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This might be the biggest month of loss in terms of quality that Ps+ has seen to date. Glad I've done most of them, will make sure I do deliver us mars.

Already platnumed, slay the spire, miasma chronicles, animal well, tales of kenzera and kena.

I'd recommend every single one of them but seen as it's probably the most unknown I'll champions miasma chronicles. Anybody who likes xcom should make sure they play this, made by thr same guys that did mutant year zero.

Not sure you can call it a scam as that would imply some people may have had different impressions of what the "game" would be. Anybody with a modicum of interest in gaming knew beyond any doubt that this "game" was always going to be a complete farce as it proved to be.

I have zero interest in star wars but I love xcom, so i will take anything even remotely similar to xcom as we wait an eternity in hope for xcom 3

Prince of Persia and arcade paradise make it an acceptable month in my eyes but the month undoubtedly feels very light. Feels very much like a big title was pulled from the lineup last minute and wasn't replaced.

Rayman has to be the most desirable IP that could realistically be up for grab.

Literally never heard of it until this moment. The industry isn't in a tough spot right now it simply isn't an industry where mundane copycats offering nothing unique that require unprecedented success to survive can exist.

@BolkaRover the classics refresh literally the same frequency as extra and essential. I.E once a month. If you're suggesting not enough is added. You pay about an additional £1.50 a month for the premium.

I'm very happy with prince of persia. arcade paradise I've heard good things about too, so those two are just about sufficient offerings for me.

however, it does feel like a big title is missing this month, almost like something was pulled from the lineup last minute and not replaced.

Old armoured core games coming to the service makes sense with sony's investment into fromsoft, expect we'll see the new armoured core on there too in the coming months.

Unbeatable value for a game with a large online aspect that seemingly is flooded with micro transactions and whose servers will be shut down in as little as 18 months rendering it all unplayable if the past is anything to go by. Seems like it's anything but unbeatable value to me.

Hard to blame the publishers anymore when the audience have shown they're willing to continuously buy their product regardless.

Oh no!! I have to make a free account for something that takes seconds before playing. However will i cope? It's a complete non-issue just as it was when psn required it for PC players only for them to ***** the bed and cry about it.

@breakneck could be a whole range of things but I don't think it will be a licensing issue as they've got licenses for all those sports games too that are on there.

Everything about this is looking promising.

@breakneck yep loads actually having just looked at what they've published.

Multiple WRC ganes have been on. More than 1 of the tour de France games have been on. Pretty sure we've had a cricket, rugby and handball game on there before, werewolf the apocalypse was on ps now. rogue lords (which is excellent btw and well worth a play if you enjoy slay the spire) and roguebook are both currently on extra, bloodbowl, overpass, AO tennis, steel rising, the Styx games, bee simulator.

The more i read the list of what they've published, its becoming very evident that pretty much the entirety of their back catalgoue is or has been on ps+ in some form. I didn't realise they were such a big contributor when I made that prediction to be honest, only strengthens my view considerably

First Styx game was genuinely fantastic. Didn't know it was the same guys that did werewolf: the apocalypse-eaethblood, which was essentially a ps2 filler title released 20 years too late.

Rogue city is definitely coming to ps+ in some capacity very soon. It's a prime extra/premium contender before this announcement, it's surely a certainty now.

take the ps+ windfall on rogue city and promote the new dlc to the massive new audience. Payday.

Whilst I don't put too much weight into metacritic scores it's impressive l, fair play to Sega. It wasn't all that long ago that segas future existence was in question. Long may it continue.

Sounds to me an awfully lot like the devs aren't very good at their job. The hundreds of other games on the system, a lot of which being bigger and more complex than this and working fine would suggest the tools aren't the problem the people operating them are.

Shame as I absolutely loved the first cities skylines on ps4 and would be well up for a working and good ps5 sequel. Doesn't look like that's coming though.

