Sony Removes Resident Evil Copy Ebola Village Trailer from YouTube

Sony is the dumbest group when it comes to advertising and not seeing the biggest issue coming from a mile away. Anyone remember the white PSP campaign is coming.

I feel like everytime I go on the store I have Code Violet shoved in my face... but let's not get it twisted, every store front has the same problem.

Considering the amount of imported diseases globally to western climes they may be onto something...

Anyone remember Nintendo promoting this bad boy:

The PS Store is still a mess and it's a chore to use.
It still doesn't have a reliable New Releases section and the 'New' filter is filled with loads of 'Just Announced' shovelware.
No DLC category anywhere! I actually now browse the Xbox store to see if there's possible DLC for stuff on PS5!
The 'Games to Wishlist' section is utterly tragic and 99% AI slop or fad chasing.
The store still crashes back to the dashboard when you browse a few items if the list you are on has over X-thousand of items. The regular sales pages do this with 100% reproducibility and auto submits a crash report. Been doing this for years now.
And the Wishlist still hasn't worked if you have over 20 or so items since they increased the limit.
This is the only outlet Sony has to sell digital games and it's terrible. Give the contract to another provider as the one they've used for years is phoning it in.

Meh. I don't mind it that much. I have my wishlist which is all I use thanks to great recommendations I get here.

That's embarrassing...for us, the players, i mean, because Sony couldn't care less about what kind of ***** they allow on their store, as long as there are dumb people buying these garbages, they're OK

Just read some (dumb) users who actually bought that Bunny Rampage (which, of course is another asset flip trash thrown on PS Store for a quick buck, but this time with a higher price than the usual) and then they went to complain about it on Steam forums lol

As another user already said here, the PS Store is a mess. It crashes every now and then when I'm browsing games on sale, the wishlist is bugged (you can't see any of your games if you put too many on the list), the store is filled with trash scam, and some even copying famous games from Steam in hopes that someone gullible enough will actually buy it

Sony deserves all the roast possible and then some

Maybe I'm wrong but personally, if curation made so I couldn't buy slop like this or that Life of Black Tiger game, I don't think I'd mind.😄

A proper curated store would be nice. It's not a huge deal for me as it's easy to just ignore titles like this but I would imagine indie devs who are trying to get eyeballs on a game they actually put some passion into would appreciate it.

The people saying the store crashes maybe it’s your systems because I browse the store every day and I’ve never once have had it crash and my wishlist is well over twenty titles and browsing it does not cause crashes or slow downs

I haven't read the comment yet, someone probably said it first but also .. promoting that (obvious) knock-off after the battle they did for horizon zero down knock-off... How stupid are they?

@themaladroit yeah because steam,Nintendo and Xbox don’t have the exact same problem lmao. They all deserve to be roasted but in the end none of them care

@AlecEmpire two different situations and people crying about this were probably the same ones crying and breaking their PlayStations when Genshin was revealed and called a BOTW knock off

@themightyant yeah I def agree about the the discoverability it needs to be improved because it’s bad but the store crashing I call bulls**t on because I had a ps5 from launch day till pro launch day when I replaced it with that and not once have I ever had the store crash

I enjoy a good Resi knockoff. Fobia St. Dinfna Hotel was one that I played last year that had a couple of neat twists to it. I don't really have a problem with it.

@dark_knightmare2 Yeah, I thought it may be my system, but it did the same on my old PS5 before I got a Pro.
You can reproduce it only when there's a very large sale. You need to click on a few games in the sale and return back to the list. After viewing a few games (sometimes even only 2 for me), it will slow right down on the return to the list and then crash. Seems to be worse the further down the list you get. UK store by the way.

What, only RE is allowed to make zombie outbreak games ?

Remember when storefronts weren't absolute trash and you could accidentally find a good game?

I now use Deku Deals for absolutely every storefront because it's impossible to simply browse them hoping for something unexpected and good.

