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@Shepherd_Tallon Yeah, I JUST saw it today. Gives me hope!

I saw this increase today and decided to get a Pro before the price shot up to those ludicrous levels effective next week. Sold my current PS5 with a 1 TB m.2 ssd thrown in to a friend at work for $400 (he’s a very good friend) so that’s a shade under half the CURRENT price for the Pro plus the blu drive right there. Picking it up at the store in an hour or two.

Did I need it? No. Did I want to save Future Me the annoyance of that price later when I wanted more performance? Yup.

Sony (and MS and soon to be Nintendo) are in a bad place right now, component price wise. It sucks, but hopefully with ram prices dropping in the near future (see news about google massively reducing the need for gobs of ram in AI now) this will be temporary.

“return to form”

Please, please don’t use those words. It never goes well. XD

My original response to this was going to be articulate but it devolved into obscenities I can’t post here.

Instead I will say, “This is one of those things that would make me seriously consider dropping PlayStation going forward because this is intensely scummy.”

Good choice, I’m just starting it and I’m rather enjoying myself with it.

I was assured that Bungie had a major success with Marathon and all the nay-sayers were just wrong. “Don’t look at steamDB,” I was told, “the console sales are much bigger than that!”

Huh.

Glad to hear it. Give it a few more months and this might be worth picking up for me.

@LowDefAl Tell me you know nothing about Denuvo and how it impacts game performance without telling me you know nothing about Denuvo and how it impacts game performance.

Of all the things they should apologize for, this doesn’t even rank on the list.

No PS5 footage and acts indignant when people ask for it.

Slaps denuvo on the PC version a week before release.

At least they’ve also apologized for the bleh controls.

@IOI Once the problems are ironed out, I plan to buy it. I was going to be day one till all the no-PS5-footage gave me Cyberpunk flashbacks. Ended up buying THAT on multiple platforms as well once it was…you know…FINISHED.

I can also mock the devs for their dumb decisions, like acting indignant when they’re asked to show how it runs on a console. As though it were some kind of personal insult to want to see this before release. Add the no-console-code-for-review in there and I went to a definite “I’ll wait a few months for a sale, thanks.”

I know this might seem strange to you, but I can be interested in a game and still criticize the devs for VERY poor choices.

Have I now justified myself to your satisfaction, or would you like more? Not that you’re owed ANY clarification of my thoughts on the matter, mind you.

“We are completely shocked that our control scheme is horrible, even though we’ve been working on this game for multiple years. We just didn’t notice till after you complained!”

I figured all that time saved by not showing console footage would have given them extra time to figure out the controls. Apparently not.

That $19.99 would be better spent on…well, anything, really.

Let me guess, no upgrade path for previous owners?

@dodgykebaab I see what you did there!

But seriously, has that been confirmed anywhere about the blu-specific update?

I have very little sympathy after how this dev has basically hidden console footage till mere days before release, acted indignant when people wanted to see it, offered no console reviews before launch and slapped denuvo on the PC version.

@dodgykebaab Source?

This might explain the out-of-nowhere PS3 update that came out this week.

…we’re using Vice of all places as a review source, are we? That is an interesting choice.

Huh. Imagine that. My shock is so completely real that no console review copies are out there. Can’t imagine why…

Definitely waiting for a sale now.

“Don’t believe your lying eyes, just smile and consume our new product!”

@IamJT I would watch the hell out of that documentary!

Obviously this is just another in the string of orchestrated negativity campaigns against this game.

I can think of a couple good reasons Rivals is better than Overwatch now.

I miss the days when trophy hunters didn’t require trophies to play and enjoy a game.

As someone who owns Starfield on Series X physical disc…well, this certainly is a game.

I still can’t get into it after several tries, but hopefully those who want to play this rather meh game on PS will enjoy it!

@Clytorial_Impact I know this might come as a shock, but after Cyberpunk 2077 a lot of us gamers are FAR less trusting and FAR more suspicious when a dev refuses to show their game running on the current PS console. And when they act indignant that people would want such a thing, it makes said gamers very suspicious.

Well, about freaking time.

This was not DF’s finest hour, praising this up and down.

I get what the tech is going for here, but WOW did they screw up the presentation royally. This makes me want to avoid it at all costs.

@Sketti Someome woke up and chose violence today.

Is there a trophy for “base PS5 gameplay footage found?”

I don’t think anyone’s gotten that one yet.

@GamingGod If only the article explained things, then you might not have had to post that silly statement.

Guess I’ll wait for a sale. I wanted this and was just waiting for reviews, but the dev playing all coy about showing the console version of the game, and now this malarkey?

There’s zero excuses for these game key disc shenanigans. If it adds another dollar or two to the price, I’d have happily paid it to have the whole game without download required beyond a day one patch. Why have ANYTHING on the disc beyond the installer if a download is required?

I’m out till discount.

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@RBMango After hearing how badly Firewalk Studios was huffing their own flatulence, no dev’s delusions will surprise me ever again.

@Number09 You continue to misunderstand.

We ALL WANT BASE PS5 FOOTAGE and no one is asking Push Square for it. We are expressing our desire for it and our frustration with the devs for refusing to provide it. It’s a little over a week before release and we have seen zero base PS5 footage, and as far as I’m aware zero Series X or S footage.

@Number09 Yes, I’m aware of what they say it’ll be. I want to SEE it, thanks. No need to copy and paste the dev-provided targets we’ve already read, that serves no useful purpose whatsoever.

Developer after allowing DF to play it on the PS5 Pro: “OMG, are you STILL not satisfied? You ask the impossible by wanting us to show base PS5 footage! How dare you!”

Base PS5 owners: “…”

@lazarus11 …never mind. Either you’re deliberately not understanding the issue or you’re just rage baiting.

@lazarus11 You’ve missed the entire point.

The release date is next week and they didn’t show any console footage until…now.

The whole "they won't believe us" is getting really tiresome.

How hard is it to just...show footage? Show gameplay? That's all that was required. This playing the victim thing is making me NOT want to touch this game.

@wildcat_kickz That’s a new one on me, a certain class of games not getting reviews till a date the developer specifically requests. I’ll take your word for it, but it feels intensely dishonest to me.

Why are you waiting to give it a final score? No other games get special treatment like this, waiting till weeks post-release to get judged, it should be judged with the content it has at launch.

Bungie can request all they want, I guess I’d just respect the review more if it was equal to other reviews judging the state of the game at launch. I’m sure it’d be a glowing review, but all the same…

Shouldn’t this be marked as a rumor, not actual news?

It took them weeks to make this statement. Which is pretty consistent with LRG taking forever to fulfill orders in general, if they ever do.

@PercyChuggs Which defeats the whole purpose of a console, but meh!

@PercyChuggs At least there’s more than one market to purchase said physical games from, unlike the PSN.

And excrement like this is why I refuse to embrace the all-digital future.

Hell to the no.

I’ll live with my PS5, Switch 2 and Series X for years. Zero incentive to drop that much cash on a single console. Especially a console from MS.

“We noticed you’re not spending enough money on top of the money you already spent. Here, let us make it easier for you to spend money.”

@GamerDad76 Given we have no other numbers to go by, it’s usually a pretty good indicator of how things are going.

“We stole their stuff. We got called on it and did the bare minimum to rectify the situation.”

@Hi569 Nice of you to tell me what goes on in my head. You seem pleasant.