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@Skyfall I'm not sure "AI" is what's needed here.

I feel just a better algorithm for sorting; for example the algorithm could take in to account length of gameplay, etc.

Having "AI" involved could write easily go wrong as if a load of people do buy these shovelware games, then the AI might think that they should be at the top, and then as a developer, you would have to keep tweaking the ML process - which ultimately means it'll just become someone's curated list, rather than an AI made list.

@LIMA better yet, let me ignore a developer rather than a single title 😆

@Jango-Forest you missed the sale a few weeks ago. It was reduced down to £35 for a couple of weeks!

I was the same and was waiting patiently 😆

@KrackenShellackin you could get GT Sport now and see if you like it before committing to GT7.

GT Sport is between £8 - £15 depending on when you get it. So as a warm up/practice/'check if you like it' exercise, you can't go wrong.

Plus at that price, it's a bargain for 6 months of fun before the next version comes out.

@KrackenShellackin

Absolutely! I'm a fan of the GT series (although I had a break between GT4 and GT Sport). But now I'm back and loving it.

I don't have a wheel and it's not a problem at all. All I've done is change the steering from the default controls to the movement controls, so you move the controller like a steering wheel to steer and it seems way more natural than using your thumb on a stick.

The main thing I would say about GT steering wheels is there is a new Sony/Polyphony partnership with Fanatec making the new steering wheels from the start of 2022. So if you did want one, then I would wait until next year to get one (as I am too)

I am a little bit annoyed.

I saw Sackboy on offer in the sale at 11am (while working). Saw it had a trial, so hit the download button.

Work finished around 5pm.

Went downstairs to the PS5 to play it...

Expired 🤬

It never once told me I had 5 hours to use the trial.

@TowaHerschel7 while I agree with some of your points, I also disagree that it is highly probable for the Doomsday scenario you describe to happen.

I think it's way more likely that a single company I use to cloud manage devices, for example my radiators, goes bust and then my radiators won't work without fitting new manual TRV valves on them.

In terms of hacking, I'm actually a network engineer by trade, so I have my home network set up in to many different groups which cannot communicate with each other (the access points and switches just black hole the traffic if they try). Furthermore, my security appliance at the head of my network receives regular (multiple times a day) updates from Cisco's AMP cloud so all my traffic in and out of my house is monitored and if any matches the signatures from Cisco, it will also get black holed.

Alongside this, I also manage my own DNS server which recursively uses Umbrella's DNS service which also blocks any suspicious sites IP addresses.

Granted there are many many people that don't take network security as seriously as me, people should take responsibility for their own security and not rely on anyone else to have their best interests at heart. For example, why do people use their ISPs DNS service when there is no security built in, and they use your data to sell your browsing habits (anonymised) - when you can easily pay for a secure service, encrypt the traffic at source and then send it the service without any 3rd parties in-between being able to see any of your data.

Alongside all of this, every website/online service I use, has a different email address/username with multifactor authentication enabled where available, and the strongest form available as well. For example for someone to access my Google account, not only do they need to know a unique email, but they need to guess/brute force a 32 digit random password (that has differing types of letters, numbers, and symbols) as well as need a physical key - of which I have one at home in my study, and another attached to my keys I keep with me.

I do agree that people are losing historic skills, but you can only learn so much. People don't have the time to learn about how triple expansion stream engines work with, as well as how internal combustion engines work, as well as how electric motors work (taking cars as an example). Bearing in mind that at each stage of this example, efficiency of energy transfer gets better as well as increasing reliability, it makes sense to concentrate on the newest technology but making sure that you do your research around how all aspects of it work (including security, etc.).

I apologise for the long and meandering essay. I didn't mean to write that much when I started!

I'm the opposite to most people. I think it's better they force people to be online as some features will only work from people's data (not personal data).

If it was optional, the data would either be skewed, or incomplete.

The fact that everything in the world is online, it's a complete non-issue. For example, in my house every one of my radiators is online, my heating thermostat, my oven, my fridge, my toddlers clock, every one of my speakers, both my TVs, the nursery thermometer, nursery hygrometer, my house lights (only the hub is online, the bulbs mesh locally to the hub), my watch, my Dyson fan, my cameras, my smart plugs, etc. Etc. (There's probably loads more, but can't think of them right now).

