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Square Enix, please fix World of Final Fantasy on the Playstation 4 Pro.
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TheChillyAcademic
Member
Any updates on this?
shiftplusone
Member
I had the ps4 version waiting for when I bought my pro, so i've been playing on the vita. Didn't see the ps4 version before so I thought it would be something I wouldn't notice.
its really bad. I loaded up my save and everything looked like shit. went back to playing on vita until they fix it. It's awful
its really bad. I loaded up my save and everything looked like shit. went back to playing on vita until they fix it. It's awful
TheChillyAcademic
Member
Is the game cross buy?
sensui-tomo
Member
absolutely not, hell whats the last non indie(not dissing on indies)/non-sony or any SE game that was crossbuy which isnt a ps1 title.
I have my Pro at home in the box still. Not that this was at the very top of the list to play, but that's just disappointing.This is the official pro update. If they didn't do any work then it would just run as it does on a normal PS4.
MatrixMan.EXE
Member
I'm asking myself the same thing. Just seen this for myself on my Pro and it looks terrible. Is there some way to get rid of the patch so that it looks the way it did on when I was playing on OG PS4?
How on earth did this patch get past Square Enix and Sony QA teams?
Forsaken82
Member
You ASSUME this wasn't caught. Ultimately, it doesn't work like that. The QA Team likely did encounter it, called the issue out, and because it wasn't deemed important enough to hold the build up for, it was ignored for launch.
You have to stop looking at QA as the end all be all protection of bugs. 90% of the issues you guys see in released titles or updates are actually caught by the QA team and prioritized low for reasons such as not bothersome enough to fix for the current update or even too risky to fix for the current update..
Delete the game data and you can play the game with the previous firmware. Just remember to pause/cancel the update when it pops back up.
I'm really surprised Square hasn't responded yet. Two of their recent games (this and DX) are borked on Pro, surely they're working on fixing both?
I'm really surprised Square hasn't responded yet. Two of their recent games (this and DX) are borked on Pro, surely they're working on fixing both?
Ichisuke
Neo Member
The point is that if you have the digital version it will download the update together...
MatrixMan.EXE
Member
I know how QA works, but my assumption is this wasn't caught because it has such an adverse effect on image quality that no sane person would have let it get past certification. It quite clearly and visibly makes the game look worse than the original PS4 version. That's not what users expect from a supposed PS4 Pro patch and Square Enix should have had the common sense to just delay the patch until this issue was fixed.
TheChillyAcademic
Member
Tried tweeting at Square, nothing.
Ichisuke
Neo Member
If you have the digital version it will download the patch altogether and you won't be able to uninstall it.... Maybe you meant you have the retail version...?
I think just online battling is all that is missing.
I am seriously surprised Square hasn't acknowledged this yet... seems like a rather simple bug. I mean if it looks fine on 4k I assume its a bug with trying to do 4k resolution depth of field on the 1080p.
Damn those JIRA tickets.
Suzushiiro
Banned
Would definitely be nice for Sony to put in the ability to force a game to run in standard PS4 mode in case of shit like this.
By digital, I mean physical... Whoops!
TheChillyAcademic
Member
They don't care lol they literally do not care
ArkhamFantasy
Member
Its been 9 days and SE hasn't acknowledged that there is an issue. Its not looking good. I asked jason shrier if he would ask SE about it but he hasnt responded.
darkside31337
Tomodachi wa Mahou
I think its totally fair to assume they're never going to actually fix the problem when they can't even acknowledge there is one in the first place.
As someone who picked up this game and a Pro in the last week I'm most likely going to just return the game this week unless they magically acknowledge theres a problem at least.
Via Purifico
Banned
Yeah shameful really, these are things that can be easily fixed.
ArkhamFantasy
Member
Its also a little ridiculous that we cant put our pro into Ps4 mode and play the game as if it were a normal ps4 game.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
The fact that a bug is blatant and still made it to release doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't caught. Companies make deals all the time during certification to get things waived, and even then something like this that isn't considered game breaking (i.e. impossible to complete the game) may not even qualify as a TRC stopper.
TRC/TCR/Lot Check standards are very strict in certain areas, and much more open-ended in others.
And to further reiterate the poster you were replying to, he is absolutely correct. 90-95% of any bug you see in a released title, QA had found long ago. QA's job is to find and document issues, not to fix them.
People that are paid to check the quality of a product, do their jobs dutifully, raise most if not every issue the customers could encounter but are eventually told to fuck off by the business teams because there are hard deadlines and as long as there isn't a huge backlash that impact the product they don't care about quality issues.
And it's happening everywhere, not only in videogames, and that's also why there's a bigger turnover than usual in these kind of jobs.
MatrixMan.EXE
Member
Believe me, I know this. It's part of my job and where I work this wouldn't be acceptable. But this patch has done so much damage to the image quality of the game that I'm surprised it passed cert. It's less about them not catching it, and more about the fact they let it through in the first place.
Sure, it's not game breaking. But it's really bad and in your face.
AndyMoogle
Member
Turn off auto updates in your PS4 settings. That will obviously turn off auto updates for all games though.
TheChillyAcademic
Member
See I can't get the game to not install to version 1.01. I turned off auto updates and everything but I never even received the prompt to update to the newest version. Am I missing a step?
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Heh, I've heard "it's really bad but not game breaking" several times in my career. You can get away with lots of stuff, going at least 15 years ago in the PS2/Xbox1/GC days when I first started working in the industry.
ArkhamFantasy
Member
I dont think you are looking at this the right way, the pro patch is optional, and the only reason to make the pro patch is to improve the graphics or performance of a game. This pro patch made a ps4 game look like a vita game. There is literally no reason to put this patch out. It should have been taken off of psn immediately.
AndyMoogle
Member
The patch adds other things too.
TheChillyAcademic
Member
Are we sure that the version that is downloaded from PSN isn't automatically ver. 1.01?
MatrixMan.EXE
Member
And that speaks to poor quality control, in my opinion at least. Alas, nothing I can do. Just hope they fix it soon.
This is my point. You're releasing a PS4 Pro patch but you make the game visibly worse than the OG PS4 version. That's where my issue is. I understand that plenty of games and patches are released with pretty bad bugs in them, but given what this patch is meant to do and what it actually ended up doing, I'm shocked that they thought it was okay to release it. No statement from them is what makes it worse.
ArkhamFantasy
Member
Like what? There were no performance issues or bugs from the 40+ hours i played of the ps4 version. The only difference i could notice from the pro patch was that it went from ps4 graphics to vita graphics.
They've revealed that they have an ongoing DLC plan for this game, with Sora being added later. There's no way that they don't put out more patches, and that would give them the opportunity to fix this.
And they really need to fix this, since it looks so awful. I'll never know how they were so careless to put that patch out.
ArkhamFantasy
Member
The only thing i can think of is that they were contractually obligated to release the patch on the pros launch, regardless of how bad it is. Thats the only rational explanation. But that doesnt explain the radio silence from SE.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
How do these game developers release patches apparently without even testing them? Because surely nobody thought this was OK?
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
I'm just stating the realities of the business. Whoever made the final call felt that the patch was fine to put out as it was, as well as whoever felt it was acceptable on the the Sony cert side.