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Post by General Mahad on May 5, 2024 22:49:25 GMT
Holy hell, 200,000 negative votes and banned in 180 countries by Sony. Also the community management team are such fools: they gave contradictory information about the PSN requirements, insulted the fanbase on discord/twitter, talked about how brave they are for taking the heat, committed libel, and cheered for the backlash as an excuse to ban more players. Now that their unprofessional behavior has been exposed to the world; they are now running and hiding with their tails between their legs while their employer burns. It got so bad that the CEO of Arrowhead himself went on twitter to calm the flame of hatred. The dude managed to roll with the punches and get plenty of players back on his side; how does the CEO have better PR handling than all the community managers combined?
Sony is just as guilty as Arrowhead for this radioactive crater they are in and I have a feeling it was sabotage on the part of Sony just as with Stellar Blade.
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Post by shaqfu on May 5, 2024 22:54:16 GMT
I feel like most community managers are only asked if they've used Twitter before as their hiring process. Not you know, their ability to actual communicate in an appropriate manner. Which is why when shit hits the fan we get stuff like this.
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Post by skekSil on May 6, 2024 0:32:59 GMT
Finally, some real controversy, not that SBI bullshit.
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Post by smilesja on May 6, 2024 1:17:53 GMT
Holy hell, 200,000 negative votes and banned in 180 countries by Sony. Also the community management team are such fools: they gave contradictory information about the PSN requirements, insulted the fanbase on discord/twitter, talked about how brave they are for taking the heat, committed libel, and cheered for the backlash as an excuse to ban more players. Now that their unprofessional behavior has been exposed to the world; they are now running and hiding with their tails between their legs while their employer burns. It got so bad that the CEO of Arrowhead himself went on twitter to calm the flame of hatred. The dude managed to roll with the punches and get plenty of players back on his side; how does the CEO have better PR handling than all the community managers combined? Sony is just as guilty as Arrowhead for this radioactive crater they are in and I have a feeling it was sabotage on the part of Sony just as with Stellar Blade. Sony had a good thing going with Helldivers and Stellar Blade being fresh new PS exclusives. How can they fumble them both so badly in less than a month?
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Post by General Mahad on May 6, 2024 1:38:54 GMT
Finally, some real controversy, not that SBI bullshit. Well to be fair, a lot of the DS2 community managers share the same mind as SBI and the CEO of SBI started off as a Ubisoft community manager. This leads into the bigger question of why PR positions in studios are allowed to be occupied by such toxic people? Wouldn’t you want to have employees/contractors who don’t have hot button takes on sensitive issues that could offend half of the fanbase? I don’t think this kind of misbehavior was common for community managers until fairly recently. Holy hell, 200,000 negative votes and banned in 180 countries by Sony. Also the community management team are such fools: they gave contradictory information about the PSN requirements, insulted the fanbase on discord/twitter, talked about how brave they are for taking the heat, committed libel, and cheered for the backlash as an excuse to ban more players. Now that their unprofessional behavior has been exposed to the world; they are now running and hiding with their tails between their legs while their employer burns. It got so bad that the CEO of Arrowhead himself went on twitter to calm the flame of hatred. The dude managed to roll with the punches and get plenty of players back on his side; how does the CEO have better PR handling than all the community managers combined? Sony is just as guilty as Arrowhead for this radioactive crater they are in and I have a feeling it was sabotage on the part of Sony just as with Stellar Blade. Sony had a good thing going with Helldivers and Stellar Blade being fresh new PS exclusives. How can they fumble them both so badly in less than a month? I have a conspiracy theory that Sony doesn’t like the player friendly aspects these games are pushing and would rather sink them then have them be used as examples in pushing for positive change.
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Post by DragonKingReborn on May 6, 2024 1:43:06 GMT
Finally, some real controversy, not that SBI bullshit. This may be a stupid question, but; What are the 'extra steps' that people in the UK and Ukraine need to take in order to have a PSN account?
