PS Plus' Deep Rock Galactic Has So Much Day One PS5, PS4 DLC

This isn't surprising or new. A common trend with day 1 PS Plus titles is that they usually have some kind of DLC to take advantage of all those who are getting the base game for free. First Class Trouble, Worms Rumble, Destruction All Stars, Hunter's Arena Legends, Fall Guys, etc all followed this trend

a 'complete editon' is what makes more sense for gamers but obviously not business wise, they want to squeeze as many pennies out of all their saps. the game isn't for me so don't much care

I don’t mind this at all to be fair. I’m happy buying DLC or upgrades etc if I’m into the game and getting it free on plus is a sure way to do that.

Ps plus, where they give you half the game for free.

This one is at least understandable as were still getting the full experience unlike Godfall.

The difference between this and godfall is that this is a good game 😂😂😂 (also as you said the dlc is space is cosmetic in fall the dlc was thr campaign, yikes)

@ATaco Might want to actually read the article. You get the full game. The DLC is mostly cosmetic stuff you don't actually need.

As for this, I'm fine with it. If you get the full game for free and then pay for the DLC if you want it, then it's all good. Similar things happen on Game Pass, like with Forza Horizon 4 and 5 giving you the option to buy the DLC in a bundle while giving you the game itself for "free". You are still getting the full game here too. DLC is not the game. It's extra, most of the time.

Pretty standard really. I've long noticed games released on PSPlus have 'coincidently' got DLC available at a discounted price. I'm surprised it's taken this long for PS to realise.

You act as though this is PS+ exclusive. This DLC is true for anyone buying the title. It's just the way they're doing their post-launch DLC. This is not new to gaming (sadly) nor PS+ titles, specifically. It's a game selling cosmetics. Move along.

Looking forward to the day when all PS+ games are basically just demos.🤑

Maybe that's their merger plan:

PS+ you get the demo
PS Now you get the rest of the game

Does this version include the same stuff as you get on Xbox Gamepass? If so then I've been playing that version on and off for years and never once considered the dlc as it all looked cosmetic, and you get plenty of that for free.

Hopefully it is the same version as nobody wants a demo masquerading as a full game.

The DLCs are all purely cosmetic. You get the full game from PS Plus.

@KilloWertz Is cool that you're willing to settle and I don't think it's wrong but I don't want to. Call me entitled, call me greedy, I don't really care. PS plus games just feel like when you download a F2P game and find that there are a bunch of microtransactions in it. This one even has one of those "lovely" progression booster packs.

So from now on you literally can't use a feature (choosing what you look like) in any games in psplus?

New armour used to be a reward for completing stuff in game. Like Miles Morales for example. Just imagine if that needs an extra £15 to swap suits.

@ATaco not even close. You're just negative and, like you said, entitled.

Cosmetic stuff: I don't care

Game mechanics and story: give us everything you've got at release, or f*ck off and make way for a full game.

Simples

Sounds like the game should be free to play to begin with and not part of a paid subscription. Shows how conditioned people have become by how many just accept this as the norm now. I wouldn't be surprised if Sony didn't pay anything to include it with this month's games, simply offering exposure instead.

Hmm.. I can download only Persona Strikers atm.. not showing this game, nor Dirt 5. Croatia

Its not a free download either you pay a subscription for PS Plus so theres no "Free" part

@naruball by all means, settle. I hear Nintendo fans have quite the compelling service with their online subscription. I'm sure that's one we'd like to see emulated, instead of companies competing with each other offering their customers more.

None of these games are free, as people like to put it. You're not getting them for nothing. You're paying for a subscription, which Sony casually raises the price of every so often. People like you will ensure that NFTs will be a huge success.

@RIGGOR_MORTIS save your breath, these sheeple will never wake up. They conveniently forget they need to pay for internet to download the games, and electricity to power the console, etc.

@ATaco But the vast majority of games you get on the service are just fine and the service still provides plenty of value with some nice free games. Whether you can upgrade a game or not is one thing, but when it has DLC that is just DLC and not something just set aside from the PS Plus version, that is another. Yes, Godfall last month was a joke, but the stuff for Deep Rock Galactic is cosmetic stuff that nobody needs.

