There are differences between a studio, publisher, and distributor. Sometimes they are the same corpo, sometimes they aren’t. But whenever you see some enshitification of games, it’s most likely the publisher. You might want to direct your anger at Sony in this case, not the studio.
It’s a more general comment aimed at the overall attempt to completely destroy the industry by some people. Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if a decade from now every large game company but Indies wasn’t struggling to keep their doors open.
They’ve backed themselves into a corner with this expectation that every game be an open world game with hyper realistic graphics. The risingg costs are their own fault.
Honestly it’s talked about a lot. Isolated to online you would think most people are against these kinds of things but reality is the average player just doesn’t care. These companies have the statistics that show how much they’re making vs losing and when they take a chance and it sticks all the other companies align with the new money making way. That’s how we have gotten to where we are. This HD2 thing will blow over for now but it’ll come back in other ways. Likely next time you’ll see them just launch the game with the requirement and it won’t be stopped as it was this time. The issue this time was they did it after it got ridiculously popular especially with the PC community the community that sticks to being PC instead of consoles so trying to force them won’t ever work like that.
We can hate it all we want but sadly we can’t out weigh the immense amount of people who don’t care.
There’s always a dissonance between the money you can do, and the money you think you can do.
Sony “see” companies like Google, Facebook (and alike) making huge profit by hooking up their server with people’s wallets. Sony see these companies not hiring artists, authors, directors, operators, developers. Sony see these companies huge flood of money thanks one simple, magical mantra “just, make, one, account”.
I’m willing to double dip just to roam the world with my ultrawide oled again, I’ve never really touched the coop mode anyway in Ps4 and then later PS5’s remaster. I want to support the studio and I hope the Helldivers 2 event sends Sony a clear enough message. It’s only 2 days in and they will be monitoring metric etc. Remember how well that reddit blackout worked? But this time, steam seems to willing to refund for those delisted countries no issue, so players in those region can hit Sony in the pocket. (and sadly, AH as well. )
Yes but they likely have existing infrastructure on PSN so it makes sense to do that. Theyre just taking your steam ID and verifying your purchase, then using a PSN ID on their end after the purchase validation for online matchmaking and server side stuff. Not to crazy.
Otherwise they’d have to redo their server code and what not just to handle Steam and for a game that’s already this old, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to do that.
I mean sure but I don’t see how this is “half assing it” since you have no idea what happens on the server side.
And look I’m not saying they’re in the right here, I’m just saying that people are quick to jump to them hating their players and wanting their data when this seems to be more like something that’s being done to make their backend function.
Even though it’s mentioned in black and white that linking an account is required for coop I fully expect the same shit show because some people are incapable of reading.
Itd be comparable if day one Ghosts let folks do multi without a PSN login then months later after a massive community built up said, “oh btw youre required to log in now.”
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