Holding a mirror up to real life is now illegal.

I would like to complain that the Washington Post still exists somehow.

This is what they do rather than write gaming guides.

Kotaku can't die fast enough.

Some of these look pretty neat, and I hadn't heard of at all. Thanks for the head's up.

Alright, I was mistaken. It happens from time to time.

I had assumed that twitter might have worked with some sort of friend/block list.
And let's say someone not on the mutual friend list had put the community note up, the account that got noted could wipe it by making it reply list only even after the fact. And if they're not on that list, it'd wipe the note.

So it's definitely shenanigans then. That's kinda sad. The people that need it the most get to avoid it.

I do believe they did sabotage it. Maybe not intentionally, but it feels as though it should have done better. 3 million should have been a success, even for a AA title.

Last August they were praising it. MS said that they were happy with it.

They closed the studio that made it not even ten months saying that.

I think they sabotaged Hi-Fi Rush.

• They stealth launched it during a game award stream.

• They made it digital only for a good 90% of it's life. Only recently did it get physical releases (in the last 30 days) on Xbox Series X and PS5. It's still not on Switch. And given their "It'll be available on all current platforms that it's on" it might not get to Switch at all.

• It was day one on gamepass, so you never had to buy it digitally anyway.

• There was zero marketing for it that I ever saw outside of the game award stream, and when it had a splash page at launch on Steam (Same day as the gaming stream)

I mean, it's kinda obvious why it failed. Which is a shame because it's got near zero ESG crap in it, (there's one danger hair in it that rescues you at least once) and it plays genuinely well. It's a bit campy here and there, but it's got a fun charm to it.

You're probably right.

I would argue that Fallout 76 could have been a full priced co-op DLC to Fallout 4, and it would have been much better received.

But then they couldn't control the way you play, force you to make an account, tuck an in game shop in there, maintain control over what goes on in the game via the servers, make a private session pay to use for you and your friends, if it was just drop in drop out co-op.

In fact, it seemed like they did everything in their power to specifically add in as many barriers as possible, and then make you pay to convenience your way out, or have to work harder than someone who paid.

If going back to co-op means an end to the above, I'm fine with that.

Disney died when they stopped doing traditional animation. Some of the CG movies afterwards were alright.

But they're at the point now where they could be putting far more time and effort into them, and they're not. They're coasting on good enough, and fucking that up with propaganda.

They actually greenlit a movie where a girl gets her period in Toronto in 2003, directed by a girl who lived in Toronto in 2003, who presumably got her period then.

They've scraped the bottom of the barrel so hard they're tunneling to the core of the earth.

Genuine question. I have no idea how twitter works. Someone here like does.

It looks to me like they changed the tweet so that only certain people can reply.

Would that kill off a community note? I only ask because it's going to be weaponized that way if so. You can just be wrong, get noted, and then go back to being wrong if you change who can comment after the note.

It's kinda tiresome that these people seem to be artificially created in some mass production warehouse to think, act, talk and behave all the same way. Their interchangeable nature is somehow all fine, because they keep getting employed in positions where they can play the high school mean girl.

Something tells me you're right, they'll just play the long game. These games will all require PSN accounts and they'll be mandatory. They're just relenting in the here and now because of the massive fuck up it's been.

I still say that they should have done it the soft way. Make PSN creating and linking optional. If you don't do it, you can't cross play with PS players. It's that simple. I mean heck, people have also mentioned they would do it if they were incentivized. A skin, or some in game currency or something to sweeten the deal.

Off topic, but I'm curious, OP. Do you have your very own nemesis around here or something? I've never seen a comment or post from you that doesn't have at least one consistent downvote.

Y'know, all they had to do was disable crossplay if you don't make a PSN account.

That's it. That's all they had to do.

Instead it's now a road mapped lesson in how to fuck it up in the worst possible way over something incredibly trivial. Even if they reversed course now, there would be mass confusion over why it wasn't done the above way in the first place. It's too late.

It's like they want it to succeed, but only on their specific terms. Otherwise, fuck it who cares. And if that's their attitude, they can keep their PS games, thanks.

