Kind of meh to below par but mostly because the majority of the main stuff just wasn't for me.
They spent an eternity on that marvel fighting game at the end and I simply couldn't give a toss about it. I'm sure for people who enjoy fighting games its a big deal but i think that's a niche market.
Nioh 3 is the big one for me, nioh is the best soulslike for my money. 007 looks good too, trust IO to nail that.
I predict we'll see a tease of the next Horizon game. Either horizon 3 or that online monster hunter style version they're supposedly doing, whichever is in line to come first.
Other than that, they'll be an overly long dive into death stranding 2 and some ghost of yotei taking up the bulk of it. Might also see the wolverine game.
Sounds good to me. When they rebranded ps+ I said back then that they should set up or acquire a couple of small teams to work on much smaller budget side projects for existing IP with the intention of bringing them to ps+ day 1, the last bit seems unlikely but the rest of it fits the description of this game perfectly. I'm very interested in this.
@PocketHotDogs completely agree. Said as much in a separate comment. Should be all or nothing, seeking to cater to both just leads to a sub-par game for both audiences.
I actually think this patch is a bad idea. they wanted to do a co-op game, they've balanced it for co-op so lean all in on it, make it a co-op only game and don't waiver on it by making it possibke to play solo. You're just going to end up with a game that's awkward to play solo because that isn't the intention and then you're going to end up compromising on the co-op experience to ensure that its still playable solo.
I've been a souls fan since I imported demon souls from Asia on ps3 before it even got a european release, this is the first one I've not bought, I've no interest in the co-op mode so I'll just sit this out and wait until the next proper single player souls game comes.
@PocketHotDogs I think that was literally the point though. To do something different. They wanted to have a bash at a co-op title and that's their prerogative.
The two smaller additions are sound but the main headline title of yet another NBA game that nobody outside of the US is interested in ruins it completely.
Sports games should never be offered on essential, at best add them to extra alongside a handful of other titles. With annualised sports games, those interested in them, buy them on release, nobody is holding off thinking oh I'll pick up NBA 2k25 in a couple of years on the cheap when the game will be defunct and the servers closed.
Of course they are. No chance they wasn't going to be.
Expect, death stranding 2, marathon, ghost of Yotei to do the heavy lifting for Sony. We might get a look at wolverine, the rumored god of war spin off or as an outside shout, what guerilla games are upto as a one last thing tease but the first three will be the big ones.
YAY! the annual American sports game that will be offline within 18 months anyway that I've zero interest in ever playing....
Alone in the dark is just "meh." No issue with it but feels likes a ps+ extra game that doesn't make the headline list rather than an essential offering.
Bomb rush cyberfunk seems good as the smaller indie offering.
Destiny was inevitable. Not sure who it's really for though. Maybe wrong but feeling like new players or long time lapsed players can't just jump back in at the end.
Whilst it's not up there with the legendary hard platinums, it's still an impressive achievement. It's more grindy than anythplatinum, as it requires a lot of favourable rng.
Got it with ps+ and am currently working my way through all the decks to gold stakes, you do start to see the limitations and design flaws in the game fairly early into the grind. The structure is very rigid, establish economy then get a source of chips, +mult, xmult with little room for anything crazy or different if you want to win on high stakes.
Yeah, no thanks. Can honestly say i never understood the hype and people forget, before it's release this was touted as the game of the decade, not quite gta 6 as nothing compares to that but the next best after it.
When they were announced. Concord looked miles more appealing than fairgames, that should have been a monumental alarm bell when they pulled the plug on concord.
Sonys next live service games are going to be heavily scrutinised and will have to rid themselves of the lingering stink of concord, therefore it has to be nothing short of an exceptional game, if it's not, don't even bother putting it out.
It was a free little bonus we got for doing practically nothing, you could pretty much get enough points for the £5 reward just by loading up one of the essential and extra games per month. Sad to see it being removed but can't be angry at it's closure.
The comparison to other entertainment isn't really a fair one. yes the cost per minute ratio is often heavily in its favour but that's not everything.
Gaming is seen as a daily thing, something done at home, it's not the same as going to the cinema or a gig or a sports event where its very much about the experience.
those are varying ranges of uncommon occurrences, if you're going to compare it to different entertainment then Netflix or other streaming services is probably the best comparison and suddenly that cost per minute ratio isn't looking so favourable.
Gamepass. You'd have to be severely cretinous to be buying it on steam when anywhere you have access to steam, you can get gamepass too and play it from that for considerably cheaper.
