Yeah, their long game worked really well so I will have to take the hit if anything happen to my PS5 game's saves. It never really cross my mind when I bought PS5 and sold my PS4 Pro. I basically checked if all my PS4 game can be played on PS5, and did not check the save file back up feature cause who in the fucking right mind remove a feature that consumer can use to their(Sony) benefit? That feature literally reduced traffic to their cost sinker(not a lot but with amount of subs it's still quite a bit of storage to up keep, oh, and that's why they limit the cloud save further on PS5 as well. )

I have never really pay PS Plus for multiplayer in first place.(only for cloud save, free games, and extra sale discount.) My only multiplayer game that I played that requires PS Plus was Monster Hunter World/Iceborne. All other multiplayer game I played on PC. (there is a brief time where I also play Rocket League on PSN right after it lunched, I switched to Steam pretty quickly cause I wanted to give dev more money and my PC is much more powerful than PS4.) Oh, Driveclub, I play enough multiplayer to earn the achievements and unlock cars before I stay as offline as I can, I do not like online racing at all.

And good luck selling me the next console without a good game bundle, they just pushed me away and factor in all the extra costs/burden to pay and play on their platform. Developers I still care about, Naughty Dogs, Sucker Punch(Ghost of Tsushima), Guerrilla Games(Horizon series), Santa Monica(GoW), Housemarque(Returnal, Dead Nation, etc), Insomniac Games(Ratchet & Clank, I don't really care about Spiderman that much. ) With their recent cross platform release, I will probably limit my purchase decision as well.

You can backup game saves to USB on PS5 for PS5 titles, but with no option to control which saves are backed up. Go to Settings > System. Select System Software > Back Up and Restore > Back Up Your PS5.

There you can choose to back up saves only, but it's also mandatory to save the system settings taking up 1GB of storage and you can't choose which saves are to be backed up. You have to copy all of them.

Sorry to hear that, my condolences. I've also trying to record my gaming session with my son just so in case some unforseen happened, he can still have all those happy memories at his hand.

(Oh, yeah, fuck Google as well, I am gonna dump my videos somewhere safe and high quality. Google photo's compression/free space is getting worse.)

Yes, it really is sad trend. I don't mind paying for service/product with good value, how they do with PS plus and PS5 save will make me think quite a bit when they release next console. If not for their first party "single player" games, I doubt PS is going to be as popular. My PS5 usage is already much lower than PS3/4 era, I might not get next gen console unless it has good package that come with it. (oh yeah, save file back up also a consideration, since you can't really do memory card like old times. )

it is very bad implementation:

1. it takes way more storage space for backing up
2. if you alternate between 2 games restore will wreck both's progression.
3. it's intentionally frustration to force you buy ps plus like time saver/exp boost mtx for grindy games.

So no, F to Sony, I am not paying. Yeah, it pretty much means I will not buy day 1 launch until the game is much stable after a couple patch in the future even for the exclusives. I have a video on a bug for GoW:Ragnarok still not getting fixed so far.(you have to reload most recent check point to fix it. I don't know if some people will accidentally trip that bug and can't get it fixed until they restart the game.