Do Not Create a Favorite Group on PS4 Update 3.00, It Will Spam Your Friends

Today PSLS wants to briefly warn you about the new feature in Friends called ‘Favorite Groups.’

[Wedge19]

This is ridiculous. I can't group my own friends list without everyone knowing what table they're sitting at?

[psychobabble]

I know, right? I wanted to make a group "Possibly a Sex Offender" for this weird guy I used to work with. Not now though, until they fix this at least.

[NewMonday]

to late for me, I spammed a hundred friends and they spam me and each other

the beta testers should have brought this up with Sony

[Aenea]

@newmonday

The beta testers did but Sony didn't budge :(

The idea on paper for this and communities was great, in reality they are rather useless...

[TheLoCoRaven]

Sounds like you should do a sting and possibly take one for the team.

[XisThatKid]

@newmonday
This was brought up several times. I for one was one of the people that really want to group friend on my friends list more than anything most people are clamoring for. Plus if you can group friends we can get that ridiculous request of friend notifications but done correctly like choose groups to get notified from

[dantesparda]

Wow, does Sony even know what they are doing or how to program? People told them, over and over again, in the beta and yet they still didnt fix it because they are so slow and incompetent that they couldn't do anything about it fast enough. But to plug up a whole, oh that they're quick on.

[Harryseveruspotter]

Just ridiculous...man ......groupin is just impossible....

[JamesBroski]

It's just a group chat. Freaking useless feature.

[blackblades]

Sounds like party mode on vita. You enter one of those you get messages from everyone in there.

[Eonjay]

This isn't exactly new. Groups work like that. If you send a message to one person in the group, everyone gets it. And its been like that since day one. Its the same thing a group messages. The same thing. You do realize that you can just leave the group. But most of all this isn't new. And why would you make a group called People I hate, and then add people to that list. You added them to that group. No one would do this. So they can see that they have been invited to that group by you.

[BlackPanther]

The issue is that this is badly implemented.For a community there should be a dedicated place for messaging as to not allow huge groups to overflow with spam.

You should be able to send a single message to someone and not everyone get it, that is bad design.

Also not everyone should be allowed to add people to the groups as well. The solution isn't to simply leave and not use this feature. Sony should improve it.

Great ideas can be poorly implemented.

[isa_scout]

I completely agree. After messin around with this update for a bit I think it's not that substantial as we were led to believe. The community and PS Plus pages are cool, but that's about it. Also, is anyone else having trouble logging in to PSN this morning? My PS4 has froze up completely several times since updating to were I had to hold down the button on my PS4. Starting to worry that all these hard resets are going to damage my system.

[Christopher]

You can send a single message to someone outside of the group but who is in the group. Two different message streams.

Am I missing something? I do this all the time.

[freshslicepizza]

you're not actually defending this are you? having a tight group is one thing but you essentially have no control of the group. this sounds like remote access for everyone within that group.

[Eonjay]

No, I'm saying its not new. The group messages setup have been there since day one. So it seems really late to peg this on 3.0. Group messages have always been annoying but its easy to leave and disable them.

[NewMonday]

I thought "favorites" was just to organize a big friend list, I wanted to separate Destiny players from BF players, online friends from family ..etc

[Wedge19]

The issue is that it messages everyone the moment the grouping is created, letting them know they are in the group. It's group messaging, which we already had. I was hoping it would be an organization tool for our friends lists, not a fancier group message. in a whole new section that clutters up the OS.

[TwoForce]

I think this one need to to fix.

[Harryseveruspotter]

Yes true buddy i too think it requires a fix.....

[Abnor_Mal]

I put individual people into groups by themselves with me only. Then I placed that same person into a group with others. If anything if I message them in the private group, two can be a group right, it shouldnt notify anyone else. Now the communities with thousands of people get annoying fast from all the notifications. Then when i try to check what was posted i dont see anything. Another friend said its cause i was "promoted", what ever that is cause i wasnt aware that it happened. After awhile i turned community notifications off, a few minutes later I quit all the communities I joined. Problem solved. Although another friend said he was still getting notifications after he left communities.

[killer876]

They can't get their software right at all. This is one of the main reasons I sold my ps4.

[Insomnia_84]

You never had one.

[Harryseveruspotter]

Yeah you have'nt......

[Klonoa-dreamtraveler]

i was getting spammed with notifications all morning i thought the person was just being annoying and persistent about his group.

[Moe-Gunz]

Other than the fact that their is no admin feature I don't see the problem. I looked at it as a group message feature. I haven't been spammed because I have a core group of friends who aren't idiots that post a bunch of random crap.

If you're being spammed you're either in a too large of a group (create a community) or have people who go too far with messaging stuff.

I take it most are looking for a sorting feature. All they have to do is make group notifications separate from message notifications and people can turn it off. Satisfies everyone.

[Wedge19]

We already had group messaging. Why dress it up and call it something different?

[SynestheticRoar]

I delete people for spam. Thanks for the heads up. Would suck if I had to delete a whole group.

[Christopher]

To me, sounds like people don't understand what Groups are for. They're not just for you to group people into categories, they're for creating "groups" where everyone chats together. We do this with our people who play Destiny. We don't just spam it with day to day conversation, but share information on the game, new screenies on gear we get, and whatnot.

[Ethereal]

^Exactly. This is like google hangouts.

[Wedge19]

We already had that ability in group messaging. Also there are communities. This function is redundant to both. I just want the ability to sort my friends into groups so I know who the heck is who.

[Ethereal]

I feel like this really isnt that big of issue. I like the new community feature myself.

[FN4GM]

Its Sony so its automatically a big issue, even when its not.

[SilPho]

If they had just called it "Chat Groups" people would understand.

[Christopher]

Yeah. It's essentially the PS version of MMS. But, even without the name, people should get what it is and not try to think it should be something else. Seems pretty logical to me.

[Wedge19]

We already had group messaging. Why dress it up and call it something confusing, while not notifying players that the creation of said group is going to message everyone?

Regardless of it's actual function, it's implementation confused a lot of people, and is redundant to existing features.

[BoriboyShoGUN]

I thought the whole point was to create public groups so people of similar interest could link up???? I think it's a good idea just needs some tweaking, once they allow you to search for groups it will be cool.
As for the spam I haven't had that problem but a few of my buddies have stated they're getting spammed like crazy!

[opeth12]

Tested this during the beta. I personally have a few groups arranged according to games I play with them.

Nobody messages in that group unless its a message for whole group.

[FN4GM]

So people are complaining about a system that works the way it was intended, oh that's right this is Sony no wonder people are complaining. First off dont make a group with a hundred people in it and you wont have tons of spamming, second dont add scum bags that will change your group setup. Seems pretty simple to me but again this is Sony so I'm not surprised its being blown way out of proportion.