Sony Deletes 2 Free Games On PS5 Without Warning, Incurring Players’ Anger – Gentside Gaming

Updated June 29, 2023 at 10:36 am

Posted on June 29, 2023 at 10:12 am by Sharon Gonçalves

This was one of Sony’s promises when launching the new PlayStation Plus formula: to offer free trials of AAA and independent games. The promise is kept, but some demos disappear without warning. These two games just paid their price.

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The new PlayStation Plus formula celebrates its first anniversary! Sony had promised to roll out on June 22, 2022 free trials of must-have games as well as indie nuggets.

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Hogwarts Legacy is also free to play on PS4 and PS5 at the time of writing. If it’s rather satisfactory on paper, it sometimes happens These trial versions will disappear without notice, and Sony provides no explanation for this. 2 new games just fell victim.

2 free games are disappearing from PlayStation Plus

Trial Periods for Games The expiry date is not clearly visible in the PlayStation Store. This is frustrating because it means they can disappear overnight. If you’re planning on testing Hogwarts Legacy, now is the time to start. There is no indication that the trial version will still be available tomorrow! And that’s exactly what happened with WWE 2K22 and OlliOlli World.

WWE 2K22 had recently received a trial as part of PS Plus, as did the sequel to WWE 2K23, but it appears that inclusion was unintentional and Sony was quick to retract it. As for the skateboarding game OlliOlli World, offered on PS Plus last February, its “disappearance” is even more mysterious, because No explanation was given for the removal.

11 games are leaving the PlayStation Plus offering

These unexpected deletions are a new blow for the players. Especially in July No fewer than 11 other games are also leaving the PlayStation Plus offeringnot to mention their trial version.

The players hope that Sony will clarify the situation and provide an explanation for the removal of these games or at least improve the communication a bit about the validity of these free trial versions. As a consolation, the new free games for the month of July were announced. you will arrive from July 4th in the Extra and Premium offer of PlayStation Plus :

  • Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (PS5, PS4)
  • Alan Wake Remastered (PS5, PS4)
  • Endling – Extinction is Forever (PS5, PS4)