Sony hate thread

[Queen Aleena]

Sony didn’t choose #3 out of the kindness of their hearts, they did it because their bean counters and legal team most likely threw a massive shitfit the moment they learned more about this retardation. I bet in the future they will have 100% mandatory integration and simply not sell games in markets with no PSN.

PSN may be old but it's really not as robust or large as people think it is. Backwards compatibility is laughable, PS3 and PS4 online titles won't even register PSN username changes for example. Current PSN works with less than 20 games (insert PS5 joke here). The only reason it even exists is because Xbox Live used to be a massive money-maker and Sony needed some equivalent; nowadays the idea of paying to use your own internet on a console is rightfully lauded as retarded. PSN is such a low priority that a really successful Sony-published title like Helldivers 2 could simply exist for months without using it.

tl;dr I would be surprised if PSN is anything other than a Gamer Facebook by the time the PS6 rolls around.

 

[superbomb]

I'm thankful at this point of gaming that the Silent Hill 2 Remake is not a Playshit 5 exclusive

 

[ze german doctor]

PlayStation-niggers LOST XboxGODS WON

 

[and and and and]

Sony has decided to backtrack on the PSN account requirement to play Helldivers 2 on PC:

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And even though the negative reviews played a part at this change of heart (?), it also goes to show how shitty Blizzard has gotten, since Overwatch 2 is still THE lowest rated game on Steam, and that game wasn't improved even with the low ratings.

Erm, "I'll buy the game ten times" bros, what's our response??

 

[CircuSphere]

While this is great news and a win for Helldivers players, the lesson Sony will take from this is that they should should never give devs an inch (if your account linking doesn't work at launch, looks like your game isn't coming out bub) and be more deceptive and in complete control of dev PR just in case they try to explain to gamers who is really to blame for all the bad decisions they are being forced to move ahead with.

True.

I'm sorry you have to exercise more than a single brain cell and do more than spam the Quasar with a shield when you play. Absolutely no one enjoyed loading into lobbies to be on teams where every single person had a shield backpack and Quasar. Also the Sickle is still the top tier primary for bots, don't know what you're blabbering about sounds like you just suck at the ammo management.

I would never complain about coming into 3 Qausars, it lets me play whatever I want.. and a 4th Quasar ain't a bad choice either, dropships and heavies dying fast is pretty much the formula for success.

If it were any other company this nigga would be gone. Blows my mind.

Also how do you guys know they're a tranny?

I believe Spitz is the furry, Baskins is the cunt and Misty *shudder* is the troon.

I insist this was all a matter of timing, if the Sweet Baby Inc drama hadn't happened immediately before this, the Gamers™ wouldn't have been so riled up and looking for a corporation to punish with their dicks. I don't expect Snoysuits to recognize this, but it's just another happy accident for people who like to watch spectacles like this. If Helldivers 2 came out in September '23 and they ran this same Playstation account gameplan, it probably would've worked.

Let me tell you about my favorite games, Artifact and DOTA Underlords...

People are going to hate the fact that I am even suggesting it but the explosion of pop-culture grifters is creating momentum. There were weeks of content regarding SBI You could spend hours watching countless channels regurgitating Park Place articles and griping and all of them made multiple videos about this too. They might just be click farming but it's like free advertisement for the cause.

Also I played Underlords for like an afternoon, hit on the meta, won my very first online match and said "Well I guess it's time I retire with a perfect record."

The downside of this is that computer power gets cheaper at a fairly steady, predictable rate. The lawnmower or amplifier you buy in ten years will do effectively the same thing as one bought today, but every dollar not overspent on computer hardware has a compounding effect in the future.

The screaming GPU you buy today is (barring black swan events like COVID) as expensive as that much computing power will ever cost.

True and not true. Clock/Scale are meeting a lot of resistance lately and performance isn't actually doubling every 2 years anymore, you are mostly upgrading for a new slightly more optimal architecture... and also you have inflation driving up costs and the crypto market fucking with GPUs. I'm not saying you should buy bleeding edge but I would rather over buy than underbuy and feel disappointed and I tend to keep things until they break or become unbearable. Really you should find the cards that run enough frames in a given resolution and then look at price per frame/architecture features. I also love open box specials for PC parts, you can almost always find them and save a hundred bucks here or there.

 

[Concentrate Juice]

This is actually what you should do (removing the bad reviews). Devs (and Sony) hate making concessions because they feel like they get nothing from it. In this case if you reverse the review bomb they can see making that choice and siding with gamers actually did something.

All they get from me is my cancelled refund submission that I will re-submit upon any changes to the legal contract I agreed to when the game came out.

The only reason they shat themselves is because they probably got a notification from Valve that their next month of revenue on game sales would be negative due to the refunds queued up. It is likely that when SONY saw this, they instantly got Valve to put a hold on all refunds while they prepare a public statement or Valve just did it as some internal policy. Mine was there for almost a day before I cancelled it when I saw the Sony post. Usually a first attempt at refunding on Steam takes at most a few hours before auto denial, my first attempt was there for almost a day before I cancelled it. This indicates that there was either some refund pause in place, or they were just so inundated with refunds that their two layers of automated denial systems couldn't handle it.

