• resetbypeer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Sony just did a Unity here. How the hell can you ruin such a beloved game in a single cheer stupid move, for the purpose of just gathering data. It’s beyond me.

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      1 year ago

      I feel like Sony did a Sony here.

      I’m old enough to remember when Sony shipped 22 million malware infested CDs because they were worried about Napster.

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          1 year ago

          Also they bait and switched everyone with the advertising for the last of us pt 2.

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              1 year ago

              Spoilers ahead for the game:

              Yeah so if you look at the pre launch trailers

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              Joel is portrayed as being a part of the journey of the game. He dies in the first “chapter”. They went so far as to switch a character out for him to make it look like he would be alive for the game. And then they try to make you sympathetic to the person who killed him by making you play as them for half the game. :::

              It makes my blood boil how bad pt 2 is after the first one is one of the best games ever.

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        Not just any old malware, but insecure rootkits that allowed ANYONE to have total control over the system with their own malware above the OS-level with no way to even know the malware was there.

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        Did that actually break computers? I remember hearing about it at the time but I also don’t remember having a problem. I didn’t think I took any real precautions either, I just carried on as per and nothing ever happened.