Kelrics90

Pre-covid: Working in the office is normal and expected.
Post-covid: "HOW DARE YOU RETURN TO HOW IT ORIGINALLY WAS! I AM ENTITLED TO WORK FROM HOME!"

My work has taken the hybrid approach, depending on your productivity and work ethic, you "earn" the privilege to work from home. If you screw up, it's taken away. I get to work from home 4 out of the 5 days of the week and I can choose to go in as needed.

WFH is a privilege, not a right. If you are actually disabled to the point where you can't physically go to the office, then you need to tell your employer you're looking elsewhere.

A stripped rewards program for both PS Stars and Credit holders, lack of great first party exclusives, and a live service push that failed spectacularly.

Yeah, I'm gonna disagree with that one, Sony.

That was $200 Million of our dollars well spent, Sony. Good Job.

Maybe by refunding everyone you'll still qualify for that Tax Write-off?

So this is basically useless now. It'll be impossible to accrue the amount needed for a full game by the time they expire.

So the only use case I see for points now is digital currencies in games. Like Gacha games and Destiny 2 Silver.

We've reached new levels of insanity.

disappointed. The biggest criticism from the first game was the missions involving being "on rails" as side characters like MJ, etc.

What did Spider-Man 2 do in light of that critique?

DOUBLED DOWN.

CD Project Red tried to get Rebecca removed from EdgeRunners because she's an L-word so it seems odd that's the one they choose for the figure.

Oh, wait...they hate her so this makes sense.

Studio Trigger basically saved the Cyberbunk Franchise.

I get the feeling this game will fall victim to more localizer drama.

30 hours is practically nothing in the gaming world. I'll take it at least because it's a start

Playstation's US Division is insane. A certain post apocalypse game not only shows full top nudity, but sex.

Anything Japanese is subject to censorship. Why?

So Days Gone Remaster was false, which I honestly would have paid the $10 for because I would legitimately go back and do a new game plus for it.

Horizon though..... Nah. I just don't see the replay value there. It was so boring, better than forbidden west by a long shot but it was still a bit of a slog with all the busy work to clear the map.

The director of communications or whatever was fawning over this game.

It's just another copy/paste Lego game with Playstation IP shoved into it.

Let the kids play, what is there for us adults?

This is getting comical at this point. What about new IP's, what about new games in literally any series at this point?

What does Sony have for the existing players? These Remasters and Remakes are only for two groups of people: Shills that buy anything from PS Studios no matter what, and new players that didn't have a PS3 /or PS4.

I don't think anyone will really care. This game didn't even make back it's budget....

@Mikey856 It's a small CPU clock speed bump and a little bit of boosted RT performance with AI super resolution garbage.

Can't make a GPU that can natively render the damn pixels? Fake it with AI and introduce artifacts.

Really good deal there, buddy.

@ButterySmooth30FPS You can get a used RTX that supports DLSS for cheap. You wouldn't get a BD Drive for PC since all games there are digital.

@breakneck internal or an included M.2 SSD? Blog doesn't make that clear.

Wow that's expensive for what you get. It says it includes a 2TB SSD, as in internal storage or an M.2 pre-installed?
Because I personally don't want to pay for an M.2 that I won't use or need since I'd be transferring my current one.

The only way this is an upgrade for me is if it will actually do 4K 120hz with 4:4:4 color space. (PS5 currently does 4:2:2 when 120hz is enabled)

@Synthatron_Prime
Nope!

The one feature I want still isn't here. I want the ability to save two audio tracks for the share feature....this way we can edit out the voice chat if we want to.

@8bit4Life only the overseas devs. Western devs are still whiny little babies when it comes to good looking characters.

(and yes I mean both Male AND Female)

@BIG3 Tried it on PC a while ago.....No.

800 primogems? They don't even give you the equivalent value of one $70 game in this bundle. lul, mihoyo.

This has to be the dumbest nothing burger boycott I've seen in a long time.

Supporters of this don't even commit to not play the game they are so addicted to.

I have zero confidence that Sony will allow us to use the discs we already have. They will just trinkle out some curated games to the PS Store and make us buy them again.

It's a shame because the PS3 remaster of the Jak series is far superior to the PS2 Classics we have on PS5 now.

This happens with every live service game. No company ever properly prepares for every unknown. They can't accurately predict player numbers (D2 Final Shape got almost 300K per-orders at the last minute) and they definitely can't predict what will go wrong when they open the floodgates to hundreds of thousands of people hitting them all at once.

I just set my expectations. I knew yesterday was going to be a glorious disaster and it was. I'm not mad at all. Just ended up playing something else and then got back to D2 today.

Sells half the amount of the first one and is a great success.

Two minutes into the game and it preaches to you about the environment. Then the symbiote infected boss fight of "you know who" was absolute cringe. I need to avoid spoilers but that boss in the Suburbs was so bad.

OK.....

