CraveOnline: "Sony has got itself in hot water with one of its users, after enforcing a strict anti-refund policy even though the company itself had acknowledged that he had been hacked and payments had been made using his credit card without his permission."
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
With all the PlayStation games that are now coming to PC, is it time for Sony to release a dedicated PC launcher?
Unless they are trying to kill their recently created PC business, I would advise against opening a dedicated PC store. It's an extremely hard endeavor, and people, in general, are very comfortable with Steam. Even Epic, with their billions of dollars invested, is still struggling to find a foothold, and they have Fortnite.
Can tell who ever put this together is not all that clued up on pc gaming.
It's just a known fact. The PC gaming community prefer Steam and Steam alone. They don't like different launchers. I personally don't mind them. But majority just stick with steam. Hence why EA and Ubisoft went back to on releasing on steam and why Microsoft release games on steam as people hated buying from the windows store.
The only other launchers that I imagine are doing ok is GOG due to being drm free and epic games due to the free games every week. Sony shouldn't release any sort of pc launcher n
This is just another ridiculous double standard article.
It's like how Microsoft can spend 20 years of making nothing but gaas and live service style games to sell microtransactions, dlc and subscriptions and get praise for doing it, but if Sony wants to make a single game like that every website under the sun is writing articles saying how Sony is anti-consumer or whatever.
The problem here is that even if he didn't purchase it himself, he can't actually disprove he allow someone else to use his account.
THIS was always one of the main concerns with things like game sharing (different from shareplay guys). Once you allow someone to put your account on a system that's NOT yours, this is the kind of thing you open yourself up to. That's why the part about the "different serial number" doesn't matter.
I've gotten refunds from Sony before on two occasions so I'm not sure about the anti-refund policy.
wow just give the guy a refund jeez, are they that starved for money?
This has happened before in different ways, such as the few people who accidentally purchased content when using their DS4 on the PS3 and it was interfacing with the PS4. Sony might as well just refund the content.
Every instance of digital consumerism is bound to have some issue or error. Hopefully they'll get it settled after this attention.
Its a tough problem coming from both sides of the fence. Seeing it from Sonys side and the Pockets side as well. I use PSN cards myself don't put my credit card online. But Sony should be doing more then banning the console that bought the game illegally. Your network got hacked just like other parts of the Sony branches that are on the news. The guy who hacks your network to buy a game illegally should have his ass nailed to the cross. But he gets a slap on the wrist by having his console banned.
Hopefully Pockets gets his cash back. Sonys networks are done being hacked and the hacker gets in shit.