Days Gone Remaster Won't Be Available for $10 Upgrade If Claimed via PlayStation Plus

Days Gone remaster will not offer a $10 upgrade for PS Plus users. To access the PS5 version, you'll need to purchase it at full price.

[lukasmain]

I mean that sucks, but the game itself has been like 10 or 20 max on the PSN in the past so don't bitch. I'm just so glad we getting more Days Gone content and upgrade. In my dreams it does really well and a sequel gets green lit. But I feel like I'm 90% sure that won't happen *tear rolls down cheek

[Cacabunga]

Logic a free game from ps+ library won’t be upgraded.
I have the disc version. Not sure i will replay it though except if the graphical differences are massive

[KyRo]

I had the disk and sold it along with other games because it was part of PS5s instant game collection. That's being said, the game never really blew me away anyway to warrant a double dip.

[darthv72]

This was common knowledge. It's the same thing they said about previous + games like Uncharted, GoT, Death Stranding where a $10 upgrade was offered.

[VenomUK]

Yes, but what Sony has done at the time of announcing a $10 upgrade on those games is it puts the original version up for sale at a higher - near full price!

[jznrpg]

Buy physical it’s really cheap

[glenn1979]

Sony is greedy as fucked, people are begging for DG2 but nothing let me shove a remaster in your body and charge you full price , get the fuck outa here

[andy85]

Yes a minority are. The game didnt do well which is why we didn't get the 2nd. If they were greedy as f it'd be a $50 game with no upgrade like the remasters used to be. At least the option is there, can easy buy a cheap copy of the game then trade it after. This remaster is the only way part 2 happens.

[badz149]

I don't believe for a second that the game didn't do well financially. the game was overall the 19th best selling game in the US in 2019, and 9th for PS, 15th in the UK and I think it did pretty well outside of those markets too. the thing that bugged (pun not intended) the game was the reviews which somehow put too much emphasize of misogyny like they were all in arms against straight white male as protagonist.

just read this from TheGamer:

"In hindsight, Days Gone was a game out of time. Deacon St John was a protagonist who has no place in the modern gaming landscape, which likely explains why he and his redneck biker ways were forgotten so quickly. It didn’t resonate with people, not because it wasn’t woke, but because we’d seen it all before and didn’t care. I enjoyed messing with hordes and riding around on my motorcycle in Days Gone, but I purposely tuned the story out, already knowing in my heart that it had nothing worthwhile to say."

tell me if THAT is not a WTF take from a gaming site. "game out of time" and yet, barely any game does hordes like it since!

I know berating Days Gone was the viral thing to do at the time but imagine rating Mario and Zelda games because they have terrible and generic stories, they do, and calling anything Nintendo as "out of time" because they are so outdated compared to others? imagine the backlash!

[Michiel1989]

not offering the cheap upgrade to a massive amount of players that paid for ps+ to get the game is a path to a sequel? its a path to piss your players off....

@badz you quote a whole paragraph and the only thing out of time applies to is the zombie hordes? if you take a second to read, you'd realize that. Did you miss the part where he said: I enjoyed messing with hordes and riding around on my motorcycle in Days Gone, but I purposely tuned the story out, already knowing in my heart that it had nothing worthwhile to say.

Are you just trying to take the review out of context on purpose so you got something to complain about?

[andy85]

Wasn't a lot of those sales with discount though? That's why the developer made that famous statement about buying at full price. I'm not even knocking the game, I love it. But there's obviously reasons we didn't get a part 2. And yeah the reviews were utterly ridiculous. It's an 85 game at worst. I think a $10 upgrade is a bargain tbh, no one would work for free.

[FPS_D3TH]

When was a 2nd game announced or this just cope?

[glenn1979]

Days Gone has made over $100 million in digital sales on PlayStation. It sold over 2.7 million units on the platform. When counting physical and PC sales, the total units sold come out to around 9 million

[Ps5conehead]

There a business to make money. The remaster didn’t get made for free. It cost labor etc.

[blacktiger]

You don't even know what's greedy is,
Greedy is when you want more money.

They gave you free game and can't buy a discount through free game lmao

[babadivad]

It's not free. You're paying a monthly fee for the game.

[rippermcrip]

17 people begging for a game doesn't mean jack.

[Christopher]

A vocal minority is begging for DG2.

[neomahi]

Dude, you're the very reason I don't get to enjoy my PS5 the way it's supposed to be. I buy new consoles for new games, new experiences that push the hardware. I CANT because people like you are so stuck on the past and can't move on and buy remasters and remakes. Publishers are so busy making games for you to keep you happy, here I am five years into this gen and they forgot about me. Insomniac, San Diego, and Housemarque are the only ones to say: We got you. Everyone is just sitting around waiting to be told to get to work or get laid off.

It's also y'all that nearly killed PlayStation when you griped and complained about the PS3. It was too expensive (which is wasn't). When they took backward compatibility out you griped again and NOW they quit thinking like Steve Jobs and now use off the shelf PC components making it the same as everything else they're in competition with because y'all wanted backward compatibility so, unique and innovative hardwares gone. Now, y'all have backward compatibility and you're griping again.

Greedy? Maybe, but they're just giving y'all what you want. You're the ones willing to waste the money while those like me are on the back burner while devs just sit around and do minimal work to make remasters and remakes you want or develop games that indicate we should just build a PS One again. You've got a Ferrari but you opted to have a Ford Focus engine experience going on inside it instead.

