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PlayStation has opened a $10m fund for indie studios and is giving away free copies of the Uncharted Collection and Journey as part of "stay at home"
- Thread starter Theorry
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Ubisoft has done this for weeks, with different kind of games. Sure they're not recent titles, this week Assassin's Creed 2 is for free, but at least they offer different genres.
Sony is even late on this, since the quarantine started a month ago in Europe and in two weeks many states are going to lift-up some lockdown measures at least in Europe. And again, I think every PlayStation 4 user already have played those games in the original and remastered versions. Even choosing one game out of three (for example Spider-Man, Horizon and God of War 2018) would have been better. And giving away Journey in the same week the game is released on PC... oh god.
Honestly I just can't with this fucking place sometimes. What is wrong with some of you?
Journey's been out on PC for almost a year, what are you talking about?
Giving away games on PC doesn't really matter to people who mainly play on PS4
A lot of people have played them before, but not everyone, and any game they pick to give away will be something a lot of people have played
Pretty sure Spiderman and God of War sold really well, so if anything more people probably have them than the Uncharted collection
Either way, it's a dick move to complain the free stuff you're getting isn't good enough
I was wrong, I thought Journey was coming on EGS this week, I'm sorry. Anyway I think we can agree that we still have the right to criticize something even if it's for free?
Yeah, this is only for preview purposes, you can not actually switch and buy from other regions.
My frustration is that you act like because Ubisoft is doing something you deem better in your eyes, it means what Sony is doing is completely worthless. That isn't how the world works. Criticize all you want, I'm all for it, it just seems weird in this case.
Ah I didn't realise that. That sounds like a really redundant feature.
You have the right to do what you want, but they didn't have to do anything. If even a handful of people get some joy out of this, then that's a net positive
It's always going to be a bad look saying they should have given you more for free
If your nan gives you a birthday card and there is some money inside, it's always a dick move to say "come on nan, you could have given me more than this"
Also your Ubisoft example was they gave away Assassin's Creed II, also an ancient game everyone has played already, and that is somehow better? You're all over the place
If my nan got a lot of money and give me €20, I have all the right to complain: nothing would be better than charity. Sony is basically in the same position: the biggest player in the industry giving off remaster and German players are even getting Knack 2 instead, that's embarrassing.
AC2 is one of the many games Ubisoft is giving away in the last weeks and, again, of different genres. Sony took a month to take this decision when the lockdown in most countries is going to end in two weeks.
Then go play does games, nobody is forcing you to pick anything.
Well, you do you I guess
This kind of attitude is probably going to stop companies from ever bothering to do anything nice
They're literally giving away products they still sell for free to help people out who may now have less money to spend on things as trivial as games, and you're mad they didn't give you more/better games
To be honest, you need to look at the bigger picture here than Sony "just releasing a bad choice of free games". They are also opening a 10 million fund for a lot of people/developers in need of money to stay in business. Is that also embarrassing?
I'm sorry but if your nan got a lot of money you aren't entitled to it just because she's your nan. Nothing would be better than charity is a dumb thing to say unless you're well off already too. I can guarantee you Sony sees how many people have The Nathan Drake Collection and Journey compared to how many people have PS4s and it just makes sense to them to give it out because a lot of people probably still don't have them.
Also Ubisoft has given out AC2, Rayman Legends, and Child of Light. All of those are older last gen games. How exactly are they doing it better than Sony?
Came in expecting complaints about the giveaway being too weak, wasn't disappointed.
This is some next level entitlement, they should've just done nothing instead of giving people something to complain about.
This is some next level entitlement, they should've just done nothing instead of giving people something to complain about.
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Sony is the same company that, after PS3 launch, started to charge users to play online with PSN when they discovered that Microsoft business model with Xbox Live was working. Let's talk about something like that and have a company that force you to pay to play online when this is possibile on PC already and they did for free in the first place. So, are we still talking of "companies doing nice things"?
How petty. Is this someone's throwaway account?
Ubi Soft's giveaways were PC only. Sony's literally the only console company giving a couple games away and you're complaining.