Secondly is just the time. People don't have time to play everything released. Expedition 33 and oblivion came out last week, both are huge, incredibly popular games, a lot of people play 1 game at a time and will be getting through those for the foreseeable. There's no benefit to buying a game before you're ready to play it.
Only game I was genuinely interested in was humankind and then I learned it's a broken glitchy mess with an unobtainable platinum and the devs have totally abandoned it so that's a swerve. Sick of sony adding games that are broken and have been abandoned, if you're paying money to bring a game to your service you should make it a requirement that they actually work.
@Juanalf 100% agree with you there. It's a bizarre thing to do. Some games they do it so they can reintroduce them later as new additions. It's a really ***** practice but it at least makes sense, but the resistance games make no sense whatsoever, they've not even been on there long.
@BolkaRover Netflix have largely transitioned into producing their own stuff now but back in the day when Netflix was licensing most of its stuff, that's exactly what was happening. Some of the most popular shows were disappearing with next to no notice.
When you say ps+ premium I'm not sure what you're referring to exactly, you're comparing it to gamepass so I assume you mean predominately the extra library and not specifically the premium only benefits. Firstly, gamepass is the equivalent of £180 a year compared to £100 for extra, so there's a major caveat that's often ignored.
But yes there's no argument from me that gamepass isn't incredible value, it's brilliant for the players and should be taken advantage of because it's not financially sustainable. The constant price hikes, the change in their approach with them also bringing out tiers with day 1 stuff only going to the highest tier shows its not a profitable approach and so expecting sony to copy it is just mental. If a supermarket suddenly starts selling goods at a loss, it's not reasonable to complain that another supermarket chain isn't also selling them at a loss.
Extra should be viewed as an independent service and not in comparison to a service that's not making money, and if you do that, extra is undoubtedly brilliant value in it's own right. I have bought precisely 2 games since the pandemic yet I game basically daily because I have ps+ premium. Games are soon going to cost £70-80 a pop, if you half that or even quarter it to take into account older titles reduce in cost, you'd still only need to play a handful of games a year from the library for you to get value for your subscription. If you're not doing that, then what the hell are you doing subscribing? What i play in one solitary month is worth far more than what i pay for 12 months. The value is undeniable.
It's like some people still haven't grasped the basic concept of a subscription service. You're not meant to play absolutely everything, in yhr same way you're not meant to watch every single thing added to Netflix, you pick what you're most interested in from a wide selection.
There isn't going to be a perpetual, ever increasing number of games available, a refresh is generally a good thing you might miss out on playing the odd gane you had your eye on but if you've not got around to by the time it leaves it's generally because there's plenty of other games that interest you more so you're not short of things to play anyway.
Ultimately we don't want sony to be spending large chunks of their library budget licensing titles for multiple years that a very small section of the customers are playing, the more refreshing there is, the more potential for appeal.
@sanderson72 dire? Hogwarts legacy was added to the last update, the best selling game of 2 years back, alongside lost records part 2 as another day 1 release, blue prince was also added day 1, a massive critical hit and the best rated game of the year to date. this months essential tier has given us balatro, the winner of many goty awards last year. I'd love to hear what you'd categorize as a good month if that's a dire offering.
There's a lot of either disingenuous or just thick people where premium is concerned.
Many cite the full cost when the reality is the premium content is £20 extra a year. So you're paying £1.66 a month for the premium games as well as the streaming capabilities it offers.
You can argue it not being something you want and thats fine but to say it's not good value is frankly absurd. What else could you get for £1.66 a month instead? The my name is mayo "remaster" currently costs £1.99 for comparison...
If you say its not appealing i'd fully agree but thats a vastly different statement to saying its not good value. I've got premium because I'm grandfathered in at a reduced price from the ps now days, i've probably played 2 or 3 premium games since the tiers creation, they generally dont appeal to me and if i was subbing now as a new customer id 100% go for the extra tier which is phenomenal value but it would literally cost me more to cancel and resub to just extra so I naturally leave it and will continue to do so.
Never made any sense to acquire them. They've got a good working partnership already, their next game even if it's entirely self-funded will be prominent on Playstation, there's no xbox competition anymore, Nintendo is it's own separate kid-orientated thing thats about to release a new console on a par with last gen consoles that helldivers 2 didnt even get released on and even if it was Sony owned it would be coming to pc anyway so what's the need to acquire them? Assuming all the risk isn't worth the extra revenue potential when they can just sit back do nothing and take a nice cut.