It's amazing that this is such a big deal when you get the actual game for free with nothing that means anything being held back. This is not supporting NFTs, especially if all you're doing is downloading the game and ignoring the cosmetic DLC. This DLC for Deep Rock Galactic has been separate from the base game on all platforms, not just PlayStation and PS Plus. Oh, and guess what? It's COSMETIC DLC that means nothing.

Yes, these games are essentially free. There may be some people that pay for it only for the games, but you need it to game online and for the cloud game saves, so a decent amount of people are getting the games literally as a bonus. Also, Sony has raised the price of PS Plus once over 5 years ago. That's it.

@Milktastrophe Yes, we're sheep because we consider games that Sony doesn't have to give away every month free on a service a lot of people are paying for because they have to in order to game online and use the cloud storage, not just because of the games.

Say what you want about some of the things Sony has done since the PS5 launched, but it's kind of funny that PS Plus is now getting criticized after something that is meaningless is getting completely blown out of proportion (a game's cosmetic DLC is not included for free when you have to pay for it on other platforms anyways).

so far, the game is surprisingly good. i cant "join" other players, maybe their servers are too crowded, i dunno. but i was playing solo and its fun. a little bot is given to you to help you dig and fight if you play solo. its a little bit like minecraft in the fact you dig, yes, but only whats necessary. digging thru any old wall will just have u go on and on. you have to follow the rules. brown dirt walls are where u are supposed to dig thru to the next cave chamber. pretty simple. if you waste a lot of time, swarms of monsters/aliens/bugs will come after you that you can fight off.

if you like minecraft, or terraria, or older games like todd's adventure in slime world.. you should like this. you get 4 classes of dwarf to pick from, each with their own unique weapons and tools. leveling up IS slow, however. the "dlc" so far is just cosmetic crap i'll never buy. the game isnt hindered in any way if you dont buy any "dlc" and u arent bothered or nagged TO buy anything.

i bet co op with 4 ppl total will be fun. the menu system is slightly over whelming at first but i got used to it in an hour. i mean the various computers at your spaceship base where u buy or upgrade stuff (the space base is like borderlands 3, big confusing ship to run around). it pays to explore caves and get every last bit of ore or go for the bonus objective, like taking out a buncha enemies. its a good time waster game if you've got nothing else to do and have 30-60 mins to blow thru a cave. some caves are huge, some are small. one cave looked like graphics from No Mans Sky. another cave had enemies that reminded me of Metroid and had a weird metroid-ish vibe, i liked it. the music, at least some of it, has a brooding low tone very reminiscent of john carpenter music. has a good ominous 80s-ish synth thing goin on with some of the music.

i like it. i can see room to expand in a part 2. i can see base building and vehicle driving mini-driller machines to go even deeper.

@KilloWertz you seem to have missed the tongue-in-cheek quote/unquote examples I gave of what makes the PS+ games not "free".

@KilloWertz The service is only as good as it is because people are willing to raise a stink. What does it hurt you if I want to continuously be offered more and more things with my subscription? Will Sony suddenly decide they don't want any money and pull the service for us being so ungrateful. I never understood this "be quiet and be grateful" mentality we seem to have been conditioned to have growing up. What do I care about Sony's bottom line? I'm paying for a subscription, I'm seeing Microsoft's offerings and I want more of that. I'm seeing Nintendo's offerings and I want less of that. I'm a consumer, not an investor in Sony stock. I don't care if they pull a profit, I care if the things I'm being offered continuously remain competitive. I want the best deals. I'm a consumer.

I guess I'm just old for being someone that remembered when cosmetics were bonus unlockables for difficult achievements in a game, instead of a worthless thing anymore could just pay to get.

@GalacticBreakdown I like how you have to praise how mature you are throughout both of your comments. Really speaks to your maturity there.

