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Re: Hands On: Hyper Scape Might Be Too Chaotic for Its Own Good

Netbean

The one thing that bothers me is there's no auto-sprint, everything is so insanely fast I wonder why they have a walking pace at all? having to click L3 everytime after doing anything is pretty irritating. Full button mapping is also needed rather than presets, the core gameplay is chaotic fun, just controls badly which can be fixed, let's hope sooner rather than later

Re: PlayStation Makes More Money from DLC, Microtransactions Than Anything Else

Netbean

Maybe Sony can afford to make online free again then? If they improved PS+ people would have a reason to stay subscribed aside from online access. Holding multiplayer modes hostage behind paywalls is a great way to stifle accessibility, split up your playerbase and lose customers to steam/epic (and soon the xbox too). Sony's greed might just lose them the generation, I really hope not, but arrogant Sony may be back

Re: As the PS Plus Debate Rages, Sony Registers Record Subscribers

Netbean

if MS drop the multiplayer pay wall and Sony keep theirs I will just move to xbox/PC for multiplayer and multiplatform games and use ps5 for exclusives, so will everybody else! It's unthinkable Sony will allow MS to have such a huge advantage for long, I predict MS will make online free and sony will try to keep the plus paywall for a year or so before they realise they are losing millions of players to PC / xbox and the resentment, complaints and bad PR grows so loud they finally cave just like the cross play debacle

Re: Poll: Would You Still Pay for PS Plus if Online Multiplayer Was Free Elsewhere?

Netbean

I own almost every make and model of playstation and an enormous library over 4 generations. I'm an unapologetic sony superfan, but if this is true and MS offers free multiplayer and Sony sticks with it's PS+ paywall; I am 100% buying an xbox for my multiplatform / multiplayer games. If it really happens Sony will either cave or lose next gen, I'm crossing every finger and toe that very soon we can forget multiplayer subscriptions ever existed, thank the lord!

Re: PS5 Fans Are Pondering the Future of PS Plus

Netbean

I really think PlayStation (and microsoft) opting to charge for multiplayer was a massive mistake from the start. It made them a huge amount of money in the short term but can't be sustained as gaming evolves. Cross play has shown us that objectively PC is the superior platform. Console players are finally asking themselves why we pay a tax for multiplayer when PC players can have better hardware, infrastructure and functionality, can still play the same games online with console friends (for free) and now play microsoft / sony exlusives with better graphics and performance across the board. It's simply unjustifiable. The pessimist in me thinks microsoft is too greedy and will never turn down money, but the optimist in me sees MS making the right choice by making online free, forcing sony to follow suit, ultimately changing the market for the better. I may even buy my first Xbox if this true, just to support pro consumer decisions. Sony better watch out, next gen is looking like a real fight

Re: You Won't Need a PS Plus Subscription to Play PS4 Multiplayer This Weekend

Netbean

@AdamNovice you have a point but people would see xbox as the multiplayer console, I love PlayStation but I'd buy my first xbox ever if microsoft dropped it's multiplayer subscription. What's more is that Sony would be forced to follow suit. A win for freedom of the internet! But this is all a dream, companies love money. Think I'll build a PC for mp and still be able to play with my budds on any console

Re: PS Plus Will Celebrate Its 10th Anniversary Next Week

Netbean

The one thing that holds console gaming back is pay-walled multiplayer, PC will eventually kill consoles if these mega corporations don't wake up and realise that they can't justify charging for online access in a world of massive multi platform cross-play f2p mmo service games. PlayStation plus is awful

Re: PS5 Backwards Compatibility Testing Still Underway for 'Over 4000' PS4 Games

Netbean

If they can't get ps3 games working on ps5 they really should utilize ps now for bc. Scan our ps3 purchase history or in-drive discs over the psn and give us access to our games! I bought a digital licence for catherine on ps3, why can't I play it through ps now on my ps4/ps5? Oh yeah... Sony wants you to double / triple dip your entire library

Re: PS5 Console Revealed, Standard and Digital Only Edition

Netbean

The disc drive looks grafted on! I wish the ps5 looked like the digital version with a better integrated drive. The digital model is not for me as I have 85 ps4 discs I want to play boosted on my ps5. And lets be honest they need a black version as an option

Re: PS5's Price Could Be Undercut by Xbox Series X, Analysts Suggest

Netbean

The only way for MS to compete with sony next gen given ps4s success would be sell cheaper at a loss and do some other big customer focused policy change like end the need for xbox live gold for multiplayer or maybe intergrate a PC/Steam mode. Otherwise crossplay + our massive libraries will keep us in the sony ecosystem for the forseeable future

Re: Hands On: Call of Duty: Warzone Is Fine, and That's Not Good Enough

Netbean

I feel they have a solid foundation upon which to build. The simplicity feels like a return to the classic COD days people yearn for. Thats why modern warfare sold so well, it's more realistic and grounded, I for one think it's leagues ahead of Blackout + Fortnite and maybe even Apex legends (a phenomenal BR) Clearly F2P looks like the future of multiplayer. As a professional cheapskate I am well chuffed