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What are your thoughts on early access/paid alphas coming to PSN?

Good idea 19 38.78%
 
Bad idea 16 32.65%
 
Don't care 6 12.24%
 
50/50 5 10.20%
 
See Results 2 4.08%
 
Total:48
badgenome on 11 June 2014

No, thank you.



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kitler53 on 11 June 2014

all i'll say is that if there is an audience for alphas i'm not it.



fighter on 11 June 2014
Raziel123 said:
50/50.
Steam has pretty much no QC and that's why it's become what it is
PSN doesn't have to become that, Sony just needs to be a lot more demanding about what gets in, and It'd be okay


If games like MAG or the Orange Box made it on PS3 what does that say about Sony's QC ?

The main difference is that Steam doesn't renew it's catalog through a "generational leap" that allows to start again from scratch.

 

 



Raziel123 on 11 June 2014
fighter said:
Raziel123 said:
50/50.
Steam has pretty much no QC and that's why it's become what it is
PSN doesn't have to become that, Sony just needs to be a lot more demanding about what gets in, and It'd be okay


If games like MAG or the Orange Box made it on PS3 what does that say about Sony's QC ?

 

 

Nothing?



fighter on 11 June 2014
think-man said:
I hate steam because you have to sift to shit to find anything decent, I hope PSN doesn't take that path.

Interesting about the Vita though I didn't know they had dev kits, I'm going to look into that this weekend. Id love to fiddie around with the Vita.


Funny because the way you "sift" through the catalog on Steam is so much more efficient than on consoles :

many more filters

detailed user reviews/advice and display of their actual usage in number of hours

links to metacritics

links to the afferent community forums

etc.

 

I hope consoles follow Steam's way of "sifting" through catalogs, but instead it seems they prefer the "know less" approach to compulsive purchasing.



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Fusioncode on 11 June 2014

Unless they have better quality control than Steam no thanks.



Sigs are dumb. And so are you!

Squeezol on 11 June 2014

...Betas lost some of their value, and alphas are next now?



fighter on 11 June 2014
Raziel123 said:
fighter said:
Raziel123 said:
50/50.
Steam has pretty much no QC and that's why it's become what it is
PSN doesn't have to become that, Sony just needs to be a lot more demanding about what gets in, and It'd be okay


If games like MAG or the Orange Box made it on PS3 what does that say about Sony's QC ?

 

Nothing?

I wouldn't go to that extreme, Sony still has some quality control.



fighter on 11 June 2014
Fusioncode said:
Unless they have better quality control than Steam no thanks.


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Richard_Feynman on 11 June 2014

Just because YOU aren't interested in an entirely OPTIONAL service doesn't mean OTHERS aren't.

Just because YOU don't want something doesn't make it a bad idea.