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I really like the PS5 but the store is so stupid compared to Steam
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Buy the PS4 version and it will give you the PS5 version. No idea about the DLC, I redeemed it from my physical copy.
All the console stores are fucking garbage compared to steam. I'll never forget when my buddy realized he could actually refund games when he jumped ship from ps4 to pc. "You mean...you can actually do that?!"
When you are stuck in their ecosystem they don't have to get better or support thr customer. The hell with that. Never. Going. Back.
When you are stuck in their ecosystem they don't have to get better or support thr customer. The hell with that. Never. Going. Back.
Does this work on Nintendo/Xbox? I honestly don't know. I know 3DS was completely region locked, which sucked.
Yeah moving to graphql would be a believable change.
But also I just remembered. Sony invests in WebKit so for all I know the UI is just a browser with custom controls.
Saying Steam is 20 years old and PS5 not, "give them some slack", is ridiculous. The PS5 store is not any different from building an online webstore. There are thousands of experienced people doing this for a living. Designing, building an online store, building user interfaces, dealing with user experience, accessibility. It shouldn't be such a hurdle for a big company like PlayStation to do this correctly.
Hum, it's very different.... lots of webstores are build using vastly different tools than what they might use. And webstores are already hard to build properly. And a lot of webstores are also not very good at their best. This isn't like using Shopify with a pre-made template that you edit to suit your style.
The PSN store has effectively been around since what the PS3 launch? It's pretty close in age to Steam.
So if anything, we shouldnt be cutting them any slack.
Even the other PC stores suck compared to it, except for maaaybe GOG Galaxy.
Outside of the technical side (of which I suspect it's some kind of server driven UI where each consumer (web, iOS app, PS5...) serves it's own layer on top of it, but that's just a guess) it's pretty much the same skillsets you need to bring to the table in terms of creating a pleasant user experience. I do agree a lot of web stores are pretty crap too. But then again, it doesn't have anything to do with the age of a store in my opinion.
Nintendo and Xbox stores are region free. You can use the same account to get/redeem games from any region. The only hurdle might be payment.
Truth.
When it comes to consoles, PS Store is an unorganized mess, especially with games that have multiple SKUs. And Nintendo's store is slow as fucking molasses. I doubt the Xbox store is any better on console going by the Xbox App.
Not to say the PS5 store doesn't have faults, but as someone who was around at the tail end of the PS3 gen when the store got redesigned it's easy to forget just how bad it could be. The PS5 store is quick, plus it's integrated into the OS rather than a separate app you have to launch. When I go on the store I usually know what I'm looking for anyway so I don't particularly care if it doesn't do much more than that.
All I know is I never, ever want them to go back to how it worked at the end of the PS3, where it'd take ages to load up, if it even did at all, and was incredibly slow when it did (and it had that fucking awful search function where you had to scroll through a vertical list of every letter and symbol, instead of just having a keyboard!) Such a downgrade compared to the lovely, snappy integrated store the PS3 used to have. Didn't like how separate from everything the PS4 store was, either, but at least using it wasn't like wading through mud.
All I know is I never, ever want them to go back to how it worked at the end of the PS3, where it'd take ages to load up, if it even did at all, and was incredibly slow when it did (and it had that fucking awful search function where you had to scroll through a vertical list of every letter and symbol, instead of just having a keyboard!) Such a downgrade compared to the lovely, snappy integrated store the PS3 used to have. Didn't like how separate from everything the PS4 store was, either, but at least using it wasn't like wading through mud.
the launch PS3 store was the best, every iteration of the PS store since then has been bad. It's kind of crazy how they only have made it worse since then. I remember I bought a game and literally could not find it on the store, I had to use my phone to allow my PS5 to download it.
I also really dislike how they handle sales. Just hundreds of overlapping items in multiple differently-branded sales, with there often being a higher number of "different" sales than their store can actually display. You end up with four sales running but only three sales are actually shown on the Deals tab, and half the items appear as part of two sales.
I've been trained to ignore sales and just put stuff on my wishlist to be notified if it ever does end up on sale, but of course I've now run into the hundred item limit.
I've been trained to ignore sales and just put stuff on my wishlist to be notified if it ever does end up on sale, but of course I've now run into the hundred item limit.
Oh interesting, do you know if you can mix game from region 1 with DLC from region 2?
Edit: I suppose that isn't really an issue, you just buy DLC from the appropriate region.
Sony really should make it easier to change your region or promote from a minor to adult account. I mean, people do move... and age.
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Oh god, this reminds me the Xbox Store on console requires an update every time.
