It would appear that the Atlas Corporation has a lot more to answer for than questionable ethics, as Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare has become the first game to clamp down on the PlayStation 4’s nifty Share Play feature. Introduced as part of the format’s recent firmware update, the addition enables you to stream your games to another console – and even allows the guest to take control of your, er, controller in order to sample titles that they may not necessarily own.
Clearly concerned with the very concept of this addition, though, Activision has opted to “censor” the entirety of its recently released first-person shooter, rendering the functionality more or less redundant. Sony has since confirmed that, unfortunately, game makers do have the ability to do this. “The option is available to developers to disable the feature according to what they feel will best benefit the consumer experience,” a spokesperson said.
This has since prompted other titles, such as Call of Duty: Ghosts, to suddenly cease working with the futuristic feature, which is a real shame as far as we’re concerned. With a 60 minute limit already implemented, and an online streaming experience unlikely to ever rival the real thing, we’re not entirely sure what publishers are frightened of here. If nothing else, it should increase exposure – but we suppose that people in suits don’t tend to think like real human beings.
[source gamespot.com]
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Makes sense to have the option, a 2-3 hour indie could suffer big time from the feature. For a game like this though, that just stinks.
@Jaz007 very true, it may have even boosted sales for those games that don't have a demo.
@Jaz007 Its the new way to play a demo so to speak. Like you say,it can only increase exposure
It's all about maxamising profit. There no actual demo if cod on ps4 and allowing this is giving something for nothing. I don't agree with it. Typical money hungry company lol
My buddy and i were looking forward to trying exo survival on shareplay while his copy downloaded. Shame such a great feature is getting this treatment. Id understand online multiplayer, and even campaign, but local co op or local multi is a serious let down. Not to be that guy or anything but should i email activision and ask if its ok if we play when he visits while using just one copy? Its essentially the same thing in my opinion, difference is i can have someone come over, spend the day at my house, and play the entire campaign and a few hrs of multiplayer without buying it using his own profile even....
This is one of the main reasons I bought a ps4. If it's being disabled all the time then I think you should be entitled to a refund.
@the_-don1 Good luck with that!
“The option is available to developers to disable the feature according to what they feel will best benefit the consumer experience,”
Yes, the option is there to benefit the CONSUMER. Jesus christ, Sony.
Greatness censored. Greatness denied. Spacey Awaits.
@get2sammyb
MR MOSEBY GET OUT!
Such a great character.
Buddy and I tried share play with Towerfall Ascension. As soon as we finished he asked "how much is this game?"
Activision are just idiots...
If other publishers follow suit then one of the PS4s most anticipated features becomes redundant....Activision are rapidly becoming a company I'll avoid, after the steaming pile of shattered expectations that was Destiny and then killing share play on one of the consoles biggest releases.
I've never been into CoD but maybe if I'd been able to give it a shot via Shareplay Id have gotten into it, its single player game is meant to be decent so I'd have given it a go.
It's no differnt to music online or you tube. Business are scared of what they can't control (nice pun). In a year 18 months I'll be surprised if new games block this feature.
When Shareplay first became available I figured I'd check it out to see if it actually worked so invited a mate in for a game of Diablo III ... we spent a couple of hours playing it and it worked flawlessly
Two days later he went out and bought Diablo III
If companies don't see this as an added way of selling their games to people who otherwise probably wouldn't have bought them then it's their loss
Say bye bye to share play now then!!, All companies will do the same!!
It's a Great way to make money....
Use share play on a game both parties are really enjoying playing....keep getting disconnected after the hour.... Player that don't own the game goes out and buys it so they can carry on having fun without the 1hr timer keep cutting them off!!
Activision = Dumb!!
Share play is one of those cool futuristic features I can't imagine ever using.
Yeah my friend was trying to get me to try it out last night but it wouldn't work, so this why, oh.
To be Devil's advocate, I can understand Activision's logic behind not wanting to enable share play. Like someone said, it's to maximize profits paticularly in a time where I think people are experiencing CoD fatigue. Didn't Activision say sales of the series has declined year over year. If people share play it, they might find out it sucks and not bother to buy a copy. They don't want to risk that. Does it suck for us? Yeah, but hey, we're talking about the guys in the suits that just sees $$$...
I am getting the game for 40bucks brand new. Thats how I counter Activision's play
Activision censoring any way for people to try their game for free?! Im shocked…
So basically you either pony up or dont play.
Good show Activision and like Bobby 'the devil' Kotick once said, "we just want a franchise that we can milk year on year to maximise profit".
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