Makes sense. Just make sure it's an increase restricted to the US only, let the people responsible for giving power to a complete clown pay for their error in judgement not the rest of us.
And yet I bet that the people who ultimately decided what that game was going to be (a live service game they wanted to milk) are still sitting in their very cushty jobs whilst laying off people who simply followed their instructions.
Genuinely borderline criminal to tie rocksteady down to that garbage for a decade, could have had 2 possibly even 3 batman games in that timeframe and even if it was just more of the same would have been superb.
Humankind dragging this month just above worst update to date. Thought it looked interesting when it went to gamepass, never heard about it since release so perhaps it wasn't great but I'm interested enough to give it a go. Stalker I have a passing interest in but I think i recalling hearing they were very buggy on release, might give that a go if it runs okay. Other than that a complete swing and a miss.
A lot of people renew their subs next month, my only hope is that they've maybe held back a deal or two until next month to make a bigger splash because a repeat of this month isn't going to go down well.
Whilst I haven't and still won't play this. I appreciate them doing this. All ps+ premium games should get trophy support, ideally on release but always better late than never.
Now would be a good time to bring it to ps+. Fully ride the revival wave and flood the game with new players then bring out some new paid dlc off the back of it for the extra revenue.
Snowrunner was phenomenal. Did not anticipate that I'd like it yet it turned into one of my favourite games and even got the elusive platinum. This looks like it's going to be even better.
May seem like a weird comparison but I get similar feelings from snowrunner as I did from death stranding, that same sense of plotting the optimal route, treading carefully and even the rebuilding side using resources is similar to the rebuilding of the roads in death stranding just minus the social aspect and minus the Kojima weird *****.
Speaking as somebody firmly on the outside looking in, surely the bulk of the work is already done and the costs of porting the game are far outweighed by potential additional sales?
I'm happy with it but I certainly think there's an argument to be made about the value here. These are all smaller priced titles, I'd personally expect these kind of titles to come as part of a ps+ extra refresh, perhaps one of them as the third essential game but not all. there's an unwritten expectation that the essential games are the full price heavyweights.
Loved 1. 2 was generational. Pre-sequel was mundane, 3 was just "meh"
The series needs a big overhaul things have moved on dramatically. Loot needs to feel worthwhile. enemies need to offer a challenge, they were either fodder not worth the effort of shooting, massive bulletsponges for the sake of it or they just 1 shot and wrecked you with almost nothing inbetween. They also need to make it so that not everything you do before reaching the level cap feels pointless. Give a way of levelling up weapons to match current level otherwise you end up just playing most of thr story with nothing whatsoever having any value and it being a rush to reach level cap.
They've had a long time to work on this, they seem to know changes needed to be made. The new movement seems like a good thing but there needs to be much more. I'd say im cautiously optimistic
"The leak" was never a leak it someone misinterpreting a rotating display based on your own collection. It was cleared up almost as quickly as the "leak" was discovered. It was comical how many news outlets picked it up without bothering to just check themselves and realise or just read one of numerous comments explaining it.
Anyway, great month. Balatro makes it so regardless, boltgun I hear is a very good boomer shooter that I'd be willing to try. Not really interested in arc, bit odd that they went with that game as the headline act of the month when it's clearly not.
@UltimateOtaku91 what makes you think EA are struggling? Layoffs don't happen because they can't afford it, it's done because it's financially prudent.
The Ea sports games franchises are amongst the most lucrative in the entire industry, they're in no way struggling.
If they cancel 2 games it's a given they'll be hefty lay offs. The industry is built in such a way that certain specific roles aren't required all the time and so keeping a fully staffed studio sitting around twiddling their thumbs for substantial periods of time when it isn't required makes zero financial sense.
There really needs to be an acceptance that this is just the norm in the industry now. Certain roles are essentially contract based in all but writing, you come on board when its time, do your role, get paid decently for it then when youre done you move on.
When studios ramp up development and hire when neccesary, nowhere near as much fanfare is made around that.
Sony would have to have been incredibly stupid to price match after the backlash. It's a very easy PR win to do literally nothing and eventually once the outrage at the price hike dies down and people are accepting of it they can do it then.
I like remedy, I'm rooting for them to do well and find that monumental seller that secures their long term future, I suspect this won't be that. Does nothing for me, id have to hear overwhelmingly postive hype for me to even contemplate giving it a go even for "free"
can only hope they've covered their backs financially by bringing it straight to subscription services it also gives them a lot of day 1 eyes so they've made a wise decision in signing those deals.