...it's a free game they didn't have to give lol.
Also, plenty of people don't have Plus and now will be able to get this Uncharted collection.
I never played Journey so this is going to be awesome. It's one of those games that somehow i kept delaying so perfect timing.
Lol so now you pivot to this isn't a good move because almost 15 years ago Sony did something lame, which now literally everyone does
I mean, I agree paid online is shit, but that's a different argument
I can't believe how mad you are you were not given God of War for free lol
Fam' come on, Jesus Christ. They've made a 10m$ fund for indie developers and given out some free games and you're whinging because, presumably, you've played the collection and thus it's 'not much effort.'
Which is funny because I imagine more people probably played God of War than The Nathan Drake Collection. Not to mention The Nathan Drake Collection is 3 games which will keep people playing longer than a single God of War game.
Are you serious right now? They didn't have to offer anything to even give you the chance to criticize them for not offering 'better'. Jesus H Christ.
Thank you Sony. *Some* of us appreciate the gesture and I'm always down for another Uncharted run through.
As a PC gamer (mainly) it boggles my mind Sony/MS/Nintendo never give away "free to keep" games at all, as in EVER AT ALL! But I guess that's probably due to the monopolised storefront structure of the consoles.
Steam usually doesn't either but Origin/Uplay/EGS are a lot more generous in that regard. Competing storefronts ftw I guess.
Back to the topic, can't wait to redeem the Uncharted Collection and Journey. I've only played Uncharted 1&2 but felt burned-out by the time UC3 arrived. I also haven't tried Journey yet but loved my time with Abzu on the PC. All in all, this giveaway is a win-win for someone like me.
Steam usually doesn't either but Origin/Uplay/EGS are a lot more generous in that regard. Competing storefronts ftw I guess.
Back to the topic, can't wait to redeem the Uncharted Collection and Journey. I've only played Uncharted 1&2 but felt burned-out by the time UC3 arrived. I also haven't tried Journey yet but loved my time with Abzu on the PC. All in all, this giveaway is a win-win for someone like me.
Sony has actually given away a few "free to keep" games this gen. Not to mention they have allowed Humble Bundles.
Plus, even if people have played Uncharted, they probably haven't played it for years
I played them on PS3 and I finished 3 in 2013 I think, so I'm happy to get this for free
More people probably have God of War/Spiderman on PS4, and on top of that, they probably played those games more recently than Uncharted
I dare you to say the same thing regarding the 100M they previously commited and the 10M right now they about to gives to indies. Come on say it.
If Sony made the online play for free at the beginning of PS3 and then they introduced the PSN, I can imagine they're going to have got in years a lot more money they need for the infrastructure. Now let's use that money to give to the players something more than remaster of years old game that everyone played.
You should stop to be thankful to companies and forget some anti-consumer strategies.
Wait...they have? I've owned a PS4 for almost three years now but never came across those offerings. Are you sure those weren't exclusively for PSN members?
Here's some quick facts for you. Uncharted 2 is the highest selling game of the bunch with 7+ million sold on the PS3. The Nathan Drake Collection had 5+ million sales on PS4. There are over 100 million PS4 owners. It's the stupidest thing to possibly say that everyone had played these games and it's not even remotely close to being true.
I'm all for shitting on all these companies for anti consumer garbage but it's telling that your response to be called out for being blatantly cynical about something good they're doing is to pivot to this. If we should call companies out for being horrible sacks of shit that are getting rich of literal slavery in places like China, we should also be capable of praising them when they do something like this indie fund. It's not hard, it doesn't change nor cancel out their shitty practices whatsoever.
Same here. I don't have the PSN and still can't remember a single free game coming from Sony for PlayStation 4.
They gave away Garden Warfare during one of the PSX events. They've also had multiple free game price errors that they never revoked licenses to. The Surge, Knack 2, some other ones that I can't remember.
You can make a German PSN account and have it on your PS4 and redeem Knack 2 and play on your main account I believe. Few hoops to go through but nothing too onerous.
