My query with this is what happens when you get accustomed to the intentionally bad controls? Once you get to grips with walking, is it just then the same thing until you're done. How does it maintain the challenge for 20 hours if the challenge is just grasping the controls?
Surgeon simulator had a similar premise of impossibly hard controls but once you slowly started to get used to it, they upped the ante with gimmicks to make it even harder and after that, the challenge was maintained with the challenges within each level and things like medals and time trials to get. What is baby steps version of that to keep it interesting?
Love housemarque and i have no doubt Saros will be great which is why i dont need to see it.
The most anticipated thing for me is the potential to hear about the new ps+ games, they tend to announce the upcoming additions during these now and they also tend to make them much better than usual for these announcements.
As long as it is fair, I'm all for the return of tough games. Too many games now hold your hand for the fear of people dropping titles they find difficult and not finishing them or they make things difficult through egregious means where it just feels unfair and heavily weighted against you rather than an actual challenge.
Slimy response. They're dead to rights purely on the fact they seeked the Horizon license. Maybe they find a legal loophole to save themselves some money but we all know how creatively bankrupt they are. Maybe use some of the money used fighting lawsuits to have people come up with at least semi-original ideas.
I would anticpate this list to expand before the end of the month. Games tend to get listed for removal a month before the update, with the calender the way it is, we have a longer period between the next update so I wouldn't be surprised to see a few more games added to that list shortly.
Episodic releases should have died out a long time ago. Horrible model.
The concept for this is class but originally I thought it was going to primary be some kind of strategy/management game, hearing its more linear narrative game and those management parts are more just to push the narrative forward is extremely disappointing for me.
Did it? Not exactly similar games. Sure some people who may have been interested and in the market for a new release might have opted for silksong instead but thats a small number and if your game is good enough there is no reason those people couldn't rekindle interest later.
You cannot bemoan competition. Will always come across as incredibly bitter and just looks like you don't have as much confidence in your own game as you'd expect.
They got Hades for a year because it was a new, unknown IP. Hades 2 is the sequel to a game of the year, getting exclusivity on that will be dramatically more expensive than the original.
It's not even a case of whether they can afford it, it's whether it makes financial sense. And it simply doesn't. Switch 2 and Playstation 5 arent really direct rivals, the benefits of having it off other consoles for a limited time is rather minimal so why bother paying for pro-longed timed exclusivity?
I've slated this month's offering earlier on but one thing I do not understand is thr constant demand for multiple premium titles every month. If you buy a years sub at full price its £20 difference for the year or £1.66 a month. Even if you ignore all other benefits on premium and you get 1 game per month it's still easily worth it if you're interested in playing older titles, you only need to play 2/3 premium titles a year to have gotten the value from it. Those that are expecting a barrage of titles every month are just expecting far too much for what you pay.
Expected it to be a disaster after the development issues. It ended up being a throughly enjoyable game albeit clearly downsized in scale. I'd like to see them make another.
I really enjoy sly cooper but I think its probably had its time, can't see a new modern game playing that well. Also wouldnt want a dev like sucker punch on it, they've got ghosts and if not that I'd like a new infamous or new IP.
If a smaller, trusted dev team can pitch something, it wouldnt be a bad idea to let somebody else do something with it though.
Unless something is broken or unfair, there is no need to make things easier, the challenge is a part of the appeal. What they could and should do is avoid tedium in repeated failures.
Not having checkpoints directly outside of boss arenas is something that should have died off a long time ago. I'm all for challenging games, I'm more attracted to harder games but it has to be the correct type of challenge, that mechanic is just pure tedium.
@TrollOfWar you are completely mis-representing what was said there.
Lorne Lanning said it was a devastating deal for them because they grossly underestimated the number of projected ps5 owners that would download the game primarily due to a delay on release and Covid.
They forecasted the deal to be more financially lucrative taking the ps+ money then they'd make from selling the number of copies they expected to be downloaded. They underestimated the actual downloads by a factor of 40, mainly because of things outside of their influence but not entirely and so what would have been a nice little earner ended up being a lot of potential lost revenue. It was a very specific instance for that game, at that time.
This is actually worse than a straight up price hike and i hope it gets the backlash it deserves.