@Dan12836666 you're comparing it to gamepass which costs about 3 times as much as ps+, it's not an appropriate comparison.
You say you dont want to play old games, that's fine but what are you doing subscribing to ps+ then? They've been very clear in stating that regular day 1 games are not in their plans and the bulk of their service will be older titles.
Their model is what you don't want and you know that yet you've still decided to subscribe and then complain about it being what you dont want. The problem is entirely yours there I'm afraid.
Ps+ is objectively tremendous value, there's simply no denying that, that's factual and quantifiable. If you're Personally somehow not finding value in it, that's your issue not the services and you can simply unsubscribe.
It's like somebody who isn't a sports fan subscribing to a sports channel and then bemoaning the lack of dramas on it.
@Dan12836666 zero value? You're either a casual gamer whose only interested in the 1 or 2 big titles like a COD or you purchase every single game that you are even slightly interested in for that to have a chance if being true. And if either of those are the case then that's on you for buying a subscription service that clearly isn't meant for somebody like you.
Not one to moan about games leaving in general but theres a massive piss take here. Firstly the increasingly limited notice. These games will have been on contracts theyve known theyre due to lapse the second they signed the deal so give us some proper notice so we can at least perhaps get 1 game done before its removed.
Gta leaving once again after a short stint so they can re-add it again and take it off once more before the end of the year. Can't wait for it to be the headline addition for August...
That's a huge blow for psvr2. That's most of the vr games. Whilst i dont own a psvr, i appreacited theyre at least trying to support it and for anybody on the fence or tempted, the extra library was a draw imo.
There's zero reason why infamous should be removed unless they're doing a re-master/re-release. And why are the resistance games being removed when they've not long been added?
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Re: Nioh 3 Announced for PS5, Demo Out Now for Two Weeks
Comfortably the best announcement of the entire state of play. Delighted it gets a much deserved third game.
Re: Poll: How Would You Rate State of Play for June 2025?
Kind of meh to below par but mostly because the majority of the main stuff just wasn't for me.
They spent an eternity on that marvel fighting game at the end and I simply couldn't give a toss about it. I'm sure for people who enjoy fighting games its a big deal but i think that's a niche market.
Nioh 3 is the big one for me, nioh is the best soulslike for my money. 007 looks good too, trust IO to nail that.
Re: State of Play Confirmed for 4th June, 40+ Minutes of PS5 Games
I predict we'll see a tease of the next Horizon game. Either horizon 3 or that online monster hunter style version they're supposedly doing, whichever is in line to come first.
Other than that, they'll be an overly long dive into death stranding 2 and some ghost of yotei taking up the bulk of it. Might also see the wolverine game.
Re: Rumour: Greek God of War Game Is a 2.5D Metroidvania
Sounds good to me. When they rebranded ps+ I said back then that they should set up or acquire a couple of small teams to work on much smaller budget side projects for existing IP with the intention of bringing them to ps+ day 1, the last bit seems unlikely but the rest of it fits the description of this game perfectly. I'm very interested in this.
Re: Elden Ring Nightreign Single Player Focused PS5, PS4 Patch Out Now
@PocketHotDogs completely agree. Said as much in a separate comment. Should be all or nothing, seeking to cater to both just leads to a sub-par game for both audiences.
Re: Elden Ring Nightreign Single Player Focused PS5, PS4 Patch Out Now
I actually think this patch is a bad idea. they wanted to do a co-op game, they've balanced it for co-op so lean all in on it, make it a co-op only game and don't waiver on it by making it possibke to play solo. You're just going to end up with a game that's awkward to play solo because that isn't the intention and then you're going to end up compromising on the co-op experience to ensure that its still playable solo.
I've been a souls fan since I imported demon souls from Asia on ps3 before it even got a european release, this is the first one I've not bought, I've no interest in the co-op mode so I'll just sit this out and wait until the next proper single player souls game comes.
Re: Elden Ring Nightreign Single Player Focused PS5, PS4 Patch Out Now
@PocketHotDogs I think that was literally the point though. To do something different. They wanted to have a bash at a co-op title and that's their prerogative.
Re: Free Football Manager Game Coming to PS5, PS4 Later This Year
Hard mode in this is making Manchester united relevant again.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Essential Games for June 2025?
The two smaller additions are sound but the main headline title of yet another NBA game that nobody outside of the US is interested in ruins it completely.
