Current Events > What rationale did sony have really, for what they tried with hellraisers 2?

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i mean when they wanted everyone to have a psn account to play it. Do you believe they had any reasonable rationale. I believe they did give one right?

"The board says I got money targets to hit so we better do this or the board will get mad and then muh stocks."

Probably something like that.

wanderingshade posted...

"The board says I got money targets to hit so we better do this or the board will get mad and then muh stocks."

Probably something like that.

didn't they say like quality of online play or something like that?

GranTurismo posted...

didn't they say like quality of online play or something like that?

IIRC they said it was something about being able to handle cheaters better, but I kinda doubt it.

wanderingshade posted...

IIRC they said it was something about being able to handle cheaters better, but I kinda doubt it.

why do you seriously doubt that's true?

they did the thing they said they were going to do months earlier when the game came out

???

Probably something related to showing growth of PSN accounts.

thronedfire2 posted...

they did the thing they said they were going to do months earlier when the game came out

???

they did? any of you were or are fans of this game?

"Look at all these new psn users! Line will surely go up this quarter! Please buy more shares!"

Any "reasonable" rationale was destroyed by them selling yhe game in regions they knew PSN doesn't support.

That's just them being grubby little shits

The same rational Ubisoft, EA, Microsoft and many other game companies use. They just want to push people to have an account with them and how that leads to them doing more.

JuanCarlos1 posted...

Probably something related to showing growth of PSN accounts.

In all likliness, it's something along these lines.

There may be some side effects where it's easier to monitor and track cheaters and whatever, but at the end of the day it's mostly so they can go to a bunch of stuffy execs and go, "see how many unique users we have! Something something, middle middle middle, money!!!"

Supposedly the developer originally wanted to use it so that they could have an external system for moderation, reports, and bans rather than doing it in house.

The link requirement was put on hold when their servers got fifty times the expected load. The plan was to eventually come back and phase it in when things were stable, and probably to be more careful about it.

Sony got mindful of their success and said they wanted it immediately. Number of PSN accounts go suddenly way up looks good to shareholders even if they don't understand what's behind it, and the more delay, the less the number goes up. Data harvesting may also have been a concern of theirs, but that's less clear. I'm sure they hoover up all the data they can get their hands on, but I don't know how much the Steam account link gets them.

Arrowhead said they should wait and do it with a more measured approach, Sony said lol no. Then things blew up after the announcement.

That's the longer version of the story as I understand it.

Regardless...

SAlYAN posted...

Any "reasonable" rationale was destroyed by them selling yhe game in regions they knew PSN doesn't support.

I'm unsure who was behind this side of it considering it was intended, but it absolutely should be called out. The waters are muddy about it being an absolute requirement. Certain sources stated originally that the PSN account was optional but after the declaration that it would become mandatory, they were changed.

To boost PSN numbers for investors, increasing marketing, and data harvesting.

Aka - no good reason for consumers.