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Post by Sanunes on May 6, 2024 1:46:07 GMT
Finally, some real controversy, not that SBI bullshit. This may be a stupid question, but; What are the 'extra steps' that people in the UK and Ukraine need to take in order to have a PSN account? Not sure in this exact situation, but I have been hearing in some places you can only create a PSN account on a PS. Now that might just be my falling into a trap as well for I don't know anything about PSN accounts.
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Post by DragonKingReborn on May 6, 2024 1:49:57 GMT
I have been hearing in some places you can only create a PSN account on a PS. That is a quite remarkable self-own, if that is indeed true.
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Post by Sanunes on May 6, 2024 1:50:24 GMT
Sony had a good thing going with Helldivers and Stellar Blade being fresh new PS exclusives. How can they fumble them both so badly in less than a month? Sony tries its best. My personal opinion is that there is a cultural divide inside of Sony and that divide is leading to decisions that might be acceptable in one region, but falls flat worldwide.
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Post by blah23 on May 6, 2024 2:20:02 GMT
Finally, some real controversy, not that SBI bullshit. Well to be fair, a lot of the DS2 community managers share the same mind as SBI and the CEO of SBI started off as a Ubisoft community manager. This leads into the bigger question of why PR positions in studios are allowed to be occupied by such toxic people? Wouldn’t you want to have employees/contractors who don’t have hot button takes on sensitive issues that could offend half of the fanbase? I don’t think this kind of misbehavior was common for community managers until fairly recently. Short Answer: Nepotism. These people see video games as political platforms instead of entertainment media. Sony is following their ESG initiatives to the letter.
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Post by Sanunes on May 6, 2024 5:44:31 GMT
There are parts of that article that come across as "tell me you don't understand the negative reaction without telling me you don't understand the negative reaction". Not to mention there are plenty of people that don't buy a game on Steam if it has the requirement of having an account for another platform for they don't want to have two accounts. The response from Sony is also pretty weak and comes across as "please forgive us, we didn't realize the consequences of our actions", but doing a little bit of work would demonstrate why they should know why.
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Post by Kappa Neko on May 6, 2024 6:24:56 GMT
So, people online talk about single player games not being prominent in the market but yet the second one critically acclaimed single title comes along, THEY DON'T BUY THEM! It's little wonder why gaming companies don't listen to the internet. Alan Wake 2 is also an Epic Store exclusive on PC, which can't be helping it's market share. That's definitely why I haven't bought it.
(In theory I approve of Steam having competition. In practice dealing with the Epic store annoyed me so much when I was playing Hitman 3 that I paid full price for the game a second time when it came to Steam.)
Late reply but Epic is the reason I haven't bought the game yet. I'm boycotting Epic, fuck the whole exclusivity bullshit. I get why devs take the deal for financial security offered to them but on the other hand they miss out on sales so I'm not exactly sympathetic. Put it on Steam and I might buy it. Loved the first game back in the day.
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Post by skekSil on May 6, 2024 10:51:02 GMT
This may be a stupid question, but; What are the 'extra steps' that people in the UK and Ukraine need to take in order to have a PSN account? As I understand it, you can only create PSN account in Ukraine if you own their console. As for UK, they supposedly require you to prove your age by providing ID with your photo during registration.
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Post by General Mahad on May 6, 2024 14:23:33 GMT
There are parts of that article that come across as "tell me you don't understand the negative reaction without telling me you don't understand the negative reaction". Not to mention there are plenty of people that don't buy a game on Steam if it has the requirement of having an account for another platform for they don't want to have two accounts. The response from Sony is also pretty weak and comes across as "please forgive us, we didn't realize the consequences of our actions", but doing a little bit of work would demonstrate why they should know why. Sony will never stop treating us as cattle, that’s a fact. However, this massive and public backtrack shows that they fear a united voice. Who knows what else Sony can be brought to heel with? At the very least, Sony will be far more careful with their practices in regards to PC players. Stellar Blade Reportedly Selling Out in Japan www.playstationlifestyle.net/2024/05/06/stellar-blade-sales-selling-out-in-one-country/
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Post by Kappa Neko on May 6, 2024 16:08:05 GMT
Pretty sure Sony doesn't fear the mob. Somebody crunched the numbers what's more profitable, the new accounts or making more money off those in countries that don't have PSN legally. Everything corporations do is about money which is why they make such poor goodwill destroying dumb decisions all the time. I highly doubt they care about how pissed off people are as long as they meet whatever shareholder/revenue target they have set. They know most people are weak and will buy anything shiny they get excited about again from them next time around. And then get pissed off again. The cycle continues and companies just laugh.
