I offer this letter to the SOCOM Community per the author’s request. Our staff has confirmed that this in fact a former Zipper Interactive employee, and we will keep their identity hidden. This letter sheds an interesting light on the internal workings regarding the development of SOCOM 4, and some postmortem insight on Zipper Interactive.
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.
First of all Socom has a league of its own and its own culture just like counter strike, cod, and halo so this zipper man should never say never Socom could be passed to naughty dog and it will be epic, not dissing zipper I loved mag and it's a small reason dust514 exsis so we shall see
Looks like bad management failed them
A day late and a dollar short. Thanks for nothing and I hope everyone who was fired at Zipper learned a valuable lesson, listen to the fans and not the kid who plays Call of Dookie.
If this is a real letter why now is my question, all this tells me is I am so glad I changed my mind on joining the gaming Industry,, all cowards and back stabbers. Just like a Jelly Fish, no back bone.
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It takes a lot of work to make a bad game. Everyone needs to own thier own part. When my boss says make this wiget to fit in this hole...it better fit or it's on me. But is he says put this square peg in this round hole I have to tell him it won't fit or it's still on me, but if he says make it anyway it's on him. Document everything "CYA"
just my .02
Did anyone at Zipper even play a prior Socom game before making Socom 4. Why have a full staff of people making a game they have never played.. It was obvious the place was full of MAG fans who had COD loaded in their PS3's.