After a false start and a few glitches the new look PSN Store is up and running as of now. I had a quick flick through it earlier and nothing exploded so fingers crossed. The redesign is apparently the result of “feedback and insight from the community,” according to the product development manager for Sony Network Entertainment, Elliott Dumville.
A new patent recently published by Sony wants to gather biometric data of gamers to track whether one is being harassed using AI tools.
I hope this is one of those patents that never comes to fruition.
I already dislike the fact you can pay a significant amount for a online service buy associated games and content on said service and get banned from that service over potentially a misunderstanding the bans are already handed out for flimsy reasons
I'd rather see money invested in a ban that simply removes the offensive players ability to communicate with unknown players allow them to continue party chats with friends but not with Joe blow on cod.
Take my social security and bank account numbers too! Here’s a picture of my wife and our address.
At this rate I feel Sony will eventually sell a room to play games in it where they can monitor your every breath
I want them to censor erotic content by measuring my groin temperature so i dont get too distracted while playing black ops 2.
Terrible idea. Not only do I not consent to providing my biometric data, the potential for mishandling biometric data is almost a certainty. Positive stress and negative stress can produce similar changes in biometrics. Interpreting the precise emotion a person is feeling is not only invasive but could be easily misconstrued. I hope this never comes to fruition.
Sony has recently published a new patent that wants to dynamically handle the games' difficulty and gameplay based on the player's emotions.
This is something I might use. Sometimes I play some good games but they don’t have difficulty option and are a little too easy.
cool idea
cool idea for horror games especially
the way it's explained here sounds like it could never be forced hopefully, so that's ok with me
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.
we have to pay to watch programmes from bbc iplayer £1.80 per show.. WTF
Iplayer have a free app don't they? Pretty sure everything on there is free and a lot is also HD.
Great to hear store is finally back up and running… I like it.
Re BBC i-Player it is down to the BBC if they are charging for shows, not Sony. Whilst I don’t believe they are currently charging I understand they intend too at some point and as a longstanding license payer I’m pretty disgusted at some of the content they want to charge for.
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The new PSN store is now up in Ireland, and i must say that it looks awesome.
I probably have the worst internet connection on Earth at my house but the store is running perfectly.
Well done, Sony.
I don't have any problems with the store but Sony should change the prices of the avatars.
€1.19 for an Irish flag avatar is just ridiculous, especially since the flag belongs to me, not Sony.
i dont like that loading time in the beginning, they made PSS as an "externel" app and not built in the xmb like the previous store was.
Also the search function is really bad.
But globally there is some improvements, but they promised improvements every week so let's see.