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Re: Poll: Does Sony Need to Take Action After Microsoft's Activision Buyout?

Stragen8

If streaming is the future of games - which Sony is already invested in and made a deal with MS to bolster cloud services last year - then Sony needs to focus on bumping up its roster of Studios and developing a MUST HAVE storefront. PS Pass and PS Store to compete with Gamepass and Valve. Consoles are probably dying unfortunately and casual gamers will buy a chrome cast like device to stream and play the one or two games they play.

Re: Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Leaving Role Once Microsoft Buyout Is Done, Says Report

Stragen8

I remember when I first got into following gaming news around 2007 or so this guy seemed to be everywhere (and massively disliked) then kinda disappeared from news until this last year.

Not surprising he’d leave, the dudes got insane cash and is kinda old. Never understood why these type of people wouldn’t retire way earlier then they do. They’ll still never get through all their money.

Re: The Game Awards 2021 Breaks Records with Livestream Numbers

Stragen8

It went too long and showed too little games and too much blatant advertising.

Hopefully enough people feel the way I do that the numbers will drop next year and they go back to a better format.

It seemed too rigid and formulaic to appease advertisers versus a fun celebration for gamers. Less production and more entertaining moments please.

Re: Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann to Present at The Game Awards

Stragen8

I still don’t get the hate for TLOU 2. I loved the story and it impacted me more than a 2 hour movie ever could. Spending hours, getting you to the point of hating a character, then switching to having to play as her for hours?!? Made me so mad at first but I love how they did it.

Re: Sony Introduces Game Trials, Try PS5 Games for a Limited Time

Stragen8

@__marc And i know for a fact on my OG PS4 my speeds were often capped at 3-4 MBPS while my phone would read speed test of 100. Now the PS5 does download significantly faster but that doesn’t mean Sony’s idea of timers starting at download is a good idea. Games are only getting larger.

I’m glad you have god tier internet but your experiences arent universal. This discussion is based on a bad policy not how internet bottlenecks are different for different conditions.

Re: Sony Introduces Game Trials, Try PS5 Games for a Limited Time

Stragen8

@GreatAuk I’ve had games/large updates (100GB) on my PS4 take over a day. That’s with 100 MBPS internet speeds, but the system downloads much slower. Now the PS5 can handle faster download speeds vs the ps4 but it’s still not at what I’m getting from my internet provider.

Before you go on an entitled rant maybe you should take a few more things into consideration. How about a multi family household where there are multiple downloads or streaming at the same time? How about Comcast deciding to have an outage while you’re download.