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@Ralizah My headspace is simply being well adjusted.

Explain how the company who published and funded this game have somehow initiated the end of the world by requesting you create an account on their platform, something that God knows how many other publishers already do.

Those who are saying they're concerned about their data could just spend 5 minutes creating a throwaway email with a fake name and address for their PSN ID. It would sit there dormant and contain absolutely nothing of any interest to anyone who might hypothetically compromise it one day.

@Ralizah it's a complete non issue that's been massively blown out of proportion. People are grasping at anything to justify their behaviour over it. The only voice in all of this that matters are those who legitimately have concerns about creating an account in their location, and for me, their voice only matters if they can express that constructively without acting like a raging a**hole.

@Darrenb You need one to play Sea of Thieves and apparently it's sold very well. Do you see a parade of Playstation players on the internet crying about it?

@Ralizah As has already been stated, if you're paranoid about your data then you better stay off the internet, sell your mobile phone, and never use a bank or credit card again.

@wiiware How would a hack on a Sony account compromise your Steam account?

He made a huge mistake suggesting this kind of behaviour is warranted. They shouldn't have addressed it at all, just let the babies cry themselves to sleep.

@NEStalgia You have been one of the most vocal here with your bashing of it from the start, so I'm having a hard time believing you've played it, let alone bought the game at full price.

I went with an 8, I think that's a fair score. I have loved the overall character design throughout, and the combat and music are excellent.

Come the 30th, the realisation they can no longer play will sink in, they'll quickly spend the 5 minutes it takes to create an account, and never acknowledge what a reactionary petty a**hole they are.

@Galv No worries.

Almost all of it will be under the May savings banner. I did notice that Alan Wake 2 said "save 20% with Playstation Plus" when I bought it. Do you have an active subscription, if not that might be why some of them aren't available for you. I can't check if Returnal's discount falls under that requirement as I already own it.

@Galv I looked up the game on the app first and then I booted up the console to pay for it. The price updated for me at 10am.

Is there a particular game from the article that isn't showing the sale price for you, or did you just want to view the full sale?

@Galv Should be live now, it updated at 10am for me.

Love The Cure.

I never got around to playing Alan Wake 2 because I was lost in Baldurs Gate for months, time to pick it up I think.

@Zemo55 The game released 6 years ago to average scores of 7 or lower. There have been a lot of updates to it since then and Aaron, the person who reviewed it, thought it's current state was worthy of a 9.

I'm not sure what fuss you're referencing though. 46% of this poll have no interest in it, another 29% aren't sure they'll ever bother playing it, and 10% intend to play it but haven't supported it's launch.

This isn't an accurate representation of it's popularity however, I believe it's sold very well, but I personally haven't seen people fussing over it.

@Loamy I echo this, one of the best sites in the UK. The Game Collection for physical, Shopto for digital.

@Mikey856 I wasn't being facetious, I'm not sure how you've arrived at that from my reply. I was just saying £70 isn't an accurate representation of the physical copies cost as it was at least a tenner cheaper than that at launch.

Roll7 should have put shark cards in Rollerdrome.

@Mortal "Square Enix put the target on themselves, to be fair, by releasing their own statements indicating that Rebirth hasn't met their expected sales figures."

I don't think they've released a statement on it. Do you have a link because I can't find anything official from them?

@Mikey856 The physical version was around £60 almost everywhere before launch, Mikey. I got mine for £59.95 from the game collection.

@Yorozayu Don't waste your time. That profile was created on April 1st and has mentioned either Xbox or gamepass in a 1/3 of the comments they've made here so far.

In other news, Rebirth is a great game, and although the numbers are by no means terrible, it's a shame more people haven't given it the support it deserves.

@GamingFan4Lyf No need to apologise, I didn't take it personally, you've never been that type of commenter.

I think applying a PC lens to console gaming hasn't been applicable for 40 years and still isn't comparable today. A lot of games often release completely unoptimised on a range of configurations, with the budget ones priced comparatively to console often performing horribly or being excluded entirely. It's also a completely different ecosystem with it's own unique challenges, the biggest financial one being piracy. It's impossible to apply a differing price structure to that platform or charge more with the disparity in performance.

"Despite liking the exclusives that have come to PlayStation, I do feel like Sony abuses its power as the market leader to nickel and dime its customers."

