A brief article outlining the common misconceptions behind recent discoveries and events surrounding the PlayStation network.
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.
Very interesting read and cleared up a few bits of information put out in the last few days. I had a hard time believing the 3rd parties banning other users article.
Everyone needs to read this.
Very informative
thank god about the banning legitimate users bit,i was afraid this'll have a very bad effect on Sony
Let hackers ban themselves
Kind of a very basic overview and doesn't even go into mentioning that Sony has IDS/IPS implemented to detect "spoofed" data, which is a huge hurdle for anyone to overcome when trying to bypass PSN security.
It does address the important fact that while people say they can do something in theory, it doesn't mean they have the necessary information to do as such. In this case, they still haven't broken the security protocols that Sony utilizes.
Furthermore, the strange thing here is that hackers are claiming this as something they can do with the PS3, yet the exact same thing could be said of Xbox 360 bans. The way that they ban consoles are exactly the same in theory, meaning it's on the end of the network that allows you to connect online. If this was something so easy to do, we would have already have seen this happen on the 360.
Essentially, this is just idiot hackers - I really wouldn't call them that in the first place - trying to put more bad press on the PS3. Hackers hate what Sony is doing, which is fighting them for modifying Sony IP and preventing the installation of illegal software, and we've seen more worthless news on "Hackers ruin the lives of everyone who doesn't hack on the PS3" just to keep drumming up bad press for the PS3 and make it seem like you should never log onto the PSN again.
It's childish, IMHO.
very informative must read for all