The point is, what's the issue with GT7 being online as well?

Mountain out of a molehill!

I was having problems, but exactly as @Angelus3K said: on the console it works by going to add-ons for the expansion pass.

I thought it was the end of March for a second 🤣

If it was on sale and you bought it a year ago, you wouldn't be annoyed. If it was in sale yesterday and you bought it, you would be annoyed.

Where do you draw the line?

Ultimately, it's in the past. (Excuse the pun)! You just have to chalk it up to bad luck.

Rather than rely on blind luck, or use an online service that alerts tens of thousands of people in one go, I created my own bot that monitored John Lewis and as soon as it saw activity it alerted me and I manually nipped on and bought one.

They sold out in about 11 minutes. In hindsight, I probably should have bought a few and made a killing! But I bought just the one for myself 👍🙂

The best thing is, when they finish development, it will only cost £20 in about a years time 😆

@OMGitsLiamT I was super lucky too with John Lewis.

They took about 13-15 minutes to sell out. If seems they weren't hit by scalpers as well, maybe because you had to log in to your John Lewis account to buy a PS5, and couldn't just buy it without an account (which needs an individual email address to be verified, etc.).

Plus they give you an extra year warranty free of charge!

@OMGitsLiamT Very true. Simple economics.

I 100% agree the only real way to stop scalpers, is to not buy from them.

There must be ways that Sony could put in place to help the situation (if they really wanted to).

A few hoops for an individual to jump through could stop scalpers (and people wouldn't mind jumping through a few hoops to get their hands on a PS5 at a normal price).

Why can't there be a system where you would have to complete the following:

• log in to your Sony PS account
• get a unique code from Sony to purchase a PS5
• go to site website and go to buy a PS5
• during checkout process, you provide your unique code to buy the PS5 (which the retailer confirms as part of the checkout process/presale checks via API with Sony)

This would cut the scalpers right in their tracks (at most you could get one console and sell that at a profit - not thousands that we are seeing at the moment).

Kena looks epic!

I remember being disappointed with Crazy Taxi first time around. I probably played it a few times accruing ~5 hours, but every time just finished the session feeling bored.

I think this is a great arcade game that should remain in the arcades!

I can understand Jordan's tenacity. A lot of people just say that they would have given up, but I'm the same way, I fight for what is the right thing (despite it costing my time).

Feeling pretty gutted.

But now more time to play the big launch titles.

@Howson79 There's a review embargo in place at the moment. From memory, I believe that ends in about 4 days time.

Then expect to see all the reviews (they try to maximise the hype at launch by having all the press talk about it at the same time).

I am 99% flying solo on my PS5 😁

@Arckadius hmmm. Bugsnax 🤔

I have a PS5 (luckily), and this one is firmly in the back catalogue 🤣

@NoxAeturnus I wish I had your willpower. I always say the same thing... And then end up with a few unplayed games!

@MemSec

Haha, yeah exactly.

Mine is 18 months going on 3. We've already started to have tantrums - I don't have a bar of it, so I'm seen as the mean dad 🤣

I was unlucky enough to be made redundant 3 weeks ago, and lucky enough to find another job a week ago, so I've got a few weeks of free "PlayStation" time to get through.

After that time, I'll be in exactly the same boat - evenings only (when my other half is not watching the telebox) 😶

@MemSec I was thinking exactly the same.

Just add a 1 year old to my list of things that (slightly) take precedence!

I think Sony needs to shoulder some of the blame.

It wouldn't be that hard to implement a system where you have to log in to your PlayStation account to get a code that you need to pre-order from the seller.

This ensures one ps5 per account. (They would also need to make sure the bots can't create accounts).

Other vendors are doing this around the world for various things, so why not Sony?

The reason I find this super annoying is because when you are watching TV on your PS5 (like Disney or Netflix), it still spins up every so often.

@SilentBobF1 The worst! I would swap situations if I could.

Mine is delivered and waiting for me downstairs, and I'm cramming for an interview that's happening at lunchtime!