Sports games should never be offered on essential, at best add them to extra alongside a handful of other titles. With annualised sports games, those interested in them, buy them on release, nobody is holding off thinking oh I'll pick up NBA 2k25 in a couple of years on the cheap when the game will be defunct and the servers closed.
Re: EA's Black Panther Game Cancelled, Studio Shut Down
The only surprise is it took this long to cancel. A terrible idea from the start.
Re: MindsEye CEO Says People Are Being Paid to 'Trash the Game' Online
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Re: PlayStation an Official Partner at Summer Game Fest
Of course they are. No chance they wasn't going to be.
Expect, death stranding 2, marathon, ghost of Yotei to do the heavy lifting for Sony. We might get a look at wolverine, the rumored god of war spin off or as an outside shout, what guerilla games are upto as a one last thing tease but the first three will be the big ones.
Re: MindsEye Really Does Look Like a Long-Lost PS3 Game
Certainly looks like a throwback to a late ps2, early ps3 style of game in the way it plays.
I suspect this won't review well critically but those that are in the market for that kind of nostalgic feel game will enjoy it a fair bit.
Screams ps+ title in 12 months time.
Re: 6 Bonus PS Plus Extra, Premium Games Confirmed for May, June 2025
Will definitely play another Crabs treasure and probably eventually try skull and bones too when I thin out the backlog.
These bonus offerings they do are more solid than most monthly refresh. Didn't we get dredge and Dave the diver last year?
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for June 2025 Announced
YAY! the annual American sports game that will be offline within 18 months anyway that I've zero interest in ever playing....
Alone in the dark is just "meh." No issue with it but feels likes a ps+ extra game that doesn't make the headline list rather than an essential offering.
Bomb rush cyberfunk seems good as the smaller indie offering.
Destiny was inevitable. Not sure who it's really for though. Maybe wrong but feeling like new players or long time lapsed players can't just jump back in at the end.
Re: PS5, PS4 Architect Mark Cerny Among the 0.1% to Platinum Indie Sensation Balatro
Whilst it's not up there with the legendary hard platinums, it's still an impressive achievement. It's more grindy than anythplatinum, as it requires a lot of favourable rng.
Got it with ps+ and am currently working my way through all the decks to gold stakes, you do start to see the limitations and design flaws in the game fairly early into the grind. The structure is very rigid, establish economy then get a source of chips, +mult, xmult with little room for anything crazy or different if you want to win on high stakes.
Re: Starfield Should Still Come to PS5 in 2025, and It'll Be in Its Best Shape Yet
Yeah, no thanks. Can honestly say i never understood the hype and people forget, before it's release this was touted as the game of the decade, not quite gta 6 as nothing compares to that but the next best after it.
Re: PS5, PC Live Service Fairgames Is a 'Super Clunky' Cross Between Fortnite and The Division
When they were announced. Concord looked miles more appealing than fairgames, that should have been a monumental alarm bell when they pulled the plug on concord.
Sonys next live service games are going to be heavily scrutinised and will have to rid themselves of the lingering stink of concord, therefore it has to be nothing short of an exceptional game, if it's not, don't even bother putting it out.
Re: PlayStation Stars Rewards Program Shutting Down, Sony Confirms
It was a free little bonus we got for doing practically nothing, you could pretty much get enough points for the £5 reward just by loading up one of the essential and extra games per month. Sad to see it being removed but can't be angry at it's closure.
Re: Another 6 PS Plus Extra Games Leave the Service in June
Highly recommend rogue legacy 2. Inscryption and avicii invector. Platinumed all 3 and can say they're 3 quality titles and the perfect extra games.
Re: Beloved Ex-PlayStation Boss Believes $70, $80 Games Are a Steal
The comparison to other entertainment isn't really a fair one. yes the cost per minute ratio is often heavily in its favour but that's not everything.
Gaming is seen as a daily thing, something done at home, it's not the same as going to the cinema or a gig or a sports event where its very much about the experience.
those are varying ranges of uncommon occurrences, if you're going to compare it to different entertainment then Netflix or other streaming services is probably the best comparison and suddenly that cost per minute ratio isn't looking so favourable.
Re: Inquiry Already Underway Over Lacklustre DOOM: The Dark Ages Opening
Gamepass. You'd have to be severely cretinous to be buying it on steam when anywhere you have access to steam, you can get gamepass too and play it from that for considerably cheaper.
Secondly is just the time. People don't have time to play everything released.
Expedition 33 and oblivion came out last week, both are huge, incredibly popular games, a lot of people play 1 game at a time and will be getting through those for the foreseeable. There's no benefit to buying a game before you're ready to play it.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for May 2025?
