Deep Rock Galactic is one of the better service games on the market, with its unique blend of procedurally generated mining missions combined with intense cooperative FPS gameplay, making it a must-play. Much of the IP's newfound popularity has to do with the title launching (on PlayStation, anyway) as a PS Plus title.
That's according to Ghost Ship Games CEO Soren Lundgaard (thanks, Retbit), who stated during Embracer Group's most recent earnings call that, with Deep Rock Galactic, "we broke all our records on player numbers and revenue" with the release of Season 1, and that "it surpassed our 1.0 release [on PC] and paved the way for where we are today with Deep Rock."
Deep Rock Galactic featured as one of January 2022's PS Plus titles, extracting six million new miners in the first few weeks alone, many of whom were happy to spend their hard-earned coin on the title's manifold DLC offerings.
Did you dive into Deep Rock Galactic after it was featured on PS Plus, or are you a grizzled veteran of the deepest, darkest places? Keep on digging until you hit the comments section below.
[source retbit.com, via playstationlifestyle.net]
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Wont be surprised if its the same with Rocket League
And herein lies the fundamental flaw with Suicide Squad, Avengers, etc. No one wants to spend money on a game they’ve already paid £60+ quid for.
Such a great game put in 100 hours at launch need a reason to go back tho would love it if they made it available for the psvr2 🙌🏻
Played it a ton when it came out and as a way of saying thanks to dev's bought all the dlc.
@HUMPERDOO got to disagree with you there look at games like destiny or elder scroll online they both were full price games have yearly dlc and contain microtransactions. Yet they have both been going for years, it's shows people are willing to spend money if the game is of a good enough quality at launch or improves itself rather quickly in destiny's case.
Deep Rock Galactic didn't have any big names attached to it and it didn't come from especially notable devs, not a dev that casuals would know anyways. I don't think people would have given the game a shot if it wasn't on plus. I mean just looking at it the game doesn't really seem anything special but actually playing it is great fun. I, in particular, like that you can fully play the game solo so I don't have to set my gaming schedule around when other people can play.
It's a fine game, but needed little bit more content back then. Not sure how it is now.
@HUMPERDOO tell that to FUT players.
Reality is it looks like a million other games, and it's unattractive to the masses. Who in their right mind wants to spend £60+ on a game that does very little to set itself apart from the other 100+ games that look the same as it and are also as unappealing and samey as Suicide Squad plays.
Yeah of course because without playstation it would of suffered massively 🙄.
Doesn't matter that it was kicking ass on pc for years and was in early access on Xbox for years and game pass for years. Playstation might have brought more eyes to it but it was doing quite well before Sony remembered indie games existed because they can't make anything other than open world collectable games and vr.
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@iero before Sony remembered indie games existed? Lmfao, what rock (no pun intended) have you been living under 🤣. DRG has been a dud even with PlayStation's support, and using Gamepass for any metric is utterly hilarious 😂. Even Microsoft doesn't take GP seriously, everytime they use it to brag it's only about a failing game! Gears 5, biggest launch in history, utter flop. Sea of thieves, 22+ million players! At any given time you could log in from launch and hardly find anyone to play with. FH5... Yawn. DOA. Halo Infinite 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 let's not even with that collosal trainwreck. I can't wait to see what they say about the day 1 multiplatform pronoun-field. As for early access, nobody with a brain supports it or cares about it in any capacity. Be mad all you want at these facts, but that's what they are; facts.
@Ben7982 Neither one of those games are good though, that's the problem. The only reason they're continuing despite Bungies highly anti-consumer business practices with the Destiny franchise and Bethesdas utter lack of ability to craft a decent game, are the naive and blind Bungie and Bethesda fanbases. It's like the R* fanbase, they've never actually played a good game so they don't know any better.
@RobynAlecksys while I do see you point and there is definitely issues with both the games I mentioned there still must be something fundamentally good/enjoyable that keeps people coming back otherwise these games would lose all but it's harcore fanbase which wouldn't be enough to keep it supported/well funded.
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