The people only have all the power in theory. The reality is that most people want short term gratification and will put up with a lot of shit for it. That's why the world is so fucked. Most people don't take a stance especially if they have something to lose. So the abuse continues.
I'd go on strike for better pay immediately at work but most people wouldn't. So I'd only end up getting fired probably. So we continue to get shit pay. I realized that most people have no spine back in middle school. And that's so much more true for something as unimportant as video games. Ask people to sacrifice for the future and they won't.
Well, glad the shitstorm resulted in too much potential loss for Sony to backtrack. Once in a while we get a win. I wish people were this vocal about stuff that actually mattered though.
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Post by sjsharp2010 on May 6, 2024 17:24:35 GMT
Pretty sure Sony doesn't fear the mob. Somebody crunched the numbers what's more profitable, the new accounts or making more money off those in countries that don't have PSN legally. Everything corporations do is about money which is why they make such poor goodwill destroying dumb decisions all the time. I highly doubt they care about how pissed off people are as long as they meet whatever shareholder/revenue target they have set. They know most people are weak and will buy anything shiny they get excited about again from them next time around. And then get pissed off again. The cycle continues and companies just laugh. The people only have all the power in theory. The reality is that most people want short term gratification and will put up with a lot of shit for it. That's why the world is so fucked. Most people don't take a stance especially if they have something to lose. So the abuse continues. I'd go on strike for better pay immediately at work but most people wouldn't. So I'd only end up getting fired probably. So we continue to get shit pay. I realized that most people have no spine back in middle school. And that's so much more true for something as unimportant as video games. Ask people to sacrifice for the future and they won't. Well, glad the shitstorm resulted in too much potential loss for Sony to backtrack. Once in a while we get a win. I wish people were this vocal about stuff that actually mattered though. Yeah I'm glad Son ybacktracked as tha twas a shitt ymove. The ywouldn' tmake goo dmachin estrik eplayers.
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Post by General Mahad on May 6, 2024 19:36:42 GMT
Pretty sure Sony doesn't fear the mob. Somebody crunched the numbers what's more profitable, the new accounts or making more money off those in countries that don't have PSN legally. Everything corporations do is about money which is why they make such poor goodwill destroying dumb decisions all the time. I highly doubt they care about how pissed off people are as long as they meet whatever shareholder/revenue target they have set. They know most people are weak and will buy anything shiny they get excited about again from them next time around. And then get pissed off again. The cycle continues and companies just laugh. The people only have all the power in theory. The reality is that most people want short term gratification and will put up with a lot of shit for it. That's why the world is so fucked. Most people don't take a stance especially if they have something to lose. So the abuse continues. I'd go on strike for better pay immediately at work but most people wouldn't. So I'd only end up getting fired probably. So we continue to get shit pay. I realized that most people have no spine back in middle school. And that's so much more true for something as unimportant as video games. Ask people to sacrifice for the future and they won't. Well, glad the shitstorm resulted in too much potential loss for Sony to backtrack. Once in a while we get a win. I wish people were this vocal about stuff that actually mattered though. Friend, the beast is buckling under its own weight and the social rot it has inflicted on everyone. It doesn’t matter if you try or don’t, change will come regardless if it is good or not. However, the most important thing you can do is to maintain your sanity and that includes taking a win no matter how small.
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Post by General Mahad on May 9, 2024 5:16:05 GMT
The subscription based service is not sustainable for AAA games, this is probably another reason why Microsoft is doing the following: More Xbox Layoffs Reportedly Inbound as Company Attempts to Cut Costs
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Post by smilesja on May 9, 2024 5:39:19 GMT
Sounds like Bethesda is going to be focusing on Starfield, Fallout, and Elder Scrolls from here on out.
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