It's still a price increase as you're paying the same for less but they're trying to disguise it. You dont get to pretend to be consumer friendly by avoiding another price increase whilst giving less.
Spot on. Reddit is a cesspit where the not rights reside. Its useful for them to have their place to congregate so that they can stay away from the rest of us but never, ever listen to anything they're saying.
Looks like a reskinned Hitman for the most part. That is by no means a bad thing, hitman is incredible, I did think they'd try a bit more to be different though.
The bits that were less Hitman, were sadly not impressive. The whole gunfight scene with the plane had me grimacing. That did not look good at all and im not on about from a technical standpoint, just the fact that he seemed completely bulletproof. trained military men missing whole clips of shots point blank as he strolls over to them and disarms them, perhaps it was on easy mode (if there is a difficulty setting) and its an easy fix but an odd choice to demo that part like that.
Its very expensive but I compensate for that by simply not buying games. I have a grandfathered in ps+ premium sub from psnow era and that has provided me with more games than I can get through despite probably playing more than ever. There's very few games I've really wanted to play that have yet to come to the service.
The likes of true vault hunter mode, invincible bosses and pearlescent rarity are all staples of borderlands and should be included with the base game. even if they're planned as free content.
Don't make the game all about loot, let us play the entire thing and grind for loot then release the real top tier loot later rendering everything else insignificant.
First time im not buying a borderlands on release. I hope its good enough to entice me to rethink that.
@TrollOfWar I get that but i still think the majority of players will come from that basr with players returning for a quick nostalgia hit when its effectively free for them to do so. If we ever get updated figures after this then I think we can expect most of those extra players from now will be new ps5 players though.
Given thats a total including gamepass and upgrades that number seems low to me. Have to imagine the vast majority of that figure havent bought it outright.
@PuppetMaster I wasn't and didnt suggest it should have remained a solo part time dev making it, they could have provided a support staff and ramped up development with glossing it up and trying to turn it into a fully fledged title.
Early comments suggest this should have stayed as an smaller scaled indie title with a reflective price rather than polishing it up with fluff just to justify a full price release.
I see a shallow story as a good thing. As stated in the article, you dint play these games for the story so why bother wasting time and resources to do something that isnt going to matter much, get the bare bones in and move on to the important parts, i.e the combat.
It gets to a point where it's just been too long to maintain the hype. Going to have to be a generational masterpiece to justify the wait, anything less and just wont be acceptable.
I feel like all 3 titles are ps+ extra games in truth, lemme tend to get bigger titles for essential. These are exactly the type of extra style games i look forward to though so no complaints from me at all, especially after a poor refresh last week. im interested in playing all 3 of these.
This is one of those where the news around it is the bigger deal over the actual game. Don't think the appetite to play a 20 year old game is as big as many would think.
I can see it's significance but I couldn't care less. Only way i'll ever bother to play it is if it's on ps+
Should have been more imo. Americans need to be taught just how stupid they were to allow such a maniac to gain power and a sharp rise in price of entertainment products is sadly a strong way of informing them.
The annals of time will undoubtedly laugh at them but they deserve to feel it themselves too.
If you list out the games, it wasnt bad at all, arguably impressive even. But if you watched it, it was awful. Just ridiculously long and poorly paced. Even the trailers themselves were dull, even for games im interested in.
Had F.I.S.T installed for a while now, time to get around to it. Might have to put hogwarts legacy on hold to do so.
Same with Plucky squire, I held off originally on that because I heard the trophies were bugged, will check whether they have been fixed and might get around to that too.
Busier than usual month for me, I've usually done whatever I've been interested in.
Played what I want out of that. I think its fairly easy to predict what games will be up for removal well in advance. Most licenses tend to be for similar periods, 12 months and 24 months being common, 18 months not uncommon and also 6 months for some of the bigger named titles and a special 3/4 month period for Rockstar (is it time to re-add gta yet?)
Seeing as the 1 month notice is rarely enough time, i always have a look at the games added around those periods in advance and get any bigger games started beforehand so that I've got time to finish them should they be removed.
