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@Flaming_Kaiser I was excited for it but I'm yet to buy it, so I couldn't tell you.

I honestly cancelled my pre-order because of Cristiano Ronaldo

@Drago201 PC port also had a rocky launch. Not even sure if it's been fixed.

Stuff like this is why I haven't bought a Ubisoft game in the past decade, save for the Mario + Rabbids games. Their anti-consumer practices and quite frankly terrible games just made me uninterested.

I'm from México and the PS Plus Deluxe also excludes us from general Cloud Streaming. Making some of the ads and articles about the PS Portal update a little confusing. (And some groups on FB and Reddit a bit of a tragedy)

@Kanji-Tatsumi Empty discs that are just access keys is also up there for me.

One of my favorite games they've published. Well deserved!

@Bagwag82 That's why it's so important to regulate it from the get-go. There are many awful things that exist that can be mitigated through the proper regulations being in place.

@heavyartillery56 "Make sure that your career has nothing to do with intelligence" so any career?

@jvecc This is a final product, the product just happens to also be terrible.

lol all the hate in the comments coming from people that didn't even play it. It's a fantastic game, one of the best last year.
I just hope it also gets a physical release, since a PS release did that for Hi-Fi Rush.

I think a fairly important discussion is the argument of price and ease of use. In every other industry the trickier part is the one with the more expensive, less convenient alternatives. Netflix and Apple put a lot of their movies in theatres and a lot of their content on blu-ray. It doesn't really hurt their business model, if anything they're targeting an audience that either also has Netflix and wants a better, more expensive experience for some content or people that weren't their customers at all.
In this case, PlayStation is more of a Netflix than a Movie Theatre here. And Sony knows that.

@GoodHunter93 Unfortunately I followed this advice. Once you upgrade, you can't take advantage of an extended time offer. You should first get as many months as you want on the essential tier, and THEN upgrade.

A point you guys make in the article was pretty much the way I saw it:
I was so sure remasters were happening on PS4 games to have a PC release and were released on PS5 to take advantage of the new features on console. But Zero Dawn is trully baffling, specially because HZD has a PS4 Pro version the PS5 already takes advantage of.

@rusty82 You kind of are now.

@Scob Why wouldn't they be negative? This is something awful coming froma first party dev.

Those secrecy emojis are particularly scary with all the rumours of what goes on inside Naughty Dog.

It's big, but not as big as Mortal Kombat 11.
GG Strive is on Nintendo levels of optimized storage though, amazing given the look and scope of that game.

@Deljo While I disagree with some of the points on this article, this is not the take.

Director's Cuts and expansion packs charging for the extra content I understand.
But charging more for an "upgrade" to a console that already is out at the time of release, just feels like nickel and diming.

Over half a decade later and it still isn't available in my country.

I wouldn't say it's worth it if you're expecting the full exprience still.
It's good if titles catch your eye and you get it for a fair price, since the library is small but solid, and the Vita itself is fantastic, but prices are only increasing.
I still use mine from time to time for some games and streaming my PS4, but Remote Play with PS5 is not even an option, and the Switch and other platforms are shrinking the list of games exclusive to Vita.
Not to mention, most phones today have larger, higher-res, OLED screens with better Wi-Fi signal.
Most people's attention is better off on the Switch for new games, and smartphones for Remote Play.

@nessisonett I play this game on PC a lot, and argue it really doesn't need voice chat any more than any other team-based shooter.
The signaling you can do during normal gameplay gives your teammates enough context as to what you want them to know.

Actually the answer to M&K "cheating" is probably as simple as it gets.
Support M&K officially.
That way, you can divide M&K players from Pad players. Toggle if you want to exclude either.
Sure, there'll be people that still use third party adapters and "cheat", but most people would probably not bother.

And about the voice chat... yeah I don't do voice chat with strangers. It's not a R6S thing, it's a "people online" thing.

Weird, I got the console a couple days early and I've been having that issue with my PS4 Pro but not my PS5.

I know it's common to criticize new UI, but the amount of conveniences removed is honestly unbelievable. It's even worse than Epic's Store.

Weren't microtransactions defended by this site not long ago? If they're not safe for kids, then what was that about?

The popular answers are the prices of the Xbox offerings, no surprise there.
I wonder what the popular answers would've been prior to the announcement, and how will PS players take it if it costs more.

I wouldn't say this ruined CDPR, but certainly puts them down a notch for me as these things tend to be slippery slopes.
Today it's cosmetics on multiplayer, tomorrow it's pay to win and xp boosters.

I find fanboys getting angry over this rather hilarious.
More people will get to play the games that you like, what's the harm?

Not a bad month, both are pretty popular online games.
I see a lot of hate though, probably would've been a better idea to have one of those and a single player game.

Supporting the game after launch is completely different from a "game as a service"
You gave some examples of games that got (mostly) paid content down the line, without even fixing some of the issues that plagued the games at launch. Assassin's Creeds, Fallouts, etc.

Naughty Dog has been smart of not making the Microtransactions intrusive to the campaign, then they'd have a problem. I own and played both games and didn't even know they had them.
Ghost of Tsushima and Witcher 3 are good examples, but it's they're different form others mentioned here. That's because the games actually felt complete at launch, and everything added later feel like bonuses or expansions to the base game.
And I wouldn't really qualify those as a "game as a service" for that very reason. So, no. I don't think they're misunderstood or that they should be embraced.

It's a great game, no harm in bringing it to more people.

@Enuo First time I've heard that takeaway, and I've been looking at material for these games throughout the day.

It makes perfect sense given Rocksteady made the Arkham trilogy and the upcoming SS game.
I think WB Montreal's Gotham Knights is not because of the box they put themselves in given we know a lot of the Arkham timeline and it would be really hard to place a game like that in it.

There's no competition.
Ghotam Knights looks like an actual campaign.

The biggest issue I've had with the Playstation Store for over a decade is that it only accepts US dollars in my region, rendering certain credit cards either useless or with ridiculous exchange rates. (There's also no official exchange rate publicly available, you learn about it through trial and error.)

@BrainHacker I had no such question. The reason given by the article is also quite corporate and doesn't make sense if third parties have their own servers, or you're playing PvP. And even then, Sony has been shown to still retire the online component of a game if it's not profitable by itself, like it happened to DriveClub. It didn't even outlive some PS3 games' online.

@Angeljuice It wasn't very straightforward, I'd say Xbox did have a better online. But I still felt that PS3 was the better approach since it was still very good and free.

@Pain-Nagato-Sama You do see that image of the dude with the belt, right? It's allusive to victory.

I guess it's not going anywhere if people keep championing charging for what should be free. What a weird thing to celebrate.

@thiz I'm sure Microsoft has plenty of success with software sales between Xbox and PC. I wasn't seeing it as a childlike dream as you seem to interpret. It's quite simple, their hardware is doing well enough, and they want to capitalize on their games, Need I remind you, Sony is doing the same,

@thiz Or you're past the petty discussion of which piece of plastic sold better and just want to put the indie games you helped fund in people's hands.

@vivanred Stating a console is better is not the same as saying you won't support the other one.

Nice to see it be unlocked for real, slightly surprising coming from the unassuming PS3 version. Fantastic game.

@wiiware You took a promotional render vs the lowest resolution screenshot you could.

@Kirbyboy92 Yeah, no kiddin'.
I think Microsoft was slightly better, but neither really reached the heights I hoped.

@Ogzoomdoom420 He isn't. And no, I don't think I will.

@Mince Factually wrong, demanding, mocking the poor.
A real gem of a person here.

Sephiroth at 5? I guess they did write him kinda bad in the remake.