It's coming from buy.com not an eBay auction. Similar to an Amazon storefront I can't see how it would be invalid since they are an authorized retailer.
After having an Xbox 1 since launch I finally decided to get a PS4 as well. Too many games on both consoles I want, and I missed out last gen by only having a 360. Not this time! I will have it Tuesday, so add me ( I went ahead and made my ID) NeuralFizz.
Sony won't honor warranties if you buy from an auction site. They have it clearly stated in big red bold letters at the top of their warranty legalease just because of the above.
How in a million years would they ever know where you bought it from? It's a new console, you just register it with Sony online and you're done. There's no need to provide a receipt or anything.
Have you bought a console at retail in like the last decade? They all have barcodes that get scanned when sold. One for the Product UPC and one for the individual console ID barcode. While I'm not 100% that the information gets sent to Sony I'm having a hard time seeing why it wouldn't be.
That information doesn't get sent to Sony. It's just for each retail outlet to keep track of serial numbers so their customers don't try to pull a fast one and return a different console and keep the one from the box etc.
That information doesn't get sent to Sony. It's just for each retail outlet to keep track of serial numbers so their customers don't try to pull a fast one and return a different console and keep the one from the box etc.
Err...can you provide some backing claim to that? Because it is awful nice of Sony (and Nintendo and MS) to serialize consoles and use more expensive packaging that keeps them accessible at retail for no benefit to themselves when compliance would be a daily email transmission.
Edit: To be clear, I'm not saying that Target tells Sony that Bob Smith bought that PS4, rather that Target sold that serial number. Which looping back to the original point would show Sony that a reseller had been involved.
Planetside 2. Was it at GamesCom, and if yes, why haven't we heard about it? Serveral youtubers have played it a while back, and had good things to say about the port, so I'm quite puzzled by its apparent absence.
I wish that NBA 2k14 next gen made a bigger deal when you play extremely well. For example - and this is only an example, I'm really not trying to brag - tonight in MyCareer I broke Wilt Chamberlain's 100pt scoring record, and the only acknowledgement I got was one question in a news conference. Not even a procedurally generated social media post was had.
2k14 seems like a bit of a rush job. I'm hoping 2k15 is a fully developed game, with better contextual awareness (like scoring 100pts in a game) or *gasp* the ability to skip cutscenes.
That information doesn't get sent to Sony. It's just for each retail outlet to keep track of serial numbers so their customers don't try to pull a fast one and return a different console and keep the one from the box etc.
Err...can you provide some backing claim to that? Because it is awful nice of Sony (and Nintendo and MS) to serialize consoles and use more expensive packaging that keeps them accessible at retail for no benefit to themselves when compliance would be a daily email transmission.
Edit: To be clear, I'm not saying that Target tells Sony that Bob Smith bought that PS4, rather that Target sold that serial number. Which looping back to the original point would show Sony that a reseller had been involved.
I know Nintendo was collecting numbers at least back in the DS Lite days. You could have one of the early Lites that the hinges cracked on and ring up Nintendo, give em your serial number and they'd tell you if you were covered under warranty and ship you out a box.
Wasn't sure what constitutes a spoiler in discussing PT, so playing it safe.
The presentation is good, and I like the way Kojima toyed with everyone's expectations. But the puzzle elements, and the almost adventure-game level of having to go around clicking at things, break the fourth wall and cumulatively add up to a sense of having to endlessly poke and prod at the thin veneer of normality in the environment to get it to do something spooky. Like walking into a haunted house when all the performers thought the last group had gone through, and they're not ready for you.
While it is impressive in some respects, I don't think it's a given that a full game will focus on the strengths of what we've seen so far.
Edit: In all fairness, I guess that's true of any teaser for a game or film for that matter. Making this one playable was very clever, and a good way to start people talking about the upcoming game, but it's easy to read too much into it.
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Planetside 2. Was it at GamesCom, and if yes, why haven't we heard about it? Serveral youtubers have played it a while back, and had good things to say about the port, so I'm quite puzzled by its apparent absence.
According to SOE its still on its way and we should get it before the end of the year.