Only game I was genuinely interested in was humankind and then I learned it's a broken glitchy mess with an unobtainable platinum and the devs have totally abandoned it so that's a swerve. Sick of sony adding games that are broken and have been abandoned, if you're paying money to bring a game to your service you should make it a requirement that they actually work.
Re: PS5 Action RPG The First Berserker: Khazan Didn't Meet Sales Expectations, But Nexon's Oddly Unbothered
Marketing was practically non-existant for this and surrounded by games that were getting a lot of hype so it makes complete sense.
This is primed for an earlier than usual introduction to a subscription service, be that gamepass or some ps+ tier.
Re: Reminder: 22 PS Plus Games Expire on Tuesday, Replaced with One of Service's Worst Updates
@Juanalf 100% agree with you there. It's a bizarre thing to do. Some games they do it so they can reintroduce them later as new additions. It's a really ***** practice but it at least makes sense, but the resistance games make no sense whatsoever, they've not even been on there long.
Re: Reminder: 22 PS Plus Games Expire on Tuesday, Replaced with One of Service's Worst Updates
@BolkaRover Netflix have largely transitioned into producing their own stuff now but back in the day when Netflix was licensing most of its stuff, that's exactly what was happening. Some of the most popular shows were disappearing with next to no notice.
When you say ps+ premium I'm not sure what you're referring to exactly, you're comparing it to gamepass so I assume you mean predominately the extra library and not specifically the premium only benefits. Firstly, gamepass is the equivalent of £180 a year compared to £100 for extra, so there's a major caveat that's often ignored.
But yes there's no argument from me that gamepass isn't incredible value, it's brilliant for the players and should be taken advantage of because it's not financially sustainable. The constant price hikes, the change in their approach with them also bringing out tiers with day 1 stuff only going to the highest tier shows its not a profitable approach and so expecting sony to copy it is just mental. If a supermarket suddenly starts selling goods at a loss, it's not reasonable to complain that another supermarket chain isn't also selling them at a loss.
Extra should be viewed as an independent service and not in comparison to a service that's not making money, and if you do that, extra is undoubtedly brilliant value in it's own right. I have bought precisely 2 games since the pandemic yet I game basically daily because I have ps+ premium. Games are soon going to cost £70-80 a pop, if you half that or even quarter it to take into account older titles reduce in cost, you'd still only need to play a handful of games a year from the library for you to get value for your subscription. If you're not doing that, then what the hell are you doing subscribing? What i play in one solitary month is worth far more than what i pay for 12 months. The value is undeniable.
Re: Reminder: 22 PS Plus Games Expire on Tuesday, Replaced with One of Service's Worst Updates
It's like some people still haven't grasped the basic concept of a subscription service. You're not meant to play absolutely everything, in yhr same way you're not meant to watch every single thing added to Netflix, you pick what you're most interested in from a wide selection.
There isn't going to be a perpetual, ever increasing number of games available, a refresh is generally a good thing you might miss out on playing the odd gane you had your eye on but if you've not got around to by the time it leaves it's generally because there's plenty of other games that interest you more so you're not short of things to play anyway.
Ultimately we don't want sony to be spending large chunks of their library budget licensing titles for multiple years that a very small section of the customers are playing, the more refreshing there is, the more potential for appeal.
Re: Just 4% of PS5, PS4 Fans Think PS Plus Premium Represents Good Value for Money
@sanderson72 dire? Hogwarts legacy was added to the last update, the best selling game of 2 years back, alongside lost records part 2 as another day 1 release, blue prince was also added day 1, a massive critical hit and the best rated game of the year to date. this months essential tier has given us balatro, the winner of many goty awards last year. I'd love to hear what you'd categorize as a good month if that's a dire offering.
Re: Just 4% of PS5, PS4 Fans Think PS Plus Premium Represents Good Value for Money
There's a lot of either disingenuous or just thick people where premium is concerned.
Many cite the full cost when the reality is the premium content is £20 extra a year. So you're paying £1.66 a month for the premium games as well as the streaming capabilities it offers.
You can argue it not being something you want and thats fine but to say it's not good value is frankly absurd. What else could you get for £1.66 a month instead? The my name is mayo "remaster" currently costs £1.99 for comparison...
