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@dark_knightmare2 wow mate, looking at your comments I'm not even gonna engage in a discussion with you. If you loved the game, good for you.

I loved the first game and after putting more than 50 hours into the game, I was thoroughly disappointed. As I said I thought they added so much bloat to the game in the name of more is better that it became a Ubisoft game and I stand by that.

@jrt87 agreed bud. Talk about a bloated mess of a game. They literally did a Ubisoft with the game design.

I will say though that the graphics were fantastic on PS5.

I sold my copy immediately after finishing the game. So disappointing.

That's how tone-deaf these lot are.

The service IMO is pretty crap and I'm going to quit the service altogether early next year. Won't even bother with essential.

If I wasn't already skipping it before, I definitely am now.

This is the exact reason why I felt pushed to get an Xbox (for the first time in my life) this year. I hope these kind of decisions push more people away from the platform. Add to that the Horrorshow I had in terms of customer service with my PS5 this year, fully justifies my decision.

Such disgraceful practices.

I enjoyed the first beta weekend a little bit better. Think they cranked up the Skill Based Matchmaking in weekend 2 and I've seen a few COD-content creators say the same thing. Though I will say Ground War on Sarif Bay was really fun.

Overall it was good fun. And I was quite surprised by how much I enjoyed it.

I must say that I've enjoyed what I've played so far. Wasn't expecting much tbh. There are quite a bit of niggling issues but then again it's a beta. Biggest issue has for me is the menu navigation and how fast you die (the animations for it is very inconsistent).

@Shepherd_Tallon by that logic, seems like the reports we read about Putin is a narrative drawn up by the West and which has decided that Putin is bad. Come on bud...

Not trying to be political here but it was just an example that if bad decisions are made, it's just a fact that bad decisions has been made. And Jim Ryan has made a lot of poor decisions that negatively impact us, the end user. From price hikes, foray into live service games (still on the fence as to how this goes) and not forgetting the amount of times he has had diarrhea of the mouth when communicating to the fan-/customerbase

Can say with certainty that I will personally not look back fondly at his leadership of the brand

@IonMagi yeah I just started playing it last weekend on my series X and it has a lot of stutters and frame drops. Nothing game breaking but could be smoother obviously.

@get2sammyb it's not the distributors responsibility this but Sony that writes the requirements for packaging. So the blame solely lays at Sony's feet.

Some sites like VGC are saying that customers and not getting full refunds but rather 20% vouchers for their next purchase.

So not only are they shafting loyal and paying customers on the price of the game itself but also delivering the product poorly and post sales support is as usual also poor.

Sony of this generation summed up.

@naruball you're right for the games that have been released up till now but one thing I think Microsoft does better than Sony is offering good quality games of differing genres. As an example, for all its multiplayer flaws Halo Infinite was an 8/10 for its single player.

Also looking forward, I'm more excited about what is coming out on Xbox than on PlayStation past December 22. Then again that's just me.

@Smiffy01 exactly. That's what intrigues me. 🤪

I would love to crawl into the minds of those people that forked out full price for Saints Row just to see what goes on in there.

The many reviews I've watched paint it as a hollow, terribly written and buggy mess of a game.

Great! I hope there is more pushback around the world to this greed.

A win for PlayStation fans and generally for the corporation would be Big Jimbo to get the sack.

@UltimateOtaku91 sorry mate are you implying that those of us who are unhappy with this decision is being illogical? In fact it is completely illogical as a consumer to support/be fine with this in any shape or form, because the only reason they have increased the price is to maintain their profit margins and shove whatever increase in manufacturing costs down to the consumer.

Very very poor. The few that were any good, were the games we've already seen.

That Kojima podcast reveal has to be the highlight.

@Fuzzymonkeyfunk I just picked up a physical copy on Amazon for 33€.

@twitchtvpat just wasn't sure if it was a timed thing. Knowing Sony....