Started hogwarts legacy yesterday for this very reason. If it was only a 6 month addition that gives me enough time to get it finished
@Skyliner no question it will provide value for those buying day 1. Just saying for those that like to be more frugal, myself included, i'd label this as a sure bet for a future addition to a subscription service.
This is 100% coming to ps+ at some point. Would have made a very good day 1 title as the potentially never ending DLC is where they'll make a killing so getting the base game into as many hands as possible will aide them.
Weirdly, making it a free-ro-play title probably would have been an excellent move for them from a business perspective for the same reasons.
The argument that it doesnt create value or it stifles creativity or quality is only really applicable to 1st party and even then, 1st party is essentially becoming third party with Microsoft pivot to releasing everything on Playstation too.
A 3rd party title might have that gamepass backing security but they'll be looking for substantial sales elsewhere too and they'll be wanting to create a reputation for the next game they make. if they simply churn out the lowest quality game as quickly as possible for gamepass, they'll not have a future beyond the gamepass game. Some games will end up feeling like that, but I doubt there's any company that intentionally goes down that route.
A very weak month in my eyes. Re-adding a game, in this case Spider-man and labeling it as one of the bigger titles will always feel like a kick in the teeth for long term subscribers that were subbed when it was first on.
Mortal kombat 1. Meh. Fine I suppose, just replaces the last mortal kombat that left earlier this year. Not in to fighting games but I recognise it's a decent title to bring in. Unicorn overlord did grab my attention, not typically the type of game I'd play but it intrigued me so that is likely the only title I'll bother to download. Thankfully, last month was a banger, gor through planet zoo and abiotic factor but still got risk of rain 2, tropico and banishers to get through so that will tidy me over.
Firebreak was entirely understandable. Remedy has a lot of goodwill in the gaming world, they assumed people would jump onboard because of that. They would then only really need it to be a solid, competent game for the revenue to come in via microtransactions. Getting in on ps+ and gamepass was a clever move, gets the player count up and offsets a lot of the cost. They made all the right choices, the gamble was worth it but it seemingly hasnt stuck so time to move on.
The people in charge have regularly said they see PS+ as a service predominately for older, back catalogue titles. If you're subscribing to it, you're doing so accepting this is the case and shouldn't be expecting anything different.
You say most people have played it already, thats simply not true, it sold a few million units on a 100m+ install base with about 50m ps+ subs, thats a small fraction of the player base, and that will apply to the vast majority of titles that come to the service.
If you dont think theres value, you dont have to subscribe, only somebody that buys the vast majority of titles they're interested in on or around release could fail to find value in the service and if thats the case, why are you subscribing to it in the first place?
Alternatively, you can easily increase the value of the service yourself by simply not buying everything on release. it's fairly easy to predict a lot of games that will come to ps+ the question is simply when. Lies of P released day 1 into gamepass meaning they're up for subscription deals and so you can put it down as a safe bet to come to ps+ once the gamepass exclusivity window is done. I love souls games but i didnt buy it because I knew it would come to ps+ eventually and here I am looking forward to playing it and once again praising the immense value in ps+.
If you own or have played lies of P already it's awful, probably the worst month of the year. if you haven't played lies of P, that alone makes it a strong month.
Don't think this will be a particularly big seller. If it doesnt come bundled with all the dlc, I could see this coming to ps+ with the idea of selling the dlc. Thats the only way you'd get me remotely interested on playing this.
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Re: PS Plus Essential Games for October 2025 Announced
Said in the predictions post the ps+ announcement will be the best thing of the show and Alan wake 2 does not disappoint.
Re: Baby Steps (PS5) - A Rewarding, Surrealist Odyssey for Those Willing to Fail
My query with this is what happens when you get accustomed to the intentionally bad controls? Once you get to grips with walking, is it just then the same thing until you're done. How does it maintain the challenge for 20 hours if the challenge is just grasping the controls?
Surgeon simulator had a similar premise of impossibly hard controls but once you slowly started to get used to it, they upped the ante with gimmicks to make it even harder and after that, the challenge was maintained with the challenges within each level and things like medals and time trials to get. What is baby steps version of that to keep it interesting?
Re: State of Play Confirmed for 24th September, 35 Minutes of PS5 News and Reveals
Love housemarque and i have no doubt Saros will be great which is why i dont need to see it.
