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[Draugoth]

As noted by the TrueTrophies portal and based on data from 3.4 million active PSN accounts, the game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection was more successful on PS Plus than Dragon Age: The Veilguard.​

With Dragon Age The Veilguard having released for PS5 less than six months ago, you might have thought it would easily draw the most attention among March 2025's PS Plus monthly games. Not so, as it happens. Instead, it looks like more subscribers felt like revisiting some arcade classics while they can still grab Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Cowabunga Collection on PS Plus Essential.

• Konami's collection of TMNT games was the most popular among the PS Plus March 2025 lineup
• 8.2% more players booted up The Cowabunga Collection over the relatively recent Dragon Age The Veilguard
• It probably helped that those Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Cowabunga Collection trophies are very easy to unlock

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[GymWolf]

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

 

[Magic Carpet]

Epic Store free Thursday on the way?

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

It didn't fail, millions of people already played it.

 

[winjer]

A shit game will always be a shit game, even if it's free.

 

[Sephimoth]

 

[RagnarokIV]

Incredible lol

 

[PauloRoberto]

I'll disagree, even suicide squad and gothan knights saw the number of users going up (at least temporary, of course).

What EA did here was something quite amazing... it transformed a (somewhat?) known francise into something undesirable.

 

[STARSBarry]

It didn't fail, millions of people already played it.

Failure is relative, a couple million people "engaging" with an indie title made on a shoe string budget would be a success.

however a large IP which was in development under a mainstream AAA studio for over 8 years that sold 10+ million copies with its prior entry, is a failure.

we still don't know how badly it sold because EA keeps telling us the "engagement" numbers, and that was "million" singular, not "millions" it was at 1.5 million "engaged" last time it was announced.

 

[Spukc]

HEY GUISE!
I'M NON BINAIRY !!!

 

[drganon]

Bioware is so screwed.

 

[FalsettoVibe]

Somewhat of a misleading headline. Also, kinda click bait-y
I mean.....looking at the entire list, I'm not sure you can say it "failed"

 

[EN250]

I'm sure a sizeable portion of subscribers just added to their library to never fucking touch it again, I'm embarrassed cause I did it myself, but works as a reminder of when PS+ has an awful month of free games, this way I can convince myself to keep paying, because I'm sure nothing they could ever give away in the upcoming months will be worse than DA Veilguard

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

Don't care what anyone else says, it failed because of that ugly monster character. Just hideous...

 

[Quantum253]

I'm not surprised, we knew this was going to happen. I thought it would be closer to April, however.

 

[MrRibeye]

So I actually bought psn subscription to give this a try, and 5 hours later I regretted it already.

So here is my short take.

Made a female character, mage, and 2 hours in realised I was playing in a all female squad trying to stop some evil. Exclusively no men. 4 woman sitting in circle with very, very childish dialogue, discussing the obvious. Love women, but man...

Made a male warrior, played for 3 hours more, realised this isn't and rpg, it's very bad action game, the dialogue only got worse.

Figured there are much better ways to waste my free time, and shut it off.

It was this comment from the For those who tried Dragon Age Veilguard due to it being free with PS+ in March, what are your thoughts on it? thread that stopped me from trying it. His comment is so relatable, I can easily imagine myself spending an afternoon with Veilguard only to regret the wasted time.

 

[LectureMaster]

 

[jshackles]

 

[N0S]

 

[Putonahappyface]

 

[ComputerBlue]

https://psnprofiles.com/

While it’s pretty close, more people have played Dragon Age recently according to PSNprofiles. I know this is a smaller sample size, but still.

 

[Hookshot]

Non buynary freenary

 

[Killjoy-NL]

It's mediocre af.

 

[Gonzito]

I still cant believe this game has that metacritic number, its an insult to everyone

 

[Putonahappyface]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection is a huge nostalgia injection for me. I'll get round to playing that at some point.

 

[Redefine07]

Burn it with fire and who made this game also.

 

[Arachnid]

Bioware is so screwed.

