Topic: PlayStation Plus | OT |

FYI: it’s live in Europe now, I just upgraded

Edit: I tried the PS3 streaming (10 minutes of Ratchet & Clank) and it actually works very well!
Not all games seem to be available though, I couldn’t find InFamous 1 & 2 🤨
Edit2: looks like the store might need some work because InFamous 2 doesn’t appear on the “all games” or “classics” list but is accessible via search. Weird.

Upgraded aswell. But there seems to be no indication of how long each game Will be available.

Kinda stupid oversight
On Sony's part. Wanna get GOT but being a big game i don't know if i should get it since i don't how long i Will be able to play it.

@jdv95 Red Dead 2 does have an “offer ends 20/09/2022” annotation. So I guess the other games don’t have a set deadline at the moment?
Also: I’d expect 1st party games to be there indefinitely.

@Voltan tnx mate!

@jdv95 here's all the known expirations
https://www.countdownplusevents.com/users/playstationnow

yes hoping the 1st party games stay on there indefinitely they used to get removed after 90 days on psnow

Saw a game which came up initially as purchasable as opposed to free on the Premium list earlier and heard of some small bugs elsewhere. PS must be super busy squashing those before they make any future announcements.

Also; heads up, PlayStation have announced the majority of Classic games will have NTSC options.

there is a add for the new plus from playstation. guess they waited untill it was out everywhere.

After upgrading through the app failed 2 times this morning i managed to upgrade on the console itself. Decided to go for the Premium option since especially in the Ps3 part there are a lot of games i have yet to try/play. I will take my time the coming week to go through all list and adding the games to my library, that way ill have some sort of play later list. Couldn't find an option for the streaming part, so have to manually make a list of those which i want to play. I noticed when i make a list of games to play next i tend to finish more games and it gives me a better overview of what games i am going to play next.

@Lavalera I should probably do that too, because there's a lot

No Evil Genius 2 for us lot which is sad to see, especially as it’s used to advertise Strategy games within the service.

Also - anyone else struggling with Project Cars 3? Want to download but it’s giving me the usual store price even though it’s on the Extra list.

@RogerRoger Good to hear that it's a fairly solid experience and it's interesting to see some screenshots of this game. It's not one I played when I owned a PS1 so have no nostalgia for it whatsoever and not looking at it through rose-tinted glasses it looks dull and uninspiring but how is it to play?

@RogerRoger Thanks for the info, it sounds like I really need to see for myself whether I'd get on with it. It's great that these games are getting a second lease of life though, especially as a lot of people won't have the kit to play the originals anymore. I can't even remember what I did with my PS1 but have a feeling I left it at my parents place and eventually they got rid of it along with anything else that looked abandoned 😂

@Lavalera if you start streaming the game, it'll download a shortcut to launch the game, so you can use that as a sort of adding it to your library action.

@itsfoz Project Cars 2 & 3 have already been removed from PS+. I believe it was even before the new PS+ launched in US. Evil Genius 2 was removed in US too. There was no warning, it just vanished a few days ago.

@RogerRoger Thanks ever so much for the offer. I'm actually on the premium subscription but it's more for the second reason you mention that I usually don't boot a game these days. It still grates on me how my trophy list is full of entries where I didn't bother playing much after just one or two trophies popped, even worse that time when my wife was going through PS Now a few years ago and played things like Disney Epic Mickey 2 😅.

I'll take my changes at some point and see if I get on with any of these classics. I know for sure that the kids will want to play Ape Escape.

Thanks @RogerRoger, I'll make sure I've evaluated it thoroughly before that point 😀

Cost me little over £5 to upgrade to extra for the next 55 days. If I can complete Ghost of Tsushima in that time I will class it as money well spent. Anything else is a bonus.

@sorteddan About 6 quid for me until the end of August. I will wait until at least pay day next week to take the plunge.

@JohnnyShoulder
Looking at the catalogue currently available it may make sense for me to go for an extra year or six months as there were more games that I'd like to give a go than I was expecting. For example Death Stranding, Demons Souls (maybe), Dark Pictures games and some more I can remember right now. If there is enough that I would save money by subscribing rather than paying for seperately then I can kind of see the sense. Although I've always preferred physical ownership and the option to part exchange... So still don't know really.

Guess I'll decide in around 54 days...

@sorteddan Yeah I keep flip flopping on whether to stay subbed in the long term.

On of my annoyances with PS Now was not being able to take advantage of free upgrades to the PS5 versions of some games.

Looking at the list of games it looks like most games have both the PS4 and 5 versions available, so hopefully that will continue.