PS Plus Helped Indie Game Player Count Explode
The PlayStation Plus release of Deep Rock Galactic led to an astonishing 10 million new players «very, very fast,» according to the game's developers. PlayStation Plus is known to have more than 45 million subscribers as of Sony's last accounting. How that number translates into new players for game releases is rarely shared publicly, though. In Deep Rock Galactic's case, developer Ghost Ship Games has had a very good year and excitedly attributed a good amount of that success to PlayStation Plus.
Before any PlayStation Plus subscribers rush to check whether they missed one of the games from the past month, Deep Rock Galactic's PlayStation Plus availability is long past. The co-op mining FPS was released on PlayStation Plus as a free game for the month of January 2022, which means it hasn't been unlocked for over a year now. Ghost Ship Games is simply revisiting that launch as part of its financial reporting and 2022 year-end roundup.
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Speaking during an Embracer Group earnings call, Ghost Ship Games CEO Soren Lundgaard explains that the PlayStation Plus release of Deep Rock Galactic was incredibly successful. Specifically, Lundgaard says that 10 million PlayStation Plus subscribers not only claimed the game but started playing «very, very fast» after it launched. This PlayStation Plus launch surpassed Deep Rock Galactic's 1.0 launch and, as Lundgaard describes it, «propelled the Deep Rock Galactic IP even further into closing into mainstream.»
Ghost Ship Games capitalized heavily on this surge of new players, scheduling the PlayStation Plus release to come not long after the launch of Deep Rock Galactic's seasonal content. Season 1 of Deep Rock
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