Sony’s been stepping up its game by courting the hottest indie developers, showing off games instead of apps, and pushing digital games harder than anyone else who isn’t named Valve. As of today, Steam is the best place for all of your digital goodies, and for good reason. Despite not dealing with the scarcity of retail, Steam’s pricing of games and DLC keep pace with consumer interest. When we hold PSN against Steam, Sony’s platform is more static, and less successful because of it. If Sony wants to go for the home-run with fans, while keeping up with the direction digital games are heading, it needs to see what’s wrong with its pricing model and how to fix it.
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.
Players can pay to edit their character, resurrect the dead and other actions.
Yet Helldivers 2 gets a pass? Y’know a GotY contender by the name of RE4 had them and so does Devil May Cry V. The funny thing is I enjoyed both of those games thoroughly without having to buy a single microtransaction.
What I do consider a valid complaint is not being able to start a new game or being able to edit your character. That’s kind of a seriously baffling decision, but then I think how I played Dragon’s Dogma 1 and I never edited my character and I just did a 100% playthrough on a single file and didn’t start a NG since. So, I don’t think these are really going to impact me, but I can see how it will others.
I was going to pay full price to support this game because I've been waiting for it for forever but I think I'll wait until I get it for free from Epic or a Humblebundle monthly.
I am not defending Capcom, as I am not a fan of MTX in single player games. I do however belive they were open to reviewers about having MTX in their game. The reviewers just decided to leave that part out. Which is very disingenuous. There are some companies that get away with these things. Image if this was done by EA, Ubisoft, or even Activision? I am positive those defending Capcom, would have had their pitchforks ready if the companies listed above did this
Digital Pricing will see a big change next generation when everyone will have atleast 500GB(420GB available space). More people will be purchasing games digitaly (on the PS4 anyway, don't see any benefits of purchasing digitally for Xbone), discounts will be more frequent. I'm actually quite surprised that some games on the PSN store or set at a pretty decent price.
Obviously the prices will not be as great as steam prices since I hear they get some crazy discounts esecailly when they do big sales.
I'm hoping to see a wide array of pricing options on games. For instance, I think Knack looks really fun, but at $60 I think it will likely get overshadowed. But, if it launched at $40, I think a lot more people would buy it. If more games are able to come in at $30-40 they could sell more and open the way for sequels or spinoffs, a good thing in my opinion.