Don’t give Sony any ideas. But yes, studios should get two choices, either open up the server or fully refund every single cent at least to the players that played the game in the year before the shutdown was announced (just so they don’t say they don’t have to put a shitload of effort on a dead game).
The same should apply to all digital sales.
The investors are the ones forgetting that. CEOs work for the investors not for the customers.
Now, a good CEO will be able to manage upwards and throw around things like reputational damage and consumer trust to convince to keep the investors focused on the long term in order to protect the company (and the investors uhh… investment). The problem in the gaming industry is that time and time again gamers show that there’s no such thing as reputational damage with games since there are enough people building their personality around a gaming franchise that even studios with a reputation for consistently putting out mediocre unoriginal crap can count on a mountain of pre-orders.
The PS2 can run linux. And the PS3 could run Linux too before Sony killed it.
There’s https://unifiedpush.org/ as an alternative, but apps need to support it explicitly.
At least that’s the same continent and not literally on the other side of the world.
You mean https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_All_Scream_for_Ice_Cream_(Masters_of_Horror) ? (I mean the plot is different but the idea of an horror story based on it was already done)
And the lesson there is that if you are planning to sell your company to some greedy cash grabbing incompetent dicks while you go… eccentric, don’t name the company or the product after yourself.
The thing is that at some capacity we will probably have those just before everything collapses too much.
I can’t wait for when we have enough arcologies for 1/3 or 1/4 of the population or so, and 100% of the population trying to get in. Or for how fast it’s going to become real life Judge Dread for the survivors.
Binary eye works, base you still need to base64 decode the jpg to
a glorious picture of Rick Astley
Technically Xbox and Playstation are the ones that are reversed. Nintendo’s scheme came first and follows right=forward left=back. Then when the PlayStation came out Sony followed the same scheme in Japan, but picked a symbol that was perceived in opposite ways in Japan and the rest of the world for accepting something (⭕), so they inverted the scheme for most of the world. And then Microsoft mixed Nintendo’s letter semantics with Sony’s button position, creating the current mess.
The potato plant poisonous fruit is a berry though.
No, time is cyclical. All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again.
If you ever find out let me know, I’ve some GDPR and right to be forgotten requests to write if anyone is archiving things I expect to be fire and forget.
If you give LLMs that much latitude you are going to have your NPCs spread conspiracy theories and fascist crap left and right in your game and a PR crisis on your hands.