"Personalization has a price. Throughout the PlayStation Meeting 2013, Sony's representatives keyed in on "personalization" as one of the main facets behind the development of the PlayStation 4. It seems like a benign, a thoroughly positive concept—that a company considers the preferences of its users and then tailors the user interface in the form of relevant searches and recommendations. The system learns your behavior, your likes and dislikes, and offers advertisements and products that fall within your general comfort zone."
~ Nick Tan, Game Revolution
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.
Yeah.... I hope I can turn all of that off.
You don't know me, you're not my real PS4!
They will be using the wrong kind of information to personalize the gamer's experience. It will be limited to business related data like genre, what you clicked on, number of hours spent on a game, etc. It's basically the data they are already receiving anyway.
What they need to do is add currently unmeasurable factors. It may not be the genre a gamer is interested in but rather the fact it has a focus on storyline. I like Metal Gear 4, Mortal Kombat 9, Ghostbusters, Deus Ex, etc. because of their storylines yet they fall into multiple genres. How can any company know what I like using the information data they currently get? I'd say they need to go to a deeper, and more accurate, level in order to truly personalize gaming.
I like Deus Ex because the storyline coexists with my beliefs...or I like Metal Gear Solid 4 because it coincides with my expectations of realism. I use fighter A because it fits with my gameplay abilities. I choose character A because I can do combos better than others....not because I like fighting games in general or because of my age. They need to understand why before they can understand how.
Also, maybe I like to be held in suspense. Unlike movies video games don't really use those to catagorize video games. Maybe I like Dead Space because it is scary not because it's survival horror. That doesn't mean I'd like Resident Evil 6.
What they need is a gamer to enter keywords in a database for a game that reflects his values about a game. For example, I liked a video game because it was funny, unique, artistic, involved heights, enjoyable environment 1st level. The keywords would be funny, unique, artistic, heights, and environment 1st level. I think this input would need to be preselected from a huge list of descriptions somewhat like LittleBigPlanet where the user inputs the data.