I'll just play one of the 2403 games that have come out on Steam since January of this year that do not require any additional account linking. Or one of the 12,068 games that released last year. And so on... ( ref: https://www.statista.com/statistics/552623/number-games-released-steam/ )

Sony truly doesn't understand it didn't just shoot itself in the foot, they also gave themselves a black eye.

I have a question about this whole thing, and I haven't seen or heard anyone ask it yet, so here goes.

Are Playstation users being required to make Steam accounts to link to so that they can play with PC users, or risk losing access to the game too?

You don't actually choose the bear.

The forest is the bear's home.

You're willingly putting yourself there to show us how much you hate men.

Please test your theory whenever you want.

The old trick used to be that you just keep the computer offline by unplugging the cable until the the install was over. This forced a local account instead.

If that's not possible anymore, then I don't want it.

You're talking about the pre 2007 internet. Before ease of access, and normie invasion. You can thank Apple for putting internet access in everyone's pocket with the iPhone.

Where everything was not so centralized. It took them only a few years to destroy 5000 of the most used websites, and turn them into 5 that they control.

And don't worry if you don't visit that 5th website, anything on the other 4 will be copy pasted to the 5th real soon.

Right, no argument here.

But to your point, you'd likely have to log into a PSN account on your playstation in order to play those censored games. With the exception of Stellar Blade. I think that's single player. But it might have online elements like leaderboards or something.

Edit: Forgot to mention that since 2011, Sony has been hacked multiple times. They are not someone I want handling my info if they can be compromised multiple times and cannot be trusted with it.

• The April 2011 hack where 77 million PSN user info was obtained.

• May 2011 22 million PSN user info is found for sale on the dark web. Including name, address, credit card, PSN account name and password.

• November 2014 Hackers steal 100 Terrabytes of data from Sony Pictures

• August 2017 Hackers Obtain Sony Social Media accounts

• September 2023 Sony network hacked again.

• October 2023 Sony notifies it's employees of the data breach.

No thanks. The company cannot be trusted with anyone's info.

I don't have a PS3 or a PS4 or you guessed it, a PS5. Games being censored is always wrong.

Games having an opt out to have a PSN then reversing course and saying it's temporarily optional and now required is some new level of bullshit.

You cant make an appeal to triviality whenever you're the one who initiated the trivial action.

I'd be just as mad if you put up a fence with a gate between me and my car one night and then one day take the gate away and expect me to have to hop a fence every time I plan on using my car. I'm gonna bitch about the fence.

They proved that it's optional to not have a PSN account tied to the game, 'technical glitch' or otherwise.

"Just do this dumb thing that we now need you to do."

No, I really don't want more accounts tied to this account.

"Then you can't play the game"

Here comes my displeasure on the steam forums.

"OH MY GOD, WE'RE NOT EVEN THE FOURTEENTH GAME TO DO THIS!"

We hated it every other fucking time too. Except this case is special, you've proven it's optional and not required and now you're saying it is when we know that's not true. You cant make an appeal to triviality whenever you're the one who initiated the trivial action.

We know exactly why you want this. So you can ban a PSN account and a Steam account at the same time when you hear or see something done you don't like. That's literally the reason the CM stated.

The game works fine as is without a PSN account, and only using a Steam log in. I think most would also rather not have a Steam login too, but here we are.

Looks like no one learned anything from the Sony hack. All the customer info was stored the same way. In plain old unencrypted text files.

It's like watching a grifter get baited by an even better grifter.

There are no winners here except for those that watch from the sidelines.

There is nothing to be gained from debating this with them.

The only response is to ask them why not a black man. And then tell them why they immediately thought a white man instead of a black man when they thought violent man.

Then accuse them of racism if they would consider the black man to be violent by default too, if they thought the white man would do harm to them but not the black one.

This is tangentially related, mostly due to overzealous word censorship, but wrestling fans won't be able to speak about their favorite Royal Rumble moments.

And the old genesis/snes royal rumble games, too. A bit button mashy, but fun imo.