If you say its not appealing i'd fully agree but thats a vastly different statement to saying its not good value. I've got premium because I'm grandfathered in at a reduced price from the ps now days, i've probably played 2 or 3 premium games since the tiers creation, they generally dont appeal to me and if i was subbing now as a new customer id 100% go for the extra tier which is phenomenal value but it would literally cost me more to cancel and resub to just extra so I naturally leave it and will continue to do so.
Re: Helldivers 2 Dev Breaks Away from PlayStation, Next Game Will Be Self-Funded
Never made any sense to acquire them. They've got a good working partnership already, their next game even if it's entirely self-funded will be prominent on Playstation, there's no xbox competition anymore, Nintendo is it's own separate kid-orientated thing thats about to release a new console on a par with last gen consoles that helldivers 2 didnt even get released on and even if it was Sony owned it would be coming to pc anyway so what's the need to acquire them? Assuming all the risk isn't worth the extra revenue potential when they can just sit back do nothing and take a nice cut.
Re: Even More PS5 Price Increases Being Considered by Sony
Makes sense. Just make sure it's an increase restricted to the US only, let the people responsible for giving power to a complete clown pay for their error in judgement not the rest of us.
Re: Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Bombed So Hard, Warner Bros' Games Revenue Still Hasn't Recovered
And yet I bet that the people who ultimately decided what that game was going to be (a live service game they wanted to milk) are still sitting in their very cushty jobs whilst laying off people who simply followed their instructions.
Genuinely borderline criminal to tie rocksteady down to that garbage for a decade, could have had 2 possibly even 3 batman games in that timeframe and even if it was just more of the same would have been superb.
Re: 10 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for May 2025 Announced
Humankind dragging this month just above worst update to date. Thought it looked interesting when it went to gamepass, never heard about it since release so perhaps it wasn't great but I'm interested enough to give it a go.
Stalker I have a passing interest in but I think i recalling hearing they were very buggy on release, might give that a go if it runs okay. Other than that a complete swing and a miss.
A lot of people renew their subs next month, my only hope is that they've maybe held back a deal or two until next month to make a bigger splash because a repeat of this month isn't going to go down well.
Re: Another PS Plus Premium Classic Game Adds Trophies on PS5, PS4
Whilst I haven't and still won't play this. I appreciate them doing this. All ps+ premium games should get trophy support, ideally on release but always better late than never.
Re: Helldivers 2 Continues to Be Sony's Most Successful Live Service by a Mile
Now would be a good time to bring it to ps+. Fully ride the revival wave and flood the game with new players then bring out some new paid dlc off the back of it for the extra revenue.
Ps+ extra announcements are due....
Re: We Didn't Expect a Trailer for Construction Sim RoadCraft to Make Us Feel All Warm and Fuzzy
Snowrunner was phenomenal. Did not anticipate that I'd like it yet it turned into one of my favourite games and even got the elusive platinum. This looks like it's going to be even better.
May seem like a weird comparison but I get similar feelings from snowrunner as I did from death stranding, that same sense of plotting the optimal route, treading carefully and even the rebuilding side using resources is similar to the rebuilding of the roads in death stranding just minus the social aspect and minus the Kojima weird *****.
Expect this to be a sleeper hit.
Re: GTA 6 Trailer 2 Is Finally Here, PS5 Graphics Are Jaw-Dropping
Not trying to purposefully go against the grain but that did very little for me.
Re: The Hundred Line Creator Clarifies Odds of PS5 Port Are 'Very Slim' As Studio Is on the Brink of Bankruptcy
Speaking as somebody firmly on the outside looking in, surely the bulk of the work is already done and the costs of porting the game are far outweighed by potential additional sales?
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Essential Games for May 2025?
I'm happy with it but I certainly think there's an argument to be made about the value here. These are all smaller priced titles, I'd personally expect these kind of titles to come as part of a ps+ extra refresh, perhaps one of them as the third essential game but not all. there's an unwritten expectation that the essential games are the full price heavyweights.
Re: Poll: Are You Sold on Borderlands 4?
Loved 1. 2 was generational. Pre-sequel was mundane, 3 was just "meh"
The series needs a big overhaul things have moved on dramatically. Loot needs to feel worthwhile. enemies need to offer a challenge, they were either fodder not worth the effort of shooting, massive bulletsponges for the sake of it or they just 1 shot and wrecked you with almost nothing inbetween. They also need to make it so that not everything you do before reaching the level cap feels pointless. Give a way of levelling up weapons to match current level otherwise you end up just playing most of thr story with nothing whatsoever having any value and it being a rush to reach level cap.
