• DrCake@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    They should not be getting praise for walking this back. It was ridiculous from the start, and if not for the justifiably overwhelming negative response, they would have just done it. The absolute most that should happen is people stop giving them shit for it

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      6 months ago

      There is something to be said about the devs going to bat for the players, though. They stood up to the big bosses and won. Ain’t nobody praising Sony.

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      6 months ago

      If reviews don’t flip back to positive in response (seeing as they only went negative in anticipation of this policy being enforced), then we have no way of indicating our dissatisfaction next time Sony do something undesirable.

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      6 months ago

      Oh for fuck sake, let people be happy. I’m happy with the decision, very happy in fact.

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        6 months ago
        1. The community manager (that you somehow failed to name?) was known to be combative and derisive toward users in forum posts and was already leaving a bad taste prior to this recent event. His “24hr redemption arc” had nothing to do with SONY or Arrowhead’s actions on the issues at hand. Don’t conflate the events.

        2. Stay vigilant. Sony’s still looking to profit at all times.

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      6 months ago

      Not to mention Sony probably got a lot of new accounts registered and linked in these few days, so they already got what they wanted and walking back doesn’t change much…

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      6 months ago

      It would have gone live with yesterday’s patch and didn’t, so there’s significant substance to their statement so far

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        6 months ago

        That’s great news. I’ve seen reviews go from overwhelmingly negative back to mixed. I wonder if reviews will ever get back to normal.

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          I know a fair number of people are waiting for the delisted coubtries to be relisted, plus the people who don’t want to change it back because the fiasco happened. Harder to recover once trust is lost.

          So it probably won’t make it above mixed again.

          • Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de
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            6 months ago

            I’m leaving my review as is. Sony trying this and saying in their tweet that they’re “still learning what’s best for PC players” does not instill me with enough confidence to give it a thumbs up.

            As you mentioned, it’s a lot easier to lose trust than to (re)earn it.

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      6 months ago

      Just PR, it’s still not available in all the countries they said they’d restrict it from. (those that own it can play it though). So in some ways it’s like they went through with it and no one cares because Sony said the magic words ‘you guys win’.