VGW: For the past 6 years, data tracking agencies have estimated approximately 100 million breaches of data each year. While this may sound like an insanely high number, consider now that for 2011, Sony has 100 million breaches on their own. The magnitude of this is starting to become clearer. However his statement contained more frightening information as he details that it is estimated for each of these records breached, it costs approximately $214 in clean-up. That means that for a breach involving 100 million records, the total dollar value skyrockets to $21 billion. Keep in mind that this figure does not include the national investigation agencies involved such as Homeland Security or the FBI. That total, Spafford guesstimates at around an addition $100 million. Who foots this bill? The U.S. taxpayers, naturally.
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.
Death to capitalizm and the monetary system!
US taxpayers? What are they going to pay for? Fast food? Out of all info, there is only 900 functioning credit card info leaked.
Pathetic articles, complete bs...
WTF?
This has cost me NOTHING!
My bank said no point in getting a new card, I can moniter my own credit...as most should do.
This is crap!
2 disagrees?
It really has cost me nothing
EVERYBODY SHOULD MONITOR THEIR CREDIT!
You know how everyone likes to talk about where their tax money goes. Well you will undoubtedly have some people making noise about their tax money going paying for the time of government employees to investigate some video games...
Or if you're a few generations older "I don't no pay taxes so my gub'ment can investigate some ol nintendo games!"...lol
I would probably agree with guy if everyone had their CC details compromised and were all experiencing identity theft. However, that is not the case and there has been no evidence to prove that the hackers have stolen any money from people or actually have their CC details.
So unless they expect Sony to shell out billions for hackers breaking into their systems and stealing info you can easily find on facebook or even google then they are on something.