TheSixthAxis.com propose a simple thought experiment: Imagine owning a PS3 and never going online from launch. Would it ruin the console, or would it still be enjoyable?
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
Sony has patented to add multiple dialogue modes to let players switch between how many conversations with NPCs they want in the game.
Sony is like the only ones outta the 3 that has atuff like like this pop up changing thing in ways.
Genuine Enabling Technology was seeking damages, claiming the tech allowing PlayStation consoles and controllers to communicate infringes its rights.
Sounds like patent trolling they tried the same thing against Nintendo with the same pattern.
Motion and control input traversing over higher and lower frequencies seperate from each other allowing the controller to do both
So to recoup the money Genuine is going to take on Nintendo or Microsoft next. I hate patent lawyers they are some of the worst bottom feeders out there.
Another issue to think about, playability through firmware. Not all games come with the required FW in order to play them, so playability of certain games may not be possible, and cause some real problems...
I think i can, when i bought my ps3, i didn't know that it had online functionality, until 2010 xD
It WILL be enjoyable. As A person who own a PS3 and never had online for around 1 1/2 years. I had LittleBigPlanet, GTA4, inFAMOUS, Naruto Storm. All those games I could have never had online and still to this day have fun with it. But online is the way to go, online functionality pretty much define this generation.
Personally I think it would have been fine. I never played PS2 or Xbox online, only really ever played PC online. America's Army was my thing.
With PS3 I wasn't really "interested" in jumping online until I got involved with RFOM. I was always more single player oriented, and if it didn't have online I bet that focus from developers would still exist. Instead of tacked on multiplayer.
However with how broken games release these days, I don't think it'd be as "enjoyable." Imagine being stuck with Skyrim's buggy mess, or other broken games. There would be no day one patches to fix them. And we would never get trophies or other updates. Plus some games get single player DLC that I enjoy.
Don't they put the firmware updates on newer games?
I know nintendo did that with the Wii. You would try to play a new game and it would force an update on you first.
And Microsoft did it with the 360 with at least one of their updates, when they modified the disc format a little to make more space on the disc usable.