The most anticipated thing for me is the potential to hear about the new ps+ games, they tend to announce the upcoming additions during these now and they also tend to make them much better than usual for these announcements.
Re: New PlayStation Rewards Program to Offer Exclusive Merch, Starts Today
The reward is getting the opportunity to pay them for egregiously overpriced tat. Wow, thanks sony. Generosity knows no bounds.
Will there be some kind of waiting list in place? I'd hate to get stuck in a giant queue to purchase this...
Re: PS5's Incredibly Promising Phantom Blade Zero Sounds Absolutely Brutal on Its Hardest Difficulty
As long as it is fair, I'm all for the return of tough games. Too many games now hold your hand for the fear of people dropping titles they find difficult and not finishing them or they make things difficult through egregious means where it just feels unfair and heavily weighted against you rather than an actual challenge.
This is good to hear in my eyes.
Re: Sony Puts PS5 on Sale for Once, a £90 Saving in the UK
Party like its 2020 baby.
Re: 'Sony Seeks an Impermissible Monopoly on Genre Conventions': Tencent Fires Back Over Horizon Rip-Off
Slimy response. They're dead to rights purely on the fact they seeked the Horizon license. Maybe they find a legal loophole to save themselves some money but we all know how creatively bankrupt they are. Maybe use some of the money used fighting lawsuits to have people come up with at least semi-original ideas.
Re: 'Quit Game and Restart': PS5 Pro Has the Worst Version of Borderlands 4
Should be fixed by time it comes to subscription services which is when i'll play it.
Release day purchasers are essentially paying to beta test the game nowadays.
Re: Another 4 PS Plus Extra Games Leave the Service Next Month
I would anticpate this list to expand before the end of the month. Games tend to get listed for removal a month before the update, with the calender the way it is, we have a longer period between the next update so I wouldn't be surprised to see a few more games added to that list shortly.
Re: Superhero Adventure Game Dispatch Confirmed for PS5, and It's Releasing Episodically
Episodic releases should have died out a long time ago. Horrible model.
The concept for this is class but originally I thought it was going to primary be some kind of strategy/management game, hearing its more linear narrative game and those management parts are more just to push the narrative forward is extremely disappointing for me.
Re: 'It Was a Little Callous': Hell Is Us Dev Bemoans Impact of Hollow Knight: Silksong
Did it? Not exactly similar games. Sure some people who may have been interested and in the market for a new release might have opted for silksong instead but thats a small number and if your game is good enough there is no reason those people couldn't rekindle interest later.
You cannot bemoan competition. Will always come across as incredibly bitter and just looks like you don't have as much confidence in your own game as you'd expect.
Re: Hades 2 Will Do You a Favour and Duck the Hectic September Schedule on PS5
@Fishmasterflex96
They got Hades for a year because it was a new, unknown IP. Hades 2 is the sequel to a game of the year, getting exclusivity on that will be dramatically more expensive than the original.
It's not even a case of whether they can afford it, it's whether it makes financial sense. And it simply doesn't. Switch 2 and Playstation 5 arent really direct rivals, the benefits of having it off other consoles for a limited time is rather minimal so why bother paying for pro-longed timed exclusivity?
Re: Last Chance to Play These 8 PS5, PS4 Games on PS Plus
F.I.S.T was very good. Well worth a play.
Re: Hades 2 Will Do You a Favour and Duck the Hectic September Schedule on PS5
Not a chance its a year exclusive. Too big of a title now for that. Maybe 6 months tops if they feel thats a better release window than Christmas.
Expecting Hades on PS+ soon, to tie in with the sequel, surprised it hasn't been on yet.
Re: 8 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for September 2025 Announced
I've slated this month's offering earlier on but one thing I do not understand is thr constant demand for multiple premium titles every month. If you buy a years sub at full price its £20 difference for the year or £1.66 a month. Even if you ignore all other benefits on premium and you get 1 game per month it's still easily worth it if you're interested in playing older titles, you only need to play 2/3 premium titles a year to have gotten the value from it. Those that are expecting a barrage of titles every month are just expecting far too much for what you pay.
