PS Plus Extra, Premium users are warned not to download an October 2025 game without checking their PS5, PS4 libraries first. Yakuza: Like a Dragon was part of PS Plus Essential monthly lineup in August 2022. If you redeemed the game then, and download it via the Extra catalog today, you’ll end up losing the Essential license for good.
Downloading Yakuza: Like a Dragon via PS Plus Extra will override Essential game license
We’ve been raising concerns about this issue since Sony revamped PS Plus, and it still hasn’t been fixed. My last article on this topic was published a year ago, and I continue to see complaints from unsuspecting players who lose access to their games by making this mistake.
For those who aren’t aware, players who redeem monthly games via Essential and then download them later down the line from the PS Plus Extra catalog find themselves locked out of said games for good. Essential games are yours to keep, but Extra/Premium games are not. If you re-download a game from Extra that you previously claimed via Essential, you will override your license. Once those games leave Extra, you can’t play them again unless you purchase them.
Sony support won’t help, and there’s no workaround or fix.
So, check your libraries to make sure you don’t already have a copy of Yakuza: Like a Dragon. If you don’t, go ahead and download the game via Extra (we highly recommend it). If you do find a copy in your library, avoid the Extra version like the plague.
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