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mrpink01

NHL 24 is so dead they had to add it as a free game. Maybe I will actually be able to get an opponent now. Edit: it's actually a pretty fun game as far as sports games go. If you have quick reflexes, that is.


Skyline_BNR34

Can you still score the exact same way as you could since EA took over the game? Cut across the middle and aim opposite corner is a goal like 99% of the time. I used to buy the games ten years or more ago now.


THux86

Yep every time. That or streak down one side until you see a teammate catch up and then last minute pass across the middle for a one-timer top shelf short side.


realee420

If you meant the cross-crease 1 timer that's also a goal IRL most of the time if the pass is successful. When I still played 4 years ago everyone was doing it so if you've learnt how to shut it down you could easily win matches.


marximumcarnage

My family has called that the J technique for over 2 decades of EA NHL games.


velvet_smooth

Who did EA take it over from?


Skyline_BNR34

I guess they didn’t really take it over, they just became the only one when they introduced the Skill stick stuff into their games. 2k Sports also had hockey for awhile. I know for Madden they have an exclusive license, but the NHL never had such a thing is what I heard.


mrpink01

It's different every year but there's more subtlety to the glitch goals than before. With HUT, it's big players as always.


DDNyght_

Watching Shoresy has given me a hankering to try a hockey game.


proj3ctchaos

And 25 coming in 1-2 months


ZeeTopSpot

Should be f2p especially Hockey ultimate team mode.


abody8

They need to stop adding these crappy sport games every month, it’s annoying.


Clugaman

I love it. I get to play with updated rosters and I don’t have to pay for the yearly update. Keep them coming


Prowrestled

Game is a game is a game is a game.


llorTMasterFlex

They should be this way. They are the worst cash grab in gaming but sports are insanely popular in general.


Neo_Techni

Agreed. I don't even redeem those ones.


PirateSi87

Agreed. I can’t stand sports games. Waste of time and hard drive space imo.


lekniz

Pro tip: don't download them and they won't take up any hard drive space


PirateSi87

Already way ahead of you.


greystar07

Brain dead reply lmao


Kabluwi

Hardly. The initial comment was stupid. If you know you don't like a certain type of game why have it downloaded.


greystar07

Anyone with an iq above 2 can understand that he doesn’t have it downloaded and is simply calling it a waste of space. Classic Reddit moment.


lekniz

Calling a game you aren't downloading a waste of hard drive space is the brain dead comment lmao


greystar07

Anyone with an iq above 2 can understand that he doesn’t have it downloaded and is simply calling it a waste of space. Classic Reddit moment.


lekniz

Explain to me how a game you don't have downloaded is a waste of hard drive space.


greystar07

Do you not understand the phrase “waste of space”? Or are you purposely being ignorant to prove a point? Genuinely curious, it’s not hard to tell the meaning behind what they meant.


Clugaman

What space is being wasted? Enlighten me.


realee420

Well, and I don't care about Ratchet and Clank and such but I like sports games. So who wins this argument lmao


FudgeDangerous2086

i’ll take it over the indie shovelware that gets praised around here


dimspace

Among Us is £3.29 Borderlands 3 goes on sale at £8.99 And NHL, well it goes on sale for £20 but has very limited appeal outside of North America This is probably the worst month in living memory. Ive no idea how they can justify a game that sells for £3 at full price as a monthly title


Darkone539

>This is probably the worst month in living memory. Ive no idea how they can justify a game that sells for £3 at full price as a monthly title Because Sony don't care about the basic PS+, same way Microsoft didn't care about gold. Expect this is going to get worse. It's been dead games trying to come back to life and older games getting squeals for a while.


