The games themselves are polished and complete out the gate but for some reason the developers/publishers leave out one little corner-stone feature that's usually related to social-media to be part of the day-1 patch update itself.
Particularly I've seen this be par for the course in Sony 1st party games i.e. Horizon, God of War, Spider-Man...etc but maybe it's happening elsewhere as well. Do you know of other examples?
Look at the Spider-Man PS4's day-1 patch for Photo Mode:
It's beautiful!
People are going to have so much fun and the game will receive even more attention with quality media being shared. No way the developers didn't spend months and months on this. It's difficult for me to believe that this was a day-1 patch corrective-action or something they started developing close to going gold (when they start planning updated-binaries towards the day-1 patch). There's usually only a small month between going Gold and the game being available in stores and for some reason the complete photo-mode feature is always there waiting in the day-1 patch. It has been happening on a very regular basis now for some years and I doubt it's by chance. For some reason it concerns photo-mode or some other social-media aspect that's not crucial to the direct gameplay experience itself. Why is the complete photo-mode in that patch and not merely an update to the photo-mode feature itself assuming it's needed. It must have been months in the making and ready to go for a while.
It seems like it's becoming a pretty common thing and maybe a (not-so)hidden strategy of making sure people become part of the platforms online infrastructure with a personal account. Or is that reaching?
The feature patch is free and is available day-1 so can't say I'm personally hurt in any way but it's definitely a little nudge for offline-peeps to come online. A little bit sneaky. Do you think it's intentional strategy?
Gif credit to HStallion .
Particularly I've seen this be par for the course in Sony 1st party games i.e. Horizon, God of War, Spider-Man...etc but maybe it's happening elsewhere as well. Do you know of other examples?
Look at the Spider-Man PS4's day-1 patch for Photo Mode:
It's beautiful!
People are going to have so much fun and the game will receive even more attention with quality media being shared. No way the developers didn't spend months and months on this. It's difficult for me to believe that this was a day-1 patch corrective-action or something they started developing close to going gold (when they start planning updated-binaries towards the day-1 patch). There's usually only a small month between going Gold and the game being available in stores and for some reason the complete photo-mode feature is always there waiting in the day-1 patch. It has been happening on a very regular basis now for some years and I doubt it's by chance. For some reason it concerns photo-mode or some other social-media aspect that's not crucial to the direct gameplay experience itself. Why is the complete photo-mode in that patch and not merely an update to the photo-mode feature itself assuming it's needed. It must have been months in the making and ready to go for a while.
It seems like it's becoming a pretty common thing and maybe a (not-so)hidden strategy of making sure people become part of the platforms online infrastructure with a personal account. Or is that reaching?
The feature patch is free and is available day-1 so can't say I'm personally hurt in any way but it's definitely a little nudge for offline-peeps to come online. A little bit sneaky. Do you think it's intentional strategy?
Gif credit to HStallion .
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