Sony has filed a new patent, and it’s one that is bound to generate a lot of controversy if implemented in the PS4.
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.
Commercial Suicide...
unless they want to pull a bluff on MS and get them include it in the 720 aswell and then at the last minute turn around and say the PS4 can play second-hand games....
I heard rumors about this just before the PS3 launch.
Although this will be the top story of the day in a couple of hours I'm sure.
Some thoughts.....
Can you sell a PSN or XBLA game to another party after finishing the game?
Companies stating that physical media was not required?
Just as non transferable Downloadable games move to full retail releases, why wouldnt games available on physical media?
As for Steam , I believe by law in the EU you can , however it has not been implemented.. (Yes?)
I truly believe both Sony and MS will adopt this tactic for physical media next gen...
As for me , I never sell/trade my games, so it wont really effect me.
If they do deploy this "lock out" of used games, Piracy will be very high on a hackers agenda.