In case you missed our article from earlier in the day, a new game launched on the North American PlayStation Store yesterday, proclaiming to offer the “world’s fastest Platinum Trophy”. But it’s since been removed. The circumstances of the game’s deletion are currently unclear, but critical videos from the likes of industry pundit Jim Sterling are sure to have played a part.
Our issue with the game was not really the ease with which the Trophies could be unlocked, but more the egregious advertising of the release. It’s since emerged that the company who made this also published the godawful “covfefe” theme, so we’re starting to wonder if the organisation is merely pushing Sony and seeing how far it can go. At least, that would make us feel better about the whole thing anyway.
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Well, good riddance. PS Store is becoming weired and I don't like it.
@KingSimba Indeed.. PSN has no standards now. None whatsoever.
And in said article I linked the Trump thing to this, seems I wasn't that off the mark. Equally lazy and lame.
Now they are going to tell us that some of the images of the puzzles were copyrighted and that is the real reason to have it taken down.
And nothing of value was lost.
And there was much rejoicing.
I thought when I was reading about why What Remains of Edith Finch couldn't get a platinum is cos there is a team at sony who monitors and gives the go aheads?
My Name Is Mayo
That is all.
Two words SONY. Quality. Control.
@Fandabidozi Quality control is there to determine that the game doesn't brick the hardware.
IMO Sony should not concern itself with what constitutes a good or bad game outside of its first-party releases.
@sinalefa If it's anything like their other recent game release, the pictures are probably all their themes anyway. Only thing they learned was lower pricing.
I swear I'm not stalking this game, really, but on my regular afternoon news trawl I stumbled across this secondhand twitter explanation that the game was removed to "change the game's name & not mention trophies in the Store trailer."
https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/880251224699707393
@get2sammyb Ideally I agree with you, but in reality flooding the store with bad games can damage consumer confidence in the Playstation brand and perhaps more importantly draw attention (and purchases) away from games that are more deserving.
I downloaded it befre they pulled it. Not sure if thats a good or bad thing.
@get2sammyb Ok i jist actually tried the game for he first time and what you said in the video is correct. This is NOT EASY! I thought it was just you tbh but this is seriouslynot easy at all. I kinda want mt .98 cents back.
@3Above There are solutions you can download online.
Common sense prevailed.
Lolz. I wouldnt have been able to plat this anyway, I too suck at doing puzzle slidey games.
Well, who does decide if a game gets a platinum or not? I don't base my purchases on if a game has one or not.(I only have 2 plat trophies) But I do feel disappointed if a game I buy doesn't have one.
@doctommaso In PC-verse, PC master race call it free market.
Good job Sony. Now remove Skylight Freerange, Life of a Black Tiger, Lightning Spear, Wander, Motorcycle Club, Planet 2000, Bread Pub, Rollercoaster Dreams, Umbrella Corps, Energy Hook, Fluster Flock, Orc Slayer, Yorbie, and Skyride from PS Store as well.
@Splat Cracking scene, cracking actor. RIP.
@get2sammyb Oh Thank God! Kinda defeats the purpose but hey it was a 98 cent Platinum gimmick. We knew what this was.
I don't think it's Sony's job to curate the store, but I do think trophies need some sort of moderation before they become (more) meaningless.
I don't understand the current state of trophies. This game had a platinum, but other PSN titles still don't get platinums? FFXIV Stormblood didn't get ANY additional trophies (probably due to SE if anything). I know there used to be some sort of moderation on what games can and can't have platinums, but perhaps that moderation is gone.
If you want an easy plat, go and play a Telltale game.
From what was written about it on this site last time it sounded like shovelware so it being removed is most likely a good thing.
@whywai88 I don't know about PC-verse, but I do know free markets don't really work as freely as you might think. For example, if I make, say, milk at home, I can't just take it to the grocery store and start putting it up on the shelves for sale; I have to make an arrangement with the store. It works the same way with software. In this case, Sony left the store unattended and wasn't paying attention, but they do have the right to decide what goes up on their shelves, so to speak.
@whywai88 Here in superior PS4 land, we call it "That's why we don't play PC games."
@Mahe And according to some of my PC playing friends, the massive number of games on Steam as a result of the "freer market" makes finding actually good games a needle in a haystack proposition.
@doctommaso Yeah. These digital storefronts need curation, even more so when there are more games.
@get2sammyb I don't agree, Sony should check the games they sell in their store. Just like any other (physical) store, you don't want to sell bad products as it will hurt your name.
Games should abide by at least some standards set by Sony and I know there are some allready. For example the game pauses when the controller is disconnected etc.
To be honest I hardly ever play indie games (Life is strange was pretty edgy for me), so I wouldnt know what the current status of indie games on offer in the ps store would be. Just saying some moderation from Sony is probably a good thing
@Flurpsel The games should function properly, of course. I'm just saying Sony shouldn't step in and decline games based on the quality of the content. It's a dangerous place to be if you're refusing the sale of games because they have a "low Metacritic".
@SoulsBourne128 Now i want to check what this crap is. 😀 😁 😂
Umbrella Corps Capcom must hate their Resident Evil IP if they take such a big risk by damaging it with this garbage.
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