Re: 8 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for September 2025 Announced
Yes! Cannot wait for the annual wrestling game that will be redundant in months and have servers closed shortly after...
Good to see yhem sticking by their recent policy of offering us fewer and fewer titles too...
Awful month. A passing interest in crow country, unlikely to bother with anything else.
Re: Dead Island 3 Teased as Dead Island 2 Passes 20 Million Players
Expected it to be a disaster after the development issues. It ended up being a throughly enjoyable game albeit clearly downsized in scale. I'd like to see them make another.
Re: Sucker Punch Thinks Only 10% of Studio Would Be Hyped to Make Sly Cooper
I really enjoy sly cooper but I think its probably had its time, can't see a new modern game playing that well. Also wouldnt want a dev like sucker punch on it, they've got ghosts and if not that I'd like a new infamous or new IP.
If a smaller, trusted dev team can pitch something, it wouldnt be a bad idea to let somebody else do something with it though.
Re: Hollow Knight: Silksong Difficulty to Be Toned Down Following Player Feedback
Unless something is broken or unfair, there is no need to make things easier, the challenge is a part of the appeal. What they could and should do is avoid tedium in repeated failures.
Re: Review in Progress: Hollow Knight: Silksong (PS5) - A Silky Smooth Sequel Proving Well Worth the Wait [Updated]
Not having checkpoints directly outside of boss arenas is something that should have died off a long time ago. I'm all for challenging games, I'm more attracted to harder games but it has to be the correct type of challenge, that mechanic is just pure tedium.
Re: 'The Tension Is Hurting a Lot of People': Ex-Bethesda Boss Speaks Out on Subs Like Xbox Game Pass
@TrollOfWar you are completely mis-representing what was said there.
Lorne Lanning said it was a devastating deal for them because they grossly underestimated the number of projected ps5 owners that would download the game primarily due to a delay on release and Covid.
They forecasted the deal to be more financially lucrative taking the ps+ money then they'd make from selling the number of copies they expected to be downloaded. They underestimated the actual downloads by a factor of 40, mainly because of things outside of their influence but not entirely and so what would have been a nice little earner ended up being a lot of potential lost revenue. It was a very specific instance for that game, at that time.
Re: Rumour: To Avoid Even More PS5 Price Increases, Digital Edition to Get Reduced SSD Space
This is actually worse than a straight up price hike and i hope it gets the backlash it deserves.
It's still a price increase as you're paying the same for less but they're trying to disguise it. You dont get to pretend to be consumer friendly by avoiding another price increase whilst giving less.
Re: 'The Vast Majority of Players Don't Post on Reddit' - Helldivers 2 Boss Warns of Online Tunnel Vision
Spot on. Reddit is a cesspit where the not rights reside. Its useful for them to have their place to congregate so that they can stay away from the rest of us but never, ever listen to anything they're saying.
Re: 007 First Light Brings James Bond to PS5 on 27th March
Looks like a reskinned Hitman for the most part. That is by no means a bad thing, hitman is incredible, I did think they'd try a bit more to be different though.
The bits that were less Hitman, were sadly not impressive. The whole gunfight scene with the plane had me grimacing. That did not look good at all and im not on about from a technical standpoint, just the fact that he seemed completely bulletproof. trained military men missing whole clips of shots point blank as he strolls over to them and disarms them, perhaps it was on easy mode (if there is a difficulty setting) and its an easy fix but an odd choice to demo that part like that.
Re: PS5's High Price Becoming a Serious Headache for Publishers
Its very expensive but I compensate for that by simply not buying games. I have a grandfathered in ps+ premium sub from psnow era and that has provided me with more games than I can get through despite probably playing more than ever. There's very few games I've really wanted to play that have yet to come to the service.
Re: State of Play Confirmed for 3rd September, Deep Dive on 007 First Light
This feels largely unnecessary. Why couldnt it have just been at one of the recent game shows?
Re: Borderlands 4 PS5 Wants You to Keep Playing for Months After Release
Thats a lot of cut content to sell as add ons.
The likes of true vault hunter mode, invincible bosses and pearlescent rarity are all staples of borderlands and should be included with the base game. even if they're planned as free content.