Either way, what their PR statement did was temporarily alleviate the pressure of tens of thousands of refunds. That is where it hurts them the most, that is what matters to them. Keep your review negative and make sure you are able to submit another refund when something like this happens again.

No Sony child, I am the one in control, we will NOT require a PSN account.

 

[ze german doctor]

I'm thankful at this point of gaming that the Silent Hill 2 Remake is not a Playshit 5 exclusive

Yeah lmao

 

[John Shedletsky]

I don't feel bad for you one bit faggot, try going outside instead of living through a screen. then you won't have to worry about your shitty online games being too expensive.

You and the rest of the house niggers lost. Sony kneeled.

 

[skibidi biden]

tbh Helldivers 2 is just a worse playing Halo 3 ODST firefight or gears of war 3 horde mode for algorithm brained zoomers who are too brainrotted to play with friends in a couch co-op, so I was all too happy as a Xbox 360 Halo boomer to see another live service die

The fact Sneedfeeders 2 is a live service grindathon with gameplay far slower than vanquish or warframe and lacks a fucking dedicated roll button or mechanics to take cover like other third person shooters have standardized since fucking 2008 is why it is shit, to me at least

to further reinforce my point, the galaxy map from Helldivers 2 is just the Galaxy map from Mass Effect 3 and the whole game is the shitty tacked on ME3 multiplayer mode we hated on launch back in 2012, idiot zoomers get to play worse versions of the scams EA made back in 2012

 

[T-21]

Well I'll be damned; didn't think Sony would actually listen.

Snoy only "listen" when they lose a lot of money over retarded decisions they made. They will find another way to fuck it up yet again eventually.

 

[Ebonic Tutor]

Imagine my surprise that it's another annoying fucking 2024 account *rolls eyes*

Noticing a lot of them here lately (also tons of accounts that haven't posted in years posting again, mostly pro corporate / pro left takes or alternately batshit right ones that are far out enough that A&N bitches), if I didn't know any better I suspect we're definitely on peoples radar and they are trying to influence opinions here like everywhere else now.

 

[Edgy But Dull]

Add to that how poorly the Playstation 5 has sold despite trivial competition from Microsoft and I'd be surprised to see a Playstation 6 or new Xbox by the late 2020s. The market for video games has just changed so radically.

As much as Xbox has been hinting to casually leaving the console market, there's still the fact that the CoD deal runs out right before the PS6 comes out. So Xbox can just coast with a new minimal effort console that has access to CoD and gamepass and make Sony bleed while continuing to do nothing impressive. As much as Sony wants to invade the PC market, they can't just abandon the console market because the amount of money they make from their platform cut is massive for them.

I predict Activision will announce Infinite Warfare 2, with an innovative new idea where forces make planetfall via drop pods to take on enemy hostiles in the name of democra-the fallen.

If Microsoft had any brains, they'd just throw out ODST like everyone has meme'd about. They already introduced the firefight mechanic in ODST, so they already have the whole "wave drop" mechanic figured out and all they would need to do is make the randomly generated maps for missions. They have all the building blocks and Helldivers 2 gave them an instruction manual to put it altogether into a moneyprinter. Their only obstacle at this point is getting a decent developer to put the pieces together as their current dev studios would accidentally get their dicks stuck in between the building blocks as they're putting it together.

Regardless of what happens from here on out, the industry has just seen the new blueprint to copy for the next 5 years like they did with MOBAs and Battle Royales. A lot of these publishers have space military IPs collecting dust and now's the time to cash in.

People are going to hate the fact that I am even suggesting it but the explosion of pop-culture grifters is creating momentum. There were weeks of content regarding SBI You could spend hours watching countless channels regurgitating Park Place articles and griping and all of them made multiple videos about this too. They might just be click farming but it's like free advertisement for the cause.

Despite what people may think of these trendhopping content farmers, the suits are actually afraid of the content grifters with 10+ million subs dogpiling them. We know they take them seriously because they go out of their way to pay influencers to make their product trendy just so people will disregard logic and buy their shit due to FOMO. Over the past ~2 years, the whole "cancelculture" bandwagon has morphed into ragebaiting for engagement. Content grifters making dozens of hours of content to shit on a game ends up making it trendy to not play the game and instead to trashtalk it. All the smaller content creators down the ladder will join in because of FOMO and clout. I saw plenty of smaller content creators that never really played Helldivers 2 take the time to trash the PSN announcement because it got them views and clicks.

