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Do Sony really not provide times?
Should I stay up past midnight for the change of the date? Wake up early? Wait until some arbitrary time of the day?

Sony sent it out to die, true. However up until the reactions to the trailer and then beta tests I think they'd have said the same as they're saying about Fairgames now.
Both games will no doubt have big budgets and high production values as well as serviceable gameplay but that certainly wasn't enough to help Concord with it's pricing model and character designs.
The cringey tone of that first Fairgames trailer doesn't inspire confidence...

Both Star Wars and this are on my 'I'll get them eventually' list.
My plan might have changed if either got like 10s across the board but that hasn't happened.

That's a shame, I like BRs and Crysis multiplayer was fun.

That's a shame, been looking forward to trying this out since it was first shown off, it looked better than Genshin Impact to me.

You can wishlist or follow the game on PSN it seems but no preregistering, so this number should be just mobile and no PS whatsoever.

They aren't wrong. Tons of games to play anyway, but that doesn't make the lack of even any announcements or reveals for whatever all their studios are working on any better.

Shame this isn’t a retroactive change, there are at least a few BP skins I missed out on and would buy if given the chance.

XBox seems to have been buying up all the FPS IP they can.
Sony has tried and failed at making any truly successful FPS games and Bungie has made some of the best.
It made sense to buy them, what was weird was the 'we bought them but they're still independent' situation. Which maybe they were counting on not working out so they would own them properly?
IMO Bungie alongside Infinity Ward/Respawn make the best feeling FPS games ever.

I'd have answered: No, because it's not F2P and I'm not paying for a PS+ sub just to give it a go.
I'd definitely have given it a shot if I could do so for free however. Still think the character designs are awful but I liked Destiny and Halo so maybe it plays really well.

So no way to try the game without ps+?

It does feel weird for a DLC to be considered for Game of the Year but Shadow of the Erdtree is a bit of a special case considering it's larger than most full games.

Could have been a good action game or a good JRPG instead it didn't succeed at being either.
It's more disappointing for how promising parts of it are.

I was kinda hoping this would come out with the Switch 2 as a launch game... Like with Octopath 2 I like playing JRPGs like this portably for like grinding or playing mini games (DQ casino) but that game ran and looked better on PS5 so it was an annoying choice. Assume it'll be the same this time. No idea how Nintendo will be handling back compat and I could see Square Enix releasing a new edition rather than a patch.

Square Enix are always delusional. The collector's edition is £190 and the main thing there to justify that price is a set of acrylic stands.

It doesn't matter to me that much really but I am curious as to why a lot of F2P games I've played have trophies but no platinum. I'd assumed all of them didn't due to Sony making some rule but there are some free games that do?

Funniest part for me was the hero shooter XBox showed off (FragPunk) actually looked fun. Compared to Concord I preferred the character designs and the card abilities that are like cheat codes looked unique and pretty cool.
Not sure if it’s coming to PS5 though.

I'd be more into the Hero Shooter aspect if I liked the look of the heroes more. Overwatch is on another level in that aspect. The thing I have the most issue with is that it's not F2P.

Still kinda expecting this to be free with PS+
If not, well, good luck competing in an already difficult space full of F2P games.
Also battlepasses and such only feel justifiable in F2P games, I assume this will have one?

I bet it's 'free' with PS+. Like Foamstars. I expect this game will do just as well...

I want to see if Sony will release a F2P game that doesn't require PS+, if they want to compete with all the others that don't.

Unlike other F2P games where you have basically nothing to unlock unless you purchase a battlepass this game provides challenges to unlock weapons, grenades and character skins as well as a new faction. Plus a weapon on the battlepass you unlock for free. Then using the weapons to unlock attachments. It's been nice actually having something to work towards.
Plus the game has been fun so far and is a nice change of pace. The Finals was interesting but didn't have much staying power, this feels more promising so far.

I'm surprised it hasn't dropped considering the most played games are F2P and don't require a sub.

Rebirth is way, way better than 16 so that's disappointing.

I played enough of the demo to decide that I wanted to buy it, there was no need to beat it.

No system seller level game for it yet.

Yeah seriously, you listen to the podcast and think Phil said one thing then listen again and nope. He didn't actually confirm Starfield and Indiana Jones aren't ever going multiplat, just that they weren't two of the four games they're currently planning to put on PS and Switch.
On a case by case basis is the best we'll probably hear as they've said before. Guess they have to be a year old to be considered so unlikely to be day and date and if they're a live service or small game it increases the odds.