One just has to go look at Axyos homepage to see they have form in aping the look of leading franchises in their marketing materials.

Eh to each their own. I thought the trailer looked fine and might even be something I’d eventually pick up on sale. Far more interesting to me than South Park characters coming to Fortnite, Stranger things coming to Dead by Daylight, or the dozens of Asian fantasy slop games ripping each other off that come out consistently.

I think yall don't get how funny this is, their web page has "Gai Stops Auto : Right Version" and I'm dying because of this.
Sure PlayStation advertising Slop is bad but like this is hilarious.

Just call it a spiritual successor. As those games seem to get praise lol

You would think that if Sony is charging for the advertising 'space', that this might limit the real junk from using it.

@dark_knightmare2 yeah, the other stores also have questionable games as well, but I'm talking about the store i use the most...? I don't even own a Nintendo Switch, i barely use my Xbox One or Steam, so of course I'll complain more about the PS Store, and everyone should complain about whatever platform they're using. Just because every store has this crap, that doesn't change the fact that this is quite ***** and i want a better digital store, so of course I'll complain about it. Having said that, i see way more of these scam garbages on PS Store than on Xbox Store or Steam, especially in the "add to your wishlist" section of the PS Store

And the store definitely crashes. I've seen a bunch of people on the Playstation subreddit complaining about the same thing when i started experiencing this, so just because you never experienced, that doesn't mean it's *****, if anything, this kind of logic is *****. You're not the only PS5 user in the world, but you're acting like you are. Do some research, dude. Reddit, X...there are reports about the CE-108262-9 code error on PS Store every now and then on these platforms

Not even gonna bother with your replies because apparently you act as if Playstation can do no wrong and you're dismissing other users reports because somehow you think the world revolves around you. I gave too much attention to you already, so to my ignore list you go

It's kind of funny that people are just now complaining about this game. This studio has made now 3 games in the Ebola series(maybe 4). They've been around for years.

The game is obviously a ripoff of Resident Evil but some people like how it's old school Resi and janky. Even the scores on Steam are decent. It definitely is old school survival horror.

Who cares if you dont like it dont buy it the game doesnt even look that bad for what is most likely a low budget indie game its not like they have promoted one of those press one button to get a platnium games which have no real value.

If anything its cool that sonys giving smaller developers a leg up by showing there games.

Looks downright similar to RE and being much inferior at that.

Ebola is a real, horrible disease. Bad taste doesn’t even begin to cover it.

Remember it, PushSquare, when you release another article "New 2000+ discounts..." while you know 1950+ of them are these shovelware!

@get2sammyb Bigger question is with the departure of not only Shuhei Yoshida but (judging by his twitter),Greg Rice from the Playstation Indies has there been a quite purge of their old division? Push Square has posted a few stories of the A.I. slop copycat titles (literally the other day pun intended!)...but it points to an issue of has there been cutbacks in PSN account managers & game curation/ Identifying titles to promote which the indies initiative under Shuhei was doing?

Wouldn't shock if the games approval process is being handed over to an A.I. driven backend on PSN,but this sort of promotion suggest the Indies Initiative department has been culled in favour of just promoting whatever slop titles are being approved so long as they're paying promotion fees....we've already seen in the past how neglect of the Indies saw a number of devs & publishers prefer releasing elsewhere due to difficulties dealing with overworked or account managers who left & left them with literally noone to communicate with!🤔

@nessisonett I mean, wasn't World War II real and horrible?

@naruball yes it’s a wonder that these days people don’t complain about war games depicting a sanitised and glorified version of wars. Not just in relation to the portrayal of consenting participants, but also the innocent victims from conscripts to civilians.

They are oddly selective about what they do and do not care about, and which subjects are off limits.

TLoU was about the mutation of a real fungus. I don’t know the details of this game but I’d have no issue with a mutated Ebola infection leading to something more horrifying in a game plot.