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I wish that NBA 2k14 next gen made a bigger deal when you play extremely well. For example - and this is only an example, I'm really not trying to brag - tonight in MyCareer I broke Wilt Chamberlain's 100pt scoring record, and the only acknowledgement I got was one question in a news conference. Not even a procedurally generated social media post was had.
2k14 seems like a bit of a rush job. I'm hoping 2k15 is a fully developed game, with better contextual awareness (like scoring 100pts in a game) or *gasp* the ability to skip cutscenes.
Yeah, it's a solid basketball game with solid core gameplay mechanics, but they don't really seem to differ from 2k13 all that much, and indeed NBA 2k14 for the 360/PS3/PC, ie, the last-gen version, is pretty much the same game as 2k13 right down to the menus.
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Didn't even know this game was coming to the ps4...
Soooo many games!
The Swapper is pretty rad. I can figure the puzzles out just before my brain runs out of my ears. Except for the one im stuck on now that is... Gonna take a break and give Hohokum a spin.
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Are there any popular multiplayer games right now?
Nobody makes me bleed my own blood...nobody.
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Blacklight is a free to play fps
it seems a bit pay to win though
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I played Blacklight. It's awful; I'd rather just play BlOps2 on the PS3. I have Killzone, but it's a step down from KZ3 in terms of of overall production values, map design, audio, and in some sense, visuals. I was going to get BF4 until everyone told me it's completely broken. And I thought Ghosts was not worth playing.
Nobody makes me bleed my own blood...nobody.
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WARFRAME is great!
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The PS4 version of BF4 is fine. Minor bugs here and there, nothing like "completely broken".
Battlefield is a gamble. When it works; its a great game. However, it seems to work less and less now.
Those are the only two good mp games out right now imo. But were getting Destiny and Advanced Warfare soon.
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I'm not sure I understand the appeal of Warframe. I've played it some, but it just seemed like an average 3rd-person shooter with the most bizarrely complex interface ever to grace consoles.
I guess it is almost time for Advanced Warfare to go live, isn't it?
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Warframe is quite good as free-to-play time sinks go, IMO. War Thunder was fun for a while, but the battle-rating based matchmaking is broken, and the rewards unlock at a glacial pace once you hit the higher tiers.
Agreed on Blacklight, I just couldn't get past the dated feel of the controls. But I've got to stick up for Ghosts here, for the way the whole Squads system works, and the awesome semi-PvP mode it provides for days when you don't feel like dealing with what passes for a 'community' in CoD. Extinction is complete trash, though, and I refused to buy any of their map packs on principal because they included levels for this garbage. Not to mention the dumb supernatural gimmicks like Jason or reanimated zombie soldiers, which should've been left out of the core CoD experience as some sort of ironclad rule over at Activision.
All I needed to know about Battlefield, I gleaned off some gameplay streams. DICE still thinks helicopters are made from solid blocks of immeasurably dense dark matter, not aluminum and carbon-fiber.
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"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are." - Bertolt Brecht
Warframe is quite good as free-to-play time sinks go, IMO. War Thunder was fun for a while, but the battle-rating based matchmaking is broken, and the rewards unlock at a glacial pace once you hit the higher tiers.
Agreed on Blacklight, I just couldn't get past the dated feel of the controls. But I've got to stick up for Ghosts here, for the way the whole Squads system works, and the awesome semi-PvP mode it provides for days when you don't feel like dealing with what passes for a 'community' in CoD. Extinction is complete trash, though, and I refused to buy any of their map packs on principal because they included levels for this garbage. Not to mention the dumb supernatural gimmicks like Jason or reanimated zombie soldiers, which should've been left out of the core CoD experience as some sort of ironclad rule over at Activision.
All I needed to know about Battlefield, I gleaned off some gameplay streams. DICE still thinks helicopters are made from solid blocks of immeasurably dense dark matter, not aluminum and carbon-fiber.
As someone who plays BF4, they die the instant more than one person with a rocket looks at them.
But I've got to stick up for Ghosts here, for the way the whole Squads system works, and the awesome semi-PvP mode it provides for days when you don't feel like dealing with what passes for a 'community' in CoD.
