying the same for it but one method is needlessly convoluted.

Poor month for me. Dying light 2 is fantastic but it's been on ps+ extra already where I played and platinuned it so a waste of a slot for me. Big walk isn't something that appeals to me at all. Looks like a streamer game that you get bored of after an hour or so. Signalis isn't something i'd typically be interested in but more open to trying it with the other games being of no interest.

Do anything but buying disks it seems. Mass boycott buying gta 6 digital edition and go out on the same day and buy something on disk instead. That's the only meaningful collective action that will even raise an eyebrow.

Nope. No intention of ever playing it, even if they eventually make it f2p or release it on to ps+, just not interested in the genre.

Played the odd tekken and mortal kombat games in my childhood days of ps1/2 and mega drive but barely played a fighting game since. Did get into injustice 2, really enjoyed that and ended up getting the very long platinum for it but that was a one-off dip into the genre.

I trust this will be an excellent game that reviews very well but its player base will be tiny and it won't make money to satisfy Sony.

Said from the Laufey reveal,they'll do some Gow 2018 blades of chaos reveal mid game and you'll get to play as Kratos too.

Had my Playstation on throughout, unaware there was an issue, played the game fine but had problems with my trophies not syncing, just as i was doing a platinum clean up too. This would explain why.

If you're announcing dlc before the game is even released, that dlc should be free, with paid stuff post launch.

Great month. One of the best in a while. Currently playing rise of the ronin, will play avatar after that. power rangers looks decent. Psi-ops i'm looking forward to revisiting. May even try the snow bros and the firefighting games if I'm in the mood. Dying light is a great game for anybody that hasn't played it. Exactly the type of month I want.

Just sad and pathetic now. If you want to make a point, you do it with your wallet. That is the only thing Sony are interested in. Stop ruining everything for everyone else because you dislike something. The same absolute (w)bankers will no doubt have gta 6 digitally pre-ordered.

Said before launch it would have stood a much better chance long term had it launched day 1 into ps extra and still believe that. You've got millions upon millions with access to a new release then that will at least give it a try and they could have looked to microtransactions to offset the loss of sales revenue.

I maintain they'll bring it to ps+ before the years out as their last hail Mary attempt to re-envigorate the game with big a player boost. they really need to have their end plan in place before they do that though, need to make it as appealing as possible because if they bring it to ps+ and then update it later when everybody has tried it out and moved on, there is no getting those players back in.

it has to be at its peak when they do it to get as big of a captive audience as possible.

Remastered to look like a ps3 game instead of a ps2 one? Fallout looks awful. We all just accept that, it's not why we play them, doesnt need a remastered, sooner they put all resources into the new game. Can't blame them though, the lure of that remaster free money is too strong. People keep buying them so we're going to get more and more of them.

Was debating whether to play this or not as i didn't want to distort fond memories if it doesn't hold up well but the temptation of a platinum may just swing it. They're slowly getting better at this stuff.

Hard to imagine it's worthwhile either financially or timewise over a delay.

Tbh, they should just leave the completed episodes as is, shoot the rest with a new guy so we just watch Kratos change mid-season and then they can see which actor is liked more and keep that one for season 2.

It's not like the audience isn't going to know who the big ashen covered half naked man with red tribal tattoos is if his face happens to change mid-season.

@Dan12836666 I agree they're stupid, just gives us everything on thr same day and let us decide what and when we play them. Have to ask though, how is it a way of fleecing more money? If you mean people foolishly subscribing month by month subbing for longer, all you'd have to do is delay subbing until the last game you're interested in releases and then sub for the month. It's a baffling decision that has no obvious benefits including extracting more money from us.

Good month. Predicted avatar to come in July last month after we got star wars outlaws and the crew motorfest before that. They always trickle in the next batch of ubisoft games one after another.

Had rise of the Ronin as a banker to come to the service eventually too. Decent filler titles to bulk out the month.

The months are so much better when we don't see the budget blown on bringing a Rockstar game back for the umpteenth time.

@wildcat_kickz I'd put everything i have on it coming to ps+ in some capacity, be it essential or extra. That's just easy money on the table for them whenever they want to take it.

@Neuromancer i'm sure many others will do the same as you, and many more won't. People have different wants, desire and different amounts theyre prepared to spend on them.

I bought a ps3 day 1. Bought a ps4 day 1 too although left it in it's box for several months before finding a reason to open it, ps5 I didn't buy until 2 years ago though. I simply didn't have a reason to before that, exclusive games were limited, and ps4 still had plenty of games for me to play, so it seems perfectly understandable to me why some may still be on ps4.

I actually only bought ps5 then because of a discount and getting a free 12 months Netflix premium sub with it that i was already paying for anyway. which meant in effective I paid just a couple of hundred for the ps5, the bargain tempted me more than the want. turned out to be a masterstroke with the price hikes since but that's more fluke than judgement.

@Neuromancer works both ways, you can play a large majority of ps5 enabled games on the ps4 in some capacity. Maybe some people don't see the value in spending a hefty sum on a new console that doesn't really bring anything new to the table. If a ps4 services all their gaming needs, why spend more? Similar reasoning to why many are suggesting a ps6 isn't needed or wanted anytime soon.

On the fence about playing this. It was one of my favourite ps2 games but I don't think it will hold up well in today's world, might be better preserving my memories, syphon filter fell victim to this when those came to premium. Hopefully it has a platinum, they've been getting less crap with that issue.

"Missed the mark" is some great jargon for "we thought we could get away with this"

Exactly why everybody does remake/remasters. Why risk a new game in a franchise or god forbid, new IP when a remake/remaster is as close to a guaranteed smash hit as you'll get, presuming you have that beloved title in your back catalogue.

Ubisoft will of course be happy with the win, not sure it does anything for them long term though, they're going to need multiple consecutive big wins to put them in a healthy position.

@anubisvel was being facetious.

Sounds like sony's no early access titles proves to be the right call again. For new players the finished product won't be tarnished by the incomplete one.

Reads like a kid having a tantrum threatening to run away from home. Not even 1% of those people will follow through.

@Titntin feel free to enlighten us all with your wisdom...

there's a reason why most studios mass hire multiple years into a project then lay off a large percentage of their workforce very shortly after shipping a game. You don't need any kind of industry insight to understand that basic premise.

@Oram77 I don't think that's the intention. Just eluded to this in my post, doom 4, won't be ready for many years, they don't need the number of staff they needed to finish doom the dark ages when they're at best in the ideas phase, that's going to be a lot of people with no work to do being paid to do nothing. They'll hire when they reach a phase in the development cycle where more people are needed.

Looking at it objectively, they released a game last year, dlc is just coming out, realistically, their next game is minimum 2/3 years away and very likely a few years longer than that. So what are they going to be doing for the next few years that requires a fully staffed and operational studio right now?

Optics of it might not be great but the days of studios employing staff full time and paying them to twiddle their thumbs for a few years until the next project reaches a point where they're needed is long gone. It's a contractual based industry now, you come in only when your expertise is needed, finish your role in the project and you move on to the next one. It's hard to argue against it really when you actually analyse what is happening.

I've used a builder analogy before but it fits well. When building a house, You don't bring in an electrician when the foundations are being laid and you don't keep a brick layer on the payroll when they're furnishing the build.

@Oram77 they're not a support studio, it says they've been reduced to a support studio size.

There's ps+ essential game for June 2027 sorted.

How about going out and buying some disked games, new if you want to protest, why would cancelled ps+ subs have any bearing on a decision to stop manufacturing disks?