 

[Fred Herbert]

tbh Helldivers 2 is just a worse playing Halo 3 ODST firefight or gears of war 3 horde mode for algorithm brained zoomers who are too brainrotted to play with friends in a couch co-op, so I was all too happy as a Xbox 360 Halo boomer to see another live service die

The fact Sneedfeeders 2 is a live service grindathon with gameplay far slower than vanquish or warframe and lacks a fucking dedicated roll button or mechanics to take cover like other third person shooters have standardized since fucking 2008 is why it is shit, to me at least

to further reinforce my point, the galaxy map from Helldivers 2 is just the Galaxy map from Mass Effect 3 and the whole game is the shitty tacked on ME3 multiplayer mode we hated on launch back in 2012, idiot zoomers get to play worse versions of the scams EA made back in 2012

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There are no jester points for you to farm here, corpo.

 

[skibidi biden]

There are no jester points for you to farm here, corpo.

how the fuck does not wanting to play a paid game with multiple bullshit digital currencies connected to a model that will eventually go offline after a service shut down make me a corpo

i hate live service games with premium currency that are an amalgamation of recycled aspects of better games from over a decade ago because its exactly what corporations want

i have overwatch on disk and its completely fucking worthless now because jizzard ran it as a live service

anusfelchers 2 should die along with all the live service trash nobody actually owns like warframe and destiny

digital extremes, like arrowhead, was also a small "based" indie dev before they became the status quo

 

[ElevenYearBeggacy]

tbh Helldivers 2 is just a worse playing Halo 3 ODST firefight or gears of war 3 horde mode for algorithm brained zoomers who are too brainrotted to play with friends in a couch co-op, so I was all too happy as a Xbox 360 Halo boomer to see another live service die

The fact Sneedfeeders 2 is a live service grindathon with gameplay far slower than vanquish or warframe and lacks a fucking dedicated roll button or mechanics to take cover like other third person shooters have standardized since fucking 2008 is why it is shit, to me at least

to further reinforce my point, the galaxy map from Helldivers 2 is just the Galaxy map from Mass Effect 3 and the whole game is the shitty tacked on ME3 multiplayer mode we hated on launch back in 2012, idiot zoomers get to play worse versions of the scams EA made back in 2012

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It does scratch that ME3 multiplayer itch that no other game has in recent memory. Really a shame that Bioware didn't include it in the Legendary Edition. Tragic.

 

[ZMOT]

I think Sony execs should be dragged into the street and decapitated for selling products in countries while fully aware that they would be unusable in a couple months. You couldn't ask for a better example of pure greed and spite.

that's on arrowhead, not sony.

It does scratch that ME3 multiplayer itch that no other game has in recent memory. Really a shame that Bioware didn't include it in the Legendary Edition. Tragic.

zombie army 4 already did that tbh

Let me tell you about my favorite games, Artifact and DOTA Underlords...

damn now I have to imagine you're the artifact-anon on /v/...

 

[skibidi biden]

It does scratch that ME3 multiplayer itch that no other game has in recent memory. Really a shame that Bioware didn't include it in the Legendary Edition. Tragic.

the out-of place dedicated lootbox experiment EA tacked onto a singleplayer series and led to bioware blowing resources on a skinner box and having the atrocious ending that invalidated a series?

i do agree helldivers 2 does remind me of that

now people are willingly defending the half-assed ME3 multiplayer mode sold as a full game because the not-ODSTs say le funny Liberty Prime quotes so they feel like they belong and spend more money on premium currencies to get guns from a battle pass versus getting them in game

i dont like when fortnite has a battle pass and i dont like when helldivers 2 calls it a "war bond" because its predatory regardless of if an indie dev does it or a massive company like epic games does it

i genuinely wonder if a focus group was behind Helldivers 2 and realized setting up an "indie studio" to make a game that appeals to the type of Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson fan who drink black rifle coffee is profitable as ostracized conservatives will chuck money at anything without gender politics regardless of quality despite it being the status quo from 2012

 

[nym]

Remember, anyone saying "is Sony really at fault or was it Arrowhead, who knew all along that the account login was required by Sony, but they screwed up the launch and disabled it and ignored the fact that eventually Sony would force that requirement again"
-- yes, it's true that Arrowhead made the mistakes here, but stop acting like Sony's shitty policies aren't intentionally bad.

They're both bad, and we can treat them both like they're bad. We don't have to pick one or the other. And reversing this policy decision is good, and we can also treat it like it's good. (That is: I do, for one, also agree that reversing negative reviews to reward Sony's good behavior in this instance is appropriate. But people need to be consistent to train that dog, because it's one prone to misbehave.)

 

[Tactical Wizard]

You would imagine that the meme of “California Compliant Videogames” would exist after how California basically forces companies to let the rot in. Sony under Jim Ryan basically was as hostile as they could be to Japanese studios and niche JRPGs (basically demanding localizers from a specific company).

If you have any interest in firearms then it’d literally be editing memes to be about videogames rather than guns.

This is the first time I've heard of this. How is California forcing DEI shit into the videogame industry? I'm genuinely curious to find out.

 

[HodgePodgeRogerDodger]

This is the first time I've heard of this. How is California forcing DEI shit into the videogame industry? I'm genuinely curious to find out.

They require equity positions, women and minority’s on the board of any company with over a certain number of employees, require DEI and representation bullshit, and a lot of other horseshit I forget.