• resetbypeer@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Sony just did a Unity here. How the hell can you ruin such a beloved game in a single cheer stupid move, for the purpose of just gathering data. It’s beyond me.

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      7 months ago

      I feel like Sony did a Sony here.

      I’m old enough to remember when Sony shipped 22 million malware infested CDs because they were worried about Napster.

        • DogWater@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          Also they bait and switched everyone with the advertising for the last of us pt 2.

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              7 months ago

              Spoilers ahead for the game:

              Yeah so if you look at the pre launch trailers

              spoiler

              Joel is portrayed as being a part of the journey of the game. He dies in the first “chapter”. They went so far as to switch a character out for him to make it look like he would be alive for the game. And then they try to make you sympathetic to the person who killed him by making you play as them for half the game. :::

              It makes my blood boil how bad pt 2 is after the first one is one of the best games ever.

              • Jojo, Lady of the West@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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                7 months ago
                spoiler

                You need to put the text after the two spoiler words, not between them, no? The first sets up the tag, the second is the name

                Fancy words for fancy people

                Like so, non?

              • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world
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                7 months ago

                Yikes. I am yet to play the game but I knew Joel dies in the second one, as it almost felt like a setup for his death was built-in.

                However, I wasn’t aware of Sony going to such lengths to misdirect the game’s players.

                Thanks a lot for sharing the context.

                P.S. you might want to fix the formatting for the spoilers as it is currently not hidden.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Not just any old malware, but insecure rootkits that allowed ANYONE to have total control over the system with their own malware above the OS-level with no way to even know the malware was there.

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        7 months ago

        Did that actually break computers? I remember hearing about it at the time but I also don’t remember having a problem. I didn’t think I took any real precautions either, I just carried on as per and nothing ever happened.

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          7 months ago

          the starforce driver sometimes prevented some exotic cd drives from working or caused bsods while playing audio cds, but the cases were relatively rare

          nvm i didn’t realize they were talking about a different kind of drm