Developers Are Unhappy with PSN's Return
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"By the time they are ready to buy something, Outland is maybe old news."
You mean if a games old, no one will buy it? Well, you may have a poi-- wait, what's this? Twilight Princess 20$ from Walmart that I got with my new Wii?
But... it was an old game... how could I buy it? .-.
You mean if a games old, no one will buy it? Well, you may have a poi-- wait, what's this? Twilight Princess 20$ from Walmart that I got with my new Wii?
But... it was an old game... how could I buy it? .-.
I personally changed all my personal info (My home address is now 123 Fake St. in Springfield, FYI) and will only use prepaid PSN cards in the future. But that doesn't mean that I won't buy games I think are interesting on PSN...
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When will yall figure it out.. $ony , and ALL of its competition, are about making money first.. before all else its , Get it out and sell ! before the next yearly quarter, etc. I cant think of a single title regardless of Platform that doesnt have a stink of rush in over 16 months..
I think what people are not paying attention to here is there are many developers that are releasing games during this time period. If they report lower then projected revenue for the games that they release then they're going to blame it on the Sony outage. This can really tarnish Sony's image to their secondary publishers. These next few weeks are going to sum up any (if at all) hit that Sony is going to take from this outage. These are important times we're living through, gamers.
I can't trust sony with a home address, let alone a credit card number...and even if I could, I would feel bad about Sony getting a cut of the money, which they use to pay lawyers that harass innocent Linux developers while ignoring the people working on piracy...so PSN cards are out of the question; I might as well donate to the KKK or some terrorists or something.
I don't feel bad for the developers either...DLCs for disk games could be done easier and safer through in-game activation codes instead of the PSN store. Not only that, but they wouldn't have to give sony a cut, a PSN crash would not affect them, and if there was a breach, it would be much smaller. As for download-only, any developer that releases a game as download-only on a single platform clearly isn't interested in getting a lot of customers to begin with...even before the network went down, there were a lot of people who never visited the PSN store anyway.
As for the free games, they are all ancient download games...Sony claimed that they worked long and hard to provide a list of disk games and not the typical Sony store BS...and then they gave us a list of typical Sony store BS, all old games that were already in the PSN store, and which are either already owned or simply unwanted by 99% of the community. If someone chooses to play these games instead of the new games, then the new games didn't deserve to sell in the first place; there are games from the Sega Genesis that I would rather have...and that is in spite of the fact that I own the "Sonic Ultimate Genesis Collection".
I don't feel bad for the developers either...DLCs for disk games could be done easier and safer through in-game activation codes instead of the PSN store. Not only that, but they wouldn't have to give sony a cut, a PSN crash would not affect them, and if there was a breach, it would be much smaller. As for download-only, any developer that releases a game as download-only on a single platform clearly isn't interested in getting a lot of customers to begin with...even before the network went down, there were a lot of people who never visited the PSN store anyway.
As for the free games, they are all ancient download games...Sony claimed that they worked long and hard to provide a list of disk games and not the typical Sony store BS...and then they gave us a list of typical Sony store BS, all old games that were already in the PSN store, and which are either already owned or simply unwanted by 99% of the community. If someone chooses to play these games instead of the new games, then the new games didn't deserve to sell in the first place; there are games from the Sega Genesis that I would rather have...and that is in spite of the fact that I own the "Sonic Ultimate Genesis Collection".
Outland is already on my "games to buy" list. Just because we get those gratis games doesn't mean we won't go back to buying other games.
Well, having games to play has never stopped me from buying new ones, and the 30 or so games I have that I haven't or just barely touched can back that up... The only games on the PSN Store that caught my attention anyway were PS1 classics, so, this guy still probably isn't getting my money...