So once again the disc contains nothing resembling a playable game. Ubisoft is a joke.

@twitchtvpat Maybe because the "Bait and Switch" Strategy from Sony is relatively new?

That was easy to refute your argument. Plus, I'm neither a hardcore PC player or a HellDivers 2 player. I just sympathize with people who feel like they are preyed upon. Sony sees money bags in you, not a customer to be treated fairly.

You're just a cow to be milked. Congrats.

The only unhinged people here are the PS Fanboys. You need to understand that PC Players do not want ANOTHER Account under their belt. From EA, to Ubisoft, etc.

Sony has a history with data breaches. It's not really that unexpected that players would be upset they have to give their information to a company that has little incentive to keep it secure.

What about the issue of PSN not being available in all countries? What happens to them? Refunds?

@Mortal I have considered it and I don't take the words of the Director at Face Value. Oh he said it so it must be true!

If that was what they intended from the beginning then why would the lack of censorship be on the disc? Why is sony marking the 1.0.2 update as "Mandatory" so that the PS5 downloads the update regardless of the auto update settings?

His response sounds like Sony canned/approved response because he's under NDA.

It's not just about skimpy outfits, the gore too.

But also, it's about the double standard at Sony Playstation. Why is TLOUII allowed to have so much gore and a full nude intercourse scene but Eve can't have a bunny suit?

Better yet, let's look at Baldur's Gate 3, you can have intercourse between entire different species which again contains full nudity.

Sony treats western developers differently than eastern ones.

I'm in the camp of no censorship. We have a rating system for a reason. I have cancelled my playstation plus subscription.

@Shigurui Think Wuthering Waves has any chance of putting a dent in Genshin's community?

@riceNpea Love how you use Taylor Swift as an example. Have you ever seen the degeneracy of a Nicki Minaj Music Video?

The "latex" one is a little over the top for my taste but I appreciate the freedom of choice for players that like that sort of thing.

I'm just glad Eve looks like a video game character I want to play as. It's not a dude masquerading as a woman.

Last time I used it on my 500mbps connection it was still terrible with too much input latency.

I just don't see Cloud Gaming as viable until everyone has at least 1Gbps connections. Latency is king.

"Achievements" or not, Kim Ryan has taken Sony Playstation back to an era of complacence and arrogance. Good Riddance.

I'm sorry, but that looks like a man's face on a woman's body while wearing makeup.

How many examples of actions like this will it take to convince people not to "buy" Digital Content?

After all these updates why can't Sony implement the ability to split the audio channels for Game and Voice? WebM supports multi-channel audio and the built-in capture features on PC can do this......I hate having to toggle voice sharing on and off.

@Grimwood Money. Part 1 was more popular so they gotta milk that money from the fanboys who will buy it anyway.

@Nem and the game doesn't really do enough to earn the word "Remaster". It's closer to a Director's Cut.

Calling the game a Remaster when it looks mostly the same with a small bump in resolution is kinda disingenuous at best.

@UltimateOtaku91 No, you get a small reward in the full game for playing it though.

It doesn't take a genius to figure out why. Just a bunch of creepy dudes on the internet making cringe advances on her because she's attractive.

This is exactly the same as the AT&T girl Milana Vayntrub, her role in Spider-Man 2 has nothing to do with it, people just know who she is now because of marketing. Spider Man 2 helped her get recognition and now that fame comes with a downside.

Take one look at the suggestive things posted to her instagram and put two and two together.

Meh, awards shows are a joke? You like it? Good for you.

I'll stick with the original game because that's the best place to experience the story it meant to tell.

@TechaNinja One big problem with that. It doesn't make money.

@PixelDragon

LOL, you just regurgitated the same talking points of every Stan for this game. It wasn't a minority, it was a large chunk of TLOU fanbase. The "10 MILLION COPIES!" you're referring to doesn't mean successful, it took nearly double the amount of time to reach that milestone as other Sony First party IP's and even then it was sold at massive discount. I've seen it as low as $10.

Put this into perspective. Days Gone sold 8 Million Copies in ONE YEAR and Sony considered it a failure. TLOUII took TWO YEARS to reach 10 Million while being massively discounted. It's not the win you think it is.

Good thing their last big Single Player game jaded and divided it's fanbase to bits and now there's little trust in them as a developer.

To be honest after all the TLOUII drama, I'm much less hyped for anything ND has planned.

@PixelDragon A lot of TV shows don't have physical editions anymore. One of my favorite TV shows ever is Mythbusters and finding the old DVD's are extremely difficult.

I found this reddit comment to be extremely impactful:
"If buying means you don't own it, then piracy isn't stealing."

The votes here are kind of hilarious and out of touch. Bungie has pulled off a rare feat rarely seen in gaming. How many Live Service Games do you know of that lasted this long and isn't world of warcraft?

I'll wait.

Who would you rather have in charge of Sony's push? 343 Industries? Literally any Ubisoft developer? lul.