• deegeese@sopuli.xyz
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    6 months ago

    Imposing post-sale requirements on your customers like this PSN rug pull should be illegal.

    Bravo for anyone thwarting such bullshit.

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      6 months ago

      Post sale…? What are you talking about?

      As explained in the first comment, arrowhead knew about this requirement from the start, it was mandatory until their servers couldn’t handle the load. Sony paused the requirement and sent their engineers out for free to deal with it. It was listed on their store page, and they had a very vague splash screen the first time you loaded the game. The splash screen should have mentioned the mandatory requirement, they knew what they were doing when they omitted that part….

      They are biting the hand that feeds them, and the public is defending their greed lmfao.

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          6 months ago

          Why does everyone resort to shill/fanboy when someone points out something? Arrowhead ignored contract terms, how am I fanboy for pointing that out, but no one else is a shill for actively defending a corporation ignoring contract terms and bullying other corporations to get their way?

          You can decry Sony for doing it than defend someone else, that’s hypocrisy and everyone is doing it here.

          So, sure I’m a fanboy because I’m pointing out how arrowhead fucked up? Sure lmfao.

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        6 months ago

        When the PSN linkage shit the bed on release they made it optional even though text listed it as required. They also sold it in countries that don’t have PSN, furthering the fact that it was optional in practice.

        Changing back to the original plan is still imposing a requirement well after release even if they said it was required.

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          6 months ago

          Yeah so that’s exactly where arrowhead fucked up… isn’t it…? They should have been far more upfront to begin with, but they weren’t and have now thrown Sony under the bus. They knew exactly what they were doing while they had dollar signs in their eyes., but sure defend them….

          Maybe they shouldn’t have made the issue out to be nothing? Where is their personal responsibility for what they created with this fiasco? They made the splash screen to explain the issue, they didn’t provide the required info did they? Or is it somehow Sonys fault for their splash screen….?

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            6 months ago

            The selling outside of areas where PSN is available, is on the publisher, which is in this case Sony.

            It is my laymen understanding they are the ones that control the Steam listing that allowed it to be sold everywhere in the first place. If this is the case, then Sony opened themselves up to a shit ton of liability and blame on that part.

            I’m not alleviating Arrowhead of their issue in the matter, especially after they were warned in February that this issue in particular was going to be a shit show.