A game that didn't need to exist. If they were unable to secure funding, it's logical to assume they didn't have any ideas worth backing. No company has a right to exist.

There are too many game companies popping up with a run of the mill idea, having an unfeasibly large budget for it that's entirely reliant on it being a major, unprecedented success to survive long enough to get a second game out. Too easy for chancers to create a company in an attempt hit big and sell up knowing that it's far likelier to fail.

The constant over dramatisation of lay offs in the industry has been tedious to read for a while now.

The people that lost their job have done so because their job was no longer required, nobody is going to pay people to do nothing in any industry.

If you work in a factory producing one thing with staff that has skills tailored to producing that one thing and that company suddenly ceases producing that product, there's no use for those employed specifically to produce that product anymore so of course they're going to lay them off. What's a person employed to make background art for a now cancelled game going to do everyday?

1+2 remake was brilliant. Had the perfect mix of feeling modern and inflicting nostalgia, it's how I think 1+2 played rather than how it actually played. Also a bloody hard platinum which I enjoyed. Don't have the same nostalgia for 3+4, I'm sure I probably played them but I don't remember anything of them and nothing in the trailer rang any bells. Will be something I'll play once it inevitably comes to ps+

As with all games now, I'll play it when it comes to ps+ and if it doesnt, ill play whatever does instead.

extremely rare I buy games now, I basically play daily and yet I've bought just 3 games this decade. Once you get passed the initial sense of being left behind as each new big thing comes out and you build up a backlog of games you've not yet played, there's really no need to ever purchase anything else other than my ps+ subscription.

This is a preferable thing. I'd much, much rather a game charge for completely pointless and optional cosmetic stuff and deliver free gameplay dlc.

Time to stop blaming it on suicide squad and identify the real culprits here, the suits who instructed rocksteady to make the suicide squad. That needs to be distinguished.

Decent price drop. It's something we used to see with all hardware as the tech got better and cheaper, rare nowadays though.

Still not going to make me jump on board. I have a passing interest in VR but they'd have to almost literally give it away for me to ever jump on. It will always be too much money for me to justify for what is a very niche sector.

Dunno why everyone is assuming a game has to have failed spectacularly to come to ps+ that quickly. A lot of people are forgetting what month it is, it's far, far more likely that EA simply want to get that ps+ money in the backend of this financial year to boost their figures and are willing to write off any potential DA drip sales to do so.

Either way, it's a really strong get for Playstation and a genuinely good month.

I was expecting one of our annual titles this month. One from Fifa, NBA, F1, CoD, and WWE that we are basically guaranteed every year at this point so that's a very welcome surprise.

These things arent always the doom and gloom they're portrayed to be. Nothing stopping the people who sold the company in the first place to essentially recreate the company under a different name and re-employ all those let go. They could even potentially buy back IP if cost cutting measures are that extreme.

They really can't follow the game closely for this one, it just wouldn't work for tv so it will be very interesting to see how they approach it. what they add, what they leave out, what they change and how they reorder stuff.

One thing is for certain, there will be a vocal moaners galore regardless, can't wait for that...

Couldn't give a toss either way. Did PC gaming in the past, it isn't for me.

Its free revenue so why wouldnt Sony do it. Only thing I'd always want is the ability to choose not to play with PC players for any multiplayer game, there is a potential competitve advantage aspect to with k/m vs controller but mainly to let the pc community deal with the cheaters themselves.

Good milestone. I suspect a strong financial boost in the form of ps+ essential/extra money won't be far off.

This should be a shock to absolutely nobody. It's not the doom and gloom story it's being painted out to be either.

In the 24 fiscal year they released what? Skull and bones which was always going to tank hard, star wars outlaws which was a big let down and the prince of Persia game that was a much smaller indie-like title. Anything else? AC got pushed from the fiscal year, they cancelled a division game and probably others im missing. in 2023, the year they're comparing last year to, they had an AC game release, a crew game, that avatar game, there's not a person on the planet that couldn't look at what they had for that year and predict that downturn.

