PS4 Communities Now Support Up to 100k Members

Everyone's invited

by Sammy Barker Fri 26th Aug 2016

Communities are a cool but underutilised feature on the PlayStation 4, allowing likeminded gamers to unite over certain titles or topics. If you weren't already aware, there's a Push Square group that you can join right now. The problem for bigger communities is that they were previously limited to 10,000 members. Sony's changing that, increasing the allowance to 100,000 members per community.

This means that really big groups will be able to grow exponentially, allowing more gamers to get together. Hopefully this is a sign that the Japanese giant sees communities as a worthwhile feature, and it'll continue to expand upon the functionality that they offer over time. Right now, all you can really do is share screenshots, which is nice… But, y'know…

[source twitter.com]

As the Editor of Push Square, Sammy has over 15 years of experience analysing the world of PlayStation, from PS3 through PS5 and everything in between. He’s an expert on PS Studios and industry matters, as well as sports games and simulators. He also enjoys RPGs when he has the time to dedicate to them, and is a bit of a gacha whale.

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Fri 26th Aug 2016

I do like communities found some good people to game with. But as the article says they are under used. I would like to see more official communites. I think part of the problem is that people can not be bothered to write much because its a pain. I use a keyboard so its not bad.Also big communities takes too long to scroll through messages. Not sure how you really get past that. In principle they are great just think that they need tweeking to some how make them better. Making communities larger will make the problem even worse as I will be even less likely to scroll through community with 100.000 members/messages. One feature that would be useful is being able to actually respond to a message someone has posted. I know you can reply to them personally. But if you could respond and your response appear below their comment that would be a lot better.