More like “Microsoft is fucking up. Quick, do something that is shitty but isn’t as bad as closing studios. Account registration requirements? Perfect! Fuck those poors in unsupported countries.”
You would think that when a company like Microsoft is catching so much shit, a company like sony would think it’s a good move to do something good to look even better. But somehow they see it as a challange to be even worse somehow
No matter how poorly thought Sony’s international release plan is for PC, that’s far easier to assume brief incompetence than malice around. Firing people who made a GOTY is a whole different level of evil.
There’s been one debacle based around PSN, as a service, only being available in certain countries, and Helldivers initially launching in others to simplify their launch.
As of yet, I could believe there are Sony execs that didn’t even realize such a gap existed for their PC releases, and are still deciding what they can legally do. (Premiering their service in new territories isn’t simple, and a lot of their PC investment, plus their multiplayer workings, might be based around the account expectations)
I love the petty envy Sony displays here. “Fuck! Microsoft is getting all the bad press attention! Quick! Do something!”
More like “Microsoft is fucking up. Quick, do something that is shitty but isn’t as bad as closing studios. Account registration requirements? Perfect! Fuck those poors in unsupported countries.”
That’s because they already did, Jim Ryan closed japan studio years ago.
You would think that when a company like Microsoft is catching so much shit, a company like sony would think it’s a good move to do something good to look even better. But somehow they see it as a challange to be even worse somehow
I think their though process is more along the line of:
No matter how poorly thought Sony’s international release plan is for PC, that’s far easier to assume brief incompetence than malice around. Firing people who made a GOTY is a whole different level of evil.
They did it a second time, so what is it now? Dependable incompetence?
What did they do twice?
There’s been one debacle based around PSN, as a service, only being available in certain countries, and Helldivers initially launching in others to simplify their launch.
As of yet, I could believe there are Sony execs that didn’t even realize such a gap existed for their PC releases, and are still deciding what they can legally do. (Premiering their service in new territories isn’t simple, and a lot of their PC investment, plus their multiplayer workings, might be based around the account expectations)