They absolutely do in some cases, you'll struggle to find a market leader in any field that doesn't do the same. I don't believe $10 more for a better version of a game is an example of that though, especially one that releases years later.

@GamingFan4Lyf I'm not defending anything. To put it simply, you believe extra work should incur no extra cost to the consumer, or in some cases, should be free. I believe the superior version of any product, one that takes more time to create and incurs most costs to develop, is perfectly reasonable to charge slightly more for. I don't care what anyone else does, it doesn't factor in to my opinion on that.

You're saying I've been conditioned to accept these "things". I'd suggest, being the Xbox fan that I know you are as I've called you out on your blatant bias in the comments here in the past, that you're projecting. Gamepass has conditioned gamers, particularly the xbox community, to not want to pay for anything, so your position doesn't surprise me.

@GamingFan4Lyf "Ghost of Tsushima Directors Cut was literally a cash grab because there was zero difference between the PS5 version and the PS4 Pro version running in backwards compatibility. It was literally $10 for the ability to use DualSense."

Not true. The PS5 version is 4K whilst the pro version is 1800p. The PS5 version also loads faster, even though the load times were already amazing. It supports 3d audio as well.

"God of War Ragnarok had no content differences, only looked better (sorry, but improved game settings aren't a reason to charge extra in my eyes). $60 for PS4 and $70 for PS5."

That's cool, maybe Sony can use that as an excuse to not pay the devs for the extra time it takes improving all those things.

The game not only looked better, it ran better as well. The pro versions framerate is all over the place in the 40 to mid 50 range, PS5 is solid 60.

"Even this site noted that 70% of physical discs bought in the UK were the more expensive PS5 version despite paying less with PS4 and upgrading. In my eyes, Sony charged you a $10 convenience fee to not go through the upgrade process (no thanks)."

And what percentage of that 70% were fully aware of the upgrade but wanted to own the physical PS5 version instead of a digital copy?. I know I was one of them. It was worth the extra $10 to me because I could do what I wanted with it when I was finished.

@Cutmastavictory That's different. I'm not talking about situations where the customer is told they'll receive something, I'm talking about instances where the automatic assumption is I should be entitled to this for free because I bought it once.

@GamingFan4Lyf There's been conflicting issues on the store for years. I don't have much hope in them ever addressing it.

The charged upgrade path I'm not against. I don't know when this mindset began with people who think because they bought a version of something years ago, they should be entitled to any future version of it for free. Improvements to framerate, assets, resolution etc, all take a significant amount of dev time and money. $10 for that is nothing.

@GamingFan4Lyf "I wouldn't put it past Sony to simply ignore that version because it's an "expired" way to have the game and force people to either subscribe to PS Plus Extra and claim it there or buy the game outright."

It's okay to be wrong.

@GamingFan4Lyf It does suck, that has been evident for years, but let's not pretend that you weren't trying to imply it was a deliberate decision by Sony to restrict the upgrade for people who received the game via the collection.

I love Returnal, it's easily my favourite game this gen, that being said, I don't understand why they teased a reveal for a book, it was unnecessary.

I hope @GamingFan4Lyf is going to pop in again and tell us how Sony were purposely hiding this behind a paywall.

Almost every game on the list is a successful established ip they bought. Unsurprisingly, only 1 of the 7 listed began development under their ownership.

@colonelkilgore I'm eagerly awaiting the day where I can game in my head, an arms reach away from my 3 seashells.

@NattyKing There's a lot of weird comments in here.

You're right though, it's outperformed the Series X several times this gen. Using that as an example of what the PS5 should have been made no sense.

@DennisReynolds Of course I'm not, I'm just pointing out the absurdity of it. You're saying they should have focused on a more powerful console 4 years ago instead of this. Had they done that it would have been more expensive anyway, which you probably would have been complaining about back then as well.

You're also saying we're being "conned" with the release of optional hardware, a product that won't impact the standard PS5's function or userbase in any way. Is every manufacturer that provides a more powerful version of a product conning the customer?

@DennisReynolds That extra "raw power" of the Series X has been negligible in every 3rd party comparison since launch. Not only would matching it have been pointless, but it would have cost us more, or lost them more on each one made.

