Foamstars Is Another PS5 Game Not Bothering with a Platinum Trophy

Honestly unacceptable to not have a platinum.

After reading about Tomb Raider being the same too, Sony need to sort their policy out.

I've already got 109 of the things. When do I get to cash these in??

1 trophy for every month the servers for this game remain open.

I don't care, and pay no attention to trophies at all. I have notifications turned off so they don't interrupt my game. If I've ever gotten a platinum, it was inadvertent.

Then I'm not bothering with Foamstars. Good luck with that.

This is an online multiplayer game. No one cares about platinum trophy tbh. For example, platinum rate for OW2 and SF6 is only 0.2%.

Awww man, too bad. Hopefully they're might be more added in subsequent seasons.

I don't understand or like the idea of not having a platinum. I get some people don't care, but some of us like to collect trophies.

Totally fine with this since I’ll be playing Helldivers 2 instead anyways. But I’m curious why any game would release without a platinum in the first place. Even if niche, trophy hunters are very much a thing. Including a platinum would have absolutely resulted with more players especially releasing on PS+

Arsed....it looks like absolute crap

Wow, even Splatoon has a--

...well...

i bet it would have one.

What a shame. Too me a plat is the 100% completion. It's how I'm done with a game and move on...on Foamstars I kinda get, since it's "free" but the Tomb Raider trilogy made 0 sense

No excuse to not have a platinum. I wasn't really interested in it anyway tbh.

Honestly this just seems like a F2P game they threw a price tag on so they can say they’re giving it away with PS Plus. Not gonna bother with it.

I only have 2 plats for online only games, those being Paladins and reaml royal.
Online plats are so hard to get that I honestly don't mind it if it doesn't have one.

Just another reason to skip this garbage. Lol

They probably ran out of credits to AI generate more than 12 trophy images.

The platinum trophy is part of what made getting into the PS ecosystem this gen so appealing. Hope this doesn't become a thing.

@Nowings not to mention you have people who put some insane amount of time into fortnite and don't have the platinum

@Areus @nowings Sad to see so much negativity for this game. Did anyone care that Genshin impact doesnt have a platinum? Nope. Apex Legends? Nuh uh. Live service games not having plats isnt new but somehow it's more agregious that Foamstars doesnt have one? Not sure why so many hate this game already.

@3Above I quite enjoy the beta and cannot understand people's negativity without actually playing the game. I can say for sure many people are commenting on something they do not know.

Any multiplayer only games I’ve attempted to play have a combination of busted or miserable trophy lists so this is probably a positive for foamstar

@3Above I don't hate the game as i have yet to play It's just you would think a game like this would have a platinum as alot of other free to play live service games have them. Also The ps5 version of Genshin impact does have a platinum

@Areus No no, wasnt implying you hated it. I'm just shocked at the amount of people you keep finding "reasons" to not like a game they havent tried yet.

Didnt know Genshin PS5 had a plat 😯 I only played it on PS4 before I dropped it. I stand corrected.

This will cause me to lose zero hours sleep as the only Platinums I have were those I got by accident just playing the game and I've turned off the notifications because I found them immersion breaking and annoying. They remind me of those little gold stars teachers used to stick on your clothes at nursery school for doing the most basic things. It just feels silly to get notifications telling me I walked 5 miles or searched 10 draws ain't nobody got time for that !

so you can buy stuff like jumping bean turbo 3 and it gives you a plat but an actual game no plat

Sony you have destroyed your own trophy system

Another reason to not play this game then

My only assumption is that the developers saw people dropping off the game way before the platinum so made it as easy as possible, without looking like a Ratalaika trophy list.

When this happens, it’s either a result or pure laziness, or total disrespect by the developer (as with Don’t Starve for example). A game this size should have a platinum trophy to go for. I don’t really play these type of games anyway, but this would put me off should I have been considering it. Not totally. It still has trophy challenges, but a much reduced number.

@Nowings

Although you're right that most people don't care, it is simply completely untrue that no one does - as evidenced by the comments!

@thefourfoldroot1 As @AFCC says it's how a lot of people decide to move on from a game they've "completed." A hard platinum in an online game is largely ignored, and an easy one invites trophy hunters that will put strain on the service at launch and immediately drop it once they pop it.

Platinums are trivial to implement, so it's clear they are happy to discourage the kinds of players that feel "disrespected" by the decision in favour of letting the game live or die on its own merits, which I think is respectable.

