Well, for what it is worth, I just clicked the pre-register button and it didn't cost me a penny. Might a future beta be pay-gated? Possibly. But they've done free betas, even as recently as D2R, so I'm guessing at least some will be free. I think the ones tied to purchases tend to just allow access a handful of days before open betas. At least that's how it was with D2R.
1st, pre-registering is NOT pre-ordering. I never pre-order a single thing, period. Not gonna start with this. I will, however, pre-register.
You say that we have to show them there are consequences for scummy practices and to not register interest. I think not registering interest here would show them that Diablo Immortal shit is the way to go, and standalone core releases are no longer worth pursuing. That's not a future I'm a fan of.
2nd, becau...
8 months after release? That seems bizarre. Appreciated, but bizarre. Can't help but wonder if that would have helped it just that little extra if this was there when it launched.
Regarding the "nothing like the Matrix demo" comment, I would just caution you to not expect anything like that for A WHILE. Those tools were still barely finalized, and they haven't been widely available in devs hands for more than a few months.
Outside that, we weren't shown any "new" PS exclusives, of which I expect the next crop to possibly be closer to that kind of thing. Engines take time to build, gens take time to transition (especially ...
Not to be mean, because there are some valid potential concerns here, but....welcome to the discussion of 10 years ago.
Yeah, I'm not sure why Sony did this. It's one more thing to push people towards CFW, and then that's basically priming people to pirate. Why would they take away a feature? Why do companies continue to punish the loyal, paying customers? It boggles the mind.
@LtSunshine
Yeah, I know purchasing power is totally different from place to place. Certainly no qualms there. I was simply trying to say that if the price bump was truly to match across storefronts and that raised the price, but the price isn't raised up to match a $20 USD equivalent, what metric are they using to raise the prices? What caused this "price match" mechanism to kick in, and why such a seemingly arbitrary price hike?
Same. I'm into retro collecting myself, but I've never gone for sealed or rated. Those rated games always seemed...dubious to me, honestly. And how fun is it to know you'll never even get to play it? Just own it and look at it, all the while having less to spend on other games to add to your collection. Still, I get the desire for something like that to exist, but Wata seemed way too cloaked or obfuscated for me to truly understand how reputable it all was.
I me...
Apparently the GBP price went down, though many other places went up. According to the Ska devs, Sony saw the price was much lower on the EGS, and so they forced a price match across all platforms. But Ska says they don't have any control over individual country prices, so I'm a bit confused here.
If Ska didn't set initial low prices, then that means Sony initially set all these different prices per country, but then because of this agreement it caused them to r...
"to cooperate this accretion" Did they mean to corroborate this assertion? I found that ending line rather odd...
That said, the first 2 points seemed weirdly focused on the fact there were included assets. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there are plenty of baseline projects you can use in UE or Unity that are foundational in much the same way.
And the 2nd part about procedural modelling seemed to indicate the biggest benefit is that certain i...
So QFT (apparently Quick Frame Transport) is almost entirely focused on input lag and latency, which I would have more so felt than seen. I wasn't speaking so much to the fact that the game felt more responsive as I was to the fact that the image itself looked smoother. And I know this had nothing to do with VRR, as the TV backed up the fact I VRR only engaged on PS5 titles, so whatever I experienced would have had to be a system level change to how it handled 30fps content or something. ...
It isn't so much that I think the framerate changed, or was even choppy in the past. When I played 1886 on my LED TV in the past, it felt fine. When I switched to OLED recently & played it again, it felt very bad. Not because of the lower framerate, but rather that because of the lower persistence of frames, there wasn't really any pixel smearing to help smooth the transitions. I felt I could almost count each frame.
When I fired it up to test if PS4 games could...
LG C1 goes all the way down to 20hz for VRR, but that's besides the point. Obviously the PS5 wasn't doing VRR on 1886, so something else seems to be going on from the last time I tried it.
Curious to those who have played PS4 on PS5 since this update:
I know VRR is only supported on PS5 titles, which I found out myself. While there was no VRR, as confirmed by the TV info display, it was showing that 30fps titles were reporting 60fps. You can clearly tell they are still running at 30, but I will say that things actually looked smoother since the last time I played.
I played The Order 1886 a while back and had to quit out because of how chopp...
It was speaking more to the fact that:
A) Not impossible to find a physical copy, as plenty exist on eBay, and even in English.
B) It isn't out of the realm of purchase, given it costs the same, or less, as a new release. If you really want it, it is very attainable.
The game at one point was going for near $100, and seemed to be going nowhere but up. So given it dropped to $60 after like a year is a pretty big falloff. It's still expensi...
I think it was probably easy to maintain that server - at this point, it could have been run on a 10 year old PC in the basement of someone's house for all the active players I assume that game had after 14 years lol.
@ufo8mycat
That argument doesn't hold water to me. If they don't put effort or creativity or enough content into the game, then no one should want to play it, right? Plenty don't deserve support, in which case don't support them with a purchase. But you also don't deserve a free game for no reason.
And again, why even waste your time pirating & then PLAYING this content poor, creatively moribund, low effort game anyway?
I think they can come up with a solution so they don't have to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
I imagine, worst case scenario, they could preserve games and have the option to strip out music if their agreements expire. I also wouldn't be surprised if Sony could work new deals to cover some older games, especially as a coattail addendum for new agreements, given most of the older licenses simply expired due to not planning for a future where games could be re...
You can find pretty affordable options for Puppeteer on eBay. The price dropped hard for some reason not too long ago. Can get disc only options for like $45, and like $60+ for disc in box.
I don't disagree that media does tend to take things and run with them, without truly doing due diligence. However, it does make you wonder why - with all the noise being made - Sony didn't clarify before.
Is there a chance they made a last minute move to swap in NTSC versions? Perhaps. The article also mentions some missing games that haven't gone live yet, which I suppose could be explained if they had to try to get some different versions figured out last mi...