They've had a long time to work on this, they seem to know changes needed to be made. The new movement seems like a good thing but there needs to be much more. I'd say im cautiously optimistic
Re: Poll: Vote for Your PS5 Game of the Month (April 2025)
Blue prince sitting 6th in the list is an absolute travesty. A special, unique game. Gets my vote all day.
Re: GTA 6 Delayed to 2026, Out on 26th May 2026
I'm shocked! Shocked I tell thee.
Biggest banker in gaming that this wasn't coming this year.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for May 2025 Announced
"The leak" was never a leak it someone misinterpreting a rotating display based on your own collection. It was cleared up almost as quickly as the "leak" was discovered. It was comical how many news outlets picked it up without bothering to just check themselves and realise or just read one of numerous comments explaining it.
Anyway, great month. Balatro makes it so regardless, boltgun I hear is a very good boomer shooter that I'd be willing to try. Not really interested in arc, bit odd that they went with that game as the headline act of the month when it's clearly not.
Re: EA Confirms Heavy Layoffs, Titanfall Game Cancelled
@UltimateOtaku91 what makes you think EA are struggling? Layoffs don't happen because they can't afford it, it's done because it's financially prudent.
The Ea sports games franchises are amongst the most lucrative in the entire industry, they're in no way struggling.
Re: EA Confirms Heavy Layoffs, Titanfall Game Cancelled
If they cancel 2 games it's a given they'll be hefty lay offs. The industry is built in such a way that certain specific roles aren't required all the time and so keeping a fully staffed studio sitting around twiddling their thumbs for substantial periods of time when it isn't required makes zero financial sense.
There really needs to be an acceptance that this is just the norm in the industry now. Certain roles are essentially contract based in all but writing, you come on board when its time, do your role, get paid decently for it then when youre done you move on.
When studios ramp up development and hire when neccesary, nowhere near as much fanfare is made around that.
Re: Ghost of Yotei's PS5 Price Provokes Fresh Switch 2 Fury
Sony would have to have been incredibly stupid to price match after the backlash. It's a very easy PR win to do literally nothing and eventually once the outrage at the price hike dies down and people are accepting of it they can do it then.
Re: First PS Plus Extra Game for June 2025 Confirmed
I like remedy, I'm rooting for them to do well and find that monumental seller that secures their long term future, I suspect this won't be that. Does nothing for me, id have to hear overwhelmingly postive hype for me to even contemplate giving it a go even for "free"
can only hope they've covered their backs financially by bringing it straight to subscription services it also gives them a lot of day 1 eyes so they've made a wise decision in signing those deals.
Good luck to them.
Re: Massive PS Plus Clearout Announced for May, 22 Games Leaving
@Dan12836666 you're comparing it to gamepass which costs about 3 times as much as ps+, it's not an appropriate comparison.
You say you dont want to play old games, that's fine but what are you doing subscribing to ps+ then? They've been very clear in stating that regular day 1 games are not in their plans and the bulk of their service will be older titles.
Their model is what you don't want and you know that yet you've still decided to subscribe and then complain about it being what you dont want. The problem is entirely yours there I'm afraid.
Ps+ is objectively tremendous value, there's simply no denying that, that's factual and quantifiable. If you're
Personally somehow not finding value in it, that's your issue not the services and you can simply unsubscribe.
It's like somebody who isn't a sports fan subscribing to a sports channel and then bemoaning the lack of dramas on it.
Re: Massive PS Plus Clearout Announced for May, 22 Games Leaving
@Dan12836666 zero value? You're either a casual gamer whose only interested in the 1 or 2 big titles like a COD or you purchase every single game that you are even slightly interested in for that to have a chance if being true. And if either of those are the case then that's on you for buying a subscription service that clearly isn't meant for somebody like you.
Re: Massive PS Plus Clearout Announced for May, 22 Games Leaving
Not one to moan about games leaving in general but theres a massive piss take here. Firstly the increasingly limited notice. These games will have been on contracts theyve known theyre due to lapse the second they signed the deal so give us some proper notice so we can at least perhaps get 1 game done before its removed.
Gta leaving once again after a short stint so they can re-add it again and take it off once more before the end of the year. Can't wait for it to be the headline addition for August...
That's a huge blow for psvr2. That's most of the vr games. Whilst i dont own a psvr, i appreacited theyre at least trying to support it and for anybody on the fence or tempted, the extra library was a draw imo.
There's zero reason why infamous should be removed unless they're doing a re-master/re-release. And why are the resistance games being removed when they've not long been added?
They'll be 6 games to replace these.