@LiamCroft cheers Liam 👍👍

Hey PushSquare, quick question, want to pick up Horizon Forbidden West for my PS5. Does the free upgrade from the PS4 version still work? Want to get the physical version btw

@get2sammyb why would you be surprised if they went back on it? They've done several U-turns, good and bad, this gen. It wouldn't surprise me if PlayStation (under the leadership of Lord Jimbo) tried pushing for NFTs to further beef up their bottom line.

Also gauging the interest in NFTs from the gaming community does not require a survey at this stage. Just see the plummeting NFT interest and the several thousand backlashes over the past year. Duhhhh

Because no matter what, the game does not warrant it's 80€ price point. It's not rocket science.

Fine push square I'll rephrase it. I hope they get sued! I'm just so bitter about how theyve handled my repair case and not returned my console.

@dschons they have no idea where my console is

PlayStation support is absolute trash. Sent in my PS5 for repairs here in Germany about 10 weeks ago and they've not sent it back. They don't want to replace the lost console and keep drawing the situation out but saying that the only thing they can do is pass it on to the responsible department. Horror situation and absolutely disgraceful from Sony. One of the worst customer service situations I've experienced in my life.

There's no two ways about it. The only reason they're remaking the game is cause they want it to coincide with the TV show, so in my opinion it's already unnecessary as a release.

But to then charge 79.99€ for it instead of 29.99€ or 39.99€, to keep it short, is totally a cash grab

Just gonna point out that Resident Evil 2 remake and Mafia: Definitive Edition was priced at €39.99 on release.

This is just Sony being Sony and trying to milk their customer base as much as possible with the TV Show also coming out. I have no idea why a logical person would defend the price point.

Still nope! Absolute robbery that they want the full price for the game when they're only using the TLOU2 engine for this game. They've not recorded new voice lines, didn't write a new full story etc. Nothing justifies the asking price.

I'm glad I picked up an Xbox recently with Game Pass. Definitely been happy with the service and it's only gonna get better.

As a long time only Playstation fan, I've grown disillusioned with the platform. PlayStation this generation can be summed up as: Pay has no Limits

Have to disagree with the article. If you're a fan of the Single Player Experience that PlayStation has done so well in the past, you should be worried with this new direction.

Firstly though, I don't mind them porting more games to PC and heck even if they release exclusives day 1 on PC, I think it's a perfectly sound strategy to increase profits.

My gripe is with the live service. People seem to think that more revenue generated from these games are gonna be pumped into the single player experiences and the output of single player Games is going to be the same as ever. Money is not the finite resource of concern here, it's manpower. If PlayStation plans to put out 12 live service games in the next 4 years, that's 3 games per year which means to me, their finite number of studios are gonna be working on these games and the content for these games. Remember content for live service games need to be added not only for 6 months into the games launch but, if you look at the industry, it's gonna be years.

Under Big Jimbo's leadership, the focus seems to be increasing further the profit margins no matter the cost.

Whilst the internet is often dramatic, I think there is a cause for concern regarding the future of PlayStation under the current direction and leadership. In particular the effect it's going to have on the quality and output of the one thing that makes this platform so great, it's single player experiences

I've already said enough about this topic, so I'll just share the link from vgc which has an image of the presented slide:

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/jim-ryan-says-playstation-has-2-unannounced-live-service-games-coming-this-fiscal-year/

The title of that slide just makes you sick as a gamer.

The highlight of this sale has to be Babylon's Fall at €45,49 (35% off). I want what they're smoking at Sony. 🚬

Why are they remaking this game? It still looks and plays good today. A waste of resources in my opinion.

Probably trying to keep up with GTA 5 and Skyrim to see how many platforms they can keep re-releasing the game. 😅

Actually looks pretty good. I was very skeptical at first but good on ya, Sony.

@jmac1686 yeah of course mate. Didn't mean that it's a general issue. Still sucks for me nonetheless. My 60s rant for the day.