Kinda happy the dev didnt care to put a platinum trophy. Im kinda sick and tired of ppl saying i have blah blah blah amount of trophies yet they have nothing but ***** amounts of indie titles to their profile like click the mayo game.
I have none because i got banned by playstation like 3 times over the years. Not my fault the kids have potty mouths and the irresponsible parents dont keep them off the playstation. I had like 300 platinums one time because hacking was too fun on the ps3

All these years later and devs still don't realize that platinum trophies help push engagement. Leaving out a platinum means many people won't even bother.

@Ludacritz Engagement with whom exactly? The people who won't bother wouldn't ever have been sustained players anyway.

@RockLoi
In some ways what you say in correct is terms of long term engagement, but live service games usually live or die based on whether they have a community early on, so attracting a lot of trophy hunters at the start is not really a bad thing.

@Areus I have over 500 hours in Fortnite, almost all on PS5, and not a single trophy.😂 I have over 100 hours on Disney Speedstorm and have every trophy, and I’m happy that there is no platinum trophy b/c I don’t think a free to play should have one, and I think it’s pretty easy to see what this game is. I don’t think every game needs a platinum, and if people are saying they won’t play this b/c it doesn’t have one, well that’s kind of my point.🤷🏻‍♂️

@thefourfoldroot1 But I don't think a community built on people that are playing for reasons other than the game is one worth celebrating. Games with big drop-off don't do well either, and it'll certainly be reported on negatively. Let alone the strain I mentioned earlier, it's not unheard of for games to scale up their servers to facilitate a player base that doesn't stick around - that's a financial loss no matter which way you slice it.

@Nepp67 accept it does, when achievements themselves are a part of the game. Platinum trophies are a part of the eco system of that platform. It's basically omitting a feature.

The fact you think that way means you don't making trophies part of your experience, but to me it's like removing a side quest.

Good an online game with platinum trophies are dumb

@Nepp67 False. It's not just cosmetic. Conditions within the game trigger the trophy, conditions decided upon by the developer. Ergo, it impacts how the game is played. A player in question who works for those conditions, especially when several other conditions are supplied for other trophies as mandated by the service it's running on, makes this an omission. Thus the player will play the game differently. Likely focusing only on a handful of objectives here and there without paying any mind to the others. For playstation this is pretty serious as acquiring 100% provides recognition for that achievement and by extension increases your PSN level and PSN Platinum Trophy count.

You may not value trophies, but that has no barring on the facts above. Like it or not its a feature, it impacts game play, it takes away something that has become standard as part of the PlayStation experience.

As far as you calling me genuinely childish for not buying something becuase of it. That has to be the most obsurd bit of copium I've heard in this decade. I can choose the parameters by which I decide a product is worth it to me. If I decide a company is not living up to my expectations for a product and thus conversely decide not to buy it or play it based on that criteria, then that is a pretty adult and non-childish thing to do to not waste my time with it. I'd even argue that your level of outrage over the matter, enough to call someone childish over it, is the only genuinely childish thing happening here. So quit being a child and getting upset because I don't agree with you and won't buy this game because of my own personal priorities.

@NotSoCryptic And yet not every game benefits from every feature. Nobody makes an entire game and then can't "be bothered" to click a magic button that brings in players.

They probably just don't think players like you will add to the health of the community.

The funniest thing about the lack of a Tomb Raider Trilogy plat is that my first 3 platinum trophies were for the HD Tomb Raider Collection (Legends, Underworld, Anniversary)

People who care about trophies should be gently euthanised.

@Nepp67 You are apparently. I'm not upset. You keep conflating things to being "upset". This is literally what I said:

"Then I'm not bothering with Foamstars. Good luck with that."

I explained my position, it doesn't meet my standards for a title I'll buy. Then you got all butt hurt and decided to make it about feelings.

@RockLoi Not sure what your point is with invite systems, but the at irretation is enough for me to not get the game if it does not implement that. Especially if the game has a bad system for invites to begin with. Monster Hunter Rise being a good example of such a case where the invite system is so convoluted that just using the PSN system would have made sense. I understand the need for cross play functionality making it a little complicated like on Tekken 8, but even tekken 8 lets me send invites and get drawn directly into the session upon recieving them.

They are entitled to their opinion about the health of their community, but lets be fair here, any company taking that position just doesn't like money and just killing their community anyway by reducing its size. To that, good luck to them.

@NotSoCryptic Invite systems? Platinum trophies are the magic button I'm talking about obviously. They're not something that takes effort to implement, especially when you already have trophies, and they don't change gameplay because it just pops alongside your last trophy.

My suggestion is that trophy hunters will only cost them money, by straining their servers and bailing the moment they pop. That doesn't help at all. Your absence is a net benefit.

@RockLoi
lol no you didn't.