H.F.S. Matt 👹

『𝕄』 • huge fucking nerd • hololive enjoyer • 626/1065 🏴‍☠️📕

[ᴛeo🌴 @Mattdek_]

PSN needs to be hacked again because it seems like Sony forgot their lesson

[Whimsy Knoxville ☠️✨ @alackofwhimsy]

If there's one thing about Wee Man, he's going to fucking fly.

[Bappa @Bappa_195]

“It’s ok for PlayStation to get rid of physical games”
“Who even cares”
“Just buy your games online”

[Wario64 @Wario64]

Onimusha: Way of the Sword release date has moved up from Sept 25 to Sept 4

[narancia gaming @naranciagaming]

playstation 6 ain't even dead on arrival that shit is stillborn

[H.F.S. Matt 👹 @MildConviction]

@GenePark If you can, try to nip in the bud the idea that no one buys physical. Sony themselves discovered that physical software purchases more or less match digital full game purchases.

[H.F.S. Matt 👹 @MildConviction]

Unfortunately, some people (the ones who've been mostly digital since the PS3/4 days) will feel obligated to get the PS6 simply because they've put thousands into their PSN account already.

But when the PS6 bombs hard and the PS brand dies? Those accounts will be gone anyway.

[Colin @IntroSpecktive]

So do Sony realize that when they drop a 1500 dollar PS6 with no physical discs to collect that everyone is just going to get PC and Steam because it’s the superior digital option or are they just really that fucking stupid

[H.F.S. Matt 👹 @MildConviction]

https://t.co/lNXqOQ4NuI

[H.F.S. Matt 👹 @MildConviction]

I thought I wouldn't bother making "news" videos anymore, but PlayStation taking away discs pissed me off enough to do it.

[H.F.S. Matt 👹 @MildConviction]

What's crazy is vinyl - the more expensive format - even outsells CD, and cassette tapes are back as the new "hipster" format.

Music, movies, and especially books all lend themselves way more to being digital-only-friendly, yet games are desperate to get there first.

[Gene Park, Obama’s Skull Face @GenePark]

what sucks is that you can still buy physical media for movies and music. you can still buy a CD for new albums! the options are still there. it's wild to just be like "no options from now on"

[IGN @IGN]

We remember Sony's brilliantly brutal "This is how you share your games on PS4" video, as PlayStation kills discs 13 years later: https://t.co/Rv7qi8aPj3

[H.F.S. Matt 👹 @MildConviction]

Unless the PS6 supports the detachable drive, it's very nice of Sony to decide for me that the PS5 will likely be my last Sony console.

[PlayStation @PlayStation]

Important updates:

News on physical discs for new games - https://t.co/BzZODXdWGY

News on PlayStation Store on PS3 and PS Vita - https://t.co/ev3mN6wj14

[MARU 🧠⚡️🇵🇪 COMMS OPEN @maru_chan_art_]

Once you become an adult with a job you realize how braindead online fandom discourse sounds to a normal person

[klenn @dojikkoe]

if i ever get kidnapped im just gonna talk shit on chinese female otome fans and then they’ll find my location within 5 seconds

[H.F.S. Matt 👹 @MildConviction]

Ideally, you simply use the pre-stagger phase to properly prepare to nuke the enemy once it's activated. Buff party, debuff enemy, save up resources to increase damage bonus. Play smartly, and battles are over quickly.

Late game XIII is top tier FF combat because of this.

[🇨🇦 Shinky JRPGs 🎮 @ShinkyJRPGs]

Don’t get me wrong, I’m incredibly excited for Final Fantasy Resonance.

But is anyone else sick of the break mechanic? Octopath Traveler, Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy Remake series, even Resonance of Fate all have it.

I hate the idea of doing ‘fake’ damage or minimal damage until you break the enemy, it just needlessly drags out battles.

[woop @woop54]

Danger Ehren has suffered more than jesus christ

[tabs 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽 @tabsphere]

genshin fandom realising theres a fandom thats 10x worse than them and more parasocial

[John Romero 🤘🏽 @romero]

Hi Sandy, I hope you’re well. I have appreciated the recent discussions. I do not agree with your framing.

Regarding piracy, DOOM is a complicated example because shareware was the model. DOOM’s first episode was designed to be freely copied, passed around, uploaded, installed, and played. That enormous unpaid audience was not the same thing as piracy. It was part of how DOOM reached the world.

By the mid-90s, DOOM had something like 20 million shareware installs and more than 2 million paid copies sold. Those 20 million people were not “pirates” by default. A huge number of them were playing the free episode exactly as intended.

That doesn’t excuse people pirating the registered game. However, it’s important not to collapse legal shareware distribution, unpaid reach, and actual piracy into one number.

I also don’t think piracy is what “gutted” id - id is still around and still making games. Piracy may have cost money, but it wasn’t the reason Quake was hard or why people eventually went different ways.

So yes: pay developers. Buy the games you love. Support the people who make them.

But history is messier than “pirates killed the companies.” Sometimes the same free distribution that looked like lost sales was also the thing that made the game impossible to ignore.