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Why is the price in dollars in the headline? You're in the UK, why are we always second class? It's not even $700 because that doesn't take tax on board. At least £700 is an accurate representation of the price.

@Fiendish-Beaver it's still not doing us all a favour. Instead of continuing with the tradition of releasing the campaign early for all, they've chosen to do the opposite for all.

As you point out, it's not doing PS a favour, so whichever way its dressed up, there's a portion of the market that this decision is a step backwards.

@Fiendish-Beaver that was down to console exclusivity deals though, wasn't it? This isn't the same thing, I think.

Easily one of the best live service games I've ever seen. Well done Sony.

"This year, we made the decision to ensure the community gets to dig in to any and all modes that they want at the same time, so we are back to one massive global launch moment October 25th"

They've worded it like they're doing us a favour! 😄

There's a typo in the text Liam, 'incentivised', third paragraph 👍

@doctommaso oh, Christmas. Don't know why the article, written by an Englishman, in England, on a UK based website, said Holidays.

@AccessibleDaydream oh right, thought it was Sony 🤷‍♂️

The £5 increase is so that's in line with the cost of a McDonalds Happy Meal.

I bet he's only going to come on to tell us what new games he's clocked so yet again I'm left scratching my head wondering how the hell he finds the time.

@Alps_Stranger ha! Nice

Though Sony did decrease the cost of 1st party games, at least with Astrobot it seems. They'll put that back up.

Considering everything has gone up in price I don't know why Sony is expected not to do something similar. Since Covid prices have universally risen at the same time as the value of what our money can buy has dropped. It's hardly worth having savings because why put off buying now when the value of your pounds will be less over time.

Don't worry. Lier Starmer will save the economy with his cash grab on old folk and new taxes on electric vehicles.

@Shalooda now that's a film I'd watch Helena in!

@Golem25 for some people it's easier to release a game with errors and ask for forgiveness than delay the game and cost the company money.

@doctommaso the summer sale has been and gone. Unless you don't go on holiday in the summer. When do you take your holidays?

@LuXifer pretty much. Turning into a broken down old man was terrible. It was like Joe Biden played Indy!

"For me, that is a mistake, and this is something that we're going to work on improving"

Do or do not. There is no try.

@PSme of course, I was there too., though the power cuts and the 3 day week were rough 😁

@Shalooda is it too much to ask that she gets her own hat!! 😄👍

@dark_knightmare2 couldn't agree more. Not even a debate.

'Memories are weird: we think of them as very stable things, these absolute truths of..'

Do we? You'd be mad to. Unless you have an eidetic memory what you think you remember is tainted with bias, edited to reflect what you think you remember, and the older it is the less reliable it is.

People have false memories because of the power of suggestion, especially common when there's a shared experience and someone recounts your part of it and you imprint thier account onto your memory.

Eye witness testimony is the worst, least reliable evidence in court which is why statements are taken near the time of the crime.

However, it seems during an argument with my missus her memory is like watching a video playback and it always favours her point of view. Amazing!

'Due to some of the deep cuts present, fans are theorizing...'

Theorising. I'm theorising that there's no end to what fans theorise. My preferred theory is that Phil Spencer has acquired the bots. Oh, and thanks for the spoiler.

@Nexozi If only I knew what you meant but I'm too thick to know what a live service game is.

@LN78 agreed. Raiders is a film for all to enjoy, with a charismatic lead who appeals to the everyman.

Frankly, I find it a bit ridiculous the devs have to explain that Indy isn't a gun-totting nutter, but such is the way of things these days everything has to be spelt out.

@LN78 phew! Thank goodness we were spared a good film like that to make way for a vehicle to introduce Helena. That other idea sounded like a proper Indy adventure 😄

@LN78 well yeah 😄 I meant the character. It's not like it had to be played by SLB.

@LN78 having her as the new Indy was definelty the plan, I'd say. But they made her so unlikeable I'm not surprised it did badly with test screenings. I felt they killed Indy's son just so there was no opportunity for him to follow in his dad's footsteps and pave the way for Helena. That may or may not be the case (I think it is) but what is for sure is that they turned Indy into a sad, useless shadow of his former self to emphasis Helena, and like Han Solo, he didn't deserve that.

And yes, Crystal Skull was plain awful.

Wait! Don't worry Liam, mobile games aren't all bad! I think Sammy is writing an article about it this weekend 😊

@LuXifer seems to be difficult to make a decent Indy film too. The last one was absolute nonsense. Made Indy into a gormless, helpless old man, killed his son offscreen, and installed a completely unlikeable and insufferable Helena as Indy. Awful film.

