(EDIT: as of May 6 Sony appears to have reversed course on the PSN link reuqirement)
I’ll be giving Sony until Tuesday to announce a change of course as probably management doesn’t want to do anything until Monday at least. Yes it’s their fault for announcing shitty news right before a weekend, so anyone who wants a refund should request one.
It really sucks that Sony has to come in and ruin what would have been a shining example of how to run a live service game.
Sony and Arrowhead thought they could do a Friday night bad news dump like they do in politics but executives, having no pulse on the common gamer, failed to realize Friday nights are gamer’s prime time.
I’m with you, going to give them a business day or two to respond before I pull the trigger on a refund attempt.
Exactly. Such an insane misunderstanding of the world around them.
And I think we’re going to start seeing more and more massive fuckups like this. Because the general mood of people is that we’re being taken advantage of…because capitalism is a base of exploitation that people somehow were conditioned to accept, but now that people can discuss things across time, borders, etc., everyone is collectively tired of being fucked over for money. Even from companies. They gave us small “opiates of the masses” to placate us. But then they came for our opiates.
It really sucks that Sony has to come in and ruin what would have been a shining example of how to run a live service game.
I have no love at all for Sony but let’s be honest, Arrowhead signed up with Sony as their publisher to get the benefits Sony would provide as a publisher, specifically their support apparatus for dealing with tickets. Arrowhead wanted that from Sony but failed to list the game properly in Steam with region locks to prevent Steam users from buying it in countries with no PSN support, and didn’t enforce the PSN requirement at launch.
It’s easy to point the finger at Sony because it’s Sony and they suck, but Arrowhead pulled the bait and switch. They could have updated their Steam listing for the game a week after it came out to add purchase restrictions and avoid the future mess, but I’m sure they were drunk off the sales numbers and said, fuck it, let it roll.
Arrowhead wanted that from Sony but failed to list the game properly in Steam with region locks to prevent Steam users from buying it in countries with no PSN support, and didn’t enforce the PSN requirement at launch.
Isn’t that the publisher’s job? Also Sony owns the game, not Arrowhead. Like if you buy a Toyota and hit someone with it, that’s not Toyota’s fault.
Unless Toyota didn’t install brakes, or released the car with adaptive cruise control that had faulty firmware that caused the car to accelerate straight in to the back of someone. Or some other aspect they had full control over versus you as a consumer.
