Any PS after the PS3 is a scam. I say this as a PS4 owner, not a pc master race fanatic.
Do not get a Playstation. Other console series? Don’t really have an opinion. We’re very happy with our switch and the wii before that. Even the PS2 sees some action. But do not get a PS4 or PS5.
Why am I so anti modern Playstation? Well, if you’ve made it this far in my rant allow me to really let loose.
You buy a console, you pay 20% more for each game, and then it should end there, right? Wrong! Because the game dev has decided that even single player is online only. And sony requires a playstation network plus subscription to play online. So now you’re stuck with “plants vs zombies garden warfare” that you only got because it had a single player mode, and to play it you need to pay 50 euros a year. But hey at least you get some games each month… If you remember to claim your games, which btw are 50% 8bit lookalike indie games that you wouldn’t have given a second glance in the store.
This goes on for some years, every year you debate renewing the subscription, but there’s those few games that your kids like and if you don’t renew the subscription your lose access, so now sony has your balls in a vise. And they know it. So one day sony announces “we’re greedy fucks who really like money, so the product you have, will now be double the price, but if you don’t want to have the monthly token shitty 8bit games then it’s only a 5% increase instead. So now you get to pay for the privilege of only playing a game you already bought”*
All the while you just wanted to relax with 30min of need for speed every now and then.
*Update: OK it would seem that the token games are back at all price levels… Sure would have been great to now that I could have claimed games. I sure hope I didn’t miss anything good.
I own a PS4 and a bunch of single player games (Horizon, RDR2, Bloodborne (digital), Elden Ring, Shadow of Colossus…) and while some of them have an online component that I don’t get because I don’t pay for PS+ (or whatever its name is), I never had any issue playing those games.
I got the ps4 and a disc with plants vs zombies garden warfare for Christmas about 8 or 9 years ago. When we tried playing a map in single player we were met with the need to connect to EA’s servers. That meant a ps+ subscription.
Should have sold it right then, but I had so fun memories of playing gran turismo in the late 90s so I wanted that again.
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Any PS after the PS3 is a scam. I say this as a PS4 owner, not a pc master race fanatic.
Do not get a Playstation. Other console series? Don’t really have an opinion. We’re very happy with our switch and the wii before that. Even the PS2 sees some action. But do not get a PS4 or PS5.
Why am I so anti modern Playstation? Well, if you’ve made it this far in my rant allow me to really let loose.
You buy a console, you pay 20% more for each game, and then it should end there, right? Wrong! Because the game dev has decided that even single player is online only. And sony requires a playstation network plus subscription to play online. So now you’re stuck with “plants vs zombies garden warfare” that you only got because it had a single player mode, and to play it you need to pay 50 euros a year. But hey at least you get some games each month… If you remember to claim your games, which btw are 50% 8bit lookalike indie games that you wouldn’t have given a second glance in the store.
This goes on for some years, every year you debate renewing the subscription, but there’s those few games that your kids like and if you don’t renew the subscription your lose access, so now sony has your balls in a vise. And they know it. So one day sony announces “we’re greedy fucks who really like money, so the product you have, will now be double the price, but if you don’t want to have the monthly token shitty 8bit games then it’s only a 5% increase instead. So now you get to pay for the privilege of only playing a game you already bought”*
All the while you just wanted to relax with 30min of need for speed every now and then.
*Update: OK it would seem that the token games are back at all price levels… Sure would have been great to now that I could have claimed games. I sure hope I didn’t miss anything good.
I own a PS4 and a bunch of single player games (Horizon, RDR2, Bloodborne (digital), Elden Ring, Shadow of Colossus…) and while some of them have an online component that I don’t get because I don’t pay for PS+ (or whatever its name is), I never had any issue playing those games.
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I got the ps4 and a disc with plants vs zombies garden warfare for Christmas about 8 or 9 years ago. When we tried playing a map in single player we were met with the need to connect to EA’s servers. That meant a ps+ subscription.
Should have sold it right then, but I had so fun memories of playing gran turismo in the late 90s so I wanted that again.
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