Over the last few days, we've seen outrage across the web regarding the fact that Destiny: The Taken King has been forcing its way onto people's PlayStation 4 systems. The game's icon has the ability to pop up on the console's main menu even if you've never owned Bungie's sci-fi shooter, and as you can imagine, this has caused numerous fits of rage across gaming forums and social media.
Fortunately, this isn't some sort annoying marketing campaign - it's actually one of the PS4's features kicking into life. Back in 2014, firmware update 1.75 added in 'curated content', which supposedly allows the machine to offer up software that it thinks you'll enjoy based upon factors like your play and purchase history. In other words, Destiny's appearing on your console because your system thinks that you might like to try it out. We're one step closer to sentient artificial intelligence.
Anyway, if you're not up for such shenanigans, curated content is easily disabled. Just head into the settings menu, turn 'automatic downloads' off, and you should be dandy.
Have you had to endure the trauma of seeing Destiny on your PS4's menu? Banish it back to the darkness in the comments section below.
[source gamesradar.com]
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The way the PS Store's recommendations work are really weird. It recommended me Don Bradman Cricket to me because I'd been playing Dynasty Warriors 8XL.
OMG I thought I was going crazy and bought the game in my sleep or something.
PHEW.
The system thinks I'd like to try out Destiny? Yeah, I wouldn't call that artificial 'intelligence'.
I have the icon on mine too, but that's cause I play bit lol. Taken king is gonna be free tonplay for a year so no reason not to check it out.
@Matroska Well that's obviously the most logical connection.
Reminds me of the poxy Singstar icon that Sony would refuse to move off my PS3.
Grrrr......
@ricklongo lol, but you obviously like Donkey Kong?! Good man
I don't want that Boring POS on my PS4 That is why i deleted it in a second.
This isn't a great fix as it will also turn off regular automatic downloads in sleep mode right?
@Dodoo Oh yeah, I'll take smart and challenging platforming over generic space shooting any day. But hey, that's me. You don't need to feel offended that not everyone shares your opinion when it comes to video games (I know, shocking).
@ricklongo Offended? Dude I think you have misjudged my comment (or I'm misjudging yours?).
I love DK. In fact I have Tropical Freeze sat next to me and bought DKC Returns twice (Wii and 3DS). Also I am very open minded when it comes to respecting others opinions, not sure where that came from!?
Well, better than that stupid Sing Star I can't get off my PS3.
I wish you could download something if you're thinking about buying it instead. It could be like a demo, but you can't get push start lol. That would be a neat feature.
@Dodoo Oh, sorry about that. I mistook your genuine words for sarcasm, heh. I guess that's what the internet does: I'm often asauming people are being hostile instead of friendly. My bad!
@ricklongo No worries, easy mistake to make my friend!
@AyeHaley When I first saw it I thought someone hacked my PSN account and bought it.
@PorllM I think you can just untick a box for recommended content or words to that effect?
@PorllM There are separate line items in the systems settings - you can turn on/off automatic updates and/or feature content. So you can rid yourself of Destiny or any game that's "recommended", but still retain auto download (even in rest mode) of updates.
I wondered about that, but I was hardly enraged. I think I will try to remember to untick that box though, 'cause this kind of recommendation is worthless to me.
I'd love to know what made anything think I would like Destiny, given my PS4 history of playing FPS games is about an hour on Wolfenstein (I get Motion Sickness as well as not liking them)
Is it just me, or do an increasingly worrying number of PlayStation owners get "outraged" over the most irrelevant things?
RTFM... I've had this feature turned off since launch day when I set up my system.
Half my recommendations are games I own & are already installed, just via disc though. It's stupid.
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