Sony hate thread

Seriously, this has evolved from the "Sony hate thread" to the "Marissa Moira is always wrong" thread.
Look if you want to sing the praises of the Agarest series, there's nothing stopping you. There's no laws against being crazy, just hard coded mechanical standards that genres have built up over the decades of remaking the same base concepts into hundreds of different forms to separate the wheat from the chafed thighs you get from sitting too long grinding an arbitrary number.

Fall Guys was just what we told our parents we were playing when we were secretly playing Evenicle
Goddamn don't say that shit here, we're surrounded by incels you're going to need to cover yourself in day old grease in order to mask your non-virgin scent.
 
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I have very little hope for new yakuza games, now that they're going all in on dlc and paywalled features. They're all good games it's a great series, but this shit just tarnishes the experience.
 
Look if you want to sing the praises of the Agarest series, there's nothing stopping you. There's no laws against being crazy, just hard coded mechanical standards that genres have built up over the decades of remaking the same base concepts into hundreds of different forms to separate the wheat from the chafed thighs you get from sitting too long grinding an arbitrary number.
Nigga, shittin on Agarest War is low hanging fruit.
 
Nigga, shittin on Agarest War is low hanging fruit.
Well you also have Disgaea 3, Hyper Dimension neptunia, and an entire landfill of other JRPGs that came out within the first two years of the PS3.

But I digress the truth is I know Sony is doomed and have known for quite some time. They won't even be around 10 years from now. Microsoft's gamepass has already won the long game, with a flick of their wrist they could merge world of warcraft into it and have any game on there with 25 million players. Nobody in theory would need to pay since they're already Gamepass subscribers. They really have no chance to compete, gamepass is an insurmountable advantage. Sony could spend the next decade promoting it's system non-stop and it would be unable to catch up to what Microsoft has to offer. The Activision Blizzard Purchase can add tens of millions of players to gamepass within a single day which would put it light years ahead of any fresh startup program that a competitor could make.
 
I have very little hope for new yakuza games, now that they're going all in on dlc and paywalled features. They're all good games it's a great series, but this shit just tarnishes the experience.
isn't most of that stuff pointless or hardly matters for the story anyway?
 
Welp. Sony’s looking at a class action, and I don’t think this is new thread worthy, so here we go.


A woke company being staffed by enough sex pests to trigger a Class Action? Must be a day ending in Y - in other news, Sky’s still up, Water is still Wet. Yeah it’s more about “Why are Men getting these promotions over women” (probably because they actually fucking work), but the point still stands, Sony shoulda stated in Japan and never moved to Commiefornia
 
Welp. Sony’s looking at a class action, and I don’t think this is new thread worthy, so here we go.


A woke company being staffed by enough sex pests to trigger a Class Action? Must be a day ending in Y - in other news, Sky’s still up, Water is still Wet. Yeah it’s more about “Why are Men getting these promotions over women” (probably because they actually fucking work), but the point still stands, Sony shoulda stated in Japan and never moved to Commiefornia
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Everything woke turns to shit.
 
They're still selling you less game for what you are paying.
dunno, why there certainly are cases where that is true (LA:noir being the biggest offender where the story blatantly references DLC cases), just because it exists doesn't mean it was cut or even adds anything to the game itself. heck half the AAA DLC these days is extra shit that doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things, if it isn't it's own little thing just using the same assets anyway.

I just check what the dlc actually does, and in yakuza's cases there wasn't anything that screamed I have to get it or I'm missing out big time if I don't (unless they released something new in the meantime since last time I checked).
 
And now GT7 is getting deservedly shit on because they went full EA.

After reviews dropped positively, they added MTX to the game. Then, people did the math to see the lengthy grind for new cars while Polyphony patched the game to make the grind for money worse to make users pay for MTX. On top of all that, the servers have been down for over a day, meaning noone can play because the game locks you out of 99% of everything because its always online (even cars you bought, only unlocked tracks stay playable offline).

The fanbase hasn't taken kindly to it:
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the game locks you out of 99% of everything because its always online
This trend needs to die. Even on gacha mobile garbage this shit is annoying. Only time I should be online in a game is if I'm playing against someone else. Otherwise that shit should always be off and let me enjoy the game not only in peace but in full context without having the rest of the game stored on "cloud" servers. What's worse, companies can track you and outright ban you for something insignificant.
 
And now GT7 is getting deservedly shit on because they went full EA.

After reviews dropped positively, they added MTX to the game. Then, people did the math to see the lengthy grind for new cars while Polyphony patched the game to make the grind for money worse to make users pay for MTX. On top of all that, the servers have been down for over a day, meaning noone can play because the game locks you out of 99% of everything because its always online (even cars you bought, only unlocked tracks stay playable offline).

The fanbase hasn't taken kindly to it:
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Microtransactions are literally what the target audience in asia wanted, the rest of the world didn't but the fact that most of asia will dump billions a year into lesser games is part of the reason why Sony wants 10+ live service games. Look how awful Genshin Impact is with needing to gamble and grind shit for unlocks. GT7 is no worse than that.

It's absolutely fucking retarded, but there are people who want to buy digital versions of specific brand name cars because they like the brand just that much.
 
Microtransactions are literally what the target audience in asia wanted, the rest of the world didn't but the fact that most of asia will dump billions a year into lesser games is part of the reason why Sony wants 10+ live service games. Look how awful Genshin Impact is with needing to gamble and grind shit for unlocks. GT7 is no worse than that.
Do Asian people really love microtransactions, though? Or do they just put up with them like most westerners do because they suck at being good stewards of their money? Even more to the point, would the Asian people who play GT7 want microtransactions in Gran Turismo. The audience who play GT aren't necessarily the same audience who play Gacha games.
 
Do Asian people really love microtransactions, though? Or do they just put up with them like most westerners do because they suck at being good stewards of their money? Even more to the point, would the Asian people who play GT7 want microtransactions in Gran Turismo. The audience who play GT aren't necessarily the same audience who play Gacha games.
Yes asian people love microtransactions, it plays to their natural unhealthy love of normal ass gambling.

So much so, some countries now require a social security number to log on to assorted online services because people under 18 were gambling in games instead of doing school work. Genshin Impact has effectively ingrained itself in Japan and other countries and that's played heavily on consoles.
 
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