Anyway, as to your points, I'm not calling the cosmetics worthless, at least they weren't back then. I never once said they were anywhere in my comment. I'm upset that cosmetics used to be an additional reward in a game. An achievement for collecting all the collectibles, a testament to your prowess. Cosmetics in multiplayer especially used to have a "damn, that dude cleared the hardest difficulties of this game etc" in other words they showed skill, they earned those cosmetics. Now anyone can buy them. My point is that they shouldn't even be a separate transaction, they should already be in the game...as unlockables that require some skill or dedication to obtain...as they used to be.Admittedly I did ramble off my main point but complaining about how ps plus could be better forced me to dredge up the ancient arguments about microtransactions in general, so if the tangent upset you then I do apologize for that.

And before anyone tries to further rip up the NFT comment I made, I'll pose a scenario to you. You hate NFTs now, you're sure you won't support any game that has them...and then Ubisoft announces their actual plans for NFTs and they use the magic words that validate everything for some people..."they're completely optional". Suddenly everyone is going to be completely ok with NFTs polluting their games.

So it's been with microtransactions, season passes, battle passes...history repeats and the consumer loses again.

@get2sammyb - What direction are they heading in exactly, giving games that have DLC? I didn't see this type of article about Mortal Kombat X or Conan Exiles when they came to Plus yet they're 'free' games with a boatload of DLC.

I normally don't commend on games at all. But I have to defend this game for its DLCs (Sorry for my bad english in advance). I play this game on the PC and the PS5 Version has everything in it, what the PC version has. These DLCs are just a few skins, that you can get. Its a small Indie team that just tries to secure funds to keep existing. They are Supporting the game active and release new content all the time for free. Last update, I believe in November we got new missions, new gear and new enemies all for free. You can unlock tons of gear, skins and weapons for each of the 4 classes, while you play for free without alot of grind. The longer you play, the cooler the stuff gets. My PC Character looks better than any of the DLC stuff. This game is really good and I really stand behind this team as a player. Half of you haven't even played the game properly to bad mouth it atm. I know that "DLC" is giving a bad taste in our mouths. I come from a time long ago, where you could still unlock everything... But that era has died. Alot of you play games like Assassins Creed. Those are not free and have way more DLC... Please try Deep Rock Galactic! You are maybe missing a little gem in the gaming community. Rock and Stone to all of you <3

@GalacticBreakdown cool thanks, that's all I ask. To be allowed to be upset. People act like I'm insulting their mother, like I'm not allowed to be upset. Don't worry, this doesn't dominate my life, I come here and crap on things that I don't like about the industry and then I go off and play games that do things right. Indies are a blessing in this day and age.

Have fun with your game and your subscription though, I know my opinions are no longer the norm so I'm used to people not "understanding" them. If you ever reach a point where you feel the limit was crossed and yet everyone still seems happy though, maybe you'll remember me. Cheers!

It's cosmetic only DLC for Deep rock, I have clocked over 100 hours in the Steam version and trust me, unless you want to support the developers the DLC is irrelevant

Guys... This is the full game for free. The devs don't have a paid subscription service. They continue to expand the game without crap like premium currencies. Each game sale is the only thing they get except, and PS Plus is giving that base game away for free.

The PC side has had these DLCs for ages at major themed updates the last few years, and they're basically tip jars to help the devs to keep working on their games. You don't have to pay them if you don't want to, but the game will continue to get new features and expansions no matter what.

Even without the DLC, the devs still add to the cosmetics anyway, so there's the customization remains very rich.

I feel this article was written somewhat unfairly. This is a small indie team and they've been hard at work on a game that's fun and incredibly generous with creativity.

For the folks that decide to hop on, i hope you find something genuinely amazing here. The community has been super laid back, with a high degree of camaraderie. The game is very fun with a lot of depth. Rock and Stone, miners!

@ATaco I'm not paying a thousand dollars per year for the service, so I adjust my expectations accordingly, unlike people like you, who remain negative and sad because you're never satisfied with what you have.

@Old-Red "Sounds like the game should be free to play to begin with and not part of a paid subscription. Shows how conditioned people have become by how many just accept this as the norm now."

Gotta love the irony.
"Give me free things just cuz!!!"