It’s abundantly clear that Playstaion Plus offers ridiculously good value to the consumer but generally speaking; a gain on the one hand is a loss on another. In this article we take a look at who, if anyone, is taking the knock for Playstation Plus. Is it possible that Sony has created a win-win-win scenario?
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.
back then, i bought ps+ just because im too lazy to update my ps+ by myself
but now, just look at how awesome ps+ become
I just hope this continues onto the PS4 era.... I mean, they can copy Microsoft's model of just charging for online with no added value and it's likely to make more money than plus... sad but true..... I hope I'm wrong since I don't care about multiplayer and would only pay for plus if the games keep on coming with the same quality they did on PS3/Vita
Since this is an opinion article, and I have a PSN account I must say that PS+ is actually the worst value in gaming today. It's essentially the same thing as free PSN, but now they charge for it. True, there are "free" games now but rarely do they mean anything. You pay $50 a year for games that are typically very old/not worth it...or when the rare gem comes along it's over a year old, and chances are that if you are interested in it, you've already played and beaten it. Other than that, there really isn't anything special about PS+ at all, it hasn't been upgraded at all.
I've had ps plus for a couple of years now, for both US and EU and I have literally hundreds of games as a result. Initially it was a lot of PSone games (which I was happy with), now many more new titles. It's funny how people only realize how good it is after they are forced to use it.
Do you think it would be plausible to become a developer solely for PS+.
Meaning Sony would pay developers a set fee for a game to be release day 1 for free on PS+. This is basically what happened with Resogun.