Don't make the game all about loot, let us play the entire thing and grind for loot then release the real top tier loot later rendering everything else insignificant.
First time im not buying a borderlands on release. I hope its good enough to entice me to rethink that.
Re: Team Cherry Confirms Hollow Knight: Silksong Price, Release Times
Very good price but i'll still be waiting for an inevitable ps+ appearance.
Re: Gears of War Reckons It's Ended the Console War as Reloaded Tops 1 Million Players
@TrollOfWar I get that but i still think the majority of players will come from that basr with players returning for a quick nostalgia hit when its effectively free for them to do so. If we ever get updated figures after this then I think we can expect most of those extra players from now will be new ps5 players though.
Re: Gears of War Reckons It's Ended the Console War as Reloaded Tops 1 Million Players
Given thats a total including gamepass and upgrades that number seems low to me. Have to imagine the vast majority of that figure havent bought it outright.
Re: Review in Progress: Lost Soul Aside (PS5) - Long Awaited Action Is Both Awesome and Awkward
@PuppetMaster I wasn't and didnt suggest it should have remained a solo part time dev making it, they could have provided a support staff and ramped up development with glossing it up and trying to turn it into a fully fledged title.
Re: Review in Progress: Lost Soul Aside (PS5) - Long Awaited Action Is Both Awesome and Awkward
Early comments suggest this should have stayed as an smaller scaled indie title with a reflective price rather than polishing it up with fluff just to justify a full price release.
I see a shallow story as a good thing. As stated in the article, you dint play these games for the story so why bother wasting time and resources to do something that isnt going to matter much, get the bare bones in and move on to the important parts, i.e the combat.
Re: Judas Resurfaces with Key Art, New Gameplay Details
It gets to a point where it's just been too long to maintain the hype. Going to have to be a generational masterpiece to justify the wait, anything less and just wont be acceptable.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for September 2025 Announced
I feel like all 3 titles are ps+ extra games in truth, lemme tend to get bigger titles for essential. These are exactly the type of extra style games i look forward to though so no complaints from me at all, especially after a poor refresh last week. im interested in playing all 3 of these.
Re: Poll: Are You Playing Gears of War: Reloaded on PS5?
This is one of those where the news around it is the bigger deal over the actual game. Don't think the appetite to play a 20 year old game is as big as many would think.
I can see it's significance but I couldn't care less. Only way i'll ever bother to play it is if it's on ps+
Re: Atari Now Owns Rights to Several Ubisoft Games, Will Bring Them to 'New Platforms'
This is starting to feel like a small scale, low budget Embracer situation.
I wish good luck to anybody looking to breath new life into dormant IP but struggling to see the value here.
Re: Bonus PS Plus Extra Game for August 2025 Announced, Out Now
Oh *****. Nice. This would have been the highlight of the month had it been included in the announcement. I shall be downloading it imminently.
Re: PS5 Price Increases Confirmed for USA, Effective 21st August
Should have been more imo. Americans need to be taught just how stupid they were to allow such a maniac to gain power and a sharp rise in price of entertainment products is sadly a strong way of informing them.
The annals of time will undoubtedly laugh at them but they deserve to feel it themselves too.
Re: Poll: How Would You Rate Gamescom Opening Night Live 2025?
If you list out the games, it wasnt bad at all, arguably impressive even. But if you watched it, it was awful. Just ridiculously long and poorly paced. Even the trailers themselves were dull, even for games im interested in.
Re: These 8 PS5, PS4 Games Will Leave PS Plus Extra in September
Had F.I.S.T installed for a while now, time to get around to it. Might have to put hogwarts legacy on hold to do so.
Same with Plucky squire, I held off originally on that because I heard the trophies were bugged, will check whether they have been fixed and might get around to that too.
Busier than usual month for me, I've usually done whatever I've been interested in.
Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows Is Europe's Best-Selling New Game of 2025
@Rich33 hogwarts is more impressive when you consider that it's been on ps+ extra for majority of this year.
Re: Last Chance to Play These 13 PS5, PS4 Games on PS Plus
Played what I want out of that. I think its fairly easy to predict what games will be up for removal well in advance. Most licenses tend to be for similar periods, 12 months and 24 months being common, 18 months not uncommon and also 6 months for some of the bigger named titles and a special 3/4 month period for Rockstar (is it time to re-add gta yet?)