SO! Stop buying the remakes and remasters and then they won't seem greedy

[Profchaos]

you should see the begging for bloodborne probably a super easy remaster for them still crickets

[jznrpg]

I have my disc still so no issue for me. I’ll probably buy the disc version when the price drops a lot later down the road for my PS5 collection but I may do the upgrade before that. All depends on many games I finish in my backlog but I’ve been on a rampage this winter and got a few plays and finished a handful of more games on top of that.

[Knightofelemia]

Still one of my favorite games.

[zero_jp]

If you’re Sony wouldn’t you rather take $10 from PS Plus users than $0? Plenty of people will not double dip for this title because they already have the game in their PS Plus library.

They may have spent the $10 on top of the $10 other users who own it out right may spend. I mean I get it. But isn’t something better than nothing?

Then of course there are those players who don’t own it at all that will buy it at full price. I don’t know can someone explain why taking $0 is better than $10?

[Destiny1080]

exactly getting ten bucks from a million people, that's ten million

who is going to rebuy the game they already own, and then pay extra to get the full version

[Elda]

You make too much sense, something Sony PS needs.

[repsahj]

I don't get it either. I don't have a plan to buy the base game and then upgrade it for another $10. I already have a premium subs, is that not enough to let us upgrade the game for $10?

[badz149]

I'll gladly upgrade using my physical copy, thank you.

[Knushwood Butt]

I bought it physical day 1, beat it a couple of times, then sold it. Then I got the PS Plus (was it part of the PS5 game catalogue?) version and beat it again.
I'm in no mad rush to play it again right now, but would have picked the upgrade up given the chance.

[Elda]

Played the original already on the PS5, no need for me to play it again.

[DazaMc]

Not a great loss, the PS4 version looks and runs great on PS5

[__y2jb]

You will not be able to see any difference anyway. The pointless remaster train has gone too far now. These are low effort cash grabs by Sony because they have no new first party games coming for years. It’s time they were called out on it.

[Bathyj]

C'mon Sony.
I own the disc and I had it on psplus. Let me poop it in once and then never bother again. I'm all digital now.

[FPS_D3TH]

Anything but bloodborne. Such a ridiculous remaster choice.

[isarai]

The game already has a 4K 60 frames per second mode on PS5. I don't even get the point in this

[mkis007]

That's like saying " I don't get why pc settings have a very high setting vs a high setting. Increased draw distance, shadows, lighting. Also increased horde sizes.

[isarai]

That's like saying you should pay $10 to go from high to enthusiast settings

[mkis007]

Sure, if you ignore the other content... and just pretend these options are all that's new. Did you not read the new content list or watch the trailer?

[Miacosa]

If it sold better, I could almost see them doing it. But since Days Gone struggled and then was placed on flash sale and "given away" w/ Plus. It's easy to see why Sony would try to recoup some costs with this move of releasing the Remaster. If people really want this remaster and are fortunate enough to have a PS5 w/ disc drive they can purchase a used copy of Days Gone for as little as 6 dollars and then upgrade it.

[isarai]

I don't get where people are getting this "didn't do well" or "struggled" from, it sold nearly 8 million copies 🤨

[neomahi]

Early adoption pays off, it has to have it benefits versus all the mooches. Deal with it

[Profchaos]

I wonder which plus this includes the PS plus collection when you brought a ps5 or the time it was a monthly game

It stoll sucks I wasn't going to update anyhow tbh I don't see the value.

[BlackCountryBob]

First people complain about the number of remakes and remasters saying they don’t want them and won’t buy it, then they complain they won’t get it for free.

It was clear in the video when they said it was a £10 upgrade for those who bought the game. Is exactly the same as what happened with FF7 Retrograde for those who got it on PS4 in Plus

[Knushwood Butt]

This.
Anything Days Gone related sure is good for clicks though.

[isarai]

Because it's a change in policy. Every psp/ps3/ps4 game you bought that had a port to one or the other you always got that port free because as PS put it "when you buy the game you own that game on our ecosystem" this was literally said on stage when the ps4 1st came out. It was always that way till ps5

[BlackCountryBob]

We are almost 5 years into PS5 so hardly a new change, it was a tenner for Horizon, GTA5, Ghost of Tsushima, Death Stranding, Last of Us 2, Uncharted 4 if you’d bought them on PS4. The difference here is if you’ve bought Days Gone then it’s the same, but if you’ve haven’t bought it and got a licence to play it as long as you are subscribed to PS Plus, you can’t pay a tenner to upgrade a license you don’t own to a PS5 version.

When Resident Evil 7 got a PS5 native version, it was a free upgrade to everyone, except if you had got Resident Evil 7 in the PS Plus collection. There was historic practice that PS3 games ported to vita had shared licenses which was great, but that was 15 years ago!

This is established practice, might not like it but it is what it is.

[isarai]

So because it's not a new change it shouldn't be criticized? That's so flimsy logic bruv.

When i bought Journey on PS3, i got the ps4 port free.

When i bought Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty on psVita i got it on ps3 and 4 free.

There's literally hundreds of examples, "it is what it is" doesn't somehow make it ok, or impervious to criticism.

[Abear21]

I never bought the game but can preorder for $10 so…maybe a glitch on my end?

Also—There must be a sequel in the works…they are trying to represent this franchise in the best light on PS5 and Pro and that must be for a reason.

[DafunkyRebel]

I bought it when it was like 10 bucks on PSN for sale

[DivineHand125]

Not surprised by this, they did the same thing when the PS5 version of the FF7 remake came out as well as the Uncharted 4 legacy of thieves collection.

[babadivad]

These MFs...