Their 'Play Anywhere' slogans and marketing talk always bugged me since you couldn't actually play their games anywhere and Microsoft were actively taking away multiplatform games by buying up studios but hey it looks like they meant it.

Wow, what a terrible idea. Unless they're going completely F2P lol?

I assume this is a live-service game with a battlepass ect, shouldn't it just be F2P to get the most amount of people possible playing it even after a month?
Even Rocket League, which popularized the whole getting super-big with PS+ thing has gone properly F2P.

Final Fantasy is the only one I want to pick up day 1 full price.
Granblue Fantasy, Dragon's Dogma 2 and Rise of the Ronin all look interesting but I'll wait on reviews and until I'm done with FF.
The new Yakuza game looks really good but the last one is still on my backlog.

You know what would make PS+ better? If Sony provided a basic tier with just online multiplayer and cloud storage, and made it cheaper.

Maybe they're trying to lose subscribers? Terrible month + price increase announcement lol.

I'd love a proper article explaining why it is/isn't a scam for us to have to pay to play online (With no lower tier option without the 'free' monthly games).
Are you playing on PC? No charge. PS3? No charge. Playing F2P games? No charge.
We using dedicated servers or Peer to Peer? Is it Sony's servers we're even playing on? Nope, other publishers. Are the other publishers getting any of this money for maintenance or whatever?
They're making a hell of a lot of money from it that's for sure, if a customer has no interest in the free games how is that price justified?
And yet if I want to continue playing Street Fighter 6 online I have to pay.

This sounds so much more appealing than Starfield's 1000 planets.

There isn't a dedicated video game store where I live and Tesco is the closest place I could go to pick a game up in person. That said, I usually order things online to be delivered. Are they stopping selling games online as well?

Playing in graphics mode and well past where this is meant to be happening, had no issue. Maybe they've never cleaned their PS5 and it's full of dust?

1 year timed exclusivity is far better than permanent exclusivity. Also there's no reason Microsoft couldn't also try to get timed exclusivity on all of these by bidding more than Sony.
I wonder what percentage of Skyrim sales were from Playstation, which they'll now be missing out on with Starfield.

Really like how Ubisoft do these, you hear from the devs so it's not just trailer after trailer for way too long... The gameplay trailers and even breakdowns at the end were great.
Bummed that the China Assassin's Creed is a mobile game still but apart from that it was a really solid lineup and show. Better than Sony's that's for sure...

I felt like I'd seen too much of the game back when they had a trailer showing the locations in the world. Been avoiding all the trailers since.

It makes sense to me that Sony would want something at Summer Games Fest. Remember last year's Game Awards when Xbox provided absolutely nothing and got ridiculed by the internet for it?

There was some good stuff in there for sure but well, CGI teaser trailers that provided little information and very few release dates didn't help. Even reasonable expectations like TLoU were not met.
Imagine how much bigger the reaction to the Metal Gear Solid trailer could have been had it not leaked. Or that weird portable hardware.

Releasing Forspoken, FFXVI and FFVII Part 2 all in the same year makes no sense to me...

Gotta love how the trailers we got were so obtuse that I didn't even realise concord was a PVP-only game until now... : (
I'd picked up on Fairgames and Marathon being multiplayer only but somehow missed that one was too.
So few release dates as well, not even a specific one for Spiderman.

This one looks cool but since it's a sort of unknown quantity I'll be checking out reviews and not preordering it.

Is the versus mode offline only or online too?

Been wanting to preorder it from Shopto for a while but weirdly they still don't seem to have it listed

More interested in this than I thought I'd be. Have to see how much fun it is to actually play of course but since it's free I will absolutely give it a shot.
After playing battle royale modes so much, there is actually kind of a gap this could fill. CoD's standard multiplayer isn't F2P and Apex added it late and doesn't have many maps. Fortnite isn't 1st Person.
The name XDefiant kinda sucks but I do like the IP they're pulling from and a variety of settings for the maps sounds good.

I was waiting to see if the text had more options and this is exactly what I wanted.
Considering how quickly the physical editions ran out I'm really hoping they restock them... Or just y'know, not do a limited run of the normal edition?

Don't see the need for it at all. Developers have barely started making current gen-only games let alone hitting any sort of limits. The PS4 Pro was because 4K TVs were being widely adopted, there's nothing like that this time either.

What we do need is a new Nintendo Switch...