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Re: PS5 Confirmed to Be Affected by Game Expiry Issue, Sony Support Sends Mixed Messages on DRM

8thDoctor

So now the only value of making a console your primary is for playing purchased games in alt accounts? This is just creating friction for friction's sake again.
There wasn't anything wrong with the old system of no checks for the primary PS5/4 (it's been my primary PS5 for 4 or 5 years now, why does Sony need a monthly check in from me?). Nor even with the old-old system- where as long as your system was registered to your account you could play any installed game offline (still how it works on Vita).

Re: Assassin's Creed: Black Flag's PS5 Remake Will Be Officially Revealed This Week

8thDoctor

Black Flag is a great pirate game and a mediocre AC game, it's probably going to be a hard balancing act if they're adapting the game to the modern AC style. Ideally you'd want to enhance the shore leave sections of the game with better combat, stealth and movement, but without keeping people away from the more memorable sailing side because you made on-foot things harder to get through.
If they don't take this opportunity to make the "follow this guy to eavesdrop" missions much less of a pain to do it will all have been for naught.

Re: 'He's a Distant Relative of My Mum or Something': Street Fighter 6 Patched to Be Slightly Less Incestuous

8thDoctor

There's really no saving that he married his adoptive sister, blood related or not, that's just weird. Changing his previous 2 main-game appearances to make it a "childhood friends" situation rather than a "adoptive siblings" situation is just going to make another part of the lore loving fandom mad.

@PuppetMaster They will never mention that she was 17 ever again. If for whatever reason it's brought up again they'll just quietly bump her up to 18, or do 27 and claim the old 1 was a misprint.

Re: Rumour: Xbox Debating Whether to Make Its Games Exclusive Again

8thDoctor

MS would have to be wiling to take a big hit not porting games to PS and Nintendo, which by all accounts has been very profitable. Like with Sony, I don't think it would count for live-service games so we'd still get Forza, Halo MP and COD so there's some safeness there.
I just don't see MS taking the hit they would need to take to do this while Nadella is in charge. They're already throwing all the spare cash & more into the AI blackhole, so maximizing profits everywhere else is paramount for them.

Re: Grab These Resident Evil PSN Avatars for Free This Month

8thDoctor

Those CGI screenshot avatars look pretty bad. Baffled as to why Claire & Ada get a pic from much older projects when the rest are using the modern appearances.
Since it's the 30th Anniversary, shots of their PS1 looks would have been cooler, either from the cut-scenes or the actual character models. I would def use a RE1 Jill avatar.