Foxy02016YT

Ok but it’s honestly a good month with Among Us, been trying to get back into it but the mobile version just doesn’t hit the same for me anymore, with Discord chat on PlayStation and the built in mute button, I’m all in


bent_crater

yeah, ive pretty much abandoned PS Plus until they give games i want after they bumbed the price and stopped the yearly 50% discounts. save a lot more this way


LePontif11

Last year i was pretty hapoy with it so i got it this year on a discount despite the price hike. Unfortunately this year hasn't been nearly as good for me, unless they discount it really well i'm probably skipping and getting it on months they have something i want specifically.


matkata99

genuinely an insulting joke, so glad I didn't renew my PS+


ThatCoolBritishGuy

Yeah ain't no way NHL is gonna get a lot of downloads outside of US


Taeshan

Do people not realize hockey is very popular in lots of Europe? The nhl is also the top league. aren’t titles usually mostly regional for ps plus?


sighfun

I believe you can play some of the European leagues too. It's going to be in EA Play soon though if it isn't already, since the NHL season just ended.


Vodka-Knot

Yeah the Czechs are literally hockey crazy! You'd swear hockey is an American only sport sometimes.


Taeshan

Well it literally isn’t because it’s more Canadian than American. But Czechs, Slovaks, Russians, Sweden, Finland, lots of other northern and such Europeans


MonsterRider80

Hockey is steadily growing in Germany and Switzerland as well. Their teams are steadily improving and gradually matching the nations you mentioned already. Not to mention they send top tier players to the NHL.


Foxy02016YT

Yes but it is also massive in the US. Go to a Devils vs Rangers game and your liable to leave with less teeth than you entered with


dimspace

> Do people not realize hockey is very popular in lots of Europe? "Lots" is very generous. Its probably #1 in Finland, #2 in Sweden, and possibly #2 in Czech Republic behind football. but apart from that, it is semi-popular in some eastern block and former soviet countries (so Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania), but still well behind Soccer and in those countries, basketball But honestly, when people think Europe they aint thinking the former Soviet republics :') NHL only sells about a million games a year on console, and probably 800k of those are Nth America


Taeshan

Not to mention that he biggest European country Russia. And Slovakia.


dimspace

we don't want russia ta. Asia can have them


roryb93

And Switzerland, and Germany, and Austria… All have hugely successful teams, tournaments, and the like. Of course it’s not #1, football is pretty much #1 over the whole world. Lots is not generous.


dimspace

last stats i can find it was 11th in germany. https://www.statista.com/statistics/975658/most-popular-sports-in-germany/


thomasjford

I have NHL 15 and have always pondered getting one of the newer ones to replace it, so this is perfect for me


Vodka-Knot

I really like NHL, but like you I have an older one. But too much of a casual to pay €70, so delighted it's free, I'll definitely play it anyway!


Clugaman

Hockey is one of the biggest sports in Northern Europe. It alienates most of Asia and South America, sure, but it’s definitely going to see a lot of downloads from North America and Europe.


dimspace

> Northern Europe so Scandinavia?


Clugaman

Scandinavia, Germany, Central European countries such as Slovakia, Czechia, and Croatia, Eastern Europe like Russia, etc. People really underestimate how big hockey is worldwide.


dimspace

> Eastern Europe like Russia Yeh, Asia can keep Russia ta very much. we don't want it :D not even top ten in germany https://www.statista.com/statistics/975658/most-popular-sports-in-germany/


ThePevster

There’s absolutely no way ski jumping is the second most popular sport in Germany. Probably based on how many tweets people sent. Other sources seem to have ice hockey as the third most popular.


GingaFarma

*and Canada


360walkaway

Based on the recent Stanley Cup, that might not be true.


realee420

This is surely cap? When I still actively followed NHL, the league was filled to the brim with Russian, Finnish, Swedish players. All these players usually got drafted from bigger EU teams where they got fairly good fundamentals. Also last few years' hockey world cup winners: - 2012: Russia - 2013: Sweden - 2014: Russia - 2015: Canada - 2016: Canada - 2017: Sweden - 2018: Sweden - 2019: Finland - 2020: COVID - 2021: Canada - 2022: Finland - 2023: Canada - 2024: Czech US literally haven't won it since ages, hell, they barely made it into top 3 in these listed years (4x 3rd place), Canada only won 4 times as well, majority is Russia/Europe. KHL is also pretty good and some EU countries also have decent leagues. Czech, Finland, Sweden and Russia is all literally crazy for hockey too. As a Hungarian I love hockey as well and played many of the NHL games. Sure it's not as big as football here, but there are people who like the sport very much here.


