Fuck 'em then. I’ll stop playing video games before I switch to windows, but I’m sure there will always be indie devs willing to take my money in exchange for a playable game.
You won’t let us install a rootkit on your system? :-(
Well no multiplayer for you, cheater! >:-(
The lesson here is don’t buy anything from Sony because you don’t get what you bought. Sony is a dead company. Don’t even pirate their shit. Let the corpse rot where it falls.
This is especially egregious when you remember the PS4 and PS5 operating system are themselves based on FreeBSD, meaning the original game was natively targeting a Unix-like OS to begin with. So to then say it won’t run on Linux is a huge middle finger.
No, “based on” doesn’t tell us anything. Just that to avoid repeating work they took FreeBSD.
It tell us quite a lot actually; the native PlayStation game was running on a POSIX system, on x86(-64), and Vulkan/OpenGL. Ergo, it took extra work to port the game to Windows, when the original title ran on something very close to a Linux desktop.
As far as I know PS4/PS5 don’t support OpenGL or Vulkan, they have their own APIs.
At least that rootkit anti-cheat prevents all the cheaters. There totally aren’t any cheaters in games protected by rootkit anti cheat systems like in valorant. Right? Riiiiiiight?
Fuck em. I’ll stick with games that work on steam deck and Linux then.
Honestly anti-cheat is dead going forward because much of the new cheats being developed exist hardware powered by machine learning. Competitive multiplayer is already just a shambling corpse, but somehow people haven’t caught on yet.
The only good anti cheat is making all of your players play on LAN and be observed by in-person refs.
And use someone else’s computer
Good to know. I won’t buy it. Yoho yoho I guess
Funny how all the games that don’t work on Linux also want your data must just be a technical thing though sure they aren’t being malicious.
Japanese companies have anything other than utter contempt and animosity for your customers challenge (impossible)
As someone who’s lived in Japan for nearly a decade now, what are you on about? There are certainly shitty companies, as anywhere, but this is just wrong.
Just the big game studios in Japan are pretty anti-consumer and shitty to their customers.
That is a statement I definitely can agree with in some ways. I think some of it is cultural difference and expectation being different between many western consumers versus Japanese. I think Japanese are far more used to certain practices and won’t push back as much and, generally, also make up most of the companies’ income. Not that I think that means something doesn’t need to or shouldn’t be fixed, but what I see from being here.
You ever hear about a small indie game company called nintendo
Yes. You have now named two whole companies but your complaint was leveraged at literally every company in the country.
I’ve heard how the work culture can be pretty toxic but the amount of thought and care put into every aspect of the experience amazes me. Shame, sony was one of my favorite companies for AV equipment but their newer devices are just not as good as they used to be.
This poor judgement seems to be mostly from the PlayStation decision but I can help to think this is a sign overall company culture shift.
It’s like the drop in quality at Toyota resulting in defects never heard of before (airbag defects, melting wing mirors, faulty screens) or the first Honda I’ve ever owned where the engine had a defect affecting multiple cars in their lineup making it dump gas into the oil.
Stop buying Playstation games, Sony have always been scummy.
Back in PS3 days Sony were the ones that let you install any hard drive you wanted, didn’t make you pay for multiplayer, and let you install Linux on your PS3.
But now they are worse overall.
Might as well say “stop buying AAA games”, as they all are made by corporations, who are, as we know, scummy.
But we aren’t gonna stop, are we? Like, I don’t even play them, I play retro and indie games, but an occasional AAA still slips in.Pretty much this, yeah. Triple A games used to be the ones pushing the envelope, now they are exclusively just cash grabs.
Dude, speak for yourself, the last AAA title I bought was MH:W at massive discout many years after the next iteration released. I’ve never even considered a AAA title that wasn’t several years old already, that have had plenty of time to show exactly how scummy they are.
First of all, I never said I buy them on release. I pretty much but all of my games on discount. Except for Factorio.
And also, you tell me to speak for myself and then immediately admit to buying an occasional AAA. So turns out I was speaking for you, too.
But most importantly, the point was that my statement will be true for vast majority of people. They aren’t gonna stop buying AAA games.Hmm, when people say “stop buying AAA games” it’s usually a sentiment similar to “stop preordering games”. A purchase long after release and at a heavy discount isn’t really economically relevant, especially after the next product has been out for several years.
When you said you let a AAA game in occassionally, it seemed like you were saying you bought something like GoT when it released on your platform, and that people will continue to do that. Saying that people need to stop buying AAA games is about forcing AAA studios to change, and to stop allowing them to clown around. If everyone stopped buying AAA games on release year, that’s already 90% as effective as ignoring the bargin bin sales too.
So maybe you were speaking for me, but I think you did that poorly. The purchases that allow AAA studios to continue being dickwads are about as far removed from my purchases as you can get without learning how to hoist a sail, and even those up for consideration are eliminated 9 times out of 10. Trying to accuse me of funding the race-to-the-bottom enshitification is missing the mark.
Sony already stopped selling their games in my country due to them not wanting to put Estonia in the PSN country selection list but I guess I’ll pirate their games even harder or something.
PS4 is jailbreakable up until FW 11.00 as of recently. It’s a super easy process and is definitely worth it, for anyone interested
How old is FW 11?
September 2023ish if I’m not mistaken
I should be able to do mine then. I haven’t used my PS4 in quite a while.
Do check definitely! There are plenty guides by Modded Warfare on how to do it
I used to pirate games because I couldn’t buy them. Now I pirate games because the publishers are greedy cunts who do layoffs to appease shareholders, shutter studios that make good games, and pull all the shit Sony’s pulling this year 🖕
One year Sony installed rootkits on everyone’s computers.
Interesting story, thanks for informing me:
They fixed it by making it much worse!
This was an interesting read. Good to know that from now on I should treat official CDs just like pirated content: with caution.
Guess I won’t be playing Playstation games.
“We win too much money so fuck all those gamers”
enshittification machine go brr
wonder how much money microsoft gave them to do this
What in the hell is the point of this?