@ApostateMage a swordsman comes up to me wielding his fancy, I'd shoot him too!

@StylesT the timing is very fortuitous. It's such good timing you'd be forgiven to think that it was a social experiment to see what gamers prefer; a single player, fan service game or a live service, politically charged, hero shooter. An expensive way to find out the obvious either way.

@koverby whatsmore, apparently team sports have players that play in distinct roles. Who knew! I thought team sports were like the Borg 😄

@Rodimusprime1313 well apart from GT7, Horizon, Spider-Man, God of War, Sackboy, Demon Souls, TLoU, TLoU2, Ratchet & Clank, Uncharted, Ghost of Tsuschima, Death Stranding, MLB 24 and PSVR2 games, in 4 years. I know some are PS5 conversions but Sony has launched a whole platform in PSVR2 which is a huge chunk of time and money.

@Atreus97 I think $7500 for a single song is a reasonable place to start negotiations. 5,000 to 50 grand I'd say is the price range for a well known, decades old track.

There's plenty to choose from, it's not like Rockstar need this song in the game, so he's let his pride get in the way of business.

Is that it? I scrolled down and the article finished 😄😄

@Northern_munkey ha! Good point that I didn't consider 😄👍

@Attackcobra I reckon that's because those parts of the world call it maths 😊👍

Never expected this to be any good, so pleasantly surprised enough to give it a go.

'..notably football (or soccer), where a team consists of distinct roles..'

Just football is fine. It's what it is called in 99% of the world, and Thierry Henry gets annoyed if you call it soccer 😊

@Northern_munkey I don't see it as an insult, it's an opening offer. The fella could negotiate rather than go well over the top, swear and then claim it's wicked.

But I totally appreciate what you said, he is a very talented man. The 80s is my teenage. I just think he could've been a lot classier about this and kept the moral high ground. His response was disappointing.

@MrPeanutbutterz he's being a total drama queen claiming it's iniquitous.

Just seen the reply from the devs...'no, f*ck you, we'll use AI.'

@crimsontadpoles totally agree.

@Silbermetallic nah, Pet Shop Boys and New Order by a country mile, and then Electronic when they joined forces.

I don't see the problem. They offered $7500 and he said no. They're no more obliged to offer him what he thinks it's worth than he is obliged to take what they offered. Offer made and rejected, move on.

Offer $7500 to David Van Day for 'O L'Amour'. He's skint, he'll take it.

I'm not a fan of these live service games.

I don't have to give it a score.
This isn't a game I'm playing.
I can go about my business.
I'll move along.

@PerpetualBoredom I will when you stop smoking it. Everyone knows grass' greatest sin is it makes people ok with being bored. Too bored to check facts. 😊👍

@Titntin ahhhh, understood. And agreed. He's trolling, and I'm ok with that. As long as his grammar is correct, he doesn't use Americanisms, and doesnt just copy and paste posts from reddit and present them as news 😁👍

Not a lot. I own an Xbox.

@Titntin

Thanks 😊👍trouble is, gamers are the ones being nuanced about live service gaming, not Sammy. We are the ones making the distinction between games like NMS that offer live service updates and monetised GaaS.

When we complain about live service games we don't want, we're not mentioning or even lumping in games that are supported past their launch date. Because technically, you could class ALL games that receives updates, patches, content free of charge after launch as 'live service', so we make the distinction.

Same is trying to argue a point using those types of games as collateral damage when people are vocally negative about live service GaaS, and that isn't what people do, neither is it what they mean.

He's not being nuanced, he's aggregating all games that are supported beyond launch day and classifying them all as the same (which technically it is in the strictest sense) and saying when we complain we demonise them all equally because they share a loose definition of what live service is.

@Northern_munkey 😆 👍

@Titntin

Mr Anderson, You’ve been living two lives. In one life, you’re Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a social security number, you pay your taxes, and you... help your landlady carry out her garbage.

The other life is lived in game websites, where you go by the username alias ‘TinTin’ and are guilty of agreeing with Sammy's terribly argued point about live service games.

One of these lives has a future. And one of them does not.

I’m going to be as forthcoming as I can be, Mr. Anderson. You’re here because we need your help. We know that you’ve been contacted by a certain individual — a man who calls himself Sammy. Now, whatever you think you know about this man is irrelevant. He is considered by many authorities to be the most dangerous man alive. He doesn't know the difference between monetised live service games and games that receive live service support after launch, and thinks we don't either.