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[–] resetbypeer@lemmy.world 124 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 132 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also earlier this year they stole purchased content from millions of their customers

[–] DogWater@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am unaware of this one. Can you share what is this about, or share the relevant search keywords?

[–] DogWater@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Spoilers ahead for the game:

Yeah so if you look at the pre launch trailers

spoilerJoel 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.

[–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

spoilerYou 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 peopleLike so, non?

[–] DogWater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not working on boost for me looking at it

[–] Silentiea@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Boost isn't parsing spoilers right now, but if you view the permalink on the website it should render

[–] DogWater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh okay gotcha

[–] AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DogWater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried my best. I can't tell when it works

It is working now. :-)

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Your spoiler syntax is incorrect (or not working on Jerboa).

[–] DogWater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I clicked the formatting button on boost...dunno why it ain't working. Thnx I'll mess with it.

[–] DogWater@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I dunno why it won't work. I put the content between the tags and formatting with spaces and without. No dice

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year 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.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] vox@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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