What about using in your reviews some screenshots taken directly by the reviewers while testing the game instead of pictures that are used by all the sites? For example, I was looking for other reviews of Deliver us the moon and I found a 2019 one for the pc version on an italian site and the pictures were the very same.
@andreoni79 You'll get a proper answer soon but I think they are often given media packs which include screenshots they are allowed to share in reviews?
@kyleforrester87
I've seen this asked on other sites, usually the answer is it's a lot more of a faff than using the supplied pics.
Unrelated, what's going on with the comments in these TLOU2 articles? Seems to be a fair few angry people making a lot of noise about how they hate ND. Looks seriously unpleasant.
@andreoni79 I think a trailer would also help. I don't know if they do it at all, but I just noticed on NLife the other day. I was reading a review, but I was wondering what the actual gameplay was like, but no trailer. I think having the launch trailer in the review would also be useful.
Maybe I'm just an old analogic man in this new digital era, but it bores me a bit the fact that after reading a review I have to google to discover if a game is digital only or not, if it is localized, how much it costs etc.
Memories of the old gaming magazines, I suppose...
@andreoni79 Screenshots are usually supplied by the publisher/developer, that's why you see similar ones on various different websites. Sometimes we're provided with b-roll to make videos with, too.
We don't take our own because it's, frankly, more hassle than it's worth. I know it sounds like a minor task to push the share button and upload some images, but reviews in general are already a bit of a loss leader (they're the least viewed part of the site by far, surprisingly!) so it's just easier for us to use the provided assets.
@Octane Agree with you on the inclusion of a trailer. Noted.
@LieutenantFatman Yeah, the Naughty Dog situation is real weird right now. We've got some extra moderation tools now which will automatically hide spoilers from displaying on the page, and we've issued loads of bans. People want to be toxic about this game right now, though, so it's just how these comments sections are going to go until things calm down.
@get2sammyb
Cheers, toxic is definitely the word, I don't envy you guys having to deal with all of that, good luck with the banhammer. Think I'll be avoiding the comments on those ones for awhile.
@get2sammyb@LieutenantFatman I really don't understand this whole leak/spoil culture that is currently in fashion. Ok I get details on PS5 could be exciting to see, but story details of game that is not even out yet? I fail to see what good comes out of it. Especially when someone is deliberately tagging someone else with those spoilers, if my understanding of what happened is correct.
It's good that extra controls have been put in place on this site. Let's hope that patent Sony filed comes to fruition.
@JohnnyShoulder
That's trolls for you, they're just desperate for a reaction. Probably going to see more of it than usual with so many people being stuck indoors at the moment.
@KratosMD yeah the way I read this forum it doesn’t matter to me since I always just organise threads by most recent so I always see them all within one list. But if you like viewing categories separately I can see it being annoying.
@KratosMD Yep 100%, been saying this for a couple of months now. I was trying to find a thread from a couple of weeks ago, but gave up because of all the tech help questions in the ps4 section. It does feel that we are back up for Sony support at times.
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Yeah we could do with some consolidation moderation on these “tech help”. People asking for help is fine, but there can be too many thread and they should be in the tech section, not the PS4 section.
Yeah we could do with some consolidation moderation on these “tech help”. People asking for help is fine, but there can be too many thread and they should be in the tech section, not the PS4 section.
I agree. @Antdickens is there some way all these help threads can be moved to the help section?
@Genrou@Jaz007 thanks for the heads up. I've moved ~150+ topics from the PS4 forum into the Help/Troubleshooting forum. Please report any stragglers that I missed.
I've also made it so that if anyone posts a new topic to PS4 but has tagged it 'Help', 'Problems', 'Tech Support' OR has 'Help' in the topic title it will automatically move it to the help forum, which should catch about 90% of them.
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