What gets me the most about products like this is the unnecessary negativity around it. You're under no obligation to support this if it doesn't interest you, but why complain about it. If I spent my free time complaining on the internet about things I'm not interested in, I'd never get anything done.

@PeakUnagi I don't think resolution modes will be 60, but we should see significantly better upscaled fidelity in performance.

@DennisReynolds Yeah good point. They should have released a £700 console in the middle of a pandemic, £250 above the price of the Series X, and £450 above the Series S, I'm sure it would have done fantastic at retail.

Anyway, I'm expecting this to be around £599. If they go above that they might struggle considering the small improvement to the cpu.

@Vault_74_Guy I understand. I'm not sure what the issue is but there seems to be some conflicts at the moment with the PS4 version running on a PS5. The update supposedly has a bunch of bug fixes along with graphic and fps improvements so it's worth waiting.

I believe the PS5 version is a separate download as well, so you'll have to reinstall it all anyway.

@Vault_74_Guy Probably best to wait till the 25th and download the native PS5 version before you begin.

It's a shame because the game is significantly better than remake. There's so much content and value for money as well.

@ShogunRok Don't you dare bring the special one in to this!

"Nostalgia is an immensely powerful thing"

I feel like you're trying to downplay this result somewhat, Robert. 😄

It's also the highest rated release so far this year on both metacritic and opencritic of all games across all platforms.

Rebirth is a deserved number 1 for me. It's still early but I'll be surprised if I enjoy my playthrough of anything else as much.

@NightshadeNL Evolve literally means to develop gradually. The responses here are focusing on bug fixes and disregarding everything else they've done to the game. A complete overhaul of mechanics and stats, of the skill tree, of cyberware, of combat, of vehicle controls, of the police system. They introduced vehicle combat, added a ton of new weapons, made changes to stats and perks on existing ones, added finishers for melee. Along with a massive amount of QOL improvements to multiple different systems and features in the game.

I could go on and on listing everything they've done, and it would be a completely separate conversation to one discussing bug fixes and performance alone. If they wanted to, they could have just fixed the bugs and framerate issues and sailed off in to the sunset with their millions. They stuck it out and delivered a vastly superior experience to what the game was at launch.

Nobody is celebrating or encouraging how this game began, they're acknowledging what it's become over several years.

@Deoxyr1bose I don't think this award is encouraging the notion of a comeback, and it's definitely not promoting the idea that things can just be fixed later. It's an acknowledgement of a team who spent 3 years working their arse off to correct their admitted failures. Should it have released the way it did, absolutely not, but they've "evolved" what was the most heavily criticised release in recent memory, in to something that's now received a lot of critical acclaim.

@BeerIsAwesome To be fair, it's evolution from what it was at launch to what it is now is massive. I think it's deserving of that award.

@MikeOrator You're not wrong, but with it being only 2 weeks away they'd be crazy to omit that from todays announcement. You've also got to wonder how that would even work. If you're playing the game at 60, it would need to load you in to a 30fps lower resolution world to do the dlc, or make it completely unavailable. I can't see that happening.

@LifeGirl Woot! More negativity!

4 isn't as good as previous entries but there's still a lot of fun to be had with it. It's on sale at the minute for £3.99 if anyone's interested in playing the upgrade, and all 6 dlc's are currently on sale as well until the 24th, separately or as part of the season pass.

@MikeOrator I would guess it's all of it, would be very strange of them to not upgrade the dlc.

FF7. There's some excellent games on that list but I put 133 hours in to Rebirth and loved every minute of it.

@NEStalgia "I think whether 30fps is acceptable or not depends on the genre."

For some maybe, I personally can't enjoy a game at 30 anymore regardless of the genre.

I think the more pertinent question is, if the hardware is capable of doing so, is it acceptable to not provide a choice.

Edit - Just to add, I think you're spot on about display being a factor. I play on a LG C2 and 30 is indeed horrendous.

@Cloud39472 I'm guessing you just missed the zero, but that number is over 50 million.

I agree though, none of these polls mean anything, particularly when they can be influenced by trolls. It also feels like certain people are currently working overtime to downplay the importance of framerate because of a certain upcoming 30fps game.

I've given it an 8 despite my frustrations with how poorly it runs, and I'm being generous. I don't see it getting better any time soon and will probably sell it on rather than hold out for further improvements.