Seeing as the 1 month notice is rarely enough time, i always have a look at the games added around those periods in advance and get any bigger games started beforehand so that I've got time to finish them should they be removed.
Started hogwarts legacy yesterday for this very reason. If it was only a 6 month addition that gives me enough time to get it finished
Re: PowerWash Simulator 2 Has a New Trailer Just to Announce Its Price
@Skyliner no question it will provide value for those buying day 1. Just saying for those that like to be more frugal, myself included, i'd label this as a sure bet for a future addition to a subscription service.
Re: PowerWash Simulator 2 Has a New Trailer Just to Announce Its Price
This is 100% coming to ps+ at some point. Would have made a very good day 1 title as the potentially never ending DLC is where they'll make a killing so getting the base game into as many hands as possible will aide them.
Weirdly, making it a free-ro-play title probably would have been an excellent move for them from a business perspective for the same reasons.
Re: Xbox Game Pass May Make Devs 'Wage Slaves', Says Ex-PlayStation Exec
The argument that it doesnt create value or it stifles creativity or quality is only really applicable to 1st party and even then, 1st party is essentially becoming third party with Microsoft pivot to releasing everything on Playstation too.
A 3rd party title might have that gamepass backing security but they'll be looking for substantial sales elsewhere too and they'll be wanting to create a reputation for the next game they make. if they simply churn out the lowest quality game as quickly as possible for gamepass, they'll not have a future beyond the gamepass game. Some games will end up feeling like that, but I doubt there's any company that intentionally goes down that route.
Re: 12 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for August 2025 Announced
A very weak month in my eyes. Re-adding a game, in this case Spider-man and labeling it as one of the bigger titles will always feel like a kick in the teeth for long term subscribers that were subbed when it was first on.
Mortal kombat 1. Meh. Fine I suppose, just replaces the last mortal kombat that left earlier this year. Not in to fighting games but I recognise it's a decent title to bring in. Unicorn overlord did grab my attention, not typically the type of game I'd play but it intrigued me so that is likely the only title I'll bother to download. Thankfully, last month was a banger, gor through planet zoo and abiotic factor but still got risk of rain 2, tropico and banishers to get through so that will tidy me over.
Re: Remedy Knuckling Down on Control 2, Max Payne Remakes
Firebreak was entirely understandable. Remedy has a lot of goodwill in the gaming world, they assumed people would jump onboard because of that. They would then only really need it to be a solid, competent game for the revenue to come in via microtransactions. Getting in on ps+ and gamepass was a clever move, gets the player count up and offsets a lot of the cost. They made all the right choices, the gamble was worth it but it seemingly hasnt stuck so time to move on.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Essential Games for August 2025?
@KundaliniRising333
The people in charge have regularly said they see PS+ as a service predominately for older, back catalogue titles. If you're subscribing to it, you're doing so accepting this is the case and shouldn't be expecting anything different.
You say most people have played it already, thats simply not true, it sold a few million units on a 100m+ install base with about 50m ps+ subs, thats a small fraction of the player base, and that will apply to the vast majority of titles that come to the service.
If you dont think theres value, you dont have to subscribe, only somebody that buys the vast majority of titles they're interested in on or around release could fail to find value in the service and if thats the case, why are you subscribing to it in the first place?
Alternatively, you can easily increase the value of the service yourself by simply not buying everything on release. it's fairly easy to predict a lot of games that will come to ps+ the question is simply when. Lies of P released day 1 into gamepass meaning they're up for subscription deals and so you can put it down as a safe bet to come to ps+ once the gamepass exclusivity window is done. I love souls games but i didnt buy it because I knew it would come to ps+ eventually and here I am looking forward to playing it and once again praising the immense value in ps+.
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A proper all or nothing month.
If you own or have played lies of P already it's awful, probably the worst month of the year. if you haven't played lies of P, that alone makes it a strong month.
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Don't think this will be a particularly big seller. If it doesnt come bundled with all the dlc, I could see this coming to ps+ with the idea of selling the dlc. Thats the only way you'd get me remotely interested on playing this.