Ever since Sony first announced the availability of dynamic themes on the PlayStation Network, I’ve been overflowing with anticipation of a theme: one which truly sweeps me from my feet and smacks me back down to earth with its sheer complexity, style, and originality.
You can imagine my jubilation when Sony then announced partnerships with third party companies, providing both dynamic and static premium themes for just a few dollars, while leaving creativity in the hands of innovative minds! The actual partnerships at the time were with two companies, Smobile Inc and Disruptive Publishers LLC.
After some investigation, it becomes apparent that Disruptive Publishers LLC actually just contracts artists from across the net (from communities like DeviantArt) and gives them 5% of gross sales for their original background. Disruptive then applies a vaguely related set of icons and submits the theme to Sony for inclusion on the PlayStation Network.
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.
There are website that you can get better ones for free. Even one`s that make it look like a 360 or a Wii.
I never quite understood why premium themes were so expensive, they're nice but not worth the price, you can sometimes get a lot better themes from theme sites for free.
Only Dynamic theme I ever thought was worth getting was the Flower one. Ever since then haven't really changed it or bought any others. I am baffled though at some of those premium themes that were floating about as they seemed like ones that I could get off a variety of websites. Especially anime related ones in which if Sony didn't have it I'm sure I could find either A. A similar copy but not 100% accurate to theirs or B. A better one.
Either way I love the dynamic theme ideas but haven't really checked it out in a while. Have there been any new worthwhile releases?
I wish there was a way to get around publishers in all areas of this industry. More often than not, they're the cause of my frustration. I'd love to be able to give my $60 straight to the developers, or $2 in this case.