Had AC released on schedule their numbers would almost certainly be up. As a result of it slipping to this fiscal year though, the annual report in a year's time is going to show a huge upturn instead as the AC sales will effectively count double for sales missed last year and extra sales this year along with whatever else they end up releasing this year.

Phoenix Wright and resident evil 3 have both been downloaded sitting on my system for almost a year now without every starting either. Not sure I'll bother with either to be honest.

Jedi survivor doing all the heavy lifting this month. Without it it would be horrendous. Even with it, it's still piss poor.

Giving it as much distance as possible from the concord disaster is the best thing they can do right now. Still predict it's destined for failure but perhaps it won't be as bad the longer they leave it.

Had the outer worlds on my next to play list for a few months now and still haven't got around to it as i haven't touched a single game this year. shame to miss out on it, it's one I've wanted to play but the beauty of the subscription model is there's always plenty more games to play.

In other words, "we know enough of you will pay it so prepare yourselves for another price hike"

I was expecting lies of P to come to ps+ extra off the back of this announcement. Reckon it will come before this is released.

Into this. Looking forward to it.

Laughed hard at this as don't these games servers have a notouriously short shelf life?

"Come join our online game and buy some of the abundance of cosmetic micro transactions we'll have for sale until we close it all down in 12-18 months"

I got a cyberpunk Just cause vibe from this.

This made the biggest impression on me of all games actually shown. Looked genuinely intriguing.

Knew it was housemarque from the go. Returnal was fantastic, all for what seems to essentially be a sequel. Still a little bummed we won't get any more dead nation/alienation style games from then. I know they've moved on to bigger stuff but I'd kill for an offshoot studio going back to those style of games as smaller projects too.

Really enjoyed days gone, think it easily deserved a sequel. Absolutely no interest in a remaster though, same as horizon or any other game I played just a few years ago that won't have changed much if at all. I'll maybe play it again when it eventually gets put on ps+ extra

They keep finding new lows to reach. Has to be the poorest selection since the relaunch. The numbers are declining rapidly, gone are the days where we were looking at almost 20 titles with extra and premium combined and the quality is also declining.

Jedi survivor is the only one noteworthy but all EA games can be played on their own subscription service for practically nothing when they do their yearly month long sub sale. Incredibly weak offering, makes you wonder why they bothered saving it for state of play, should have got that lineup announced at the usual time and then mask over it with the state of play.

Wasn't it supposed to be incredibly underwhelming? Why not at this point but i don't see it making a dent of any note.

@breakneck not true. The quotes are directly pulled from the annual report.

Metaphor: ReFantazio is currently "exceeding expectations," while Sonic X Shadow Generations has "steadily increased its sales" and has surpassed two million units in global cumulative sales.

There's the quotes. Quite literally says "exceeding expectations." So the complete opposite to not selling as well as you'd think.

My life would be filled with strippers and cocaine, so no it wouldn't change in the slightest...

Why would it be a surprise if we read the article? Its explained large parts of it are due to the loss on the sale of a studio that needed to be written off and the cancellation of FM25 which is huge. Perfectly understandable given that information.

@breakneck games aren't selling as well as you'd think? It literally says in the article the games are selling really well. metaphor exceeding expectations and sonic at least matching them. In a world where expectations are nearly always unreachably high, that's very impressive.

More than fair. Didn't even notice personally so I'll gladly take the near extra week.

So now they're doing the game they should have done a decade ago? Add another half a decade to the dev cycle and we're looking at a game 15 years late by which time I doubt they'll be many of the people still there from the other titles to guarantee its quality and the gaming world will have moved on.

Suicide squad might not have killed the justice league but it all but killed Rocksteady.

Good decision. Annual titles are near impossible to churn out nowadays with significant worthwhile improvements unless they do a COD and have different devs cycle in. they have to switch up the schedule and start making it at least bi-annually. Commendable decision.