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Biggerboat1 on 18 June 2018
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CrazyGamer2017 said:
Biggerboat1 said:

Look, I'm a Nintendo fan but it doesn't stop me from criticising them when they do something that disappoints me. For instance, I though they had a pretty underwhelming E3. This blind loyalty to a corporation is purely one-way - they don't deserve your mental gymnastics in order to somehow make their behaviour on this issue acceptable.

Yes, except I am NOT making their move an acceptable one, I clearly said MANY times I get it that people blame Sony. I just don't get it that people does it in a blind way without taking into account the complexity of the issue and facts. And a fact is that Sony cannot block a game that it does not own. At the most it can enter a DEAL with the game owner which is EG and EG agreed to that deal and Sony has NO interest whatsoever in removing the MOST successful game on the planet from the Playstation so threatening EG to remove the game altogether would have been suicide for Sony. Corporations don't do suicide even if it is to prove a point or to show strength, they do DEALS and a DEAL must have been done with EG and EG accepted it.

I must say it's super annoying to write 10 times something and still read comments that pretend I did not say that thing I said 10 times across 10 posts...

And I do appreciate that you are capable of criticizing your favorite brand, hopefully it makes you a bit more objective than the average Joe.

The game being on PS4 means far more to EG than it does to Sony, thus giving Sony more leverage to push the deal through on their terms.

You can say EG are complicit and should share some of the blame but nobody can expect them to sacrifice a huge revenue stream for a principal.

If you do want to apportion blame to both then it should be something like 99% Sony - 1% EG.

If EG were now to approach Sony & give them an ultimatum of including untethered accounts or lose Fortnite, I wouldn't be surprised if Sony told them where to stick it, just to show other developers/publishers that you don't fuck with Sony on their platform - will keep others from trying something similiar in the future.

And to your point about the situation being complex - it's not really.

Sony has weighed up the pro's (an attempt to reduce the number of players spending time & money on other consoles) and the cons (pissing of everyone who owns a PS4 & Switch, plus anyone who made the mistake of logging in to PSN without any intention of making the PS4 their preferred platform of choice) & decided that the former outweighed the latter. Simple.

And now they're reaping the criticism that they duly deserve.