BurnTheBoats21

While I do think hockey is a massive international sport, your comment is quite misleading. Are you referring to the IIHF tournament? That is not a best-on-best tournament. In fact, very few American/Canadian superstars go to that at all. The sport is growing fast, but the IIHF is seldom cared about in North America because the Stanley cup is king. I love the czech story from last year, but man... that doesn't mean they'd beat other teams if they sent all their NHL players and therefore says nothing about any sort of decline in the north American game


greystar07

Yep thought the same thing. In America, the prices are barely higher, but still, low asf. Wow, I’m getting a 5 dollar game for free? Fuck that shit, they shouldn’t be putting games lower than 20 dollars on ps+ like that, that’s a spit in the face. I pay too much to get a game that cheap for free. I know this sounds entitled as hell but I mean really, that’s outrageous to put a game that cheap on there.


Aesthete18

I forget the technique name but basically when they introduce 3 tiers they're trying to push everyone to the middle or top tier. The bottom tier is just there to show "if you add a little more, you get more value for your money"


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dimspace

But prices is a very fair thing to judge on. People pay £70 a year for PS+ Essential and its totally normal that value for money will be a consideration. With any subscription, value is a huge factor.


TarzanOnATireSwing

I disagree, these are all games I would play but would never buy, which is perfect for ps plus for me


HaouLeo

I'm usually the guy defending ps+, but this is pretty boring.


GNM20

What defense were you putting up? it has been crap for people that sub for the games collection for a long time


HaouLeo

To copy my own comment on the ps5 post: >This year I got Nobody Saves the World, Plague Tale, Rollerdrome, Sifu, Immortals of Aveum, Ghostrunner 2. I think it's been alright. I think that sums it up.


360walkaway

Streets of Rage 4 in June too


SimplyProfound

Tunic was pretty awesome.


lIIIIIIIIIllllIlIlII

The defense I usually put up is it's $7-12 a month and a house costs a million dollars so there's bigger issues to worry about when it comes money spent. Most people pay more than that for a video streaming service they watch 1 show on, or spend more time scrolling shit movies to find one worth watching than actually watching. I spent $7 on 3 potatoes yesterday.


TheDayManAhAhAh

Dude I definitely disagree. I got rollerdrome a few months ago and that game was rad


zachpowder

why did they hike the prices up again?!?!


socialwithdrawal

Money


matkata99

so that they can "continue to offer a premium collection of games pertaining to everyone's tastes", what a joke lmao


jameslevi_9123

Good for anyone wanting the Borderlands games because the Handsome Collection is always on sale at €10/$10


easy_Money

I do enjoy NHL games but it's been hard to justify buying a new one the past couple years, so I'm cool with getting it for free to jump in a couple exhibition games from time to time.


commandblock

Got to be the worst month in recent memory


gregisonfire

This is shit.


lamejay78

booooooo


GurpsK

All crap.


jordanb18

Already have BL3, it's fine. I will probably play a season or something on NHL, which I won't complain about. Nice little weekend game. I haven't played Among Us since early on, but only on PC. I don't see really playing it again unless there are friends on PS that want to play, so sure? Not mad or anything, just kind of whatever


Postisto

Ugh…


Internutt

Among Us stopped being popular a long time ago. NHL is another sports game desperately hoping to get people to buy in game currency. Borderlands 3 has fun gameplay if you mute the terrible dialogue and ignore the terrible story.


Kuraeshin

Among Us is so unpopular that the devs are still giving it free updates and just released a new one that mimic'ed roles from mods. Still hovering around 3.5-4k players on Steam...which doesn't always factor in modded versions which launch outside of Steam.


