"Deep discount" when it comes to Sony's single player game translates to pirate the game on release and buy it when it's dirt cheap to have it on their Steam library, all while spending plenty on GaaS, hardware and games with Denuvo.
Helldivers 2 will require Steam players to sign in with PSN account, led to review bombing games & refunds. |UP| Gamers organizing to revert reviews.
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What they need is to stop with the pc port crap and focus on ps5
LOL GTFOH "gaming's premier league". You Steam fanboys are in a league of delusion all your own. You make PlayStation and even Xbox fanboys look humble & sane by comparison.
At this point, their PC launcher will be DOA. A lot of those would-be users would come from Steam, and we're seeing how they're handling the news of anything with blatant PlayStation branding on it right now.
They can tolerate the single-player ports because they can just equate those to Sony or SIE; a PSN account is specifically putting PlayStation right in the title. A PlayStation launcher on PC would be doing that even more so. PlayStation doesn't need a PC launcher.
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Focus on PS console & seek other methods of growing profits like Nintendo. You can focus on live service on mobile & PS consoles depending if the live service is a shooter then release it on PC, cross media, toys/merch, scoping budget/producing more first party games/smaller games $50 games, EVO/Esports, parks etc literally just follow Nintendo. Double down on PS console & gaming across different genre outside 3rd person action games
I would throw a party if Sony cut ties with steam over this shit.
Just make your own launcher. Simple.
If people want your games, they will come. Also... Buy Capcom, square and from and make them exclusive to the launcher and console.
Just make your own launcher. Simple.
If people want your games, they will come. Also... Buy Capcom, square and from and make them exclusive to the launcher and console.
These freaks act like valve is run by a bunch of nuns that give all their profits to charity & never collects their data
Good to see so many people shitting on steam, their steamlickers, and the wider PC community. The platform is dying and acts like this just underscore how entitled and arrogant they've always been. They're at the bottom of the gaming barrel and they boast like they're all wearing crowns. Bitch, PS almost makes more in a quarter than Valve in a year.
Can people here admit that Sony is at least partially at fault here? Most of you are no different than rabbid Xbots. Yes, they had a statement from the start that it was required. They should have enforced it from the start, failing that they should have NOT released the game and they should have had betas to judge the interest in the game and the eventual technical difficulties that every multiplayer game has. Instead, they chose to focus on login troubles due to the massive player spike they had at the release and in doing so decided to postpone this requirement, so as to relieve their technical difficulties. This was avoidable, but Sony seems to be incapable to have at least decent PR management. Now they will likely see refund waves from PC players ( not sure how many people from the HD community comes from PC), resulting in financial damage, not just PR damage. They need to get a grip.
"the platform is dying"
*Steam keeps breaking ccu records*
"Bitch, PS almost makes more in a quarter than Valve in a year."
Noone knows how much Valve makes so that claim can you take elsewhere.
lol, Epic and others would have been so happy if it was simple to make a launcher
Sony caused this by bending the knee. PSN should be mandatory to play any PS on PC including singleplayer & multiplayer games. Sony lost focus on its own platform now having a disaster fiasco that could’ve been avoided if they focus on actually releasing multiple first party games on PS console.
Sony deserves this fiasco
You're the one that needs to get a grip if you think this is anything but a big fat nothing burger that the pc master race are crying about
Many folks don't have a clue. MICROSOFT of all companies with their infinite pockets tried to push their own store on THEIR OS and it bombed in a spectacular fashion. It's even less popular than EGS!!
Valve spent 2 decades refining their store and became the benchmark of what a gaming marketplace should be. You can't fast track that with money alone.
Sony is in their right to cut the middleman and release their own store on PC. However, they don't have that many games yet and clearly they don't have the expertise. So it's a risky affair for them.
Imagine if they needed to pay psplus too?
That would be so funny.
That would be so funny.
That would be like deciding to become an MMA world champ at the age of 70, while never having done any sports before. The potential PC market, does not warrant the work,risk and investment involved in making a PC store front.
It is definitely overblown and inflated by astroturfers, but going in the opposite extreme and acting like Sony did nothing wrong and that their execution of this is not clumsy at best, idiotic at worst, is not doing anyone any favors, to "real" gamers or Sony.
good luck arguing with governments about the laws which aren't enforced 'in that moment' when you break or ignore those.
if you break the rules or ignore, it is on you. it was clearly stated that you need 3rd party account with this game - PSN. if you ignored that, it is on you, and all the whining and crying is void.
it is entitlement at its peak right here.
Right. The only game that should release on PC is live service & in most cases all live service should be exclusive to a PS PC launcher. Sony really shouldn’t bend the knee to Steam especially when Steam was in MS acquisition list but seriously PS porting singleplayer games is calling for disaster have Xbox create a PC open hybrid that allows you to play Xbox, Steam & a PS PC launcher just like you can do with Steamdeck.
You keep repeating this but the disclaimer was always there on Steam so there was no breach of agreement with the customer buying the game? Why are they entitled for refunds 3 months after purchase if absolutely nothing changed? It's not an online game that you pay monthly.
Valve is being stupid and if I was Sony I would delete all my games from there.