Yep. Add Augmented Steam to the mix and it's genuinely unbeatable.
Integrating the PS5 store into the OS is stupid. It limits how and when you can update it. Updating an app is far less dangerous to deploy than updating the entire OS so you can afford to be more nimble with an app than the OS. It's not as though the store takes a while to load on the Xbox. It loads immediately, and there are so many shortcuts to it throughout the entire Xbox interface (including search using the Y button EVERYWHERE) that it truly doesn't feel like an app.
I think it usually updates the store app when I leave the app, and seems to do it seamlessly for me because sometimes I notice it happening in the guide. It probably does update the store app all the time but I think it handles it really well. It rarely gets in the way for me like when the PS5 does when it says you need to update something (copying...).
Yes this works on Switch/Xbox as far as I've seen. There may be some exceptions.
Check for another sort category called something like release date that has "just released" under it to sort for actual releases since some devs and games exploit it's weirdness to stay up there at the top like Midnight Works.
I've become accustomed to the stupidity of the PS Store... so when using Steam, its weirdness stands out more to me lol.
like for the longest time.... it was unnecessarily hard to just view your games library. Now mind you I use the mobile app and mobile browser, to access Steam most of the time.
but yes Steam > others. (being able to gift games 😍)
like for the longest time.... it was unnecessarily hard to just view your games library. Now mind you I use the mobile app and mobile browser, to access Steam most of the time.
but yes Steam > others. (being able to gift games 😍)
Steam had to position themselves as the best store to buy games. The walled garden boys are all completly fine with sub-par experiences. Meanwhile in PC-town all other storefronts eventually die because of the ease of using Steam. It really is something else. Just like the ability to gift games. Yikes. Everyone else is miles behind.
Steam is awful on the Steam Deck. It's amazing that it's so bad without a mouse to navigate the cluttered mess of its UI.
No, there's only two options to sort by release date; new to old and old to new, and they both have unreleased games mixed in there.
Also, it can have a lot of games that were released a month or two ago in the current week's release, because I think the devs flub the numbers to keep their stupid game on the top.
Well, you're wrong. The Xbox store is by far the better of the three. It's fast, search actually works, sale notifications for wishlist titles has been added recently and refunds work similarly to Steam.
I almost bought the PS4 version of Cross Code yesterday instead of the PS5 version. I didn't even know there was a PS5 version I only saw it cause I kept scrolling down. They really need to do a better job, at even just unifying their store.
Store has no discoverability and extremely limite sorting options. Hope they work on the UX side yif things and give it a overhaul
No, it's there. Scroll down to a category called "Release Date" that has Just Released and Coming Soon under it.
Do they really "need" to? Seems like there should be a better way of doing this in modern times. I could understand it back in 2007, but now?
Am I the only one that dislikes the Steam store? The software feels ancient and the UI is so cluttered.
Modern times don't really help unfortunately. For better or worse, things in that kind of tech space keep changing and changing faster. There are more options and more solutions today than there were 15 years ago. So that doesn't really change. Things are both easier and harder at the same time if you can believe it.
I agree that the PS store could use an update or 10 but you are way too nice on the Steam store.
I feel like the only reason the Steam Store is not being hated on is because everything is easy to navigate with a mouse. If it wasn't for that people would realise how ugly and messy it is. I don't think there has been a single UI or UX developer involved in making it.
It looks like it's stuck in the 90's early 2000's.
I feel like the only reason the Steam Store is not being hated on is because everything is easy to navigate with a mouse. If it wasn't for that people would realise how ugly and messy it is. I don't think there has been a single UI or UX developer involved in making it.
It looks like it's stuck in the 90's early 2000's.
My Dualsense, when it prompt me the battey is low, last another 3-4 full hours until fully die, it's insane.
I lost 2 games I had via old ps plus because they added them to the new subscription model and now that they are expired I can't played the anymore even tho I should be able to.
Edit: I added them on the new subscription too, that was my mistake. But I should have the old licenses too right?
Edit: I added them on the new subscription too, that was my mistake. But I should have the old licenses too right?
did not know this was a thing. I will definitely keep this in mind
That game has a free upgrade so it wouldn't have mattered in that case anyway. But for games that don't have a free upgrade... yeah it would've sucked and they should fix that.
I dislike the Steam store as well, but it's a lot better than the eShop (on Switch), the MS Store (on Xbox), and PS Store (on PS5). That said, navigating the eShop on the web is a much pleasant experience than any of the other options overall, including Steam, although obviously it has far fewer features.