It was honestly my least favorite of all the CoD. Bots can be fun, but I don't know if that alone justifies the price.
Not to mention the dumb supernatural gimmicks like Jason or reanimated zombie soldiers, which should've been left out of the core CoD experience as some sort of ironclad rule over at Activision.
I played P.T. for a little bit. Had no patience to finish it. It's a great for being a taste of the atmosphere we can expect in the new SH, but as a game it's just a lesson in how to cleverly reuse assets with no regard for the player enjoying themselves.
Anyone who wasn't hyped by that Silent Hill trailer is dead inside.
That's odd I feel fine.
Let's turn that around; anyone hyped by that trailer is also scared by birthday parties! See how great that is? How about we don't passivley insult people who don't agree with us anymore?
It's a trailer to an unfinished game. I didn't think it was very interesting gameplay wise; getting stuck in that bathroom for 5 dang minutes was boring as all heck and annoying to boot but I'll reserve full judgement for the full version. In any case the graphics were fucking amazing.
It recaptured the atmosphere of Silent Hill 2, 3, and 4. It's a testament to how fucking shitty 5 and 6 were moreso than the gameplay in this that people are proclaiming this to be the best SH experience since 4. The gameplay in PT is flat out bad and possibly pretentious, since I think whoever designed it thought they were being clever for not helping the player at all with things so basic as controls.
I'm still going into this with low expectations, and it's probably not coming out till 2016 anyway. I conceded a long time ago that no survival horror game in my lifetime will ever be as good as Silent Hill 2 was; the current gaming climate just isn't interested in thought provoking and intelligent AAA survival horror games. Really, gaming across the board has become far dumber than ever before except for the indie PC front, Valve, and the guys who did Journey.
More than anything, what I want for this generation is either:
- A PS4 port of Dragon's Crown
- A Dragon's Crown-like game on the PS4, but without the repetitious story and dungeon crawl. Though, honestly, that part wasn't horrible. I just think they could give a new game more content in this gen than before.
It's not great customer service because you chose to throw away your receipt / proof of purchase?
Yes, that is what I said. I feel pretty sure, since my PS4 talks to Sony just about every time I turn it on, they could pinpoint the date it was activated down to the hour, if not the minute or second.
I bought it. I'm okay with them saying, "Well, we have to date your time of purchase from the consoles release" as that is fair if not spectacular.
When my 360 died the first time Microsoft didn't weasel out of correcting their problem because I couldn't email them a receipt.
It's not great customer service because you chose to throw away your receipt / proof of purchase?
Yes, that is what I said. I feel pretty sure, since my PS4 talks to Sony just about every time I turn it on, they could pinpoint the date it was activated down to the hour, if not the minute or second.
I bought it. I'm okay with them saying, "Well, we have to date your time of purchase from the consoles release" as that is fair if not spectacular.
When my 360 died the first time Microsoft didn't weasel out of correcting their problem because I couldn't email them a receipt.
Just so we're clear, they haven't actually done this yet right? You've just said hypothetically if you had a problem then Sony might grumble at you about not having a receipt, maybe.
Right?
If you made a post actually detailing a problem I missed it and it's not real clear from your post history.
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Not great customer service.
And
Themes coming to ps4 in update 2.0
That second one has since been confirmed as a mistake.
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Have you bought a console at retail in like the last decade? They all have barcodes that get scanned when sold. One for the Product UPC and one for the individual console ID barcode. While I'm not 100% that the information gets sent to Sony I'm having a hard time seeing why it wouldn't be.
Err...can you provide some backing claim to that? Because it is awful nice of Sony (and Nintendo and MS) to serialize consoles and use more expensive packaging that keeps them accessible at retail for no benefit to themselves when compliance would be a daily email transmission.
Edit: To be clear, I'm not saying that Target tells Sony that Bob Smith bought that PS4, rather that Target sold that serial number. Which looping back to the original point would show Sony that a reseller had been involved.
2k14 seems like a bit of a rush job. I'm hoping 2k15 is a fully developed game, with better contextual awareness (like scoring 100pts in a game) or *gasp* the ability to skip cutscenes.