Yeah. I one hand, I'm glad Veilguard failed for being shit.

On the other hand, it makes me fear for Mass Effect. I was hoping this would be the catalyst for them to get their shit together and give us what we want for ME, but this could just outright kill them lol

 

[Kacho]

As far as 2024 failures go, Veilguard was the most entertaining — and it's still going.

 

[ebevan91]

Yeah. I one hand, I'm glad Veilguard failed for being shit.

On the other hand, it makes me fear for Mass Effect. I was hoping this would be the catalyst for them to get their shit together and give us what we want for ME, but this could just outright kill them lol

I'm slightly more optimistic about Mass Effect now because Bioware knows they screwed up with Veilguard and HOPEFULLY they will avoid making the same mistake again.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

Yeah. I one hand, I'm glad Veilguard failed for being shit.

On the other hand, it makes me fear for Mass Effect. I was hoping this would be the catalyst for them to get their shit together and give us what we want for ME, but this could just outright kill them lol

Depends how much you believe BioWare. Months back, there was a thread where they claimed the next ME game will be really dark and gritty.

 

[Johnny Concrete]

I'm slightly more optimistic about Mass Effect now because Bioware knows they screwed up with Veilguard and HOPEFULLY they will avoid making the same mistake again.

Heheh, we’ve been saying that about Bioware for at least 4 games now

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

I still cant believe this game has that metacritic number, its an insult to everyone

It exposed the falsehood of modern journalism, and the total fallacy of review scores' and their lack of accuracy.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

It exposed the falsehood of modern journalism, and the total fallacy of review scores' and their lack of accuracy.

I forget which game it was…. Days gone or horizon or a different game.

But I remember one of streamers like asmongold or someone laughing and calling them out for saying the game only has men when later in the game there’s a bunch of women. So it showed the game reviewer barely even played the game. But technically I think it sounds like the game is all guys at the beginning.

 

[TheInfamousKira]

It didn't fail, millions of people already played it.

Millions of people listen to Nickelback and/or do crack.

I mean, by some metric you're probably absolutely correct, but it's been a few days since I made a shitpost.

 

[Fake]

I hope it was worth it Bioware.

 

[Kacho]

I hope it was worth it Bioware.

The people who made it are gone at least. Hopefully they don't infest another studio.

 

[TheDuskwalker]

I forget which game it was…. Days gone or horizon or a different game.

But I remember one of streamers like asmongold or someone laughing and calling them out for saying the game only has men when later in the game there’s a bunch of women. So it showed the game reviewer barely even played the game. But technically I think it sounds like the game is all guys at the beginning.

Probably Wukoing then.

 

[Clintizzle]

Bioware knows they screwed up with Veilguard and HOPEFULLY they will avoid making the same mistake again.

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[Zacfoldor]

This reminded me of the slutdragons from rick and morty.

We coulda had fun with that if we thought of it before the game died.

 

[Roman Empire]

No way I'd tarnish my collection by adding this shit to it.

 

[HRK69]

As far as 2024 failures go, Veilguard was the most entertaining

 

[Rush2112]

It’s not over yet. Baldur’s gate will be the next victim.

 

[Putonahappyface]

I'm slightly more optimistic about Mass Effect now because Bioware knows they screwed up with Veilguard and HOPEFULLY they will avoid making the same mistake again.

 

[ZoukGalaxy]

GOOD.

 

[Superposition]

Get fucked.

 

[Lokaum D+]

fuck woke garbage

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

My time is valuable and limited. Doesn't matter if something is free, I spend my time where I want to spend my time, even if it costs much more money. This is why I'll never be a GamePass only customer.

 

[Fake]

I'm slightly more optimistic about Mass Effect now because Bioware knows they screwed up with Veilguard and HOPEFULLY they will avoid making the same mistake again.

They sure gonna avoid, not the way you think.

 

[Saber]

Who would guess nobody would waste their time with crap even if its "free"?
Its like offereing free dirt earth for lunch.