May PS+ Essential Monthly Games:

  • Ark: Survival Ascended
  • Balatro
  • Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
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    5 days ago

    From Wikipedia, Ark: Survival Ascended is a remaster of the 2015 game Ark: Survival Evolved. It has been in early access since 2023.

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      5 days ago

      Ah, so a new old game that has and hasn’t been free before. Great value. I’m sure but fans are happy.

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        4 days ago

        I am sure fans have already played it. I am personally not a fan of these games, but wouldn’t mind giving it a try for an hour or so to see what I am missing, who knows, maybe I end up liking it.

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          4 days ago

          Like so many other ps+ games. I find I’m rarely wrong and don’t enjoy the ones I expect not to.

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            Heh, I agree with you, but there are some genre and franchises I have stayed away from, so it’s sometimes a good way to try them without spending money. At worst, you have confirmation that it’s not for you and can ignore them without any worries in the future, and sometimes your are pleasantly surprised.

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              4 days ago

              Yes, I do dip my toes too. Sometimes even if it’s not for me, it’s good to see if I like the genre as a another game that interests me in that genre might or might not be worth it.

              I actually upgraded to deluxe before the price rise as one game on it I planned to purchase and the cost was the same. The trials are a nice idea but a bit of a waste. An hour in a game these days is mainly tutorial.

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                4 days ago

                I went the opposite way, started with Premium, then downgraded to Extra, and when the price increased, downgraded to Essential.

                With how much I play, Extra doesn’t seem like worth it anymore. Essential is still good cause I have a previous backlog, and get enough games throughout the year that keeps it worth the price. Not to mention occasionally want to play a multi-player game and it requires PS+.

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                  4 days ago

                  I play street fighter 6 daily. I only subscribe to ps+ for online play for it. If I didn’t have a game I wanted in deluxe, I would have stayed on essential. I only upgraded as the price was equivalent and I figured I’d get some other games in the meantime. I’ll go back to essential once the prepayment is finished.

                  I’ll never buy another console. Ridiculous to have such a high ongoing cost for online play of a game I paid a premium for. A lot of the games I supposedly own while continuing to subscribe have disappeared, which makes the value proposition even worse.

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                    4 days ago

                    Yeah, makes sense, if there are a few games in higher tier that you want, then upgrading makes sense.

                    I grew up playing on a weak PC, so had half of the games won’t even run on it, and this apparently left some psychological scars 😀 . I like consoles, cause you buy one box, and for next 7 or so years, you can play everything that gets released (on the platform). No worrying if your system can run it or not, not feeling left out cause you can only run it on Medium with shadows at low, no fiddling with drivers and so on.

                    So, I’ll probably stick with consoles, unless Steam releases a nice Steam box, which works like console (like Steam Deck, but home-console type). Not sure if that will make me switch too, but that is when I would really have to think what I should do.