Heck, Resident Evil is based on a lab leak of a virus that was being subjected to gain of function experiments…

Hmm….

@themaladroit ps store has never crash for me and many other people so maybe it not the store maybe it your system let not quickly blame Sony when multiple people have told u they don't have this issue so it either your system or something else that doing it u can agree or disagree but does not change the fact that plenty of people who don't have this issue

PS Store is a mess, full of AI generated, or trash games. Whenever I filter by price growing up, the first 300-400 games are pure trash that should never be added on the store.

The system errors are also there, like some have mentioned above, from time to time on Store same one or two errors happen. It happens for years and Sony did nothing to solve it. Reddit or other forums are full of people reporting it.

Close enough, welcome back Life of Black Tiger

@Slayer25c I'm definitely blaming Sony because I'm not the only one experiencing this issue. I already stated before that multiple users also experience crash when browsing the store. I really don't care what you think of what i said, just don't tell me who to blame or not because I'm not ordering you around

There's literally a comment right below yours from another user experiencing the same thing and you all seem to ignore what i said about looking for posts about this issue on Reddit, X and etc
It's not an isolated case and it can definitely start happen to you because apparently the issue starts happening after updating the console's firmware (which was my case). So, yeah, don't think you're free of this issue just because it didn't happen to you yet. A lot of people seem to think their Dualsense will never drift, but eventually they do, sometimes years after they bought the controller. Every time you update your console you're at risk of experiencing the same issue

And again, I'm not gonna keep debating this with people that just outright ignore what i said about other cases, while telling me not to blame Sony, as if it's our fault that their digital store and OS is horrible. You'll be added to my ignore list as well. Bye!!

@Leinad7 yep, these errors are quite annoying and yet Sony doesn't care. They didn't even fix the wishlist, let alone the whole store. It's literally the place where they earn our money and they just don't care lol

@themaladroit " I really don't care what you think of what i said, just don't tell me who to blame or not because I'm not ordering you around"

Gotta love the irony

It's very distasteful to base it on Ebola. It's like they took resident evil 5 (which I don't find as problematic as some would want you to believe) and ask themselves "how can we make this, but insulting!".

If they want a disease to base a game on, here's one for grabs: Man-Flu Madness!

@tameshiyaku now that would be a great idea for a comedy.

@naruball telling the person to let me say WHATEVER I WANT isn't ordering anyone around, it's me telling that i have the right to express my opinion. There's no irony here, unless you can't read proper context, and since i know the kinds of comments you make around here, this reply from you doesn't really surprise me. Since apparently you have nothing useful to say about the subject at hand, I'll just ignore you as well. Been wanting to do that for a while already, actually

@themaladroit sure, buddy.

I just find funny how some people prefer to annoy other users with useless comments instead of adding anything useful to the overall conversation, or, i don't know, even saying something helpful to the issue me and others exposed about the store here (since Sony themselves apparently isn't doing anything). Some of you really like to waste other people's time with small quibbles or blame anyone but the company itself for a lack of quality control on their own system (even though said issue is been happening for years already)

Idiots crying about a game being allowed on a store eventhough they're not forced to buy it and can quickly move past it. Just another day on the internet.

@themightyant The biggest thing for me is finding hidden gems because of how the store is setup.

@naruball There’s a reason that WW2 games skip over the Holocaust.

@nessisonett but I think we can agree that war is terrible for everyone involved, right?

@naruball You’re being disingenuous. Ebola is a disease that is currently killing people right this second. WW2 was over 80 years ago, and even then they whitewash it in games and it’s very broad strokes. I cannot imagine having such little empathy for the plight of dying African children that I’m trying to score internet points.

@nessisonett does the fact that it happened 80 years really make a difference? Because to me, it doesn't. And WW3 feels more like a real threat every passing day. I'm not being disingenuous. Who's having little sympathy exactly? I think they're both terrible. Please stop making assumptions about others.