But objectively speaking the PS5 hasn't been a significant generational leap. To be blamed is the lengthened cross gen releases

@sanderson72 you're not missing out on much. I've had my PS5 for a year now and on the games front it's really thin and also I've run into a hardware issue recently where the console would constantly lose its sound. Troubleshooted a little with my series X and different HDMI cables and same issue. Now it's gone for repairs and Sony says it will take 3 weeks. Really miffed.

Miss my PS4 slim. Was such a well built console.

Now all Jimbo needs to do is buy Ubisoft, then he'll have both GaaS and NFTs on lock. 😂

Happy Friday!

Im personally not feeling great about this gen from Sony. From some of the little annoying anti consumer moves they've made to the announcement and focus on live service games.

Also trying to think of first party single player Games that have been announced thus far and we have two sequels (GoW and Spiderman 2) and another marvel game (Wolverine).

One of the reasons why I also picked up a Series X recently.

Well that's a surprise in terms of the release date. Expected it to come some time in the summer. Curious to see how it works though.

Just a bit of a PSA here, using VRR or even ALLM will automatically block some of your TV picture settings (like Black frame insertion etc.). So I suggest only using it for games that would benefit due to the poor/unstable frame rates, like Elden Ring or even RE:Village.

That's very interesting considering some of the messaging from last year that it's going to be better in 2022.

If people do end up purchasing the Series X over the PS5, cause of what's available, I do think they'll be quite happy with the purchase. I just picked up a Series X with Game Pass last week (my first Xbox ever) and I've been pleasantly surprised. It has some pretty cool features in particular the support for BC and the FPS Boost to go with it. Game Pass has also been really good with their offerings. I've been playing some of the older games like Dead Space 1 and 2. Very satisfied.

To add to the 5000 different variants of the GT86 and BRZ that's already in the game. Come on PD give us some interesting cars.

Although I'm not gonna be paying extra and upgrading, I find the Europe release strange. Doesn't PlayStation dominate the console sales in the region?

I literally finished the game last night and here are my thoughts:

Personally like the open world RPG aspect of the game. The world is well done, side characters and some of their missions are pretty interesting and the combat is decent.

Thought the main story was not great. It started pretty interesting but it just tailed off after a couple of hours. That was pretty disappointing. Also while the game seems more polished now, I still had like 5 hard crashes in the 50+ hours that I've played it. Some small bugs like characters t-posing and random cars crashing in the background too.

Overall I would give it a 7.5/10

Nobody cares. Just stop giving Ubisoft any money

OMG! Glad that Remedy themselves are remaking it. Gonna be picking this up early when it releases. Absolutely love the Max Payne series.

Blow it out your a$$ Jimbo. This is your response to the underwhelming reaction from the customer base?

Take Big Jimbo's comment with several teaspoons of salt (I'll save the tablespoon and ladle for more outlandish stuff). This is just corporate fear of how it might affect their bottom line.

Haven't seen any public financials of Game Pass to make a calculated evaluation of this but what I will say is, if it works for cinema and TV, why wouldn't work for games? Shouldn't it be profitable as well since the production costs are also in the millions?

Would like to know if there is an upgrade path for current or running subscriptions.

Also, for the extra and premium tiers, are games available for both platforms (i.e. PS4 or PS5 versions of the games)?

If it's gonna be like PS Now where only PS4 version of the games available then I'm not gonna bother.

Personally not excited at all for these announcements. PlayStation has scored quite a few own goals this generation with anti-consumer moves that it's felt to me like death by a thousand cuts. Nail in the coffin for me was GT7 (one of my most beloved gaming franchises).

@Loftimus speak for yourself when you say it is hardly needed.

For some of us who enjoy buying parts and tuning some of our favourite cars, the credits are in short supply. Unless you wanna play the same race 100 times to afford the things you want in the game, which most ppl don't want from 79.99€ game.