I know Nintendo was collecting numbers at least back in the DS Lite days. You could have one of the early Lites that the hinges cracked on and ring up Nintendo, give em your serial number and they'd tell you if you were covered under warranty and ship you out a box.
While it is impressive in some respects, I don't think it's a given that a full game will focus on the strengths of what we've seen so far.
Edit: In all fairness, I guess that's true of any teaser for a game or film for that matter. Making this one playable was very clever, and a good way to start people talking about the upcoming game, but it's easy to read too much into it.
According to SOE its still on its way and we should get it before the end of the year.
Yeah, it's a solid basketball game with solid core gameplay mechanics, but they don't really seem to differ from 2k13 all that much, and indeed NBA 2k14 for the 360/PS3/PC, ie, the last-gen version, is pretty much the same game as 2k13 right down to the menus.
Soooo many games!
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it seems a bit pay to win though
PSN ID: fearsomepirate
Battlefield is a gamble. When it works; its a great game. However, it seems to work less and less now.
Those are the only two good mp games out right now imo. But were getting Destiny and Advanced Warfare soon.
I guess it is almost time for Advanced Warfare to go live, isn't it?
PSN ID: fearsomepirate
Agreed on Blacklight, I just couldn't get past the dated feel of the controls. But I've got to stick up for Ghosts here, for the way the whole Squads system works, and the awesome semi-PvP mode it provides for days when you don't feel like dealing with what passes for a 'community' in CoD. Extinction is complete trash, though, and I refused to buy any of their map packs on principal because they included levels for this garbage. Not to mention the dumb supernatural gimmicks like Jason or reanimated zombie soldiers, which should've been left out of the core CoD experience as some sort of ironclad rule over at Activision.
All I needed to know about Battlefield, I gleaned off some gameplay streams. DICE still thinks helicopters are made from solid blocks of immeasurably dense dark matter, not aluminum and carbon-fiber.
As someone who plays BF4, they die the instant more than one person with a rocket looks at them.
Jets are the silly powerful ones.
It was honestly my least favorite of all the CoD. Bots can be fun, but I don't know if that alone justifies the price.
I actually liked that mode, although nowhere near as much as Treyarch's Zombies
I'll agree with this. Just, so dumb.
The main campaign for Ghosts has zombies?
Most maps have a specific killstreak. There's Michael Myers, the Predator, Ghost Pirates, Death Mariachi, a Yeti, flesh eating beetles.
Just dumb stuff I could not care less about.
It recaptured the atmosphere of Silent Hill 2, 3, and 4. It's a testament to how fucking shitty 5 and 6 were moreso than the gameplay in this that people are proclaiming this to be the best SH experience since 4. The gameplay in PT is flat out bad and possibly pretentious, since I think whoever designed it thought they were being clever for not helping the player at all with things so basic as controls.
I'm still going into this with low expectations, and it's probably not coming out till 2016 anyway. I conceded a long time ago that no survival horror game in my lifetime will ever be as good as Silent Hill 2 was; the current gaming climate just isn't interested in thought provoking and intelligent AAA survival horror games. Really, gaming across the board has become far dumber than ever before except for the indie PC front, Valve, and the guys who did Journey.
But it's shitty, don't get it
- A PS4 port of Dragon's Crown
- A Dragon's Crown-like game on the PS4, but without the repetitious story and dungeon crawl. Though, honestly, that part wasn't horrible. I just think they could give a new game more content in this gen than before.
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Yes, that is what I said. I feel pretty sure, since my PS4 talks to Sony just about every time I turn it on, they could pinpoint the date it was activated down to the hour, if not the minute or second.
I bought it. I'm okay with them saying, "Well, we have to date your time of purchase from the consoles release" as that is fair if not spectacular.
When my 360 died the first time Microsoft didn't weasel out of correcting their problem because I couldn't email them a receipt.
Just so we're clear, they haven't actually done this yet right? You've just said hypothetically if you had a problem then Sony might grumble at you about not having a receipt, maybe.
Right?
If you made a post actually detailing a problem I missed it and it's not real clear from your post history.