• _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    They’ll be seeing none of my money then. Maybe if I ever bother to play them it’ll be for free on an emulator years from now, but honestly, I have a massive backlog of amazing games to play so it might not even be worth the effort. I bought most of their PC releases too. Oh well.

  • SalamenceFury@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    Hey Sony, you know what’s going to happen?

    People are just not gonna play those games instead of buying a PS5 to play them.

    Congrats on setting your money on fire.

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      Yeah, but the sad part is the games and the people who made them will get the short end of this stupid decision. The dipshit executives will see poor sales for such and such game and decide people didn’t like the game, rather than that their dipshit decision drove away customers. Best case they decide to meddle harder in future releases, further enshitifying their games and hurting game developers.

    • Kilgore Trout@feddit.it
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      Sony’s strategy has been all over the place. This should have been the stance at the launch of PS5, if anything, not now.

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    Darn.

    Was really hoping my PC would do for playing future Horizon (not Hunters Gathering) and GoW games.

    Didn’t need a PS5, but I guess Sony doesn’t want my money anymore.

    Too bad.

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      Honestly with the number of old games I have and the number of new awesome games on Steam, I am set for life. Sony, i need you not

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    Went decades without them. Didn’t really play the ones that did become available… No loss as far as I’m concerned.

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      As someone who played them all voraciously on PS5 then downloaded their repacks once they became available to mod the fuck out of them to give them new life to me, this hurts a lot.

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        So you paid for them on PS5 but pirated them on PC? Great job telling Sony you don’t want PC versions.

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          Buddy I barely have enough money for food and rent, last thing I’m doing is spending money to play the same single player game twice. Sony know computer players have steam and are frugal, that is why they are okay with abandoning the market while the going is tough for the average working class denizen of Earth. God knows they were never getting my money twice and so did Sony.

          PS what are you trying to accomplish with this comment? Is it fun to just openly shill for capitalism?

      • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Yeah, I unlike the OP don’t like online games. I love story not just randomly shooting at things.

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          I don’t know what you’re referring to, but it sounds like you’re saying PC games are all online and PS has the only story games. Is that right?

          If that is what you’re saying, you couldn’t be more wrong. All the CRPGs are on PC, for example. We have more exclusives than any other platform (not saying exclusives are good, just that PC is easier to make and distribute for). The best offline games are arguably (without much debate) on PC.

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      The only ones I was remotely interested we’re Demons souls remake (which never came to PC) and Bloodborne remake (which never happened in the first place). For the rest of Sony games I gave most of them a fair shot but none of them made me think “wow, this was a must play”.

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      I’ve found that most of their games are overpriced and take years to lose their value, as well as being more demanding of hardware then their image quality suggests. Still, a shame to lose a publisher doing AAA single player games that aren’t live service slop.

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    So just their exclusives which they barely make anymore. I can buy used for the 2.5 games Sony themselves makes per generation now when they aren’t failing to trend chase a whaling game genre.

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    I have not bought a Sony console since the PlayStation 2. I’ve “missed” a fair few games already. The ones that end up worth playing always seem to make their way to PC eventually.

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    I bought all of their consoles up to the PS4 but never got the use out of them that I did with my PC.

    When they started releasing games on PC they (Sony) started getting money from me again because the games are great. But I guess they didn’t like that! And since I’m not buying a console, because they’re a scam, they won’t be getting my money.

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    Ohh noooo!

    Now my backlog of games that should be shrinking is only going to grow by 10% next year instead of 12% like it could have!

    The tech companies haven’t driven me to the point of utter contempt for consoles like they have for phones, but at the same time I have multiple PCs and more games than I will ever play.

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    console wars are on again, but Valve will crush Sony.
    They don’t stand a chance. (*)

    (*) Sorry Valve i just doomed you, my predictions are always wrong,.