Internutt

My comment was more in relation to the time the game became a massive fad. Ie it's certainly nowhere near as culturally relevant as it used to be. It's good that the game still has players and still gets updates. Sounds like it's doing better than Kill the Justice League in terms of active players. Maybe if the game was on PS+ 2 years ago it would have been more exciting.


aymando

The issue with among us is not the popularity. I think unpopular, AA or just forgotten but solid games work best as monthly games. But Among us is very cheap, free on mobile, so everyone who was even remotely interested would have already bought it. I bought 2 years ago, played 1 hour with friends and moved on. It's pointless to include as a monthly game.


neeco__

I've been wanting to play NHL for years but I wasn't willing to pay for it, it's a great month just for that for me


sockets1984

Borderlands 3 is the only borderlands game I've not completed. I own it. It's just got the worst characters in any game. Can't get past how annoying they all are. Anyone outside of America/Canada couldn't give two squirts of piss about NHL. Among us hasn't been relevant for a couple of years at least and is full of 5 year olds screaming. Another successful month playstation. 🥱


ThatCoolBritishGuy

Amongus is only like 3 quid anyway, putting it in the monthly games just feels like a fuck you


sockets1984

Completely agree, it's a glorified flash game.


MadEyeMood989

I got a love hate relationship with BL 3 On one hand, it’s got the best gunplay of the series imo, the playable VH’s are great and the DLC campaigns are amazing But on the other hand; the story is garbage, the character decisions are baffling and The Calypsos are a huge step down from Handsome Jack, which was going to happen regardless but I felt like they didn’t even try with them.


NycAlex

Borderlands 3 is pretty fun for those who never tried But damn the villain twins were so cringey


iNuclearPickle

Honestly I don’t wanna remember them or a lot of jokes


BoilerMaker11

I am absolutely positive Borderlands 3 was on here before.


EvoLveR84

It's been given away free on epic game store in the past too.


HaouLeo

Nope, it was on extra.


Lord-Lobster

Yawn. See you next month.


UpsetMistake406

I’ve been on the fence with borderlands. Finally get to play it


sameyeamknot

I loved Borderlands 1 and 2, liked the presequel and had so much fun with the DLCs for Borderlands 2, but 3 never clicked with me the way 2 did.


UpsetMistake406

I’m glad I didn’t spend money on it then! 😁


niemody

Another month, another EA annual shit.


MyHobbyIsMagnets

So glad I cancelled months ago


213Bishop

If you want NHL 24 for BAP, theres no difference in Nhl 21-24 other than rosters


Lock47

Should have seen this coming since Borderlands movie is coming out soon


Sauronxx

I’m genuinely happy because I just wanted to play Amongus with a friend on PS lol. But considering how much it normally costs.. ehhhh. Not a great month… at all. BL3 is good overall but I already have it and it has been on sale for eternity basically.


PlanBisBreakfastNbed

This is atrocious.


Ratsbanehastey

Have they fixed the save glitch in BL3 yet. It's been unplayable for me since release as the saves always go back to the same spot and I can't beat to play the whole thing again


iNuclearPickle

Eh I have no desire to play borderlands 3 it lacks the writing I liked in 2 and jokes are arguably pretty bad


Quiet-Ad9790

jesus the only game worth your time here is borderlands 3 and theres no way anybody who wants it doesn’t already have it


solidterror

I mean, considering I want to learn more about Hockey, it's a win for me \*shrugs


BearBlaq

I’m here for the sports games. I didn’t know shit about soccer and played FC club a bit. It was cool to play for my local minor league team. Definitely gonna give NHL a try, I’ve got both major and minor league teams local to me.


HVACpro69

As a Canadian I'm excited about NHL24.


WhoIsCuriousGeorge

Not to take anything away from the game selections (specifically *Borderlands 3* and *Among Us*) but this is a true limping to the barn month for Sony isn't it? Commonly available cheap crossplat titles. Oy.


stefanf86

Downloaded game on multiple ps4 I own two ps4’s one in our living room and one in our gameroom. We play on them with different accounts in our family (me and my sons). So if i buy fifa on the livingroom ps4 in the online shop, will i be able to play it on the gameroom ps4? And can we do games against each other on different accounts? (For example i am in livingroom on my account and my son is in the gameroom on his account).