@MightyDemon82 just like https://youtu.be/XF9Ure6-j-I 🤣

@HMazzy111 hopefully he doesn't take a break. I had a delivery driver I was tracking once and he decided to take a 30 min tea break when it was 2 stops away (and literally 15m from my house) grrrrr

@Matej that sounds like torture!

TBH, I'm in the same boat. I'm supposed to have today and tomorrow off, but now have a job interview at lunch time and my pS5 is being delivered in the next 25 mins! 😬

@Matej and you're wasting time posting messages 😆 loool

@aric201812 how do parcelforce "prepare" it for delivery? Do they open it up, check what it is, and then decide if they are going to "lose" it 😆

@Dan_ozzzy189 I wonder how long the replacement time would be if you did receive a lemon? 🤔

@Evilkensdad

That's like waking up and getting ready to go to work and then realising it's a Saturday 🎉

@Kidfunkadelic83

I cannot agree more.

Thanks 👍

Just got an email from DPD. 1 hour to go until delivery!

(Ordered from John Lewis) 😁

This is the problem with some retailers putting a delivery contract out to tender and then going with the cheapest option (Yodel), irrespective of the poor service offered.

I really wanted to purchase my PS5 through John Lewis, and was lucky enough to do so in the melee. Because of this, I've got an extra year warranty free of charge, and a premium courier service dropping my new white slab off this morning (with no delivery cost to me).

#JohnLewisFTW 😁

@Ridwaano - I want to echo @God_of_Nowt

Hats off to you. The best, most concise, summary of Bluetooth profiles I've ever read, and the first time the penny dropped for me why it's not supported on the consoles.

Thank you for your really valuable post on the topic 🤗

I don't usually complain about the articles on Push Square; but this is akin to saying something like "it was unusual the wind was blowing south today" and forgetting to mention the hurricane going by.

What I mean is, there are a few variables that can be involved here (wireless link speed, wireless protocol being used, other clients on the LAN, bandwidth on WAN, which Sony server you're using to download from, etc. etc.).

Having a few of these covered off in the article would be a good start, but having none mentioned is pretty poor.

The article summary uses this layman evidence as proof that the PS5 network support is better, when it could just be that Sony are paying for higher bandwidth from their cloud that the PS5s connect to, which could change after the honeymoon period is over, and they could save costs and reduce bandwidth (all speculation).

To put it in to relation to other forms of entertainment. My local cinema charges £12 a ticket, and assuming a film is around 90 mins, that's £8 an hour.

Spider Man Miles Morales is expected to be around 12 hours gameplay for £70. That works out at under £6 an hour.

It is expensive (in my opinion), but then so are a lot of entertainment activities.

@VeldinX @JimmyRowe1994

Exactly! I stand corrected 😁

The problem with googling an incorrect name is Google is smart enough to show you exactly what you were expecting 🤣

Thank you 😁

I just did the rough maths, if you were to leave your PS5 in rest mode for a whole year, you'd pay less than £2 (in the UK).

@ellsworth004 I thought I was going crazy for a second, I had to Google crazy birds to check it was a thing and not something I had completely made up!

Yeah crazy birds where you fire birds at the pigs to destroy their buildings, etc.

It seems someone has recreated Crazy Birds and charging PS5 owners 6 quid. As if they haven't got anything better to do (like Miles Morales, Sackboy, or even Astro!)

Awesome for a noob like me - I've never played it and it gets delivered next week 😆

Last couple of weeks before PS5, so I'm playing Crash Bandicoot trilogy on switch - I have a love hate relationship with it, it's nostalgic, looks fun, but I hate it! Lol

I've got it and not played the second and third games, so that's my weekend (between my hangover, looking after my little one, and a walk in the park) 🤣

@Dislecksier I didn't know anything about the BMX XXX thing until I just looked it up 😬

Whatever the game though, it just needs to have an epic soundtrack like the old Dave Mirra!

I hope a good individual sports game gets released for PS5.

I bought Steep Gold edition last week in the PS sale to keep me going for 6 months or so.

Ideally Dave Mirra - for me I preferred BMXing over skateboarding - but I'd be happy with a new Tony Hawk's as well 😁