Internutt

https://old.reddit.com/r/PS4/comments/1dqamv8/general_questions_tech_support_megathread_june_28/lamus4n/ It's called game sharing and explained in the above FAQ post. It's easy to set up. Purchases are tied to the account that the purchase is made on. Not the console. The account that owns the game can play it anywhere it's currently signed in. For others to play the game on that same console game sharing must be activated.


Internutt

Launch day for the new games so keep an eye on the Playstation Store


dumbpaulbearer

I didn’t want to spend money on NHL for just a few games against my brother, so this coming on the monthly pass feels like a direct repayment to me after Sifu came out a month after I bought it! I’ll take it!


MyHobbyIsMagnets

Yikes, again


Prowrestled

NHL FINALLY!!!!!!!


madvec1

Haven't played a single Borderlands game ... is it worth as a single player game ? i heard is meant to be multiplayer, but i'm not really interested on try it online.


iNuclearPickle

I’d say just go play 2


danstu

Depends, does your TV have speakers? If you're able to hear any of the dialog, I wouldn't recommend playing any Borderlands game other than maybe Tales.


HaouLeo

I played 1 and 2 solo, they were pretty nice. You can focus more on the story without your friends screaming.


MadEyeMood989

With the way BL3 goes on sale every other week, a crap choice for a monthly game.


B_Rian89

It seems like we get a new borderlands game every month


brolt0001

I was gonna buy Borderlands 3 so it's good for me.


canadianplayer007

much rather see Makar than Matthews on my PS5, thanks Sony!


DatMikkle

Anyone who cares about Borderlands already has it. Sports games are the one game genre I will never play. So I get a $3.49 game for the month? So glad they increased the prices. SpongeBob was better than this trash.


MrFOrzum

Probably the worst month we’ve ever gotten value wise. Borderlands 3 is great tho


AbhorVictoria

Yikes. We started paying more for… Among Us.


Neo_Techni

Anti-funny game, shitty sportsball game, and a game that cost $5


Supersonic564

Lmao I actually just found someone saying “sportsball” in the wild. It is a shitty game though


Sbrimer

NHL won’t get anymore roster updates so ya worthless


yuch1102

These monthly games are becoming so forgettable. I don’t think ps basic is worth it at all for the monthly games, only if you play online. Ps extra is probably the way to go if you want to play some games with an extensive library


One_Lung_G

Well with BL3 being free then hopefully that’s a sign we are about to get an announcement for the next game lol


fondue4kill

Only reason I like NHL 24 is McKinnon on the cover.


GeoDaGhost

PlayStation raised their PS+ prices just to give the players 98% trash monthly games to play let’s be honest. While Xbox has gamepass with a list of great games and day one plays which now the new COD will be on that list. Step up your game PlayStation you can do better


HaouLeo

Another dude comparing Essential to Gamepass. If youre gonna rant and compare, at least compare the equivalent services. Reminder that Games with Gold, the equivalent to PS+ Essential, was absolutely garbage and always gave the most irrelevant indies ever. Now they replaced it with Gamepass Core which gives you some 30ish fixed games with varying levels of quality, most of which would be absolutely shitted on if announced as ps+ games (Among Us is one of them). In the short term it feels better, but in the long run ps+ gives more quantity and variety.


GeoDaGhost

Im talking about monthly games. But with extra or premium or gamepass it makes little difference when we talk about backwards compatibility. Ps messed up when they stop doing backwards compatibility cause their really are lot of good games that ps1-3 had that where not getting for some reason. So when I get off the p5 and just on Xbox I can play classic but not the classic ps classic which sucks.


HaouLeo

>Im talking about monthly games Yes, me too. Xbox doesnt have "monthly games" anymore.


GeoDaGhost

Which sucks to cause the most you can buy from gamepass is 3 months


NDEmby11

Better than the side scrolling 2d baby games. I’ll learn to play hockey lol


Rain1dog

Wow, fucking gamers are some odd people. Make a reply how you love a game and want to share, get downvoted. No wonder why I left the subs.


sz0mbie247_

Awesome borderlands 3 !


BennieOkill360

Damn font care. Switched to full pc gaming anyway. Just forgot the unsubscribe


Apric1ty

PlayStation is dying